Another Rainy Saturday Morning

Yesterday was the third week in a row we woke up with rain in the forecast. Shockingly, the forecast has been correct all three times with the rain hitting in the morning. Shouldn’t complain because it didn’t seem like we got any rain in June but Saturday morning is the Farmer’s Market and walking in the rain while trying to shop isn’t a whole lot of fun.

While it didn’t rain that hard, it was enough to soak through my shoes because I favor the tennis shoes with a mesh top. Not the thing to be wearing in the rain though because it just invites the rain in and you end up walking around in wet socks. Not a pleasant feeling.

You can gauge the passage of time by what’s available at the market. When it first opens in May, you really just have various salad greens and spinach. A few spring onions tossed in as well but it means a lot of salads for dinner. Later, you start to see the “cool weather” type stuff – mostly kale and some bok choi.

Time passes and those things fade a bit and you get the green beans, summer squash and strawberries. Last week, the sweet corn showed up for the first time and now you have a much wider variety of stuff. Onions, potatoes, blueberries, tomatoes (not for me though) and various peppers. Oh and the start of the melons as well.

That holds until late summer when you get the winter squash and sweet potatoes and some of the early spring stuff makes a second appearance as the weather cools.

We try as much as possible to eat what is at the market. It is a challenge at times because you start to run out of creative ways to use green beans so things tend to repeat from week to week. Lots of stir fry dishes and curry since beans work well in that.

We buy a lot of meat at the market as well. I honestly can’t remember the last time I bought meat in a grocery store. Same thing with eggs. I have nothing to support this but it just feels like it is healthier to get stuff from smaller farms rather than a giant egg producing plant or factory farm.

The way too early forecast calls for sunny skies next Saturday so maybe we’ll break the streak.