It is a little after 9 am and I am back from the Cathedral Square farmer’s market. I got up around 7 and made a pot of tea, then while the burner was still hot, put on the cast iron skillet and made some french toast from the bread I made on Thursday. Today there were three bakery booths, generic European, Hispanic, and Mennonite.
More booths had strawberries than last Saturday, so I was able to use my favorite test to find the sweetest ones. I went by all the booths on my scooter then chose the one where I could smell the berries from the furthest distance. When they are best, pouring them from the basket into a bag will cause them to bruise. I remember when my grandparents back in PA raised stawberries, many of the customers took them in the boxes and then brought the empties back. We got 10¢ a quart for picking them. Maybe that is when I got my taste for extremely ripe ones, would eat the ones that were so ripe they would crush in a box. Berries are running about $4 for a one quart box, get some while you can.
The berries made a nice second breakfast. Simple recipe, gently tip the bag into a strainer, rinse under the tap, then eat them starting with the ripest.
I got a bunch of onions and leaf lettuce too. I wore a long skirt and a sweater, then put a windbreaker on once I got a few blocks down the street. Felt cooler than yesterday morning when I went out for milk.
Our hot, humid weather went away on Tuesday. On Wednesday it was chilly and overcast. I got up with a headache that day and kept thinking that I was missing a good day to bake bread while trying to sleep it off and keep warm in bed. Looking back with 20/20 hindsight, it may have been a virus rather than a migraine because I had a back ache and pain in my shoulders and going down my right arm as well as nausea and a rash. Didn’t get a lot done this week. It hurt to look at things, especially on the computer, so I did some stuff around the house on Thursday then did some client work yesterday. I will work on my own stuff when I feel crummy, but others get better.
Well, time to join the mito chat.
