Showing posts with label farmer's market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label farmer's market. Show all posts

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Vegan MoFo, Day 15: Goodbye, Farmers' Market.

One last score...






Sadly, the coolest Farmers' Market in Wichita had its last day today (for the season). We made sure to get there pretty early and walked out with a ton of stuff. Making roasted peppers, tomatoes, and freezing some packets of pre-diced/sliced onions and peppers. And see that butternut squash? Yeah, I've got plans for that sucker. I'm also psyched for the deep-purple peppers.

Tonight, I am making a milkshake to rule over all others. Oh yeah.

Hope you are all enjoying your weekend!!

Jes

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Weekend Farmer's Market Haul

Behold!




The pesticide-free strawberries are my FAVORITE item out of the fruit and veg we picked up at the market this morning. For real, I SWOONED eating one when I got home, eyed closed and everything. Pure Bliss.


Last night, after hanging out with friends down at The Vag/Riverfest (both of which were super-crowded), The Hubs and I came home and ran. Yup, we came home and went running outside at 10:30pm. It was glorious, and we were nasty-sweaty afterwards. Just felt like running, so we went up the street to the school, around the block, and back, alternating between running a block and walking the next. We're still building up, but let me tell you: 10:30pm is a great time to run but definitely hindered any chance of restful sleep. I know you'll probably think we were dopes for doing it, but when you have the itch, right?

Later today brings a viewing of X-Men: First Class with friends, some more time down at RiverFest taking pictures of people without their knowledge (super fun), and probably another run this evening.

Enjoy your weekend!

Jes

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Weekend Lovelies

What a lovely weekend. Really :)

Did you have a nice couple of days?

It was the first weekend after the official end of classes (for me), and it could have been better at times. But it was still fairly pleasant. We pretty much went from 100 deg. F record temps earlier in the week to the low 60's. That's Kansas weather for you!

I went to the opening of the Old Town Farmer's Market, which is held in a beautiful brick square in front of a museum in the heart of Wichita. There were belly dancers braving the 50 deg. F temperature when I got there. I scored some gorgeous produce from Home Grown KS, a booth I love to frequent. Also got some lovely crinkled spinach from another booth (forgot the name!).



Here's one of my go-to desserts (i.e. weight-gainers!) recently. I had leftover cocoa-coconut mix from the Coconut-Cocoa Haystacks I made for a friend's BBQ last weekend, so I turned it into another dessert...by adding more cocoa and coconut :)



SUPER-yum-tastic.

Yesterday, we went to the Derby Public Library for some books and some fun. Our nephew, Isaac, read the book Flat Stanley in his class and sent us his version of Mr. Stanley. We took some pics of Flat Stanley at the library, which we'll be sending back to his class probably at the end of this week. It's a great way for the kids to learn something about a new place.



I'm just so excited to be reading something other than books for class or my thesis. I'm still working away on the ole thesis, but I'm finally able to mix in recreational reading, YAY! It's been so overwhelming already; I feel like a junkie and don't know where to start. I picked up the graphic novel version of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which I lurv. And I got a book about the invention of the George Washington myths (think I'm most excited about this one...figures that even in my recreational reading, I still roam back to history-related books...).


Be sure to check back tomorrow! It's a special day for me :)

Jes

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Who Knew? Celery Leaf and Radish Salad

Last night I made my favorite "go to" veg and tofu noodles recipe and a lovely springtime salad with an ingredient I'd never tried before: celery leaves.


I had some celery killing time in my fridge for a while, and I was just going to throw the leaves into my usual veg stock batch, but then I remembered reading somewhere that you could eat them.

I hadn't eaten celery leaves since I was a kid, when I used to pluck them off of the heads of celery in our fridge (I have a vivid memory of doing that when we lived on 2nd street, remember Mom?)


To that, I added some lovely little radishes, some freshly-squeezed lemon juice, a tiny drizzle of grapeseed oil and a slight dash of salt. So clean and refreshing! It was Spring-tacular.








One of Wichita's farmer's markets opened last weekend. I went solo (hubs was still asleep). There were several more booths this year than the first day last year. I ended up with some lovely little tomatoes (delish!), a jar of sand plum jam, and a jar of homemade mild salsa that came with a big bag of chips. It was nice to get out into the sunshine.

And for the request to see more pictures of our dog, Enu, I give you this gem:


{Enu atop all 4 couch throw pillows}

Jes

Monday, March 28, 2011

I am not a runner.

So I started running this morning before work. I am not (nor have I ever really been) a runner. Besides the huffing, puffing and coughing I did when back in the house, which made me sound like a smoker, I actually found it quite invigorating and enjoyable.

And I really liked being out before everyone else. I didn't encounter any moving cars and only saw one other person outside--another runner. Getting to see the streets around our house before daylight touches them, listening to my mp3 player, breathing so loudly that I am sure sleeping people inside the houses can hear me--all of this was splendid.

It took a while after the brief jog to feel good (though I didn't feel bad). After I got ready for work, I felt really invigorated and alive. I only went around the block twice, running half and fast-walking the other half of each lap (you die-hard runners are probably laughing right now!). But it was nice, and I hope to continue.

Maybe I will run three sides of the block each time around tomorrow morning.

Maybe by the end of the week I will get up to three laps or four.

And if I get up to run early on Saturday morning...that means I will be awake to hit the westside Wichita Farmer's Market. Yay for the FM being back! Bonus!

Jes

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Vegan MoFo 2010!

Ok, so it's my very first time participating in Vegan MoFo, which is a month (November) of daily posts about lovely vegan food. I feel as though I am still in a stage of following others' recipes to get a feel for new foods (flax, nooch, tofu even, etc), and I think this will help me get to a place where I can be creative and present some recipes of my own (at least, that I haven't seen yet...there are some super-creative vegans out there!). I did make some wonderfully-yummy green soup of my own creation a week or so ago, which I will share probably tomorrow. If I don't end up getting to it, maybe I'll save it for my opening post Nov. 1.

Should be a fun and flavorful month!!

Didn't want to leave you without a photo, so here is one taken at the Old Town farmers market back in like April, in tribute to its LAST day of the season coming up this Saturday. Le sigh...



Jes

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Farmer's Markets, Beets, and Hair-dos

Phil and I decided to hit the farmer's markets this year. There are several around town here throughout the week, and we went to the westside market when it opened in April. Kind of underwhelmed by it, so we didn't go again until a few weeks ago. I was so excited when the Derby farmer's market opened May 29th...until we drove by. Phil and I did the "slow-bad-garage-sale-drive-by" past the Derby market. There were THREE tents. Seriously. THREE. At least the westside market had more than that. It was then that we decided to hit up the Old Town farmer's market, hoping it would be a bit better. We hit the market jackpot!!
We bought several delectable veggies, including these beauties:
I have NEVER, EVER liked beets. My brothers and I had an old babysitter who used to feed us pickled beets from a can, and it's totally jacked with my concept of them ever since. So, I decided to find a recipe I could stomach, some fresh beets, and give it a go.

The recipe of choice was a Roasted Beet and Orange Salad from the May/June 2010 issue of "Vegetarian Times," which isn't available online but the issue should still be on newsstands.

My hatred of beets was most definitely reversed. They were sooooo good roasted. Vive le beet!

Oh, and I got my hair did!
:)

Jes