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Summer extension
I was all set to write here about the beautiful fall weather and the falling leaves and how much I love going out and leaf-viewing, but when I went outside it was 24° and sunny, and even after the sun set I was still sweating when I brought home the farmer's market haul plus the additional food that ![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
sashagee requested. And the food I got, since when I saw that they had apple fritters at the farmer's market, I had to buy a package. Then I had to get a cabbage because I was almost out of vegetables at home, and pretty soon I had two full bags in each hand and my muscles were burning and it was a struggle to get everything home.
But I did!
And I also met up with ![[twitter.com profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/e0caa790ec10/-/twitter.com/favicon.ico)
arsduo and britshlez at the farmer's market, after almost an entire summer of trying to arrange going to the farmer's market at the same time and only managing to once. And I learned that next week is not actually the last week of the farmer's market, it'll be some indefinite time in the future. Not all of the vendors are going to be back, but two of the ones I go to pretty frequently will, as they told me when I went to pick up food from them. I'm not sure if there will be enough to construct a weekly dinner the way I've been doing for the past few months, but at least I'll still be able to pick up some of my favorite foods. Like the chicken chorizo I got from Green Fire Farm today when I saw it on their sign--that's going in curry.
And speaking of food:
Chicken adobo empanads from Pecking Order, with a side of sautéed 白菜 (hakusai) and a glass of apple cider from Hardin's Family Farm. I don't usually include the cup when I take these pictures because it's just water, but since it's actually relevant this time, you get to see that why yes, I exclaimed to the King of Sweden, I did go to Penn!
I don't know why I new vendor decided to show up right at the end of the farmer's market, but one did. Pecking Order used to be a restaurant in Uptown but closed years ago, and it wasn't until Monday that I learned they were still around. After eating these empanadas I'm sure it wasn't the food that led to them closing, because they were amazing. I didn't have any cooking instructions, unlike the arancini I had a few weeks ago, so I just fired up the oven and put them in for about five minutes. Then I poured the sauce that came with them on, ate one, and realized that I definitely should have saved the second one for tomorrow. They're huge, delicious, and very filling, and now they're gone.
I sautéed the hakusai in a bit of rice vinegar and drizzled ponzu sauce on it, and I drank the apple cider cold after shaking it up and pouring it. I usually prefer my apple cider mulled and hot, but not with dinner.
A strawberry yogurt muffin from Leticia's Natural Bakery. Muffins are dessert--they're sugary baked treats that often have fruit or yogurt in them. The fact that some people have them for breakfast is immaterial. However, after two very bread-y empanadas for dinner, I should have gotten some chocolate. It was good but it was a muffin and I was tired of baked goods.
sashagee spent basically all day playing Genshin Impact after her father and brother called her yesterday when we were playing Final Fantasy XIV together and asked her to play with them, so she downloaded the game last night. It looks a lot like Breath of the Wild, from the slightly cartoonish aesthetic to climbing ancient ruins to to gliding down from high places to grassy fields filled with goblin-like creatures. It has a lot more anime boob witches than BotW does, though, and I haven't been paying enough attention to know what the story is. Maybe I'll try it out, if I can figure out exactly how the monetization works. I'm leery of free-to-play games.
sashagee requested. And the food I got, since when I saw that they had apple fritters at the farmer's market, I had to buy a package. Then I had to get a cabbage because I was almost out of vegetables at home, and pretty soon I had two full bags in each hand and my muscles were burning and it was a struggle to get everything home. But I did!
And I also met up with britshlez at the farmer's market, after almost an entire summer of trying to arrange going to the farmer's market at the same time and only managing to once. And I learned that next week is not actually the last week of the farmer's market, it'll be some indefinite time in the future. Not all of the vendors are going to be back, but two of the ones I go to pretty frequently will, as they told me when I went to pick up food from them. I'm not sure if there will be enough to construct a weekly dinner the way I've been doing for the past few months, but at least I'll still be able to pick up some of my favorite foods. Like the chicken chorizo I got from Green Fire Farm today when I saw it on their sign--that's going in curry. And speaking of food:
Chicken adobo empanads from Pecking Order, with a side of sautéed 白菜 (hakusai) and a glass of apple cider from Hardin's Family Farm. I don't usually include the cup when I take these pictures because it's just water, but since it's actually relevant this time, you get to see that why yes, I exclaimed to the King of Sweden, I did go to Penn!
I don't know why I new vendor decided to show up right at the end of the farmer's market, but one did. Pecking Order used to be a restaurant in Uptown but closed years ago, and it wasn't until Monday that I learned they were still around. After eating these empanadas I'm sure it wasn't the food that led to them closing, because they were amazing. I didn't have any cooking instructions, unlike the arancini I had a few weeks ago, so I just fired up the oven and put them in for about five minutes. Then I poured the sauce that came with them on, ate one, and realized that I definitely should have saved the second one for tomorrow. They're huge, delicious, and very filling, and now they're gone.
I sautéed the hakusai in a bit of rice vinegar and drizzled ponzu sauce on it, and I drank the apple cider cold after shaking it up and pouring it. I usually prefer my apple cider mulled and hot, but not with dinner.
A strawberry yogurt muffin from Leticia's Natural Bakery. Muffins are dessert--they're sugary baked treats that often have fruit or yogurt in them. The fact that some people have them for breakfast is immaterial. However, after two very bread-y empanadas for dinner, I should have gotten some chocolate. It was good but it was a muffin and I was tired of baked goods.
sashagee spent basically all day playing Genshin Impact after her father and brother called her yesterday when we were playing Final Fantasy XIV together and asked her to play with them, so she downloaded the game last night. It looks a lot like Breath of the Wild, from the slightly cartoonish aesthetic to climbing ancient ruins to to gliding down from high places to grassy fields filled with goblin-like creatures. It has a lot more anime boob witches than BotW does, though, and I haven't been paying enough attention to know what the story is. Maybe I'll try it out, if I can figure out exactly how the monetization works. I'm leery of free-to-play games.
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