Confession time. First of all, thanks to all the visitors who have laughed and cheered me on this week. And when I say I'm really enjoying this eating project, I mean it.
It's just that I woke up a little shaky today. Low on energy. Craving fruit.
The only fruit I've had all week was a small dish of foraged blackberries, and some of them were so sour I got a tummy ache.
I think there's a plum tree up the road a bit with branches hanging over the public sidewalk... But I wasn't sure I could drag myself there on foot, feeling the way I did, and maybe the low-hanging ones would have already been picked.
So at our visit (oh god, we drove!) to the farmers' market this morning (radishes, onions, zucchini from Star Route Farms in Marin), I broke down and bought apples from Sebastopol. And ate one. Weak, and tempted by the serpent of hypoglycemia, I was cast out of the garden.
Yep, I'm prematurely in another county (but, hey: the apple farm is less than 45 miles away). Our self-imposed Marin-only diet ended one day early.
What's worse, it triggered a near-fatal burrito deficiency in Beloved Husband and Co-Cook for some reason. (I guess once you start cheating -- well, gateway drug to the hard stuff, right?)
So, yeah. He had a carne asada-bean bomb from the nearby taqueria.
And I ate the corn chips.
I hang my head in shame.
Sunday, August 07, 2005
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4 comments:
cookiecrumb - you did a great job and were the talk of the challenge! i hope that you ate that apple with pride. :)
I had an interesting day as I went to a MALT tour of a couple of Marin Farms. (Dave Little's Potatoes, Marin Sun Farms, and Sartori Strawberries). One thing I heard that was so interesting was that the tribes that originally settled in Marin were very close to each other - more than nine in the Pt Reyes area - and they never even talked to each other -- because there was no need. There was such abundance in each individual foodshed that all their needs were met. You live in such a great county!
Jen
Wait!!! There are Marin strawberries? I needn't have cheated!
I will look them up. (What a great field trip you had today. Jealous.)
Jen, thanks So Much for the publicity on my blog. Still pluggin' away here for the rest of August. And, BTW, I even considered whacking down pinecones this week for the pine nuts...
xoxo
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As far as I know, he is the only one in the area who does strawberries ... seascape varietal and he does them about 1 mile inland from Tomales.
He goes to five markets: Civic Center x 2, Fairfax, Novato, and Pt Reyes (? I think that's the 5th). Great berries.
Here's more info
Thank you! Shoot, Civic Center? I just walk by the strawberries there, thinking they're from Santa Maria or San Diego. Thanks again! (Lesson learned: Ask!)
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