This week at the farmers market: 4/25/2009

This morning I took a delightful stroll up through Prospect Park to the Grand Army Plaza greenmarket. It was warm and sunny and all the trees were in bloom and the air smelled amazing.  I got to the top of the park and was greeted by a klezmer band, spontaneous dancing, and piles and piles [...]

This week at the farmers market: 5/24/2008

Yesterday I was on a mission to find strawberries. I don’t think I’d had a strawberry in about nine months and I was ready. Two farms were selling them but I was a little disappointed with what I saw. They looked a little on the under ripe side, and I wondered if I should hold [...]

This week at the farmers market: 5/10/2008

This week I brought home two of my favorite spring treats, asparagus and rhubarb. Those mesclun greens smell so amazing it’s a shame the whole smell-o-vision thing never took off. I tried a new kind of cheese from Cato Corner, less creamy than their delicious Bloomsday cheese, with a bit more bite. Its really good. [...]

Penne with Asparagus and Salmon

When I saw the asparagus at the farmers market this week I knew it was time to make one of my favorite spring dinners. This is one of my mom’s recipes. Actually I think it started out as just fettuccine and asparagus, but then all of a sudden one night it had salmon in [...]

Thursday at the farmers market

Today at lunch time I went outside to take a walk and I stumbled upon the little farmers market at 115th and Broadway. It’s there every Thursday but I always seem to forget about it. Today I crossed the street and found two big tables covered in bunches of nice, skinny asparagus. It pretty much [...]