Markets are often cheaper than the supermarket too. I like my butcher.
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Markets are often cheaper than the supermarket too. I like my butcher.
I get my bread from here
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Those radishes look the business. I love good fresh radishes.
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You know, I've been thinking about signing up for a produce co-op in our area... time to do it and stop thinking about it...Originally Posted by happyscrappyheropup
I'm lucky I have great options near me. The cold weather means I don't get a ton of veggies during the winter, but my local CSA still delivers lots of root veggies and some greenhouse grown stuffs.
I also like to think that if I buy products from my neighbors it strengthens my local economy and community.
Elementary to lots of you I'm sure, and frankly pitiful to you hunters who kill and eat your own, but for a city boy... Despite being a foodie I buy my prawns prepared and precooked, then I just heat them. Easier to find them that way than raw. But today I bought some (alas not from the fishmonger who had none but the supermarket), they were already sans head but we shelled, deveined and de...legged them, made em into a curry and it was devine. So un-fishy tasting, and far more tender than usual (we barely cooked them). Takes a bit longer but I have plenty of time.
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I only like shrimp fresh form the ocean... or frozen, because most often they are flash frozen right on the boat (or so I've read). Fresh shrimp that's been sitting around...you never know...
I love our farmers market also, but we're often hustling just to keep up with our own garden. I feel ultra lucky that we live in a part of the world where the weather lets us grow things for most of the year. Winter crops like broccoli and chard do very well. We also get oranges and limes in winter, Meyer lemons year-round, kumquats in summer, tomatoes, lettuce, arugula, nectarines, passionfruit, apricots. This afternoon I should make more tomato sauce, come to think of it. It rained a bit today and the overripe ones might start rotting.
We're having an early autumn due to the drought and warm summer, but here's what's ripening in our back yard right now - spaghetti squash, fuyu persimmons, figs...
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We have a fig tree. Used to be very large...this year it's less than a 1/4 the size due to a large dead limb falling from a neighbors tree.
Skywatch: I hope hope also make good use of those squash flowers! Stuffed and fried they are divine, and the example in your picture looks very ready...
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Bummer. Not clicking "like" on that. Luckily the darn things grow like weeds, it should balance itself out soon enough.We have a fig tree. Used to be very large...this year it's less than a 1/4 the size due to a large dead limb falling from a neighbors tree.
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Yup - especially this time of year, when I don't expect the plant to get much more fruit on it. (I usually let most of the blossoms turn into fruit when possible.) It was a late starter, I'm actually a bit surprised it's doing so well.
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