Entries Tagged as 'raspberry'

Picking Raspberries at Kelly & Jeff’s

October 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments


Tessa


Stephanie


Jessica


Tessa


Tessa


Tessa


Stephanie helping Tessa get her shoe back on.


Rachelle & Charlotte


Charlotte, Rachelle, Kelly


Charlotte & Dad

My cousin Kelly, her husband Jeff and their daughters Tessa and Charlotte live in De Pere, WI. They were the ones that got us tickets for the preseason Packers game that we went to. Before the game we got to visit a bit at the house. We also stayed there overnight after the game. Kelly and Jeff have a patch of raspberries growing in their yard and all of the kids were out there picking them and eating them. Funny how Tessa was picking them and shoving them in her mouth immediately, whereas you can see Jess was saving them up in her hand and then eating them. It reminded me a lot of when my brother and I were young. We were always outside eating raspberries. Our dog even got into it. I can’t remember my method.. if I was more pick and eat like Tessa or pick and hoard like Jess.

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Tuesdays with the Farmers’ Market

July 23rd, 2008 · 4 Comments

Yesterday morning I went back to the Lincoln Square farmers’ market. The farmers’ market is fun for everyone. In the photo above: spot the hipster, spot the kids, the elderly, the middle-aged. My bag felt extra heavy so I weighed it when I got home. 13 pounds! Ouch. Good thing I took the bus.

I wanted to note that these are my favorite vendors:
- Seedling Fruit, South Haven, MI :: Great fruit, esp. berries
- River Valley Kitchen, Burlington, WI :: All sorts of mushrooms
- Lange’s Farm, Elwood, IL :: Excellent variety of high-quality vegetables
- Dotson’s Farm, Linwood, IL :: Good selection of herb plants

This is what I bought at the farmers’ market:
- cherries
- raspberries
- blueberries
- 5 ears of corn
- 2 cucumbers
- 4 beets (A lady saw my beets and asked me how to prepare them. I said “I don’t know! I have to go home and look it up online!”)
- green beans
- tomatoes
- 4 portobello tops (I want to make these)
- portobello salsa with cilantro & key lime
- 4 free cta rides courtesy of Swedish Covenant Hospital (they were handing them out at the nearby Western Brown Line stop and just kept giving me more)

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$36 Well Spent at the Lincoln Square Farmers’ Market

July 20th, 2008 · 4 Comments


Lincoln Square Farmers’ Market, Lincoln Square, Chicago


Lincoln Square Farmers’ Market, Lincoln Square, Chicago


Farmers’ Market Produce, Roscoe Village, Chicago

Back in Chicago means back at the Tuesday Lincoln Square farmers’ market. For $36 I brought home:

- 3 large portabello tops
- small portabellos
- raspberries
- blueberries
- cherries
- 2 sage plants
- green onions
- two types of zucchini
- yellow squash
- grape tomatoes (various colors)
- green pepper
- 5 ears of corn
- lettuce
- 1 free energy saver light bulb from the 47th Ward alderman Gene Schulter

Everything is so much better when you get it fresh from the regional farmers instead of shipped from who knows where at the supermarket. The berries were unbelievable. So flavorful. And the lettuce was so big and tasty. And the corn! So sweet and delicate.

I don’t think I wrote about this before, but I’ve spoken about it to a few people. I really like the guy in the mushroom stand. I’ve talked to him a lot about the different kinds of mushrooms he has. One day we talked about how portobello’s, the large ones, were actually a mistake. They were the little crimini mushrooms that were let go another 2 or 3 days and grew big, what we now know as portobellos. Then portobellos got to be so popular that they now refer to criminis as baby portobellos and sometimes charge more for them. This last time I was at the market the mushroom stand was crazy. Instead of the one guy there were 2-3 more people working the stand and giving out samples and stuff. They also sell a lot of canned mushroom dips, salsas and sauces that they give out free samples of. The mushrooms are grown in a greenhouse in Wisconsin.

I also went to Jewel later on to get a few more things so I could make this corn/avocado/tomato salad. We actually made this salad a lot when I was in Cape Cod and used the basil that Jessica’s uncle gave us. I don’t really have a specific recipe for the salad, but this is what’s in it. I just added enough of each til it looked good.

- 1 avocado
- 2 cobs of corn, cook & cut off the cob
- about a cup of tomato
- basil
- splash of olive oil
- salt
- pepper
- juice of one lemon

I’d gotten the corn and tomatoes at the farmers’ market and I grew the basil on my patio.

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