Saturday May 7 (9:00 am to 1:00 pm) 2011 14th and U St NW in front of the George "Superman" Reeves Center (Washington, DC)
Vendors include:
Truck Patch Farms
Mountain View
Northern Neck Produce
Dolcevezza
Plantmasters
Whisked
Showing posts with label Farmers Market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Farmers Market. Show all posts
Saturday, May 7, 2011
14th and U Farmer's Market Reopens
Finally! The Market reopens for the season!
Saturday May 7 (9:00 am to 1:00 pm) 2011 14th and U St NW in front of the George "Superman" Reeves Center (Washington, DC)
Vendors include:
Kuhn Orchards
Truck Patch Farms
Mountain View
Northern Neck Produce
Dolcevezza
Plantmasters
Whisked
Saturday May 7 (9:00 am to 1:00 pm) 2011 14th and U St NW in front of the George "Superman" Reeves Center (Washington, DC)
Vendors include:
Truck Patch Farms
Mountain View
Northern Neck Produce
Dolcevezza
Plantmasters
Whisked
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
14th and U St Farmers Market
My beloved 14th and U Farmers Market CSA opens Saturday May 02, 2009 (9:00 am - 1:00 pm).
More details to follow on my Facebook.
Oh right, you don't know me there, do you?
Where do you think I am these days?
More details to follow on my Facebook.
Oh right, you don't know me there, do you?
Where do you think I am these days?
Thursday, October 23, 2008
14th and U Farmers Market Sexy Secrets!
Despite my supposed slavish devotion to farmers markets, I haven't done a local agriculture post in weeks! Each Saturday at 9:00 am I am at the 14th and U Farmers market where I pick up veggies, fruit, bread, phone numbers and other miscellaneous items. This week I was accompanied by Herb of DC Photography Intern Sasha Fierce to explore the sexy secrets of this market.
Here's the first secret: often the pumpkins are half price during the last hour. Buy one for carvin',one for lovin', and one for eatin'.
In ancient Rome chestnuts were once known as "Tree Oysters" and were thought to have male aphrodisiac effects. Buy the full crate! I don't judge, I just observe!
It is no secret that the cabbage is the least sexy vegetable. What do cole slaw, sauerkraut, kimchi, borscht, dolma, holishkes and "bubble and squeak" have in common? Right, cabbage! And flatulence!
I bought 3 heads.
Oh look, it's Dave the auditor!
That nice Mrs. Peaches from Kuhn orchards always has some great recipes to be picked up along with the best fruit ever!
Apples are in full season and I got some sexy "Northern Spy" apples for a gingerbread cobbler.
Kuhn's Orchards Apple Gingerbread Cobbler
4 medium apples, sliced
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup plus 3 tablespoons water
2 tablespoons cornstarch
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.Cook apples, sugar, lemon juice, cinnamon and 1 cup of water until apples are almost tender.
Combine 3 tablespoons water with cornstarch, stirring until all lumps are removed. Stir into apples and cook until thickened. Pour into an 8-inch baking dish. Add topping. Bake 35 minutes.
Topping
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/4 cup molasses
2 tablespoons oil
1 egg
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ginger
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
Beat together the milk, molasses, oil, egg and sugar. Measure remaining ingredients into sifter and sift into egg mixture. Stir only until combined and pour over apple mixture.
The sexy secret? Molasses. Say it slowly Mooool aaases!
14th and U Farmers Market
Saturdays 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
This week at the market (from the 14th and U weekly email from Robin Shuster)
Dear 14&U Fans
We have a new producer: Hareg Messert of Chez Hareg Pastries will be bringing her classic French cookies, biscotti, pannetoni, pound cakes-- and in the future, her cakes and pies! Hareg grew up in Ethiopia and trained in French speaking Senegal before she became a pastry chef at the Ritz Carlton in DC..... so she has both Italian and French traditions! Plus she makes Vegan cookies as well. She has a charming bakery-cafe on 9th Street called Chez Hareg which has been written up in the Washingtonian several times. Lots of FREE SAMPLES.
Don't let rain keep you away from the market or from meeting our newest producer! ;-) Bring your umbrellas, stay under the tents and you will be dry and happy. The tents are filled with great produce, salads, greens, pastured meats, fruits, breads, flowers, sweets, cheeses, honey, ciders and.... Halloween pumpkins. Garner still has summer produce -- yea for those Northern Neck farms-
News:
Beef at Truck Patch
Brussels Sprouts and Romanesco cauiliflower-broccoli at Truck Patch
Collards and LOTS of Peppers at Garner
Scallions at Mountain View
Fall flavors at Dolcezza
Classic French cookies, Italian biscotti, pannetoni and pound cake at Chez Hareg.
Vegan cookies at Chez Hareg
PLUS ALL THOSE HALLOWEEN PUMPKINS.....
Faucher Flower's last week for the season.
Mountain View: Always Pesticide -free Salad greens, bok choi, Chinese Cabbage, Red and Green tomatoes (think fried green tomatoes!), kale, Swiss Chard, Turnips, Beets, arugula, sweet potatoes, potatoes, scallions, mustard greens and eggs!
Truck Patch now has BEEF: steaks, ground, roasts, chuck, brisket, hamburger patties, flank, Grass -fed and finished on their own choice of grass or grain Brussels sprouts, romanesco cauliflower, cabbage, arugula, kale, spinach, mesclun, radishes, tomatoes, last of the vine picked heirlooms, a few peppers, red and white potatoes, broccoli, savoy and green cabbage (yes, you can buy just a half!) and that weird cone-shaped Romaneco cauliflower-broccoli. Looks like an Arcimboldo painting of people made of vegetable faces. Very flavorful. (Scientist have been fighting over whether it is a broccoli or a cauliflower.) Plus their pastured pork of all cuts and sausages and bacon.
Dolcezza: MORE THAN JUST A SUMMER DESSERT Some of their sorbets are savory....and many people use them as appetizers or serve them between courses. The Lemon Opal Basil is a perfect palate cleanser! Last week I fell in love with both the Pear and the Pumpkin Cinnamon flavors. The first is just like biting into a perfectly ripe bartlett and the second was a slice of a rich pumpkin pie. (With the added benefit that it has MUCH less fat and many fewer calories).
Keswick: Their 100% Jersey cow milk makes delicious yogurt, chocolate pudding and both aged raw milk and fresh pasteurized cheeses. Cheddars, vermeers and other aged raw milk cheeses. Lots of feta, quark, ricotta, too. Try some of Keswick blue cheese with a hamburger or steak! My favorite yogurt. Blue cheese and pear, apples and cheddar are cheese and fruit marriages!
Kuhn: Honeycrisp, mutsu, gala, empire, jonathan, elstar, cortland, jonagold, northern spy, and other apples along with tomatoes, lots of winter squash (Please please please try the Italian butternut!) , pumpkins of all sizes, shapes and colors, honey, chestnuts, onions, sweet peppers ,a few red raspberries, asian pears and bartletts. Cider made from elstar, jonamac, honeycrisp, gala.
McCleaf: Their cider is excellent for drinking cold or hot with mulling spices for our ( cooler evenings or cooking. Apples, UV filtered and Pasteurized cider, kale, squash, okra, tomatoes, peppers.
Mountain View: Always Pesticide -free Salad greens, bok choi, Chinese Cabbage, Red and Green tomatoes (think fried green tomatoes!), kale, Swiss Chard, Turnips, Beets, arugula, sweet potatoes, potatoes, scallions, mustard greens and eggs!
Truck Patch now has BEEF: steaks, ground, roasts, chuck, brisket, hamburger patties, flank, Grass -fed and finished on their own choice of grass or grain Brussels sprouts, romanesco cauliflower, cabbage, arugula, kale, spinach, mesclun, radishes, tomatoes, last of the vine picked heirlooms, a few peppers, red and white potatoes, broccoli, savoy and green cabbage (yes, you can buy just a half!) and that weird cone-shaped Romaneco cauliflower-broccoli. Looks like an Arcimboldo painting of people made of vegetable faces. Very flavorful. (Scientist have been fighting over whether it is a broccoli or a cauliflower.) Plus their pastured pork of all cuts and sausages and bacon.
Dolcezza: MORE THAN JUST A SUMMER DESSERT Some of their sorbets are savory....and many people use them as appetizers or serve them between courses. The Lemon Opal Basil is a perfect palate cleanser! Last week I fell in love with both the Pear and the Pumpkin Cinnamon flavors. The first is just like biting into a perfectly ripe bartlett and the second was a slice of a rich pumpkin pie. (With the added benefit that it has MUCH less fat and many fewer calories).
Keswick: Their 100% Jersey cow milk makes delicious yogurt, chocolate pudding and both aged raw milk and fresh pasteurized cheeses. Cheddars, vermeers and other aged raw milk cheeses. Lots of feta, quark, ricotta, too. Try some of Keswick blue cheese with a hamburger or steak! My favorite yogurt. Blue cheese and pear, apples and cheddar are cheese and fruit marriages!
Kuhn: Honeycrisp, mutsu, gala, empire, jonathan, elstar, cortland, jonagold, northern spy, and other apples along with tomatoes, lots of winter squash (Please please please try the Italian butternut!) , pumpkins of all sizes, shapes and colors, honey, chestnuts, onions, sweet peppers ,a few red raspberries, asian pears and bartletts. Cider made from elstar, jonamac, honeycrisp, gala.
McCleaf: Their cider is excellent for drinking cold or hot with mulling spices for our ( cooler evenings or cooking. Apples, UV filtered and Pasteurized cider, kale, squash, okra, tomatoes, peppers.
Garner: COLLARDS! And purple and yellow peppers as well. . Plus beets, spinach, arugula, mustard greens, turnip greens, leaf lettuce, Swiss Chard, baby turnips, lots of winter squash ( acorn, butternut, spaghetti, carnival, pretty green kabocha, red kuri. Neck pumpkins look like an elongated butternut squash but they sure taste like pumpkins and make great pies. Eggplants, summer squash, green and yellow beans, potatoes, eggplant, sweet potatoes....AND LOTS OF PUMPKINS FOR YOUR HALLOWEEN PARTIES!
Faucher Flowers: Elaine's last week with us this season because all her flowers are field grown. Look for those spectacular Dahlias, Mexican Sage, Eucalyptus.
Breadline: Baguettes, cookies, croissants, multi grain and whole grain breads, muffins, scones, sour doughs,fig bars.
See you Saturday --RAIN OR SHINE.
Robin and Luke
Here's the first secret: often the pumpkins are half price during the last hour. Buy one for carvin',
In ancient Rome chestnuts were once known as "Tree Oysters" and were thought to have male aphrodisiac effects. Buy the full crate! I don't judge, I just observe!
It is no secret that the cabbage is the least sexy vegetable. What do cole slaw, sauerkraut, kimchi, borscht, dolma, holishkes and "bubble and squeak" have in common? Right, cabbage! And flatulence!
I bought 3 heads.
Oh look, it's Dave the auditor!
That nice Mrs. Peaches from Kuhn orchards always has some great recipes to be picked up along with the best fruit ever!
Apples are in full season and I got some sexy "Northern Spy" apples for a gingerbread cobbler.
Kuhn's Orchards Apple Gingerbread Cobbler
4 medium apples, sliced
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup plus 3 tablespoons water
2 tablespoons cornstarch
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.Cook apples, sugar, lemon juice, cinnamon and 1 cup of water until apples are almost tender.
Combine 3 tablespoons water with cornstarch, stirring until all lumps are removed. Stir into apples and cook until thickened. Pour into an 8-inch baking dish. Add topping. Bake 35 minutes.
Topping
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/4 cup molasses
2 tablespoons oil
1 egg
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ginger
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
Beat together the milk, molasses, oil, egg and sugar. Measure remaining ingredients into sifter and sift into egg mixture. Stir only until combined and pour over apple mixture.
The sexy secret? Molasses. Say it slowly Mooool aaases!
14th and U Farmers Market
Saturdays 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
This week at the market (from the 14th and U weekly email from Robin Shuster)
Dear 14&U Fans
We have a new producer: Hareg Messert of Chez Hareg Pastries will be bringing her classic French cookies, biscotti, pannetoni, pound cakes-- and in the future, her cakes and pies! Hareg grew up in Ethiopia and trained in French speaking Senegal before she became a pastry chef at the Ritz Carlton in DC..... so she has both Italian and French traditions! Plus she makes Vegan cookies as well. She has a charming bakery-cafe on 9th Street called Chez Hareg which has been written up in the Washingtonian several times. Lots of FREE SAMPLES.
Don't let rain keep you away from the market or from meeting our newest producer! ;-) Bring your umbrellas, stay under the tents and you will be dry and happy. The tents are filled with great produce, salads, greens, pastured meats, fruits, breads, flowers, sweets, cheeses, honey, ciders and.... Halloween pumpkins. Garner still has summer produce -- yea for those Northern Neck farms-
News:
Beef at Truck Patch
Brussels Sprouts and Romanesco cauiliflower-broccoli at Truck Patch
Collards and LOTS of Peppers at Garner
Scallions at Mountain View
Fall flavors at Dolcezza
Classic French cookies, Italian biscotti, pannetoni and pound cake at Chez Hareg.
Vegan cookies at Chez Hareg
PLUS ALL THOSE HALLOWEEN PUMPKINS.....
Faucher Flower's last week for the season.
Mountain View: Always Pesticide -free Salad greens, bok choi, Chinese Cabbage, Red and Green tomatoes (think fried green tomatoes!), kale, Swiss Chard, Turnips, Beets, arugula, sweet potatoes, potatoes, scallions, mustard greens and eggs!
Truck Patch now has BEEF: steaks, ground, roasts, chuck, brisket, hamburger patties, flank, Grass -fed and finished on their own choice of grass or grain Brussels sprouts, romanesco cauliflower, cabbage, arugula, kale, spinach, mesclun, radishes, tomatoes, last of the vine picked heirlooms, a few peppers, red and white potatoes, broccoli, savoy and green cabbage (yes, you can buy just a half!) and that weird cone-shaped Romaneco cauliflower-broccoli. Looks like an Arcimboldo painting of people made of vegetable faces. Very flavorful. (Scientist have been fighting over whether it is a broccoli or a cauliflower.) Plus their pastured pork of all cuts and sausages and bacon.
Dolcezza: MORE THAN JUST A SUMMER DESSERT Some of their sorbets are savory....and many people use them as appetizers or serve them between courses. The Lemon Opal Basil is a perfect palate cleanser! Last week I fell in love with both the Pear and the Pumpkin Cinnamon flavors. The first is just like biting into a perfectly ripe bartlett and the second was a slice of a rich pumpkin pie. (With the added benefit that it has MUCH less fat and many fewer calories).
Keswick: Their 100% Jersey cow milk makes delicious yogurt, chocolate pudding and both aged raw milk and fresh pasteurized cheeses. Cheddars, vermeers and other aged raw milk cheeses. Lots of feta, quark, ricotta, too. Try some of Keswick blue cheese with a hamburger or steak! My favorite yogurt. Blue cheese and pear, apples and cheddar are cheese and fruit marriages!
Kuhn: Honeycrisp, mutsu, gala, empire, jonathan, elstar, cortland, jonagold, northern spy, and other apples along with tomatoes, lots of winter squash (Please please please try the Italian butternut!) , pumpkins of all sizes, shapes and colors, honey, chestnuts, onions, sweet peppers ,a few red raspberries, asian pears and bartletts. Cider made from elstar, jonamac, honeycrisp, gala.
McCleaf: Their cider is excellent for drinking cold or hot with mulling spices for our ( cooler evenings or cooking. Apples, UV filtered and Pasteurized cider, kale, squash, okra, tomatoes, peppers.
Mountain View: Always Pesticide -free Salad greens, bok choi, Chinese Cabbage, Red and Green tomatoes (think fried green tomatoes!), kale, Swiss Chard, Turnips, Beets, arugula, sweet potatoes, potatoes, scallions, mustard greens and eggs!
Truck Patch now has BEEF: steaks, ground, roasts, chuck, brisket, hamburger patties, flank, Grass -fed and finished on their own choice of grass or grain Brussels sprouts, romanesco cauliflower, cabbage, arugula, kale, spinach, mesclun, radishes, tomatoes, last of the vine picked heirlooms, a few peppers, red and white potatoes, broccoli, savoy and green cabbage (yes, you can buy just a half!) and that weird cone-shaped Romaneco cauliflower-broccoli. Looks like an Arcimboldo painting of people made of vegetable faces. Very flavorful. (Scientist have been fighting over whether it is a broccoli or a cauliflower.) Plus their pastured pork of all cuts and sausages and bacon.
Dolcezza: MORE THAN JUST A SUMMER DESSERT Some of their sorbets are savory....and many people use them as appetizers or serve them between courses. The Lemon Opal Basil is a perfect palate cleanser! Last week I fell in love with both the Pear and the Pumpkin Cinnamon flavors. The first is just like biting into a perfectly ripe bartlett and the second was a slice of a rich pumpkin pie. (With the added benefit that it has MUCH less fat and many fewer calories).
Keswick: Their 100% Jersey cow milk makes delicious yogurt, chocolate pudding and both aged raw milk and fresh pasteurized cheeses. Cheddars, vermeers and other aged raw milk cheeses. Lots of feta, quark, ricotta, too. Try some of Keswick blue cheese with a hamburger or steak! My favorite yogurt. Blue cheese and pear, apples and cheddar are cheese and fruit marriages!
Kuhn: Honeycrisp, mutsu, gala, empire, jonathan, elstar, cortland, jonagold, northern spy, and other apples along with tomatoes, lots of winter squash (Please please please try the Italian butternut!) , pumpkins of all sizes, shapes and colors, honey, chestnuts, onions, sweet peppers ,a few red raspberries, asian pears and bartletts. Cider made from elstar, jonamac, honeycrisp, gala.
McCleaf: Their cider is excellent for drinking cold or hot with mulling spices for our ( cooler evenings or cooking. Apples, UV filtered and Pasteurized cider, kale, squash, okra, tomatoes, peppers.
Garner: COLLARDS! And purple and yellow peppers as well. . Plus beets, spinach, arugula, mustard greens, turnip greens, leaf lettuce, Swiss Chard, baby turnips, lots of winter squash ( acorn, butternut, spaghetti, carnival, pretty green kabocha, red kuri. Neck pumpkins look like an elongated butternut squash but they sure taste like pumpkins and make great pies. Eggplants, summer squash, green and yellow beans, potatoes, eggplant, sweet potatoes....AND LOTS OF PUMPKINS FOR YOUR HALLOWEEN PARTIES!
Faucher Flowers: Elaine's last week with us this season because all her flowers are field grown. Look for those spectacular Dahlias, Mexican Sage, Eucalyptus.
Breadline: Baguettes, cookies, croissants, multi grain and whole grain breads, muffins, scones, sour doughs,fig bars.
See you Saturday --RAIN OR SHINE.
Robin and Luke
Monday, October 6, 2008
I've Moved my 401K !
I've moved my 401K to the pumpkin in my living room window. There's so little left it fits nicely in my Fairy Tale Pumpkin purchased at the 14th and U Farmer's Market.
And if the market continues to go down I will make a pie.
Saturday, August 9, 2008
My Notorious Blogebrity
Despite my first name and picture being on this blog I am still startled when a stranger mentions my blog. Do that many people really read this thing? Or is my blog so limited in scope that my Blogebrity reaches no further than two or three blocks from my house which is where most of my interactions with the Herbarazzi occurs.
The latest encounter occurred at the 14th and U Farmers Market where one of the vendors asked if I had a food blog. Yikes, was I about to get a heirloom tomato facial? Had I suggested that his produce was less than organic? His carrots were limp? No snap in his snap beans? Crooked zucchini? No wait, I always have kind words for Farmers Markets--especially my home market! Feeling safe from Swiss chard in a definitely unneutral spot I confessed that I had a blog but it wasn't about food.(1)
He said wasn't sure how he found my blog but he found it through random Googling (2) and liked it. Whew! Also he recognized me by the Tractor Supply Company baseball cap I was wearing.
Note to self if you are seeking Blogebrity, always wear in public the same clothing you are wearing in the profile picture of your blog. You not only save a lot of money but you will be thought of as eccentric and perhaps colorful, instead of cheap and crazy.
It was a beautiful August day here today and I hope you got out and enjoyed it.
Pictured above is "Chorus Line of Farmers Market Booty" August 9, 2008.
(1) Actually I don't know what my blog is about. I just know its not about grammar.
(2) Most random Google searches to my blog involve "High School Musical" or "TMNT"
Sunday, July 20, 2008
The Taste of Summer in Your Mouth
From my latest booty captured at the 14th and U Farmer's Market (9-1 Every Saturday)
Summer Tomato Salad
One red and one green striped Heirloom tomatoes (Mountain View Farm)
One peach (Kuhns Orchard)
One shallot (Mountain View Farm)
Basil (from the Petting Garden)
Italian Herb Feta Cheese (Keswick Creamery)
Toss with olive oil and balsamic vinegar
Serve with bread (Breadline) and white wine (Whitelaw Market).
Monday, May 26, 2008
Doin' Nuttin' Memorial Day Weekend While You Are Sittin' in Traffic
Everyone: What are you doing for Memorial Day weekend?
Herb of DC: Nuttin'
Everyone: Oh that sounds nice. (Translation: Bless your heart, you have no friends. And worse you must be poor.)
Everyone: So can you take care of my dog?
I love three day weekends here when the rest of you are gone. As long as one avoids the museums and Casas de Touristas it is very peaceful and quiet here. No lines. Easy parking. Everyone left plays well together. DC magically becomes a sleepy, small town.
While you are battling your way along Route 50 to the beach, I am in the brilliant sunshine working in my garden and listening to the birds sing. You may be stuck in traffic wasting $4 a gallon gas on I-95 but I am strolling through the colorful Dupont Farmer's market purchasing green garlic, asparagus, bread, crab cakes, and of course strawberries. While you stare at someone else's bumper on I-66, your dog and I are chasing squirrels in Logan Circle.
Oh and doing all of this is free. Really, who is richer this weekend?
The view out my front door, Memorial Day 2008. Where are the parked cars? Oh right. In Rehoboth.
I will have a fine broccoli crop soon that will rival anything you find at an Eastern Shore Farmers market. Zinnia "Green Envy" seedlings are starting to sprout in front of the Asiatic lilies. No signs yet of the herb seeds I planted though.
The strawberries at the Dupont Circle Farmers Market are sweeter than anything you will find at the Chesapeake House Rest Stop in Maryland (Exit 98).
For the price of a Brew Thru tee shirt in Corolla NC you could have stayed here and bought an armful of peonies.
Did you stop at the outlet Malls on the day it was cloudy and spend what was left of your Economic Stimulus check? If you had stayed and played local you could have snagged this sweet chair just sitting there on 13th St free for the taking.
Looking north on 14th St during what would normally be morning rush hour. I guess all the cars are still somewhere on the Bay Bridge. Honk if you love traffic!
Herb of DC: Nuttin'
Everyone: Oh that sounds nice. (Translation: Bless your heart, you have no friends. And worse you must be poor.)
Everyone: So can you take care of my dog?
I love three day weekends here when the rest of you are gone. As long as one avoids the museums and Casas de Touristas it is very peaceful and quiet here. No lines. Easy parking. Everyone left plays well together. DC magically becomes a sleepy, small town.
While you are battling your way along Route 50 to the beach, I am in the brilliant sunshine working in my garden and listening to the birds sing. You may be stuck in traffic wasting $4 a gallon gas on I-95 but I am strolling through the colorful Dupont Farmer's market purchasing green garlic, asparagus, bread, crab cakes, and of course strawberries. While you stare at someone else's bumper on I-66, your dog and I are chasing squirrels in Logan Circle.
Oh and doing all of this is free. Really, who is richer this weekend?
The view out my front door, Memorial Day 2008. Where are the parked cars? Oh right. In Rehoboth.
I will have a fine broccoli crop soon that will rival anything you find at an Eastern Shore Farmers market. Zinnia "Green Envy" seedlings are starting to sprout in front of the Asiatic lilies. No signs yet of the herb seeds I planted though.
The strawberries at the Dupont Circle Farmers Market are sweeter than anything you will find at the Chesapeake House Rest Stop in Maryland (Exit 98).
For the price of a Brew Thru tee shirt in Corolla NC you could have stayed here and bought an armful of peonies.
Did you stop at the outlet Malls on the day it was cloudy and spend what was left of your Economic Stimulus check? If you had stayed and played local you could have snagged this sweet chair just sitting there on 13th St free for the taking.
Looking north on 14th St during what would normally be morning rush hour. I guess all the cars are still somewhere on the Bay Bridge. Honk if you love traffic!
Saturday, May 10, 2008
14th and U Farmer's Market 2008!
Update 2009: The market will open Saturday May 2, 2009 (9:00am-1:00pm)
I missed visiting presidential candidate Hillary Clinton cut the opening ribbon of the 14th and U Farmers market and release 10 free range doves into the the air which she immediately shot down provin' that she is a good ole gal with farm cred. However, I did get there in time for the Breadline's delicious and chewy olive loaf which last year always seemed to go early in the day ever since the Bush twins proclaimed it the bestest bread ever for nursing a hangover.
The opening of the hyper competitive 2008 Farmers Market Pro-Am Season was kicked off with the Saturday May 10 debut of the 14th and U Farmers Market. Located in front of the George "Superman" Reeve's Center, the mart will run every Saturday from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm.
This Kuhns Orchard's rhubarb combined with strawberries trucked in from the Northern Neck of Virginia will make a great pie when I get home. Or maybe I should use Cindy McCain's old family recipe?
What's for dinner? Mountain View Farm's green garlic and asparagus roasted in olive oil and sprinkled with Parmesan cheese. Michelle Obama is proud to make this for her family.
A simple farm maiden (possibly Amish) brings flowers to sell in the big city in order to save the family farm from foreclosure.
I am not of fan of the radish due to Herb Sr once forcing me to eat a radish as a child not realizing how delicate yet explosive my gag reflex was. Nevertheless, wipe out that mental image and take a gander at these weapons of mass projection--they are gorgeous!
Farmers Market Booty Still Life May 2008
Market director Robin Shuster has assured us that cheese will be available starting in June.
Like this blog needs more cheese!
Update: Sunday May 11
The number 1 rule in food blogging is to remember to take the picture before you start eating it. Needless to say it is a great tasting strawberry rhubarb pie!
I missed visiting presidential candidate Hillary Clinton cut the opening ribbon of the 14th and U Farmers market and release 10 free range doves into the the air which she immediately shot down provin' that she is a good ole gal with farm cred. However, I did get there in time for the Breadline's delicious and chewy olive loaf which last year always seemed to go early in the day ever since the Bush twins proclaimed it the bestest bread ever for nursing a hangover.
The opening of the hyper competitive 2008 Farmers Market Pro-Am Season was kicked off with the Saturday May 10 debut of the 14th and U Farmers Market. Located in front of the George "Superman" Reeve's Center, the mart will run every Saturday from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm.
This Kuhns Orchard's rhubarb combined with strawberries trucked in from the Northern Neck of Virginia will make a great pie when I get home. Or maybe I should use Cindy McCain's old family recipe?
What's for dinner? Mountain View Farm's green garlic and asparagus roasted in olive oil and sprinkled with Parmesan cheese. Michelle Obama is proud to make this for her family.
A simple farm maiden (possibly Amish) brings flowers to sell in the big city in order to save the family farm from foreclosure.
I am not of fan of the radish due to Herb Sr once forcing me to eat a radish as a child not realizing how delicate yet explosive my gag reflex was. Nevertheless, wipe out that mental image and take a gander at these weapons of mass projection--they are gorgeous!
Farmers Market Booty Still Life May 2008
Market director Robin Shuster has assured us that cheese will be available starting in June.
Like this blog needs more cheese!
Update: Sunday May 11
The number 1 rule in food blogging is to remember to take the picture before you start eating it. Needless to say it is a great tasting strawberry rhubarb pie!
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Peaches and Herb at the Del Ray Farmers Market
Personal Assistant, photographer and private security guard JessiCub accompanied me to the Del Ray Farmers Market (every Saturday from 8:00 am to Noon).
Herb no Peaches
Peaches no Herb
Im-peaches
Cling peaches
Not peaches
Can you identify what is wrong with the below picture? Correct!!! This shop is located in Del Ray not Old Town!
Afterwards I went home and made my mother's favorite peach pie. Life is good!
Pug's Easy Peach Chess Pie
Cut up 2 or 3 peaches
Melt 1 stick butter
Add:
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup flour
1 egg (beaten)
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
Bake 350 degrees for one hour or until done
(you may want to cover the edge of the pie with foil to prevent burning)
Herb no Peaches
Peaches no Herb
Necta-peaches
Im-peaches
Cling peaches
Not peaches
Can you identify what is wrong with the below picture? Correct!!! This shop is located in Del Ray not Old Town!
Afterwards I went home and made my mother's favorite peach pie. Life is good!
Pug's Easy Peach Chess Pie
Cut up 2 or 3 peaches
Melt 1 stick butter
Add:
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup flour
1 egg (beaten)
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
Bake 350 degrees for one hour or until done
(you may want to cover the edge of the pie with foil to prevent burning)
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Wheel of Fortune at the DC F_rm_rs M_rk_t
D.C. FARMERS MARKET 1309 Fifth St. NE (202-547-3142). Year-round, Tuesdays through Thursdays, 7 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays, 7 a.m.-6:30 p.m.; Sundays, 7 a.m.-2 p.m.
Soon to become the new Reston, VA.
Soon to become the new Reston, VA.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Bloody Harry Potter Plot Details Revealed During Mount Pleasant Rampage
July 21, 2007, the publishing debut of beloved children's author J.K. Rowling's funny and endearing "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."
Spoiler Warning: True plot details may be leaked below? Or not...
A beautiful day shopping and reading J.K. Rowling's latest and sweetest fable in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC's first street car suburb. During its heyday, many Washington luminaries including actress Helen Hayes, Washington Senators' pitcher Walter Johnson, and US Senator Robert LaFollette made their homes in Mount Pleasant. Now one of the District's most ethnically diverse neighborhood, all gathered on Saturday to hysterically discuss Harry Potter's latest adventure.
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Professor Charity Burbage was the first to be offed and now sings with the angels and sleeps with the fishes.
(Click pictures to enlarge)
No shirts, No shoes, No Hedwig the owl! Done in by a Hava Nagila curse!
Voldermort opens Alastor Moody's Fortune Cookie. Uh oh! Kung Pao Moody. To go!
During the wedding reception for Sukey Tawdry and Bill Weasley, Voldemort takes over the Ministry of Magic. Harry, Ron and Hermione flee in the Imperial Flying Chair and take a three hour tour. A three hour tour!
Must find Mad-Eye Louie Miller's eye! Which way to go? Follow the clues to the Enchanted Mount Pleasant Farmers Market!!!
Voldermort hurls a bolt of lightening at Helga Hufflepuff and alas, she is no longer currant.
Tears for Muggle-born witches and wizards.
Bellatrix Lestrange knocked back a spoiled polyjuice potion and should be turning a lovely shade of blue by now.
Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginger Grant don the Invisibility Cloak
Neville Longbottom is topped by the Horcruxes and now pushes up daisies.
Death Eaters attack and dozens of Hogwarts run through the Valley of the Shadow of Death and check into Ranch Eternity. Do not disturb! RIP Lucy Brown, Severus Snape, Johnny Bravo, Colin Creevey and Mrs Beasley.
Ron is now living-challenged, thanks to Nagini and his Ukulele of Death.
The ripe and luscious Hermione takes one for the home team and flashes Saint Peter. Hogwarts Gone Wild!
In preparation for the final Battle of the Hogwarts Death Eaters, Witches, Wizards, Centaurs, Cirque Du Soleil, Voldermort, and Harry assemble for a Mixed Magic Arts Smack Down.
The carnage continues and finally Harry comes face to face with Voldermort in the Great Mansion. Voldermort strikes Harry with the Really Hot Flaming Hallows Curse of the Elders, badly burning the young wizard. He screams for Jenny Diver to fetch a bucket of magical water from the Kings Cross Wash House but she is too late and Harry's 15 minutes of flames comes to a merciful end.
THE END
CREDITS
Photos: JessiCub
Book: Books-A-Million
Book: Books-A-Million
Characters: J.K. Rowling, Kurt Weill, Sherwood Schwartz
"Plot" Spoilers: Internets and cheap Vodka
Mount Pleasant: Itself
Mount Pleasant Farmers Market: El Mercado de los Agricatiores (Los Sabados 9-1)
Mount Pleasant Bathroom: Logan/U St Bathroom
"Plot" Spoilers: Internets and cheap Vodka
Mount Pleasant: Itself
Mount Pleasant Farmers Market: El Mercado de los Agricatiores (Los Sabados 9-1)
Mount Pleasant Bathroom: Logan/U St Bathroom
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