Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Farmer's Market Haul

Money's a little tight lately, but that's not stopping us from accessing the best fruits and vegetables of the season. I'm so grateful to live in Philadelphia, an extremely farmer's market-friendly city.

Deb and I were recently wandering around Rittenhouse Square, enjoying the gorgeous weather, adorable babies toddling about and rich people doing whatever it is that they do in the middle of a day on a Tuesday. We stumbled upon the weekly farmer's market, and with only ten dollars in our pockets, we took home all this produce:

(It was actually a pint of sugarsnap peas, but you know I had to get all artsy with this photo...)

Plus a pound of this grass-fed, pastured ground beef for Deb:


She cooked up two of the patties with a little sauteed red onion, chiffonaded basil on a bed of Swiss Chard picked from our garden!

The produce was so incredibly gorgeous that I was inspired to create a simple Farmer's Market Pasta. Check out my recipe-- I'm super proud of this one!

A pound of humanely-raised ground beef, 2 zucchinis, a pint of cherries and a pint of sugarsnap peas for ten dollars. Good for our wallet, good for our health, good for the planet.

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