I know I know… it’s been awhile. We’ve been pretty busy getting married. But we’re back in the swing of things now. We had time to hit the Sellwood Farmers Market and came back with an interesting array of stuff. Shelling peas, sweet onions, baby potatoes, black beans from The Better Bean Company, raspberries, […]

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The bag of baby italian artichokes was too cute to pass up at the farmers market.  We’ve never had great luck with preparing these things, since they seem to turn brown the moment you cut them.  However, we had good success this time.
Here’s how we cleaned them:
-Prepare a large bowl with water and the juice […]

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We went a little crazy this week- but look at all the GORGEOUS produce!  It just makes me want to eat everything.  Lots of culinary adventures to come this week… stay tuned!

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Whenever we see a “green” we aren’t familiar with, we always get it to try it out. This particular green we bought was labeled as “Italian cooking greens” and it looked a lot like big, soft spinach. In an attempt to make a meal from our farmers market bounty, we decided to use these […]

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Garlic scapes are remarkable things.  They impart such a mild garlic flavor, but also get so nice and tender when sauteed up in a little olive oil.  They paired perfectly with kale in this recipe, which took only about 15 minutes to make and was so delicious that we found ourselves trying to eat as […]

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It’s so nice to be back into farmers market season!  We are lucky enough to be walking/biking distance from two local farmers markets.  This Sunday, we hit the Milwaukie Farmers Market and spent $13.50.  Here’s what we got!  There’s red russian kale, collard greens, italian cooking greens, baby white potatoes, baby turnips, radishes, and baby […]

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We have no idea what we ate here. This little old lady at the farmers market tried to explain… It’s bitter, and you stir fry it.  What it is actually called, we couldn’t quite get that from her.  But we’re adventurous types, so we bought some of this stuff and decided to treat it […]

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We love our little Sellwood farmers market.  However, now that we’ve been going to the Milwaukee one pretty regularly, we’ve noticed how much the Sellwood market pales in comparison when it comes to quantity and variety of produce.  We managed to find a few stand-out items this week: some yellow beans, red onions, delicious italian […]

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We just joined a gym in Milwaukee, so on Sunday morning after our workout, we headed to the Milwaukee Farmers Market.  We were limited to what we could carry in my bike basket.. but we packed that basket pretty tight!   There was corn, kale, tomatoes, and onions. The best buy was some delicious raspberries and […]

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We left the farmer’s market with a nice bunch of kale, some cute little zucchini, and 4 lovely tomatoes.  We got to talking and realized we haven’t made lasagna for well over a year!  Even though it was boiling hot here in Portland, we fired up the oven and went to work.  It was well […]

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