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Thursday, July 22
Chard and Lard
Well, not really. It just sounds nice, doesn't it?
On the way home from work yesterday, planning already what I was going to do with the lovely bunch of kale from the co-op in my fridge, when I saw the little sandwich board sign that said "Farmer's Market Today" on the side of the road. SCREEECH! I quickly turned into the next available driveway and made my way over to see what was available. Now, the local market in Cedar Crest is pretty small, but there are always some nice greens, fresh eggs, pastries, flowers, and honey. Anything more than that is a bonus, but there wasn't much today.
I had a buck fifty in my pocket so I realized I couldn't get much of anything, but marched over to a greens seller and saw they had chard for just that amount. I asked for a bunch and they put a stack together for me right then. It was rainbow chard, gorgeous stuff. I piled it into the jeep and headed home. Poor kale, it will have to wait.
So, while deciding what to do with the chard, I made a quick salad out of the remaining cukes and zucchini from the market on Saturday plus some crumbled feta, and dressed half of the chunks with an impromptu hummus sludge: 2T hummus, 1T olive oil, 1T water, salt, pepper. The other half went into a bowl for tomorrow and were dressed with something a bit flashier: 1T peanut oil, 2T chile-lime wine vinegar, 1T holy basil chile paste, splash of chile oil, salt, pepper. It will be interesting to see how that holds up after sitting overnight....
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