Food for the Week

This last week zoomed by - my mother was visiting from Montreal so I spent more time in the garden than at the computer. I assure you we still ate very well. I have a couple of new recipes to share with you later on.

Today, however, Larry and I were back at the Hollywood Farmers' Market, stocking up for the week ahead.

We admired the fall bounty of peppers, eggplants and the last of the zucchini. I once again resisted bringing home a giant squash.

Here's what we did come home with:

4 onions and 11 small red potatoes - half of which will go into the vegetable stock I'll make with the parsnips I bought last week (good thing I snagged them, because the market was parsnip-free today); 1 1/2 lbs small eggplants - most of which are currently bubbling away in the slow cooker - vegetable chili for dinner tonight!; 2 pomegranates, 3 bartlett pears, 4 grapefruit, grapes, blueberries, and 4 pineapple guavas for our breakfast fruit this week; 14 oranges that Larry squeezed for Sunday brunch o.j.; 8 pixie tangerines and 2 mutsu apples for our lunch bags; 3 red peppers; 3 san marzano tomatoes; 8 cremini, 2 shiitake and 1 oyster mushroom; parsley; cilantro; 6 anaheim peppers; 3-year-old cheddar and regular jack from the grass-fed organic Jersey cows at Spring Hill in Petaluma; 1 yellow pepper; 2 bunches scallions; 1 lettuce; 1 quart and 3 cups plain yogurt from the organic Jersey cows at St. Benoit in Napa Valley; 1 dinosaur kale; organic Pacamiel coffee from El Salvador; small stalk broccoli; 2 small zucchini; 1 dozen eggs.