Sunday shopping

This year we'll be having a vegetarian Thanksgiving. Our niece Tracie has decided to be vegetarian, and since she is joining us, Larry decided that he would forego turkey so we could all eat the same delicious vegetable bounty.

Today we went and bought the bounty and hauled it home. The Hollywood Farmers Market was bustling at 8 a.m. as people shopped for the big food feast. This is the organic produce we bought:

22 oranges, 2 carrots, cilantro, 4 shallots, 3 onions, dinosaur kale, garlic, red onion, 1 celeriac, 2 pomegranates, 1 early girl tomato, 1 bunch parsnips, fresh goat cheese from Drake Family Farms, 2 dozen eggs, 2 garlic, 3 fuyu persimmons, 1 bartlett pear, 4 pink lady apples and 4 sundowner apples which will be mixed in a pie, 2 quarts plain St. Benoit yogurt, 2 grapefruit. We also stopped at Flora Bella farmstand, where James had chickweed and nettles. Yes, I know those are weeds in my mother's Montreal garden, but they are full of nutrition and I can't grow them in the dry heat of southern California. (James' farm is up near Three Rivers where it is cooler and moister.) So I bought some of each - the chickweed for salad and the nettles to add to Green Soup.