Sunday Shopping

I woke up this morning not wanting to think about food. Planning the menus for the week and heading to the Hollywood Farmers Market felt like a chore.

But I knew if we didn't go, then I would end up buying produce at a grocery store. We can't go a week without fresh organic fruit and vegetables, after all. And while our garden is producing greens, berries and beans, we still need eggs and apples.

So we headed off through the June gloom — the downtown skyline barely visible through the mist — to buy directly from our favorite organic farmers.

And it was a good thing we did because Kuroda Farms was there for a rare visit. Their brown rice, chickpeas and black-eyed peas are staples at our house, and we had almost run out of chickpeas. We enthusiastically bought a bag. It always amazes me how inexpensive good organic protein is.

Here's what else we bought this week: cilantro, radishes, cauliflower, tuscan kale, onions, pink lady apples, eggs, santa rosa plums, yellow peaches, cremini mushrooms, oranges, avocados