http://tubbydammer.vox.com/library/posts/tags/santa+monica+farmers'+market/page/1/ en Vox Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:34:30 +0200 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss santa monica farmers' market http://tubbydammer.vox.com/library/post/cant-cook-will-eat.html?_c=feed-rss-full nobody@vox.com(Tubbydammer) http://tubbydammer.vox.com/library/post/cant-cook-will-eat.html?_c=feed-rss-full http://tubbydammer.vox.com/library/post/cant-cook-will-eat.html?_c=feed-rss-full Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:34:30 +0200 <p>I don&#39;t have a kitchen to cook in at the moment, so I bought a different set of foods than I would normally choose at the <a href="http://www.smgov.net/farmers_market/saturday.htm">Santa Monica farmers&#39; market</a>, this morning.<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://tubbydammer.vox.com/library/post/looking-forward-to-pea-dumplings.html">As I&#39;ve said</a>, the really good ingredients don&#39;t need much in the way of cooking, anyway. So while it would be nice to experiment with some of the vegetables I saw there and don&#39;t have at home I wasn&#39;t too worried. I started off buying 2oz of sliced, dried&#160;persimmons. They&#39;re not too sweet, chewy and don&#39;t have that mouth drying effect you sometimes get from a raw persimmon. But they definitely have the fragrance and perfume you get from the fresh fruit.</div><div><br /></div><div>Then the chap running the fresh fruit stand gave me a Fuji apple to test. I did and I liked it. Sweet and crispy, it was a great breakfast and most likely more healthy than a muffin or a pastry. I got half a dozen to take back with me so that I have something healthy to start the next few days with.</div><div><br /></div><div>If it hadn&#39;t been so hot I&#39;d have stayed longer. But it&#39;s still April and I&#39;m not yet ready for 90°F, so I made a hasty exit and did <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=vdEnxNog56E">a very un-English thing</a> and found some shade.</div><div><br /></div><div> <div at:enclosure="asset" at:xid="6a00c2252758708e1d00f48d10f8fa0001" at:format="large" at:align="center" class="enclosure enclosure-center enclosure-large photo-enclosure" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="enclosure-inner" style="padding: 9px; border: 1px solid; width: px; margin: 10px auto;" > <div class="enclosure-list"> <div class="enclosure-item photo-asset last"> <div class="enclosure-image"> <a href="http://tubbydammer.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c2252758708e1d00f48d10f8fa0001.html"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00c2252758708e1d00f48d10f8fa0001-320pi" alt="Dried Persimmons and Fuji Apples" title="Dried Persimmons and Fuji Apples" /></a> </div> <div class="enclosure-meta"> <div class="enclosure-asset-name"><a href="http://tubbydammer.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c2252758708e1d00f48d10f8fa0001.html" title="Dried Persimmons and Fuji Apples">Dried Persimmons and Fuji Apples</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div><!-- end enclosure --> </div><div><br /></div></p> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://tubbydammer.vox.com/library/post/cant-cook-will-eat.html?_c=feed-rss-full#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2252758708e1d00f48cf255cf0003?_c=feed-rss-full">Send to a friend</a> </p> food travel fruit socal santa monica farmers' market