The Aging Bartender

Category: farmers market

  • Farmer’s Market Loot: 4.5.23

    Strawberries…And more strawberries. Yes, the old purple cauliflower caught my eye yet again at the market but I didn’t possess the cajones to pull the trigger. Someday…At any rate…Not much else was available. Still lots of citrus. By this time last year we had cherries. The crap weather has extended the season by a country…

  • Farmer’s Market Loot: 3.9.23

    Let’s see here, let’s see. Big old pile of oro blanco. Yeah, obsessed, and you should be too. I can’t even taste a commoner’s grapefruit anymore. Bought some Meyer lemons which are sort of comparable to a hachiya persimmon. Eat when soft? I don’t know. Anyway, yup, still citrus season. Yawn. But we’re seeing some…

  • Farmer’s Market Loot: 2.12.23

    Not much going on at the old farmer’s market these days. Still thinking about a cauliflower cocktail. How would that work? Fresh, pureed fresh cauliflower syrup? Gross. Hmmm. That may actually work. What else does cauliflower go with? Raisins. Cardamom. Almonds. Oh damn. Eat your heart out, Nico de Soto. Koji rice fermented almond and…

  • Farmers Market Loot: 1.18.23

    Instead of a day late and a dollar short I’m a day early and short much more than a dollar. I went into the maelstrom of the vaunted Santa Monica Farmer’s Market at 8:30 this morning. Yup. I’m an early riser. My son wakes up at 6:30 a.m. This morning, against my better judgement I…

  • Farmer’s Market Loot: 1.12.23

    Rain, rain, go away. Come again another day. Daddy wants to play. Rain, rain, go away. Yeah, if you haven’t heard, it’s become a real problem. Many of the farmers were blocked from making it down to LA because the 101 freeway was washed out by a landslide. So I wandered yesterday in a ghost…

  • Farmer’s Market Loot 1.5.23

    Strange times. Southern California has been in a drought for as long as I remember. There was a moment when the populace seemed to care, when grass lawns disappeared and turned to sand and rock accompanied by succulents and cacti. When the billboards on the freeways asked people to conserve. All of that has turned…