7.29.2009

A Midsummer Market's Dream

So much fruit! Many different types of peach covered with soft down, blushing deep orange and pink on yellow skin, begging to be bitten. Shiny yellow and purple plums full of sweet, juicy flesh.

Fat blackberries full of flavor and delicate pink and yellow raspberries ready to dazzle your tongue as the ultimate sweet-tart. A lone strawberry struts her stuff, making her presence known in this late summer month.




Knobby, craggy canteloupe and bright green striped watermelon engorged with refreshing summer juice. Is your mouth watering yet?

Sweet growing things are not the season's only focus. The bounty is upon us in the height of summer and is overwhelming with intense color and fresh flavor that can only come from these local vegetables found at the farmer's market. So many varieties of gorgeous red, orange, yellow, green and purple tomatoes! If not for this market bringing together the farmers that grow these essential morsels, our community would surely be malnourished.


Multicolored bell peppers crisp with sweet flavor, crinkly hot peppers that set your mouth ablaze and my personal favorite, the forest green shine of poblano peppers, with their earthy, spicy heat! I get these from Cowdery Farm, and they call them anchos. Technically, anchos are what poblanos are called when they're dried, but I'm not picky about what they're calling them. They are delicious and I highly recommend them!


Come check out the market soon. I took these pictures at today's Wednesday market and though it poured rain and was gray and cool outside, the bright colors of the wide array of produce kept the customers coming with their own rays of light emanating from their smiles.

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