farmers market

[redbird]

I went to the Brookline (Coolidge Corner) farmers market this afternoon. I bought the two things I was specifically looking for--lamb merguez sausages, from Stillman's, and raspberries. When I was buying the sausages, I told the vendor that I'd asked for this kind of sausage a couple of weeks ago, at a different farmers market, and thanked him (them) for making that specific flavor of sausage.

One small box of raspberries, because we've had bad luck this summer with over-buying berries, and not eating all of them before them spoiled. I also bought two small cucumbers, and a baguette, even though it's not good baguette weather, because we like Clear Flour bakery's "ancienne" baguettes.

I stopped at Burdick's and got a cup of dark hot chocolate to take out, because it's unseasonably cool and felt like good weather for sitting outside with a hot drink. I didn't buy anything else there, because the chocolate-covered citrus has suffered from shrinkflation: Burdicks is charging almost twice as much as they did a few years ago, for about half as much candy.

The Dean Road station on green line C station isn't far, but it's enough of a hill to be good exercise: I walk quickly on my way to the T unless I make an effort not to, and then the walk back is uphill all the way.

I realized, after posting this but before dinner, that I overdid things and was out of executive function.

Comments

[otter]

I enjoy hearing about your farmers market trips. There is one happening near here this afternoon, if I want to brave the heat/humidity and go out again.

[redbird]

This time of year I mostly let Adrian and Cattitude make those trips. Once in a while I go to the markets that start early in the day, and try to arrive soon after they open; 69F at 4 p.m. is unusual.

[snippy]

Lamb merguez is so good. When I would visit the Bay Area to see my partner, we often got lamb merguez crepes. There's a bakery here that sometimes has lamb merguez as a salad or a sandwich in their seasonal rotation.

[minoanmiss]

*makes a note about the chocolate dipped ctrus peel*

[redbird]

The chocolate citrus is nice: dark-chocolate—covered slices of dried orange and lemon rind. It's one of the very few non-dairy chocolates at Burdick's.