Today was farmers market day!!! Today was also a blustery, rainy, perfect Northwest fall day. Because of the weather, the market didn't have nearly so many vendors as in previous weeks, but the hearty souls who were there had much to offer.
Brian and I left the house hungry. Our thought was to stop at one of the many food carts to grab a bite before doing our shopping. Like all best laid plans, ours (almost) went asunder simply because there were so few vendors there. The big tent that made breakfast sandwiches and fruity waffles was nowhere to be found. The vegan friendly bakers did not show. The many flavors of Asia were absent. In fact, there were only three vendors who were selling something other than cinnamon rolls (obviously not on today's menu): PBJ's, the pizza guy, and the tamale stand.
Tamales for breakfast really didn't appeal to me. I get that it is essentially meat or vegetables wrapped up in grits, but it just doesn't sound breakfasty. Breakfast pizza, on the other hand, sounded amazing. Unfortunately, it sounded great to lots of other people, too, and the 20 minute wait was as unappealing as tamales. That left us with PBJ's.
PBJ's was a little stand under a big tent. They are a gourmet PB&J making couple of guys. The menu had about 10 different sandwiches, all with peanut butter and jelly as the base, but with additional ingredients ranging from bacon to blue cheese to goat cheese to jalapenos, as well as honey, maple syrup, nutella, granola and more. I overheard one of the vendors telling a customer to come to their other cart during the week and they can add duck to the sandwich! To top it off, all of the sandwiches are grilled. Well how could I, a PB&J gourmand, refuse the opportunity?
The short answer is: I couldn't. My sandwich consisted of peanut butter, apricot jam, granola, bananas, and honey on whole wheat bread. I'm pretty sure it shot my sugar intake for the week, but it was mighty fine. All of the prepared ingredients were made by the guys who ran the booth and they were all excellent. Brian had the peanut butter, blueberry jam, bacon and honey on challa french toast. At least mine was vegan. Brian went way off with his 3 strips of bacon. Either way, they were both fantastic! It made me laugh afterwards, though. We eat lots of PB&J sandwiches for breakfast at home. Who'd have thought we'd end up eating those when we went out to the market? Who'd have thought we'd hand over $7 per sandwich, too? And happily! Go figure.
The rest of the day was rainy and windy. We munched our way though the send half of the UGA/LSU game (Go Dawgs!), eating veggie burgers from Trader Joe's (meh), loaded with lots of produce and hummus. Dessert was fresh strawberries with leftover rice pudding. A fine meal. I think this may be the last week for strawberries, but they were local and mighty fine.
Today is the end of week two! The time has both crawled and flown. The big lesson from this week is that I can easily do without cow's milk. Almond milk cooks great and tastes great on cereal. It is very high in fat, but low in calories. A cup of almond milk has 30 calories, 25 of which are from fat. But if you compare that to 2% milk which has 122 calories, 45 of which are from fat, I'm just not worried about it. The other lesson is that sweet potatoes are better with ham than salmon. Hmmm, I'm not sure that is the kind of take away I'm supposed to have here. Oh well. You can't win them all!
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