Columbus Foodie

Well, it’s been a rather busy weekend (the grill finally arrived, more about that later) so now is the first opportunity I’ve had to sit down and talk about my trip to the farmer’s markets yesterday. To say that yesterday was a breathtakingly beautiful day would be an understatement. Clear as a bell, not too hot, not too cold – if every day could be like yesterday I would be in heaven.

We got another super-early start, getting to the North Market a few minutes before 8am, and surprisingly, most of the farmers were already set up. First things first – I made a beeline for these lovely strawberries at Rhoads; to say that I’ve taken an oath to eat my weight in strawberries this season would be an understatement. I still have plenty of preserves left from last year, though – so thankfully, no canning to do this weekend.

Happily, we’re also still smack dab in the middle of asparagus season, so needless to say I picked some up for some recipes I have planned in the next couple of days. These particular asparagus are from Wish Well Farms.

I don’t know why, but I have had an intense craving for tomatoes recently. Tomatoes and mozzarella. Tomatoes and goat cheese. Fried green tomatoes. Tomatoes in just about every frickin’ thing. Needless to say, I picked up some more grape tomatoes for snacking.

After getting some mushrooms from Toby Run and some French breakfast radishes from Wayward Seed Farms, I ran inside to grab a cinnamon roll at Omega and chat with John Hard for a few minutes, before heading off to Worthington.

If we thought we got to North Market early, we made it to Worthington even earlier, about quarter to nine, and it was already pretty crowded. Again, there were flowers as far as the eye could see.

At Worthington, I picked up my requisite meat at OMC Farms, some needed potatoes at HW Organics, and was out of there almost as quickly as I got in. We made it to Clintonville by 9:15. My first stop was to 2 Silos, where I had to fight my way through the line waiting for strawberries from the vendor set up right next to Denise. They sold out, to much disappointment, within 5 minutes or so. In addition to my weekly 2 dozen eggs, she also set aside some guinea hen eggs and some partridge eggs for me. Stay tuned for a post sometime soon doing a tasting of the different types of eggs.

Of course, had to pick up more chive blossoms this week. Still not sure what to do with these yet, considering I’ve already made chive blossom vinegar. Maybe some chive blossom compound butter? We’ll see….

And Just This Farm had some green garlic, which I didn’t pick up but should have.

Where did you go and what did you get this week?