Fun Day!

Yesterday, DH and I went to the Farmer's Market, and it had to be the most Food Porntastic day of the season! Everything was gorgeous, and it all wanted to come home with us. We bought:

• Carrots in various colors - beet red, golden, etc.
• A golden cauliflower
• Heirloom tomatoes - pineapple stripe, zebra roma, and black roma
• leeks
• Lots of Hot Peppers in all different colors, plus red bells
• A baker's dozen of corn
• A bucket of red and a bucket of gold tomatoes ($1.50 each bucket!)
• A pint of yellow pear tomatoes
• 3 lb bag of mixed onions - maybe 6-10 different varieties
• 4 medium green tomatoes
• Deep purple eggplants
• 3 lb of Macoun apples - My all time favorite.  I have to wait all season, and we don't buy apples from the FM until the Macouns are ready.  So crisp and sweet!

All this abundance means that today, we are cooking and freezing.  We've made yellow salsa and red salsa, bratwurst onions, and curried chicken phyllo triangles (ate those for lunch).  I've got 12 yellow and 12 red salsa "cupcakes" plus a couple pints of each color in the freezer.  10 Large onions and 1.5 sticks butter went into the bratwurst onions plus soy sauce, teryaki, southern comfort, worcestershire and liquid smoke.  They'll continue to cook for another 8 hrs or so.  There's a golden tomato-basil-sage sauce on the stove also.  On the outdoor burner, a pot of water is going for the corn, which will be blanched, cut and frozen for midwinter corn relish, and additions to chili and cornbread.  Of course we'll save a few for tonight's dinner.  I'm expecting the green tomatoes to make an appearance, but you never know.  DH is also planning a red tomato-garlic-basil sauce.

The yellow salsa started out with so much up-front burn, it raised my voice into the next register and had me asking for a beer at 10;30 am! LOL  More tomatoes solved that and brought it back into tolerable range.  The triangles are so nummy that I ate 3, and seriously contemplated a 4th with my second beer.  I decided to have a Macoun though.  Very nice.  We didn't make it to see Farmer John today, so the nubs of parmesan and gorgonzola will have to last until Thurs. at least.

Last night, we gave away all but two medium yellow zucchini and this morning DH has picked 2 and says 8 more will be ready soonest.  I think the CA axiom about planting no more than 1 zucchini per 1.5 city blocks is being proven by our backyard monster.

Laundry is awashing, and I've got to go get the girl from her friend's house.  All in all, a stellar way to spend a rainy Sunday.