"Back To Your Roots"
"I know, it sounds corny," Julie said. She's trying to come up with a slogan for the Roots Festival, to be held on December 15th at the Farmer's Market. Julie, Sarah and I met today to talk about the logistics. The featured event will be a roasted root tasting, so one of my tasks in the next couple of weeks will be some kitchen experimentation to determine appropriate roasting times for a large variety of root vegetables. Today, in the small Tuesday market, I found several kinds each of beets, carrots, radishes, and turnips, as well as daikon, parsnips, rutabagas and sunchokes. I'll shop for my samples on Saturday, when we have many more vendors and perhaps a greater selection.
I finished my first article for the e-newsletter and passed it along to Maggie for editing. I have no idea if my work fits her needs, so I'm looking forward to her comments tomorrow. I'm also working on the handout material that will be available to Root Festival attendees: some explanatory information about the varieties we'll be sampling, and some instructions for cooking, and some recipes.
We held our meeting in the sun near the Prather Meat stand, barbecue smoke wafting over us. I skipped lunch, but now I really really really want a burger.
Although I walked the market several times (man, there are a lot of persimmons...), I came away with only some pecan-laden trail mix ("lightly salted") for David. It'll go well with scotch.
4 Comments:
I made my usual root roast last night: it is one of my favorite dishes.
I pressed the button too early. Recently at the market I bought a bunch of red beets and the vendor asked me if I anted the greens cut away. I said: "No, no, I am going to make frittata with them." He smiled and gave me a huge bag full of beet greens, so I made two frittate. Radish greens are good too.
Cooklady, you have a new fan. You are DOING what I WANT TO DO. I'll be watching closely for inspiration and will occasionally join in the fun.
Joan:
Just do it.
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