Sunday, June 12, 2011

FOODIE FUN IN EUGENE, OREGON

Eugene’s Saturday Market.  Music, food vendors and dozens and dozens of arts and crafts vendors (tie-dye, pottery, weaving, jewelry, jams, paintings, t-shirts, hats, woodwork, bird-houses…) fill two blocks.  Another block is given over to causes, an information booth, and a public speaking forum.  The fourth block is a farmer’s market, full of beautiful foodstuffs and flowers, baked goods, pasture-grown meat, eggs, mushrooms…

Conehead cabbage

It’s a riot of color!  We came home with two kinds of dried beans I’ve never seen, lamb and goat for stew, tiny baby pattypan squash and freshly dug baby russet potatoes (both vegetables eaten for dinner last night).  Bliss.

Baked goods
Lettuce in Eugene Tree Peonies Carrots and Beets

6 comments:

  1. How's Odel's knee coming along? I don't hear anything negative so I gather he's just sailing along. Grilled romaine..now that's a new one.

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  2. That farmer's market sounds like a blast! Thanks for the Romaine Recipe..I copied it..I love grilled veggies..and I love Sunset Magazine cookbooks...We have even grilled cabbage stuffed with Italian sausage...wonderful!

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  3. Those vegetables are gorgeous!!! We really don't have a good farmer's market around here anymore...:o((

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  4. Love, love, love farmers markets...and this looks like a nice one!

    Nina

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  5. Yum! Farmer's markets are so wonderful, and that's one of the cool things about full timing..going to places that have the freshest produce and wonderful local crafts. We lived on California strawberries right from the fields for weeks while we were there...and oranges and raisin, etc. etc. :-)

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  6. love farmer's markets..great place for delicious deals and a good place to practise photography too!

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