While I normally stick to a hard and fast grocery-and-budget routine, good weather has spurred a re-interest in good food. I’ve had a craving for local, fresh and homegrown–so I made it happen, cap’n.
And because Meghan is a proponent of all things fresh, green and salad-y, I figured what better combo that her Week in Review and my Fresh Food Finds?
Find: Goat Cheese
Found: Farmer’s Market (courtesy of Noble Springs Dairy)
Featured: Scarfed half the tub with an entire box of Carr’s. In one sitting. But it’s chevre and Carr’s, so it was totally a classy scarfing.
Find: Chicken
Found: My monthly chicken CSA (from Hidden Springs Farm)
Featured: Crocked one of ’em up for a week of chicken and broth.
Find: One giant motha’ brotha’ of a sweet potato
Found: Fall leftovers from my parents’ garden
Featured: Cubed and roasted it. Stood in front of the open fridge and ate roasted leftovers.
Find: Eggs
Found: Farmer’s Market (courtesy of an absolutely adorable Mennonite family farm)
Featured: Yolk porn.
Find: Lettuce
Found: My garden!
Featured: Simple, beautiful salad (with previously mentioned sweet potato and chicken) with a ginger dressing.
Find: Beautiful Beet Bounty
Found: Farmer’s Market.
Featured: Oh, wouldn’t you like to know? But I am going to save my creative magnificence (and modesty) for another post…
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What fresh foods have you been enjoying lately?
ForgottenBeast 
Wow, wonderful finds, Allie! That sweet potato truly is bigger than your head! Great Week in Review. We watched The Fifth Element last night and I thought of YOU!!! Have a great day, dearie!!
And to think–my parents wanted to throw that giant sucker away for being “too big”! And YES, excellent movie choice 🙂
Still can’t get over that lettuce. So gorgeous! All of this food looks amazing.
Will you do a tour of your parents’ garden sometime? I’d love to see what they’re growing! My KY family is already getting some HUGE cilantro and I’m jealous out of my mind!
That lettuce is making me happy! I can’t wait for the rest of my garden to HURRY UP and start producing 🙂
Haha that pic of you and the potato had me and my bf cracking up in bed the other night (we like to scroll through instagram before we go to bed…. damn we should read more or something…) Also, holy mother of god, that goat cheese looks so good. I think I would have eaten the entire tub. That shit is my favorite.
Ahaha, glad it could entertain! I was way too amused by giant sweet potatoes myself. And, pfft, reading–Instagramming together is adorable. Next time I’m going to forgo the box of crackers and just break out the spoon–I could definitely down a tub in one go.
Wow! I love all your finds! That sweet potato is the best thing ever. I’ve been enjoying lots of fresh asparagus and berries lately–I can’t get enough.
There was no asparagus at the farmer’s market this week–I was bummed! I hope the season isn’t over already.
Mmm what great finds…especially that potato! I want that simple salad with the sweet potato, lettuce and chicken- hellllo freshness :)! It’s too bad the goat cheese is all gone, I bet that would have a rather delicious topper! Although throw Carrs in the mix and I’m not surprised you polished that tub off :D!
I had grand plans of using that goat cheese for salads! But yup, it didn’t survive long enough 😉 Next time I’ll have to buy TWO tubs…
I’ve been craving beets lately…can’t wait to see what you’ve come up with!
That whole “standing at the fridge eating roasted chunks of chicken” reminds me of what happens in my family post-Thanksgiving meal. All of the turkey and honey-baked ham ends up being tossed into giant Ziploc bags and we all try to pretend we’re not sneaking bites every time we walk through the kitchen.
Carr’s make everything classy.
I’ve been eating them daily and am STILL craving them. I guess it’s just the season! And food tastes better fresh from the fridge. Especially leftovers. It’s just a fact.
Chevre is one of my favorite cheeses of alllllll time. Did you have it with a glass of wine? Even classier.
How much are your chickens via the CSA?
I’m kinda glad there wasn’t wine involved, the way I was inhaling copious amounts of everything in front of me (being Carr’s and cheese, that is). Comes out to roughly $13 for each ~4lb chicken.
I don’t know what makes me happier about this post. Your use of fresh, local produce, your amazing salad (with roasted sweet potato!), your classy Chevre eating, your crazt big sweet potato or your yolk porn. I can’t even pick; I just love it all. Every bit of it. Isn’t spring food grand?!
Spring food makes me happy about food again! I haven’t felt this enthusiastic about good ingredients in a long time.
Yeah!!!
That is the biggest sweet potato I’ve ever seen! I don’t measure my potato, I usually just have one or two. I think I’d have to measure that bad boy haha
Ahaha, I think this sucker was the equivalent of at least six regular “large” sweet potatoes.
Ohh fresh beets! I’ve only eaten them pickled but I’m interested to see how you use them!
Mm, I love pickled beets! And Wednesday’s post is going to be dedicated to beets, so stay tuned 😉
Omg, I can’t wait to see what you’ve done with the beets!! Ever since I made my red velvet cake hummus (and then proceeded to scarf down the entire batch in 24 hours), I’ve been dying for more…what can I say, I have a thing for pink pee…er, I mean RUBY RED VEGETABLES!! 😉
That goat cheese is amazing! Last time the man-friend and I were at the farmer’s market, I sampled some…only reason I didn’t buy any was because I got distracted by the jam guy next to the cheese guy and ended up buying way too much from him! Whoops?
Love the “motha brotha” sweet potato pic! And the fact that you ate it straight out of the oven…though we both know that straight out of the fridge is 100% better! And omg, those eggs!! Look at that gorgeous yellow yolk! I am seriously chomping at the bit to get to my local farmer’s market this Saturday for some farm fresh eggs!
Wow that IS a big sweet tater!! YUM. Fresh foods I’ve been enjoying…. eggplant… grapes.. and I want watermelon!