Oh, man! I got that covered. With the most amazing green. We went to the Farmer's Market and scored some of the hugest cabbages I have ever seen.
Here is the Photo A Day "green". I bought two of the huge cabbages, two of the Russian Kale and one alfalfa sprout box. That was a total of, ummmm, $11. Not bad since I can cook those cabbages down into many many many many one cup servings. And the kale will go into the Albondigas Soup I am planning on tonight. And salads, too.
To put into some sort of perspective about the size of these cabbages, here is one stacked up against a large Milkbone. When I looked around the kitchen to see something that would be uniform in size everywhere, I hit upon the Milkbone first off! You can tell where my head always is!
Here is the total haul. And I know you are thinking that those are oranges. But they are not. They are Meyer Lemons. Unbelievable lemons. All of those were $5. How can the citrus guys many any money on that? Every two weeks I go and purchase a $5 bag of these lemons and then I go to Walmart even and see where the lemons are 54 cents each! And tiny tiny tiny.
Stuck in there amongst the lemons are some turnips I scored for $2. They are good sized ones at that. Some farmers had the tiny ones but I like these guys. When I roast they they won't shrivel up and disappear.
To complete the purchases I got some vine ripened creoles. Tomatoes at their best. They had the large creoles that you cut a slice from the center and slap on a mayonnaise sandwich and go to town eating. But these are the small ones. I can't have too many this week, but Frank has decided he would eat the rest for me. They were the most expensive thing at $3 for the 5 of them. And they look so tiny beside the huge lemons. (I swear they are lemons)
I need a nice recipe for lemon marmalade or lemon preserves.
glen: so that makes my total, um........$21......not too shabby for freshly picked yesterday!
To complete the purchases I got some vine ripened creoles. Tomatoes at their best. They had the large creoles that you cut a slice from the center and slap on a mayonnaise sandwich and go to town eating. But these are the small ones. I can't have too many this week, but Frank has decided he would eat the rest for me. They were the most expensive thing at $3 for the 5 of them. And they look so tiny beside the huge lemons. (I swear they are lemons)
How incredibly wonderful to have all this fresh picked local produce this time of year. Love those lemons! I saw some Meyer lemons at our local produce place, and they were the size of large olives.
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