We are enjoying an incredibly beautiful weekend in Portland
Blue skies, no rain and nice warm temperatures. Perfect! Days like today are the reason we endure all the rain and dreary days – for perfect days like today!
Since the kids had no school Friday and Monday is a holiday we are enjoying a nice long weekend and we are trying to pack as much fun and good food into it as we can.
One of my favorite things to do in the summer is to spend Saturday mornings at our local Beaverton Farmer’s Market buying fresh produce, flowers and plants.
Cali, Jim and I started our first visit this season to the market with this – an incredibly, HUGE omelet made by the Canby Asparagus Farm – yum!!! It is so big it fed all three of us!
Then we picked up some of these yummy, first of the season, strawberries which we enjoyed Sunday morning on top of our Puff Up Pancake.
And then we found this beautiful, slender asparagus which we grilled last night with olive oil and salt and then squeeze lemon juice and garlic over the top when done.
Jim picked up some beautiful onions to use in fajitas for dinner tomorrow.
And then we drooled over this red, ripe tomatoes….
and check out these carrots.
I showed a little restraint and didn’t buy any of these “ready to pop” peonies but I sure was tempted. Since I have a bunch ready to pop in my garden I decided I should just control myself!
Watch for some great upcoming recipes using “fresh from the farm” ingredients. I’m even going to introduce you to my good friend and amazing cook Deb who loves visiting the Farmer’s Market and cooking with farm fresh ingredients too!
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