Its been a really long time since my last post. I've been very preoccupied with work (as a culinary instructor) while dealing with mom's death (as her daughter, as sister to both of my younger we-don't-wanna-deal-with-this brothers, AND as executor of her so-called estate). But I'm gonna go with an anemic post about my recent farmers market bounty this past Sunday...

It was, truth be told, quite fabulous. I seem to always come back with way too much stuff for a singleton who for the most part eats while working (yeah, one of the few benefits of being in the food industry). But I got it together...I dragged my haul home, and ended up prepping for the rest of the afternoon. My beloved local farmers market is literally right around the block on sunday mornings, which makes it imminently "doable" on my day off.  I blanched and cooked and/or par-cooked the beans, the corn, the beets and the broccoli. I popped all into the frig and have "dined" on the results for the past few days.

I really hafta get it together to wanna cook when I get home from work. Mostly, I fantasize about going out for a you-cook-you-serve-me-and-then-you-get-to-clean-up-afterwards multi-course meal in one of the recently opened trendy neighborhood joints and then end up settling for a pizza made with those fabulous brown rice tortillas I love so much or a salad thrown together from the aforementioned par-cooked mise en place.

What am I gonna do tonight? I've already cut, squeezed, mixed, shook and then poured myself a really yummy pomegranate margarita....with my new fave variant....ground black, white and pink peppercorns mixed into the salt rimmed glass. (Doesn't that qualify for my daily quota of cooking?)

I'm kinda craving The Farm on Adderley's burger made from grass fed beef. The trouble is that it's almost always over cooked. I hafta have a rare (but not still moving)  burger for it to be worth my while. As far as I'm concerned, it's a waste of a meal to negotiate a well-done blob of ground meat. Though I'll admit, this meat is such high-quality meat that it never tastes as yucky as a commercially raised/processed/ground blob of well done flesh does. I will, however, ALWAYS love those fries....only once or twice were they a disappointment (soggy and cold...yikes!)

My other thought is to go to Purple Yam. I've gotta say, aside from how delicious their food is, Amy and Romy are fabulous. I LOVE them. Perhaps I'll finally go try their Korean Meatballs with Kimchi on Purple Yam Bread with a side order of warm and inviting!