Last Friday, while trawling my neighborhood farmers market for farm-fresh goodies, I spotted them: shriveled, damp looking bean pods, cream with rosy highlights. Cannellini shelling beans! Not a very attractive looking bean on the outside. But inside–heaven. Cannellini beans themselves are white kidney-shaped beans, with a pale green to pale yellow pod that may be […]
Farmers Market
One leaf is all it takes
I love vegetables. When I was a little girl my father had an enormous garden behind our home in upstate New York. He grew it all: carrots, corn, asparagus, raspberries, tomatoes, lettuce, onions, cabbage, cucumbers, radishes, dill, peas, beans, squash, pumpkins, rhubarb, apples, pears. And we ate it all. Some of my earliest memories are […]
This little piggy went to market
This little piggy went to the Madrona Farmers Market. This little piggy stayed home (to tend to the garden). This little piggy ate grass-fed roast beef. This little piggy had none (vegetarian). And this little piggy went “wee, wee, wee, wee” all the way home (to the Urban Cabin). Last Friday was this season’s kick-off […]