Farmer's Market

I have been slacking. I took most of June off from my blog and I have no excuse besides that it was vacation time with the parents. Well, that's not always a vacation either. It's also hard to be away from home for 3 1/2 weeks and even think about doing anything but enjoying perfect Southern California weather and our 13 day road trip to Canada. The road trip was exhausting (future blog post), but it was a good bonding with the parents. Yet I don't be doing it anytime soon with them again unless we rent a huge RV and I can hide in the back the whole ride.

One of the worst things about road trips is that no matter how well I eat, after about a week, is that I am done with eating out. I just can't stand the sight of another menu and don't get me started about fast food. We rarely eat it when at home, so when you are forced to on road trips (so that you can make good time)--blah. I never want to see Wendy's again.

So I was thrilled to get back to the Farmer's Market today and see LOTS of new things on the tables. Potatoes, onions, peaches, cabbage, tomatoes are starting to ripen, etc. etc. I was like a kid in a candy store!

My bounty today: carrots, radishes, beets, small potatoes, eggs, snap peas, garlic, green cabbage, yellow cherry tomatoes, regular tomatoes, zucchini, onions and peaches. I am glad that I went early because the peaches were gone by 7:20! No salad mix this weekend due to the extreme heat that we have had in the Midwest, but I was pleased with everything else that I picked up.



When I was uploading my pics to my computer, I noticed that I had an old Farmer's Market pic from May 23 that I never got up on the blog. My husband was gone in Chile for work, so I didn't purchase a lot of things--peonies, salad mix, arugula, radishes and some tomatoes. But I did LOVE my peonies. I wanted to buy a bush this year, but was too late. I need to purchase one before they start to bloom out here because there were no bushes left by the time I decided to buy one.

I'll be cooking a lot more this week, so blogs to follow!

I Am Still Breathing!

I haven't had a chance to post anything since my life has been filled with planning a road trip with my parents, son and brother. I have been the one in charge of figuring out where we are going and making all the hotel reservations, so I have been doing a lot of research since before we left on the 7th. It's been an interesting time. Most of it has been fun since I love to travel and visit new places, but it's also been trying because my (and my brother's) traveling style is completely different than my Dad's. We won't be willing travelers on any family road trips anytime soon!

I have been slightly disappointed in meals on the road trip. Even in Portland, I had taken my parents to a place that I went to back in August without great results. There has been some gems though and I will post them up as soon as possible!

Slacking :(

I have been slacking. I admit it. Life has been crazy since I returned from my honeymoon in Spain. I went from relaxing to having to deal with a crisis to having the in-laws in town to my hubby leaving for a work trip in Chile for a week to having a dear friend in town to leaving for CA this past Saturday to visit my parents! Before I left, I didn't have a lot of chances to make any food with the visitors and my hubby being gone. Now he is left at home to fend for himself (he can't cook unless it comes in a pouch and involves boiling water). But don't feel too bad for him, I did leave him some food and stuff in the freezer that he can defrost.

My crazy travel schedule is not going to end anytime soon. I'll be leaving for a road trip with the parents on Saturday. We'll be driving to Canada from SoCal on a 12 to 14-day road trip. Should be fun and interesting. Hopefully, I'll get a few good meals on the trip that I can blog about. I'll try to get up some of the great meals from Spain on here before I leave, but I'm in charge of planning the entire road trip which means most of my time is spent on figuring out everything. I'll try to catch up soon!