The words in pictures aren’t really relevant to anything, but I’ve been having fun playing with Spell with flickr and wanted to use it here.
As evidenced by the mounds of multicolored produce at the Farmers’ Market each Saturday morning, it’s major harvest time. The Canadians are smart enough to celebrate Thanksgiving when the harvest is bountiful (Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!) as opposed to in late November, when there might be snow and most food is in from the fields and has been for quite a while. An added benefit is that Canadian Thanksgiving does not fall during National Novel Writing Month, but that’s not really the point of this post
I just wanted to share a bit of my Farmers’ Market find, because it’s so gorgeous and delicious. In the last couple of weeks I’ve gotten kale (3 kinds), swiss chard, broccoli, cauliflower (purple!), squash (several kinds), lettuce, beets, leeks, potatoes, peppers, celery, watermelon, tomatoes, apples, apple cider, raspberries, carrots, onions, eggs, eggplant, gourds, and probably several other things I can’t remember right now. Here are photos of a few:
Gourds and teeny, tiny pumpkins to decorate for Halloween/Fall.
Four kinds of squash!
Orange and purple carrots.
More purple. Don’t the eggplant and cauliflower go together so well? Gorgeous.
Applesauce. Homemade. I hope that doesn’t look gross. It’s just a beautiful, pink, creamy, sweet dish that’s so wonderful to eat. And it’s just apples, cut up with the skins still on and cooked down for a while - no sweetener or anything.
World’s cutest potato.