Tall Tales from Kansas

It’s almost the end of September and I am willing myself to sit in it. To luxuriate in my memories of all the September’s that have come before this one. Each anticipated start of a new school year complete with freshly sharpened pencils, notebooks waiting to be filled, making covers for textbooks out of brown paper grocery bags, a few new items of clothing. No matter the numbers of years that have passed since I last started a new year of school, that is where my mind goes in September. It’s a great place to visit.

But let me get back to the farmers market for a minute. The morning light on the eggplant was splendid. As were the carefully lined up pots of mums in front of these tables.

Every market these days is a smorgasbord of flowers, take your pick, they are all colorful, vibrant, plentiful. This Saturday there was also the wonderful sound of a vaguely familiar tune played on an accordion.

There amidst the steam and partially obscured by the lid, was a maker of tamales. I haven’t sampled hers but will make it a point to get some soon.

This celery was beautiful, I love all the leaves. I was mostly interested in that bag of “tween kale” right above it though. It holds up very well to a roasted vegetable, bean, pepper, combo that can be dressed and taken to work for lunch and tastes as good on day #4 as it does on day #1.

Death by Chocolate this week. As the baker told me about it “I don’t really crave chocolate, until I do…” and when I do, nothing fills the bill like this cake. Moist with chunks of chocolate that you bite into at random.

The pot of succulents! I can’t stand it, it’s so cute. It came out of a barn on some property out in the county where it had been hiding for the last 50 years. In my mind.

These two got the award for the most colorful AND friendliest at the market this week. I didn’t know about the friendly part until I asked to take the picture.

Let’s end this market post with some more fall bounty shall we?

Until next time, I will just be doing my thing, but mostly thinking about September, and October.