Tall Tales from Kansas

It was raining cats and dogs Saturday morning at 7:30 am. Before getting out of the car I donned the rain hat, the rain coat, put a plastic bag in my basket, left the Nikon in the car and grabbed the umbrella out of the back seat. Mercy! It was an adventure. I took exactly one photo with my iPhone at the market. It’s of the very nice women at the Moon on the Meadow booth. I approve highly of the very sensible orange raincoat by the way.

I was smiling as I splashed down the rows, feet and pants completely wet. If the vendors are coming, I am going! That’s my motto.

Plus, I knew the cake of the week was going to be the lime coconut. That rose pistachio cookie next to the cake had to be sampled. And yes that small triangle behind the cookie, just adjacent to the giant radishes is a dark chocolate torte. The first one I had several weeks back was rich, dark, not too sweet, dense but not hard, extremely satisfying, so I decided to be sure that wasn’t a fluke.

This bag of tender young lettuce is going to make a very simple salad tonight with some of those radishes and a couple of pickled beets.

I could not resist showing a close up of the cake, to verify the moistness.

Ranunculus was my pick for flowers this week. I think I chose correctly.

P.S. the chocolate torte was no fluke.