{"id":11508,"date":"2010-07-08T09:49:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T13:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=11508"},"modified":"2010-07-08T09:49:03","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T13:49:03","slug":"farmers-market-report-july-6th-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2010\/07\/farmers-market-report-july-6th-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmer&#8217;s Market Report, July 6th, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/OHC-07-06-10_farmersMKT.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11509\" title=\"Fresh veggies \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/OHC-07-06-10_farmersMKT-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/OHC-07-06-10_farmersMKT-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/OHC-07-06-10_farmersMKT.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Hi gang! I haven&#8217;t had a chance to post this till now but I did get to make the <a href=\"http:\/\/hilliardfarmmarket.com\" target=\"_blank\">Farmer&#8217;s Market<\/a> this week.\u00a0 Lots of new and fresh stuff to be found!\u00a0 Unfortunately I was under a very strict time schedule so I didn&#8217;t get a chance to check and investigate things as much as I would have liked to.\u00a0 I had to grab and go!\u00a0 I want to say that there were some new vendors there this week but I&#8217;m not positive on that.\u00a0 I am super pleased with this week&#8217;s purchases!<\/p>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eggplants<\/li>\n<li>Green peppers<\/li>\n<li>Red tomatoes<\/li>\n<li>Orange tomatoes<\/li>\n<li>Green beans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These green beans are huge and glorious!\u00a0 They were a bright pale green and caught my attention immediately.\u00a0 I knew I had to have some and picked them up on my way out of the market.<\/p>\n<p>I also made my first Farmer&#8217;s Market Faux Pas this week which left me feeling like a huge tool.\u00a0 When I was purchasing the tomatoes, I grabbed two bags, one for the red and one for the orange.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t really think much about it.\u00a0 Yes I bring my own reusable bag to the market but I was putting the tomatoes in plastic bags for them to be weighted.\u00a0 In hindsight I guess that&#8217;s not really any easier than just handing over the tomatoes to be weighted.\u00a0 I realize this now.\u00a0 Anyway, when the vendor saw me using two bags he said, &#8220;Um, you just need one bag since the tomatoes are the same price.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I had already started using the second bag by this point.\u00a0 I&#8217;m so used to having to bag everything separately at the grocery store that it didn&#8217;t even occur to me to put them all together.\u00a0 Whoops!\u00a0 Sorry vendor dude, I really care about the planet, I swear!<\/p>\n<p>Lesson learned and next time no bags!<\/p>\n<p>Because I was so in love with the green beans I had to use them right away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/greenbean_wheatberry_salad.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11510\" title=\"Green bean and wheat berry salad \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/greenbean_wheatberry_salad-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/greenbean_wheatberry_salad-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/greenbean_wheatberry_salad.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Green beans along with one red and one orange tomato for an easy wheat berry salad!\u00a0 Yummy, cool, and delicious.\u00a0 Recipe coming soon!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you hit the Farmer&#8217;s Market this week?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi gang! I haven&#8217;t had a chance to post this till now but I did get to make the Farmer&#8217;s Market this week.\u00a0 Lots of new and fresh stuff to be found!\u00a0 Unfortunately I was under a very strict time schedule so I didn&#8217;t get a chance to check and investigate things as much as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58,51],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-2ZC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}