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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Alaska eatz

I've been hooked on buying fresh, local eggs from the feed store, which purchases eggs from a variety of local farmers. However, their supplies are unreliable, and they often have strange alternatives, such as goose eggs:


The following week, I guess the Egg Gods decided to compensate on size and overshot, with quail eggs:


Here we have our veggies for the week, from my CSA at Rosie Creek Farm:


Despite the record rain and low temperatures, and a late spring freeze that destroyed the early plantings (we've already been warned we'd get no end-of-season giant pumpkin this year), farmer Mike and his team still crank out a looooot of lovely veggies!

8 comments:

Rena said...

Very fond of small white turnips. There's a Japanese variety called "Kabu" that are sweet and juicy.

mdr said...

Turnips are super good for you, especially stewed with meat, or after eating lot of greasy frying dishes.

Chinese believe it cleanse your digestive system without giving diahrea.

Where they got the bird eggs? Chinese think they are more nutritious than chicken eggs.

mdr said...

Please limit your wine drink as much as possible. A little bit might be good for heart, but bad to liver, regardless how little.

Arvay said...

Clouds make rain, sun makes plants grow, mdr makes opinions. :)

mdr said...

Opinions make logevity

Arvay said...

Nope; opinions just make words on blogs. :)

gina said...

204A goose egg makes a great omelet. It's the perfect size !

Arvay said...

@gina, that's exactly what we did with them! :)