the Broke Foodie

Saturday, May 22, 2010

I woke up at 6am this morning, because I couldn't miss out on strawberries at the farmer's market. Well, it payed off! I got to the market at 7am, and was out by 7:11am, with everything I wanted:

Tomatoes -- red, green, and one yellow
4 boxes of strawberries
Rhubarb (from Ellis Family Farms)

Tomatoes!! I was so delighted... I don't think I've had a truly fresh tomato since I last went the the Staunton farmer's market... two or three years ago? Well, I went tomato crazy!

I want to make strawberry rhubarb pie this weekend, as well as fried green tomatoes. Yum!

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ChristinaMay 22, 2010 at 3:04 PM
That is good news for sure!! Thanks for tagging us. I know your pie will be excellant.
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I love food. I have loved it for as long as I can remember. It probably started in my Nana and Papa's kitchen as a toddler, grew in my childhood chicken coop where I could gather those wonderful, warm, brown and speckled eggs from my own "pet" chickens. I used to create menus on my typewriter for my family to order from, and remember with pride my sister asking me to be the one to cook her birthday dinner, as well as making a full Thanksgiving dinner for my parents and sister when I was fourteen. I battled through restaurant kitchens, both amazing and disgraceful, in my teens and early 20s, and have now found my place among the African, Mexican, and Vietnamese restaurants of my current home in my North side Chicago neighborhood.

The only problem? I'm almost always broke, struggling, scraping, and scratching together what I can to make a full meal for me and my 'fella. I'm also determined to eat as much locally grown and organic food as I can. Organic foodie and broke don't usually go together... but I'm determined to make it work, and to make it taste good, too!

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