farmer's market dinner

The Saturday farmer's market is one of the highlights of my week. Getting produce locally, in season, developing a relationship with the people who grow and sell the food. I never think to bring my camera to grab a few pictures of it.

But, here are a few word pictures:

- A Korean lady who doesn't speak English but sells the best spicy garlic that we've ever had. Mike commented the other day that any other garlic seems inadequate. (hopefully the other other heads that we have around won't get a complex.)

- A fish stand called "Tuna Dan" staffed by a young mother and her sleeping babe in a backpack. The lady in front of the me asked for lots of ice to pack around her fish since they were going to be home for 4 hours. Then ensued a discussion about why the small chip ice works better for keeping it cold then the large cubed ice. "Does it have to do with the surface area? But then the bigger ice should work better since it seems it should melt slower. Oh, high school science was too long ago." I stayed out of the discussion. I came away with a pound of halibut to grill for

dinner.

- Our favorite produce stand, Lazy J, which always has fresh produce and new things to try. The stand owner had told me how to use sorrel before but only had it for a week in late spring and I didn't get any. However, she had it again yesterday, and I asked for her recommendations on using it with fish. "Use it cut up like an herb to put on top of any kind of fish, or make a cream sauce with it."

Here is a (not as flattering as I would have liked) picture of our grilled halibut on a creamy sorrel and parsley sauce. The sauce recipe is from here. It was a great dinner.