Farmer's Market Meal

Tracy asked me to go on a date this morning to the City Center - have coffee, walk around, and enjoy the scenery a bit. We ended up at the Farmer's Market - a fun spot to see lots of colorful, fresh produce, beautiful flowers, and plenty of delicious samples! I don't often shop there because the prices are generally higher than at the grocery stores, but I've been wanting to splurge on a few items. Today was the day. We stopped at every spot offering something to sample - there are quite a few samples on Saturday mornings! At one of the booths, we sampled some fresh pesto.  Of course, we decided to buy a jar. This purchase led us to buy fresh pasta made that morning to go with our pesto. And then some bread baked on the spot. Plus, flowers for the table. Without realizing it (or maybe just a little), I worked myself out of a job for the evening! Since Micah is spending the night with friends, we ended up enjoying our feast at lunchtime instead so that he would get to enjoy it as well.  The boys all said that this needs to be our Saturday tradition!  Not going to happen, but it sure was a delicious treat. A treat made even better by going for ice-cream for dinner - two scoops even!

We tried two kinds of pasta - one that was a spinach/feta ravioli and the other
was a spiral wheat pasta - both were tasty but we all liked the spinach better.