Well....
Today is Tuesday, which means it is Day 4 of my farmer's market experience.
I knew it would be difficult only eating food from farmer's markets, but I didn't realize how difficult.
My first attempt at cooking was Saturday after I returned from the market. I started talking with David Zuckerman, who runs Full Moon Farm in Hinesburg, VT with his wife Rachel Nevitt, and I explained to him that I was trying to sustain myself on food from farmer's markets. I asked David what he suggested, and he just started piling vegetables in front of me. A minute later, I had a small pile of black beans, carrots, onions, potatoes, green garlic, parsnips, and a vegetable I had never seen or heard of, called celeriac. After paying for my small mound of vegetables, I asked David, how do I cook all of this? To this, he replied, chop up all the veggies and throw them in a pot of boiling water and beans. Fair enough I thought, I had no clue what I was doing, but isn't that part of the fun?
So off I went, ready to make some stew. When I got home, I immediately began chopping the vegetables. I planned on making a large batch of stew, and freezing the left overs, so I chopped up all of the veggies. I threw the veggies in a crock pot and boiled water for the beans.
6 hours later, I realized how little clue I had about cooking vegetables. I assumed that the fresh vegetables alone would make a good soup, and there wasn't a lot of cooking knowledge required. The beans were cooked way before the vegetables, so I had a enormous pot of beans, and a lot uncooked veggies. The vegetables weren't bad, but I know they could have been
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