Burien Farmers Market
Yesterday morning I took a drive to Burien to visit their Farmers Market. It was a sunny day with clear blue skies. Cool, a lovely breeze. Great weather to be outside browsing produce stalls. Burien Farmers Market is small (almost hidden out of sight in a nook between S.W. 150th and 152nd streets, behind Meal Makers) but lovely. Fruit and stands loaded with beautiful and colorful, still cool offerings.
Fresh honey from Enumclaw unheated, from Japanese pears and raspberry. Apple, pear and berry cider in big bottles to take home or to enjoy right there. Mizuna and baby greens so fresh, the farmer, Wade, from Rockridge Orchards told me he had picked them just 2 hours prior. He gave me some to taste. Deliciously cool and crisp! There were rose bushes for sale in all sorts of beautiful colors. Bright yellows, peaches, salmon, intense red-orange. Also available for purchase were garden statuary and accessories (beautiful renditions of leaves in gorgeous shades of green).
Plants, herbs and flowers of all kinds. Homemade pies sold whole to go or as individual servings. Herbal soaps and sachets. The most amazing, intensely colored Rhubarb (I purchased a pound and a half of it for tomorrow). Just picked Bing and Rainier cherries. Gifts and snacks.
I scrutinized every stand, looking for a vegetable I had not tried before (golden beets) or had been longing to find again (Kohlrabi, bringing memories of summer in Germany). My foraging continued with dinner in mind, chatting with the farmers (they came all the way from Fall City, Pierce County and Carnation) about their favorite ways of cooking these vegetables and discovered many uses for parts of these I had no idea were also edible.
With arms full of vegetables and fruit I wobbled back to the car and felt quite content with my purchases. Next, a quick stop at Trader Joe's to purchase the meat for the dish. After driving home it was now time to wash, peel and cut away in order to get dinner started on the slow cooker (my very own rendition of Pot-au-Feu) before returning to work (will post the pseudo-recipe tomorrow). I was already looking forward to the day's end, to find all these wonderful ingredients, cooked slowly to perfion, ready to be enjoyed.
Seven hours later and just before heading out to the Ballet dinner was served. The freshest of ingredients in a simple, comforting meal.
What can be better? Leftovers, of course!
Burien Farmers Market
May 13 - Oct. 7
Thursdays, 11am - 6pm
4th Ave. S.W.
Burien
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