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Summer Solstice Stroll with $20 from Kate A.
By Kristen | June 27, 2007
Last Thursday, I withdrew the $20 from Kate and set out to spend it.
Kate and I have known each other… a while. Six years, I think. A couple years ago, we both read The Fat Fallacy
Anyway, I knew where I had to go: my neighborhood Greenmarket.
I have to say, I’m really torn whenever I go to my Greenmarket. It’s extremely small (last week, there were three tables there) and I never feel like I’m getting all the possible produce I could be getting if I were to go to a bigger Greenmarket.
But, at the same time, I feel as though I ought to shop there to show there should be a Greenmarket here. And, as long as I’m on the subject, I want to publicly state how much I love Migliorelli Farms. They’re always there, with a ton of good stuff.
From Migliorelli alone, I came home with French breakfast radishes, fresh peas, cherries, and broccoli rabe.
I wish I’d taken a photo of the broccoli rabe, before I’d cooked it because it was possibly the best I’ve ever eaten — pungent, peppery, a little bitter — more on that later.
We picked up a loaf of bread and a chocolate chip mini-loaf for the kid, and headed towards the George Washington bridge, to walk on the pedestrian path.
Now I have a couple low-level phobias. Nothing that really impacts my life, just things that concern me which I prefer to avoid, and they are: 1.) getting hit by a car, 2.) falling and 3.) being trapped underwater.
I got about 30 feet out onto the bridge when I realized… walking a path between between zooming cars on one side (phobia 1) and a multi-story drop on the other (phobia 2) was freaking me the hell out.
Then some panicked part of my brain decided to touch the third rail of phobias — the fact that if we were all hit by a car and pitched over the side of the bridge (and somehow survive), when we hit the water, I’d never get the kid unlatched from her stroller in time before it sank.
Ding ding ding! Phobia trifecta!
With no small amount of hyperventilating on my part, we got the hell out of there and headed back down to safety.
Back in our own neighborhood, we picked up a piece of watermelon, apricots, a couple sugar-sweetened Mexican Cokes, some sausage, and a bag of chocolate chips.
Eventually, we looked like this:
(The kid was obsessed with the apricots. I thought she’d rub the fuzzy skin right off them before we made it home.)
Also, on the way home, I saw these two kids walking so close to each other they kept accidentally-on-purpose bumping into each other and it was so cute, my grinchy heart grew three sizes.
Anyway, I went home and made one of the best dinner I’ve made in a month, easily. Based on this recipe that’s been kicking around in my bookmarks for ages, I replaced the spaghetti with rotini and the greens with the broccoli rabe.
Here’s an incredibly crappy photo of it:
Damn, it looks like hell, but trust me, it was great.
Okay! My first donation derby entry! Thanks, Kate!
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June 27th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
What a cutie pie!
And I love broccoli rabe, though it took me a while to acquire a taste for bitter greens.
June 27th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
The cuteness caused my cuteness sensors to OVERLOAD! The bangs! Striped Dress! Are those Crocs?!
And another thing: You are so freaking lucky to have a kid that still fits in a stroller!
I wish you still updated your LJ.
June 27th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Sarah: The shoes… I don’t actually know. We found them in Marshalls for like 5 bucks, so I’m assuming they’re some sort of knockoff Crocs. The dress came from H&M and I would friggin’ wear one myself if I could find one big enough.
That stroller fits a kid up to 55 lbs! We would have died long ago without it.
I wish I still updated my LJ too. I just got tired of hatin’ on everyone all the time. It was always like, “pay attention to me! no, not like that! you’re doing it wrong!”
June 28th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
This is not the farmers market at Union Square is it?
I meant to go after work last night but the thunderstorm, minor black out and stalled subway trains messed up my brain and I completely went D’OH! when I got off the train in Queens.
MUST GO TOMORROW.
kid=awesome
I want to those shoes and your bag.
June 28th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
No, this is the one in my neighborhood.
I actually won that bag in some domino magazine sweepstakes. I was like, “…the hell? Oh, hey - a bag.”
June 28th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
Hooray! That was the perfect thing to do. The donation derby rules!
June 29th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Yay! The system works!
July 24th, 2007 at 12:01 am