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My farmer’s market

After several weeks of not making it to my local farmer’s market, I finally went today! I love going there and of course, my three kids came along for the ride! We had a great time! I’ll share what we saw/got there:

The donuts!

Our first stop is always the donuts! The church parking lot that houses the market makes fresh donuts that sell out pretty fast, so you have to get there early!

Cinnamon /sugar donuts!  So good!

The cinnamon/sugar ones are our favorite! So tender and warm and melts in your mouth!

Nice music while you eat donuts!

Right next to the donuts is always locals playing folk music. They sounded really good!

Oak Park, IL  farmer’s market!

That’s my son Mark in the yellow shirt (he didn’t know I was taking the picture!)

Raspberries!

The raspberries looked amazing!

Blueberries!

I did pick up some blueberries. I think blueberry pancakes will be in my future this weekend!

Onions

Cherries

The cherries tasted amazing too! Really sweet and juicy!

Squeaky cheese

One of my favorite things at the farmer’s market? Squeaky cheese! It’s cheese curds and they are might tasty!

Garlic cheddar cheese

We also tasted a bunch of different cheeses, this garlic cheddar was amazing!

Homemade jams

Like a lot of farmer’s markets, they had a lot of tables selling home made jams and jelly’s.

Honey

I love fresh honey, so I did pick up a jar of this. I use it a lot in baking!

Sugar snap peas!

And I did pick up some sugar snap peas! We munched on some while walking around!

Random cute baby!

We kept running into this Dad with his cute baby who slept the whole time!!

Many varieties of carrots!

Look at all these different kinds of carrots! I didn’t get any this time around, but I will next time!

Some kind of berry??

I’m not sure what kind of berries these were. It looks like they are in the blueberry family? They were sweet and juicy!

World’s smallest potatoes!

There was a farmer who had baby new potatoes for sale. We walked over to the bin and inside were also these little baby tiny potatoes!

Garlic cheese spread

One of the best purchases from today was this garlic cheese spread! It has 5 different kinds of cheese, provolone, mozzarella, parmesan, romano, cheddar and garlic, olive and canola oil, and oregano, parsley and thyme. This was amazing!! We tasted some on crackers and then had to buy it. She recommended tossing it with some pasta, cooking scrambled eggs with it! I have a lot of ideas brewing in my head on this one!

Excellent music!

On our way out, we stopped and listened to this man play great music!

You can play along too!

If you want, they have instruments on a blanket you can pick up and play along. I wanted to do it, but my kids were too embarrassed if I did, so I let it go! Ha Ha!!

So, that’s my farmer’s market, I’m glad I got to share it with you!

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19 Responses to “My farmer’s market”

  1. Nowheymama says:

    Are those huckleberries?

    And raspberries and blueberries already? We’re just at the tail end of strawberry season here.

  2. katecooks says:

    your farmer’s market looks great!!! i love the warm & melts in your mouth description of those donuts. you definitely have me sold :)

  3. doggybloggy says:

    what a nice market – I would love to try some of those curds…

  4. Lesley says:

    Sounds like a wonderful time at your farmer’s market! All those berries look absolutely delicious, too. I’m visiting my parents next weekend and I get to visit my mom’s “market”, haha, aka her garden and I’m excited for that.

  5. Kerstin says:

    Sounds like a fun time – everything looks so good! I would definitely hit up the donuts first too, warm donuts are just the best!

  6. Sounds and looks like a wonderful Farmers’ Market! Thanks for sharing! Can’t wait to see what you’ll be making with the garlic cheese spread… :) Have a great Sunday!

  7. Sarah says:

    I absolutely love this post!! It was so great hearing about your farmer’s market– it sounds so fun! Especially the music… and all the pictures of all the food… lovely :)

  8. That looks like a fun day! I love the berries!

  9. Deb says:

    Jenn! I was there yesterday too about 9 a.m. Sorry I missed you and the kids. If you haven’t tried the bread at Red Hen yet, do so. It is THE best bread I have ever had. NO kidding. And they are taking over the Great Harvest location this fall. I had the multi-grain baggettes (I know that isn’t how you spell it?!). Absolutely fabulous! Maybe I will see you there one weekend!

  10. johngl says:

    What an awesome market! Great shots!

  11. We love going to our Farmers’ Market on Sundays, too. Never had Squeeky Cheese though…sounds good!

  12. foodcreate says:

    I love going to the Farmers Market ! Your photos are so beautiful The baby that kept sleeping he is adorable.
    Thanks for sharing I’m glad you had a wonderful time.:)

    Have a Sunny Monday:)

  13. i love every farmers market! thanks for sharing!

  14. Rosa says:

    A great market! What wonderful jams, veggies and berries!

    Cheers,

    Rosa

  15. Rosie says:

    Thanks so much for calling by my blog it is lovely to *meet* you and what a great blog you have here!!

    Loving all the wonderful pics of the market :0)

  16. Marta says:

    Oh, such lovely produce! Cherries are so delicious right now!
    I also love those donuts, they do melt in your mouth and cinnamon-sugaris all they need!

  17. Juliana says:

    Great farmer’s market…thank you for sharing all the nice pictures…yummie. Love the cheese!

  18. wow, that is some farmer’s market!! i wish we had one in boston like that. your son is adorable — he looks camera-shy!

  19. charline says:

    Those “unknnown” berries look like what we canadians call Saskatoons.

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