Farmer's market Friday

In the Williams family we have our routine pretty much set.

Friday =
Go to Target for random browsing and buying.
Go to Farmer's Market for produce.
Go to Nature's/Whole Foods for week's groceries.

This year, the market doesn't seem to be as bountiful as it was last year, and its the only thing that makes me wish I lived in Portland sometimes.

Oh well... on to the haul for this week:



Let's start with the berries, shall we? Clockwise from the top: local strawberries, loganberries (!!), Rainier cherries, blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries. Add in some zucchini, green beans and cauliflower, and you're set.

The zucchini and green beans are destined for Minestrone soup later in the week, I'm sure the cauliflower will be snacked on throughout the week... and I'm confident the berries will end up in the Blendtec for one of Brad's famous smoothies!

My Blendtec is a monster

So I am totally a blender snob and anyone that knows me understands that my Blendtec blender is my pride and joy. So I make a smoothie pretty much every day, but there's nothing like getting fresh fruit from your local Farmer's Market. I went to the one here in Redmond today and got some fresh strawberries and blueberries and threw those bad boys in with some bananas, ground up flax seed, and put a touch of orange juice and this is what came out.

Here is the before picture: (Looks kind of weird with the flax seed)



And the after picture:



Since this blender will literally crush anything, I can put the stems of the strawberries and get the nutritional benefit from them. What a great device this thing is!