We had a nice quiet weekend at home. Almost everything we did was related to the growing, preparing, acquiring, and consuming of food.

On Saturday morning, we went strawberry picking. We were not that impressed with the specimens compared to last year. I think it’s because we got a few days of downpours earlier in the week, along with some cool weather that caused the berries to be a little less sweet than we remembered. We’re going to try again in a few weeks to see if we have better luck. (At $1 per pound at pick-your-own, how can we complain?) The strawberries we got did make a delicious topping for waffles made with our new professional-grade waffle maker, and french toast made with Hawaiian sweetbread. Lup lup!

Then, yesterday, we went to the Raleigh farmer’s market. It is so nice to have such a large farmers market within a 15 minute drive. Among some food goods, we bought a couple plants for our container gardening: Rosemary, Lemon grass, and tomato. We also planted some basil and oregano seeds. Hopefully our black thumbs are a thing of the past.

However, we did not research the tomato plant thing ahead of time. Apparently you need an 18-24″ pot for each plant. Hellow! That’s seriously large. I think we have it in a 12″ pot right now. We’ll see what happens…. at least the farmer market is there if we end up killing our poor seedlings.

Posted by Carrie on Monday, May 1, 2006
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