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Pigs and Peaches
By Carrie | June 18, 2008
Well, the picnic went swimmingly. We were completely exhausted the entire rest of the weekend. Oak from staying up all night on Friday, me from waking up too early and all the carrying around of things.. Anyway, the piggy was enjoyed by all. We also finally have the pignic pictures! Exciting. Notice how half of them are of Oak, the king of the pignic 
haha. And no, I don’t know all the people in the pictures. But that’s OK. We had 195 people (or something like that) show up. On a day when the heat index was 105 degrees.
Last weekend, we had a special new experience at the farmer’s market in Raleigh. After reading this story in the News and Observer about how to shop in the bulk section, we had to check it out. Daniela was in pursuit of lemons for her limoncello distillery. Anyway, it was like a trip into another country. Basically all of the wholesalers will sell you a huge box of anything from apples, cilantro, cucumbers, etc. Then they have these big tables set up in the center of the building where you can barter and/or sell shares of the box with other people.
Oak and Belinda ended up doing the bartering. Oak’s knowledge of food prices combined with Belinda’s bilingual abilities resulted in us getting a huge box of pickling cucumbers, a big bag of cherries, a huge bag of like 20 peaches for $1, tomatoes, and probably some other things I don’t remember. What an adventure. It was enough just walking through there to get the experience. haha. But, if you’re looking to make 800 pies, make preserves or pickles, or cater for 300 people, this is the place to go.
We ended up making a peach cobbler and peach slab pie from Martha’s Baking Handbook. Both came out fantastic. I really enjoyed the cobbler recipe, because it was so simple.. none of this rolling out dough nonsense, which I am definitely not very good at. Plus, we’ve decided to only trust Martha for any fruit-centric desserts (pies, tarts, crisps, and the like) because others never come out as well as hers. Go Martha!
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June 18th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Nice writing style. Looking forward to reading more from you.
Chris Moran
June 18th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Can’t forget the ginger!
But yeah, the peachness and the pigness was awesome!
June 18th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Well, it does look like a good time was had by all. I did recognize a few faces and of course Alex..hi Alex..anyways, The pic of the piggy with his head on the grill was gross but my son-in-law really looked smashing in the pics. Like your personalized apron. Didn’t know you had that!! And then of course my beautiful daughter that did look pretty exhausted in the pics..not to mention melting but you had a hot colored tshirt on…lol…Looks like all had a great time. Good job!! I am proud of both of you for a job excellently done!! Wish we could have been there to sample some!! Thanks for sharing the pics. Thoroughly enjoyed looking at them.