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As promised, we got up very very early to hit the Daley Plaza Farmer's Market as soon as it opened on Thursday morning. In future entries, we'll be visiting a varieties of farmer's markets around the city, but for the first day of the season, we returned to our old standby.
At this time of the year, there isn't a ton of produce to be had at the market. Some early spring standbys were in abundance and, if you love asparagus or spinach, you have no excuse NOT to get to a market in the next week. Asparagus stretched as far as the eye can see and piles of spinach 5 feet tall, all at prices we could stomach. Also available were rhubarb, early green onions and garlic, and leeks. Along with the asparagus, the star of the show was the giant heap of Morels - $10 a box, but absolutely gorgeous.
Because of the relative lack of produce, early markets give us the opportunity to focus on all the other things available. You might think "I don't have a refrigerator" or "I didn't bring bags to drag rhubarb around during my work day" - go anyway. We bought a wonderful coffeecake for breakfast at Thursday's market, and 3 different kinds of cheese. Buy cookies for a snack, or a pan of brownies for the office. Perhaps some bread for dinner, or a little bunch of flowers for your desk. There's something for everyone, even in May.
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$10/pound for the morels? Unless I heard wrong Saturday, the Hawks Hill Elk Farm guy was selling 1/4 pound of morels for four times that at GCM Saturday.
Yeah - that's an error on my part, which has been fixed. $10 for a BOX. Still - the box was large and very full. I just weighed it - and a 1/4 pound at the prices at Daley Plaza would've cost you about $20. So still a bargain!
now i have a hankering for mushrooms. Tasty little devils.
My beef with the farmers market: why does it have to end at 3 p.m.? Do they know how many Loop workers find it difficult to get away from their desks to make it down there before 3 and would love to be able to leave work, stroll over and pick up something fresh for dinner? Extend it to at least 5:30 and I'm sure they would make a few more bucks. Hell, if they could keep that pointless Kindlemarket crap up all evening long, why not let this thing run a little longer?
Or I could just be speaking for myself.
Here are a few factors to consider regarding the hours of a farmers market:
Don't read this as a defense of a market's hours; sometimes I wished my favorite stops ran a bit longer, as well.
Points taken. Guess I'll just have to wait for the weekend markets. Or get another job.