It's been nearly a year between updates. EGAD man! Pretty pathetic, Ty. O well...ever onward!
As luck would have it, Bayview Farms on Route 25 in Aquebogue opened for the summer as of this morning, so there's grist for a blog post AND we needed to stop for some vegetables anyway:
1. A few pounds of local horseradish root, Yes!
2. Some cipollini, definitely not local, but needed for Sunday's Spring dinner, details below,
3. And for the first time ever, a turnip. A turnip roughly the size of my head (which given the size of my melon...holy crap!) for $1.50 I figure even if it turns out I really, really hate turnip, my wager is pretty small.
Tomorrow...Spring will officially arrive in River City, inaugurated by my becoming annual "grinding of the root" ritual, maybe a bit of Russian Standard to ensure good luck for the year and then I'll be crock potting a Yankee pot roast which Agnes has been craving ever since sampling the brisket with gravy at Katz's Delicatessen earlier this month (we'll be dropping an update on that excursion sometime soon. No really, I promise.)
PS: Agnes is responsible for the turnip photo. It takes some mad skills to make a turnip look sexy, no?