An Exciting Find

Good news for the variety options for Dark Days Challenge meals arrived today!  Well, okay, I learned about this a couple weeks ago, but today I actually saw it with my own two eyes.

The Ithaca Farmer's Market started a Winter market! Yippee! The little bug and I went down town today to check it out. We came home with:

• A belly full of apple, courtesy of the generous, happy man selling apples and cider
• 6 oz of dried oyster mushrooms
• leeks
• carrots
• a Kozzak Kholrabi (can't wait to try this - I really wonder how tender it will be this time of year?!)
• a bulb (? is that what you call it?) of Celeriac, somthing I've never even heard of before learning more about seasonal foods
• a block of local Gouda-style cheese
• a big bag of lovely baby spinach

I'm so excited to find another source of local foods for the winter, and am looking forward to making potato leek soup soon!