Thursday, August 09, 2007

End of summer as we know it?

This is a prime month, with no more heat waves, I hope. The local farmers' market provided a fine array of vegetables, as well as a few goat cheeses, a chevre with herbes de Provence on it, another soft one, and a ripened one with the firmness of Havarti but not the blandness, it's tangy and delectable; made locally, not too far from here. I asked if they did blue cheeses, and the woman in the booth told me that once you start making blues, everything becomes blue cheese, the mold spreads all over everything. The two-colored corn from Eastern Washington is sweet, and the organic beefsteak tomatoes went well with fresh basil and some of the chevre. The three colors of potatoes, white from our backyard, yellow and purple from the market, were a nice match for the organic steak I broiled; just a little bit of red meat can't hurt us.

2 Comments:

Blogger robin andrea said...

I can't imagine a heatwave now. It's been so cool and drizzly. Today, Friday, we actually had some sun and took a minus tide walk early with our friend visiting from Santa Cruz.

Except for the one week of extreme heat, this has been the coolest summer we've experienced since we moved here in 2004. Would you say this is more the norm?

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Blogger isabelita said...

I think, having spent thirty three Augusts out here, that it is a month of cooling down, usually. Overcast mornings and wonderfully sunny afternoons and evenings. Just a little taste of fall. Perfect for hiking, bugs diminishing, but shorter days.
As for this summer, kind of a weird mix. I have heard of a couple of friends who have bought property in Alaska, and I think they will be best situated when hell breaks out on earth...

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