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Not a Farmer's Market (we have a small one in my town on Tues. night) but my favorite secret farmstand had ripe tomatoes today. I spied them on the way to an appointment, so I stopped on my way back. Got 2 nice specimens for $1 each. He had a little bit of okra, and one pint container of multi-hued cherry tomatoes. It's not on my usual route, so I'll have to remember to check back in 2 weeks to see what veggies start to show up, last year he had some nice eggplant.

I never thought about Beano for garlic (assume it would also work for onions), good to know!

salad from local chain, Honeygrow...arugula/greens, red grapes, chicken, quinoa, farro, feta, carrot, beet, candied pecans, fresh lime and ginger dressing

Good for steamy summer day...peach, unsalted cottage cheese, toasted sliced almonds. The peaches I've gotten recently have been very good.

I wound up making compote with this batch, added some julienned orange rind which is really nice, and a smidge of cardamom.

My husband isn't crazy about figs, so I'll probably make compote and freeze it. I have a sad orange in the fridge so I'll put the peel to good use. Alternately contemplating a crostada...but with the heat the idea of working with any butter laden crust seems like a bad idea.

and...today a bag with around 30 figs. I'm told there will be more tomorrow.😬

Cup 'O Figs left on my desk, from co-worker. I'm guessing that means shortly I will be getting bags full of them.

Desk lunch: cous cous salad, tuna, avocado. I had bought a bag of mini avocados from TJ's and every one has been perfect so far. They work very well for single serving.

Picked up a clamshell of organic black figs this morning, 8-10 figs, for once they were all ripe. $4.99. Bought some wine, as well, but that won’t be opened for a couple of days so I will have to circle back to report. A NZ sauvignon blanc and an Italian rose.

My husband wanted to get sushi, since he hadn’t had any since pre-Covid. Unlike the nice plates that @KennethTgot the other day, we were served on paper plates. Apparently to deal with staffing issues they decided they could do without one of the dishwashers.😕

I've gotten the corn nuts from them before, I have to portion them into containers for DH or he will munch through that bag way too fast!

Leftover pasta salad from the weekend, topped with some jarred tuna.

yes to raw clams as a little kid...growing up on Long Island our next door neighbors who went clamming (in addition to gardening and bee keeping, an intro to all kinds of delicious things) I got to eat raw clams in the backyard. DH and I dined outdoors at a really good fish restaurant in Princeton (Blue Point Grill) on Wednesday and split some really good NE style chowder, it had a little bit of thyme in it.

@heidih, thanks for the link, since I discovered an Asian food market near my office I have access to all of the ingredients.

Until 6/20, if you spend $10 buying from a "small business" on Amazon, you will get a $10 credit to spend on Prime Day. I got an email as a Prime member, but if you click on the Prime Day banner on the home page you'll see the promo.

Since DH is away, I indulge in things he would "yuck" on. Jarred herring in cream sauce over some salad greens, a few cherry tomatoes, and some of my homemade pickled fennel. The herring is something from my childhood (Grandparents ate it often) and it seems like every couple of years I get the urge. Then I'm sick of it by the time I finish the small jar.

Driscoll’s, product of Mexico. I thought they would be watery and totally tasteless, but not bad. Not like local NJ berries in July, but OK.

Quickle fennel bulb, really good

Enormous blueberries, penny for size ref and I may have eaten the largest ones when I got home from the market on Saturday

Definition of adulting, picking your candy based on what won’t cause damage. As a lover of gummy candies, it kills me, but having replaced a crown repeatedly, I think I learned my lesson.

I broke into one of the lychees at the office and it was delicious. Hard to describe it to co-workers who were unfamiliar, the closest I could think of was mild honeydew to give them a frame of reference. They had cases of mangoes and I was sorely tempted. I may be going back next week.

My mistake, they were jackfruit. I had that thought (how to contain the stink)...I can't wait to go back when I have a cooler and get some frozen dumplings.

I stopped in a fairly new Asian food market that is near my office - just happened to see it on Google maps. It is called Hung Vuong Food Market, although the register receipt at the top says Heng Fa Supermarket. No, I did not brave the durian (which they had fresh and frozen, and I think I saw some cut up and wrapped as well). There was an amazing assortment of fresh produce, I did buy some fresh lychees ($2.99/lb) and a Gaia melon which I had misread the price for at $1.99, that was the per pound price, so this $6 melon better be really good. Lots of good stuff, including some individual serving packets of some banchan type items, I did grab one shredded kelp.

First meal eaten in a restaurant in over a year, small casual viet that always did a lot of takeout business, so they seemed to be holding up well. I had bun with lemongrass chicken.