I’ve become the farmer’s market queen, obsessively riding my bike from one to another almost daily. I never buy much, there hasn’t been much to buy…mid-August we should be up to our eyeballs in tomatoes and other wondrous things. On Monday I went to the Sorauren Market and picked up a sack of mini mutant carrots. Here’s a fun one:
It reminded me of that parsnip of yore. Although, it seems, while searching for that picture, I found a LOT more funny parsnips.

I’ve been up to my eyeballs in jam today…Chokecherry…cherry-rhubarb-mulberry…mulberry-rhubarb…cherry..hmm I think that’s it. 24 pints in 2 days :)
my husband said about the parsnips, “if tim burton designed a vegetable, that’s what it would look like.”
I agree with your husband, Treyci.
Chokecherries? What do they taste like?
Alone….SERIOUSLY ICKY…but they have a cherryish taste
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