My farmer’s market

After several weeks of not making it to my local farmer’s market, I finally went today! I love going there and of course, my three kids came along for the ride! We had a great time! I’ll share what we saw/got there:

The donuts!

Our first stop is always the donuts! The church parking lot that houses the market makes fresh donuts that sell out pretty fast, so you have to get there early!

Cinnamon /sugar donuts!  So good!

The cinnamon/sugar ones are our favorite! So tender and warm and melts in your mouth!

Nice music while you eat donuts!

Right next to the donuts is always locals playing folk music. They sounded really good!

Oak Park, IL  farmer’s market!

That’s my son Mark in the yellow shirt (he didn’t know I was taking the picture!)

Raspberries!

The raspberries looked amazing!

Blueberries!

I did pick up some blueberries. I think blueberry pancakes will be in my future this weekend!

Onions

Cherries

The cherries tasted amazing too! Really sweet and juicy!

Squeaky cheese

One of my favorite things at the farmer’s market? Squeaky cheese! It’s cheese curds and they are might tasty!

Garlic cheddar cheese

We also tasted a bunch of different cheeses, this garlic cheddar was amazing!

Homemade jams

Like a lot of farmer’s markets, they had a lot of tables selling home made jams and jelly’s.

Honey

I love fresh honey, so I did pick up a jar of this. I use it a lot in baking!

Sugar snap peas!

And I did pick up some sugar snap peas! We munched on some while walking around!

Random cute baby!

We kept running into this Dad with his cute baby who slept the whole time!!

Many varieties of carrots!

Look at all these different kinds of carrots! I didn’t get any this time around, but I will next time!

Some kind of berry??

I’m not sure what kind of berries these were. It looks like they are in the blueberry family? They were sweet and juicy!

World’s smallest potatoes!

There was a farmer who had baby new potatoes for sale. We walked over to the bin and inside were also these little baby tiny potatoes!

Garlic cheese spread

One of the best purchases from today was this garlic cheese spread! It has 5 different kinds of cheese, provolone, mozzarella, parmesan, romano, cheddar and garlic, olive and canola oil, and oregano, parsley and thyme. This was amazing!! We tasted some on crackers and then had to buy it. She recommended tossing it with some pasta, cooking scrambled eggs with it! I have a lot of ideas brewing in my head on this one!

Excellent music!

On our way out, we stopped and listened to this man play great music!

You can play along too!

If you want, they have instruments on a blanket you can pick up and play along. I wanted to do it, but my kids were too embarrassed if I did, so I let it go! Ha Ha!!

So, that’s my farmer’s market, I’m glad I got to share it with you!