It’s back – or I should say, they’re back! This morning on our way back from Boston and a great breakfast at the Cambridge site of The Friendly Toast (the original is in Portsmouth NH in all its tattoo’ed glory) with Chris and Grace, we stopped at the Lippett Park Farmers Market. I ran right to the Narragansett Creamery table and got a tub of ricotta cheese – I can’t wait to break into it! I had hoped to get some yogurt as well – I want to start using those strawberries in the freezer for smoothies – but they had sold out. But low and behold – we stopped Farmstead to check out their remodeling job (it’s beautiful) – and they had some of the Creamery’s yogurt. Thanks goodness! If you are in the Wayland Square area, you should check out Farmstead and if possible, eat at La Laiterie at Farmstead. They have a cheese cave – really a temperature controlled cheese room that you can peer into from the retail space. There are so many cheeses sitting there,waiting to be tasted! I’d love to get locked in sometime for a few hours! While at Farmstead we got some cornichons for tonight’s dinner – maybe to go with the trotters? Whatever they are for, I’m glad to have them back! And to have some of Louella’s wonderful cheese and yogurt back in the house is truly a wonderful thing! And Josh was a happy boy as we stopped at one of our favorite bars, Track 84, after hitting the market and Farmstead. Josh had Stone Vertical Epic and Brooklyn Chocolate Stout - it was a dark beer kind of day. And I was a happy girl filling up on Diet Coke and peanuts. Granted some of the items we had today were not local but we did hit many of our favorite local businesses - it’s been a good day so far!
October 3, 2009
Stocking up on the oldies!
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July 5, 2008
…we hit the jackpot today at the Providence Farmer’s Market! Ingrid had contacted the people at Narragansett Creamery in search for some yogurt and they had some waiting for us at the market today. Seeing that we were out of our pre-100 mile yogurt, this was good news because it is an integral part of our morning smoothies. We left Boston this morning after a day of eating at other people’s houses- Ingrid’s sister Jessica rewarded us for helping out with her yardwork by making her version of a 100 mile lunch which starred bison hot dogs from Alta Vista Bison Farm in Rutland, MA, strawberries, and salad. We thought the bison dogs were very tasty and we inhaled them rather quickly. We spent the rest of the 4th at Chris and Grace’s in Charlestown for a cookout featuring Chris’s great wings and superb homebrew…late night boozy conversations had us conspiring a multi-course beer dinner…stay tuned for that one! We hit the Providence market on our way and picked up our yogurt, along with some mozzarella cheese, apples (from last Fall’s harvest)….carrots, onion, tomatoes, salad greens, country style spare ribs from Watson Farm in Jamestown, RI and to our surprise, red and yellow cherries from Glastonbury, CT. We had no idea that we’d be eating cherries as a part of our RI 100 mile diet!
