The Promise of Fresh Bread -- with Full Belly Barm!

Full Belly Farm, one of my favorite local farms, has teamed up with another local, Alton Spiller of Los Altos to produce barm using Full Belly Farm whole Sonora wheat flour. So for a buck you can jump start your own batch of barm to use for making fresh sourdough bread whenever you like. It's also pretty fun to have found another local bread/flour geek who knows what I'm talking about when I start asking about protein percentages and poolish. :-)

No Bad Apples

Hauer, Red Delicious, Pippin, and Sundowners. All great! No bad apples!

A Peck of Patient Peppers

When I asked the folks from Serendipity Farms how it was that we have these beautiful, organically grown, Hungarian red peppers in January, the farmer that grew them told me that they simply finally have ripened. They were grown near the coast, and have been waiting all this time to get enough sun to finally ripen. Since there hasn't been a freeze along the coast, these peppers waited patiently to arrive at the market, and to my kitchen. Another fabulous day at the farmer's market! We are so lucky to live here...