Today after breakfast and Sunday paper, Sweet Hubby and I went to a Farmers Market. I decided that today I would get some produce I've never tried before.
These included an ivory pepper, a slightly smaller member of the bell pepper family, a lovely pearly color. We had some slices of it on a vegetable sandwich. Quite tasty. I also got an 8-Ball zucchini, which is round with a speckled skin. Had that steamed for dinner, along with corn on the cob. Got to eat as much fresh corn as we can while the season lasts. The 8-Ball has a gentle squash-y taste.
The most unusual of the new items was a clump of lion's mane mushroom. It's a strange-looking fungus which looks sort of like solidified foam. I hadn't the slightest idea what to do with it, so the vendor suggested tearing it into small pieces and mixing it up with egg and bread crumbs, like a faux crab cake. So that's what I did, although I put some jalapeno relish in the mix, which rather over powered the taste of the mushroom. I'm glad I tried it, though. I'd seen it before and always shied away because it's so different from anything I've eaten before. I'm enjoying this exploration into new sensation.
Also new today (which is now yesterday) was listening to a Lenny Kravitz CD. I'd heard of Kravitz, of course, and knew he is a musician, but my exposure to him as been in his role as Katniss Everdeen's sympathetic, doomed costumier Cinna. I didn't care for the first couple of numbers, which are harder rock than I usually listen to. But I'm glad I stuck it out for the rest of the CD, which is more to my liking. A talented man for sure, who wrote (writes) most of his own music.
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