| | We drove down to my parent's house on Friday, and are spending memorial day weekend with them here in ATL. My brother is planning a weekend for this Aug (congrats, bro and J!), and the girls have been their usual curious selves, so we've had plenty of talking and entertainment. Nomi loves the puppies here, but only at a distance. She yells and growls at them whey they won't come to her, but squeals and climbs me like a tree when they get too close.  Essie's been "cooking" for us on the special playstove grandma keeps at her house for her, and having a good time reading lots with Paga and grandma. She made me giggle this week as she prepared herself for going to the nursery at mom and dad's church. She was chatting half to herself and half to us on the way to the church this morning: "Last time, someone pushed Essie. Essie says, 'No push me!' The boy doesn't push me anymore, and he shouldn't push because it's NOT kind. Essie will say, 'No pushing! Dat's not nice!" *Giggle* So she prepared herself in the back seat, and sure enough, that's exactly what she did. She put her hands on her hips, scrunched up her nose and said, "No pushing!! Thats NOT nice!" hehehe. I absolutely adore her pluck. 
OK. So I'm totally in love with the Dekalb Farmer's Market. My mom, brother and some friends have been telling me how great it is for a year now, and so we loaded up the girls in shopping cart and a mei tai and set out into the giant (cold) store. It's a crunchy/veggie/raw food/foreign food freak's paradise, and I had *such* a hard time limiting myself in what I picked to bring home. I ended up with 2lbs of red lentils, 1 lb of brown lentils, 1 lb of raw almonds, raw sunflowers seeds, raw pumkin seeds, dehydrated ginger, dehydtated mangos, sun dried tomatoes, dried dates, gold curry paste, green curry paste, ginger paste, coconut milk, goat cheese, a half gallon of hazelnut milk, a box of tamarindos (or, mushishi, as Nate calls them), 3 avacodos, 3 giant sweet potatoes, a box of stevia, a lb of seseme seeds, flax seeds, fava beans and a big bottle of sea salt. I was completely cheered to see that they carried all sort of gluten free flour, but will have to make another trip sometime when I have a list of baking ingrediants with me.  The super fun thing is that they have a big cafeteria there and mom, Nate, the girls and I all ate there for $15, pay per pound style. Between all of us, we had moussaka, kimchi, baked chicken with fennel and figs, lamb somosas, lentil samosas, taboule salad, baked parsnips and apples, ratatoulli, eggplant parmesean....you the idea. It was delish, and quite impressive for the price. Can you tell I get excited about food? |
