7 February ‘09 Saturday
This morning we drove up to the farmers market to see just what we might be missing. Sure as heck we did find something. We found some incredible fresh bread that we couldn’t leave behind and we found Loren… Loren is an African that had a table filled with string beans, Habanera peppers, okra, and a large container of TARO… Yep, Taro. Now what do you do with Taro? That’s all Loren had to hear. She not only gave us a step by step instruction of how to prepare taro, she gave us a recipe for a dish that she said would tempt us to eat too soon just by anticipating the taste by the smell. I won’t go into the details of the recipe but it involves pork, okra, a Habanera pepper, turmeric, garlic, onion, fingerling potatoes, zucchini , bell pepper, lemon pepper, and TARO…I can just about smell it now… Gathering all of our “goodies” and storing them in the car, we pulled the beach chairs and headed down to the parade route. We weren’t by ourselves, even though we were about an hour and a half ahead of parade time, but they are always telling us that “the early bird gets all the best of the BEADS !!!”. Yep, we’re really into the beads now. I’ll fight any little kid on the block to get that small necklace…
This morning we drove up to the farmers market to see just what we might be missing. Sure as heck we did find something. We found some incredible fresh bread that we couldn’t leave behind and we found Loren… Loren is an African that had a table filled with string beans, Habanera peppers, okra, and a large container of TARO… Yep, Taro. Now what do you do with Taro? That’s all Loren had to hear. She not only gave us a step by step instruction of how to prepare taro, she gave us a recipe for a dish that she said would tempt us to eat too soon just by anticipating the taste by the smell. I won’t go into the details of the recipe but it involves pork, okra, a Habanera pepper, turmeric, garlic, onion, fingerling potatoes, zucchini , bell pepper, lemon pepper, and TARO…I can just about smell it now… Gathering all of our “goodies” and storing them in the car, we pulled the beach chairs and headed down to the parade route. We weren’t by ourselves, even though we were about an hour and a half ahead of parade time, but they are always telling us that “the early bird gets all the best of the BEADS !!!”. Yep, we’re really into the beads now. I’ll fight any little kid on the block to get that small necklace…
Well the Mardi Gras Parade started at 1 and by the time it got to us it was about 1:30. The crowd that was out for today’s parade was much heavier than that of last week’s parade, and thus we didn’t get near as many necklaces.
The fun was still there and we will be back for more, whether it’s here or Mobile, we will be back.