M. and I woke up early at 10am (well, for us) on Saturday morning to make our way to the Pineridge Hollow Farmers' Market located in Birds Hill Park for some fresh produce and breakfast grub.
Word of caution: there are two entrances to this market. One entrance is outside of the park and one is inside the actual park. If you go through the park, you need to pay $5 for the all day park pass. News to us. Instead of going back and around, we simply paid the fine, but realized we should've checked the Market's website that morning for details. Live and learn.
So that you don't get caught, for directions click here.
Look at all this loot we picked up!
We purchased some tomatoes, cucumber, potatoes (more than is shown), broccoli, and corn.
We also picked up this pillow for $25 ($20 for a pillow cover only or $25 for both pillow and cover) and two cards that were $3 each from a lovely little artist/vendor called Boomerang 360.
When I went on the official Pineridge Hollow website, I noticed that there was a restaurant nearby the market and the menu looked appetizing, so, after our shopping, we went off to have breakfast.
Sure enough, the place was packed and there was a long line up at the door! We waited for about 10 minutes before the hostess was even able to talk to us and, at this time of 12:30pm, she told us that we should have made a reservation since they were booked solid until 4pm. Ummm...how about putting that valuable suggestion on your website? Sheesh.
At that point, we were starving and I was really disappointed.
M. and I at that point had no patience to go anywhere else and wait for food, so, we decided to try out the new frozen pizzas we picked up from Costco the night before. It should be noted how we never go down the frozen food aisle when we grocery shop except to pick up mixed berries for smoothies, so it wasn't until M.'s family mentioned that we could find vegetarian frozen pizzas that were loaded with kale and broccoli at Costco that we finally made a point of venturing down the frozen food aisle.
For $6 a pizza (from a pack of 2), this hit the spot. The ingredients and crust tasted very good and I would gladly buy this product again. We definitely hit the 'green vegetable' daily nutrition requirement for that day.
For dinner, M. made a wonderful and tasty supper with the produce we picked up earlier that morning. He made some tofu on the side with the peaches and cream corn, broccoli with cheese, and small red potatoes with cream and dill. So excellent.
The next day for lunch, I had cut up some tomatoes and cucumbers from the market with salt and pepper and left over goat cheese that I had bought for my sables last week.
Overall, some good eats this weekend! What Farmers' Market did you visit this past week?
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