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Sun gold tomatoes ripening in my garden

Market inspiration

Kristen blogged about the fabulous meal we cooked up a few weeks back.  The early summer veg were perfect: candy-sweet sun gold tomatoes, delicate squash blossoms, cosmic purple carrots and dragon’s tongue beans!  Deelish!!

Salad of Petite Summer Tomatoes with Vine-Ripe Tomato Sorbet

A day of cooking from The French Laundry Cookbook

For 14 hours this weekend, Jesse and I channeled Thomas Keller — from an 8 a.m. trip to the Green City Market, to blueberry motherfucking soup after midnight. Hell yeah.

Check out my little photo documentary of our French Laundry madness.  For future reference, these recipes are spectacular, but completely ridiculous to make at home.  If you’ve got the time, go for it — but for most folks, this is a coffee table cookbook.

I’m pretty sure that I have one of the only food-smudged copies in existence 

boxes of raspberries by kthread

Green City Market

If you haven’t had the pleasure, the Green City Market is Chicago’s superfantastic local and sustainable farmers market.  It’s open Wednesday and Satuday mornings in Lincoln Park, near the zoo.

Be sure to get there early!  If you’re there at 7 or 8 a.m., you’ll beat the crowds and get your hands on the best fruits and veg.  Plus, you’ll get to see all the restaurant chefs browsing the bounty (and buying all the good stuff!).