I was back on the forage trail this week. I missed last week because I actually had a social event planned for a Saturday—will wonders never cease!

One day, my dream of an after-hours (week night) Farmers Market will come true and I’ll have the choice of doing my grocery shopping in the middle of the week like regular folks. It’s not like I can buy what I eat just anywhere. Not that I don’t love my Saturday tours of the countryside but it does put a damper on spontaneous recreational activities.

At the Fairfield Winter Market I scored:

• prepared potato and celeriac soup, celeriac, and Greyledge Farm eggs from Riverbank Farm. This is probably the last of the celeriac.
• Pleasant Son cheese from Sankow’s Beaver Brook
• Cortland and Macintosh apples (from Rogers Orchards in Southington, CT) provided by Daffodil Hill Growers and the miracle of cold storage. This is probably the last of the apples this year.
• yogurt from Ladies of Levita Road, Lebanon, CT
• sweet potatoes and spinach from Newgate Farms
• Goat’s milk fudge from Goatboy Soap

I spied Nancy Roper, Chef and Owner of the Boxcar Cantina in Greenwich practically wiping out Riverbank’s supply of parsnips, among other ingredients. Great news for me since “Locavore Rulz” say if a restaurant locally sources any of their ingredients, all items on the menu count as local!!

Then on to New Morning Natural Foods where I scored raw milk from Stone Wall Dairy and Foxfire. I also picked up the latest issue of Edible Nutmeg. (Their cover art is always stunning.)