Hi everyone, sorry for the lack of posts this spring.  Jeremy and I have been very busy doing various things, we just got back from my sister’s wedding in Oklahoma…  congrats Angie!  We are scheduled to move into a house at the beginning of July and have been packing like crazy for the past few weeks.

I’ve also been busy cooking like always!  We got our first CSA share last week, and had some delicious stuff in it:  turnips, pea shoots, braising mix, lettuce, carrots, garlic scapes and strawberries.  I’d never had pea shoots before and didn’t even realize they were edible, but they are a pretty tasty green with a slight pea flavor to them.  We made sauteed turnips with pea shoots and bacon and it is surprisingly delicious.

Our garden is also in full swing, today I harvested about a pound of strawberries not including the ones Jacob ate. :)  We’ve also harvested arugula, mustard greens, mesclun mix, lettuce, spinach and turnip greens.  We are eating plenty of green vegetables this summer, and I’ve even gotten Jacob to try a bit of lettuce… as long as it has salad dressing on it.

Hope everyone is having a great spring and I’ll try to post some pictures of the garden soon.

We all had a case of spring fever on Saturday.  It is finally warming up here in Colorado, and Saturday we had temps near the 60s and wanted to get out and enjoy things.  The Boulder farmer’s market opened last weekend, so Saturday morning we made ourselves coffees and headed down to check it out.

Jake enjoyed himself while wearing his stylish sunglasses he received from the dentist this week.  I think the bribe from the dentist worked, he wouldn’t take the sunglasses off all morning.  We’ll see if he loves the dentist next time we go.

As you can see we weren’t the only ones trying to get out and enjoy things.  We ended up buying a bunch of parsnips, a bag of spinach, some purple potatoes, and a few onions.  I think most of what the farmers had was from last season, but they did all have a bunch of fresh greens!  We bought a big bag of spinach for $3 from the Hmong farmers who we like to support  and who also had by far the cheapest greens at the market (Jeremy and I took a trip around the world a few years ago, and Laos was our favorite place).

After we left the farmer’s market we were going to drive up to Boulder Falls so Jake could see it, but unfortunately it was closed, so we got out at another spot on Boulder Creek and walked around.  We were a little shocked, only 10 minutes out of town up into the mountains it felt much colder, so we didn’t walk around for long.

We then went and did some gardening but I forgot to take pictures of that.  We are going back this afternoon, so I’ll try to remember this time and post pictures of our garden in the spring, even though we don’t have much in it right now!

Hope everyone is enjoying spring as much as we are!