For the love of Produce...

I bought a pack of white strawberries, or pineberries on Friday. That's something different I guess. They're slightly milder and softer than normal strawberries. My poor brain just can't deal with the colour. It's so totally wrong.

And other than that I organized all sorts of fine net bags to deal with fruit flies this year. Everything first goes into a single quarantine bag, and once my fruits turn out to be fly-free they go into a bigger crate covered with netting. Lets see if I'll win this year (I kind of doubt it to be honest).

The Spring-to-Summer season is getting rolling at my favorite farmers market, and I've been buying lovely things but not posting about them, recent yum including local fresh asparagus and kohlrabi.

Today, though, I bought prepared food - produce-heavy, and a special wild treat.

The prepared food was tacos de nopales, with a rich and diverse combination of veggies along with the nopales (nopales, peppers, onions, black olives, more), cheese (either dairy or vegan, I picked dairy), available either with meat or sauteed chopped mushrooms that were sourced from the multi-variety mushroom stall at the same market (I had mushrooms). It came with some guacamole and some lime chunks. Same stall had home-made lemon empanadas (real lemons), so I got one of those for dessert. Three tacos, one empanada . . . did it fit my calorie goal? Who knows, and I don't care: So good!

The photo is only 2 tacos, because I'd already eaten one. 😆😋

And then there was the treat, yet to be sauteed here at home:

Native wild-foraged morels, from the mushroom stall. Can't wait.

Did you read the OP here? This is a thread clearly aimed at people who love produce. There are several carnivore threads in the Community, and a whole low-carb group.

Personally, I'm very happy to eat the starch in some of the veggies, and the sugar in fruits. Pretty healthy, too.

I think I'll have potatoes later: Very starchy, also very sating for me, with several grams of nice fiber, and a good lot of potassium, some vitamin C and B-6, among other nutrients. Maybe I'll put some plain Greek yogurt on them (which has not only starches but also lactose, plus even a little galactose and glucose from the fermentation process - sugars, all of them!)

I already has some strawberries and blueberries today. The bananas in the kitchen are getting pretty ripe, so may eat one later. Definitely sugars in there. Not too much sugar, though.

I haven't eaten meat - at least not intentionally - since 1974 . . . but that isn't generally a thing I'd go on a carnivore thread to point out, unless needed as context around something I was saying there that I thought was actually on topic to the OP, but I didn't want to misrepresent myself while I said it.

This year I grew four trays of peashoots instead of just one on the balcony. This is the first time I could harvest enough for a Chinese stir fry.

I finally harvested the last of my trombocino for the season, I'm definitely planing them again in Spring!

I'm pulling in decent harvests of golden beets, radishes and leeks, and my broccoli is starting to heart :)

It's unseaonsably warm here, which is confusing the garden, but it's doing its best.

I got lunch at the farmers market, a strawberry lemonade ice pop (with strawberry slices embedded in it), a soft pretzel stick, and an order of these delicious fried brussels sprouts with goat cheese and pomegranate seeds, a sprinkle of parsley on top. I've probably posted a photo of the sprouts before, but they're so good, if a little rich and messy:

at the market - thought these were too beautiful!