At the Saturday Farmer's Market in Healdsburg ... the visitor from out of town says... "wow, what are those?"
Farmer: "smell them ... yes, they are different,"
Visitor: "hmmm...yes ...
Onlooker: "they smell fragrant, but the flesh is delicate, yealding a kind of sweetness, subtlely floral but fruity, very good."
Visitor: "really? ... I've never seen a melon like this."
Farmer: "that's because you can only get them in Sonoma County." (Crane Melons)
At the market we bought "Huevos Rancheros" and "Agua Fresca" from Mateo while shopping for Dry Creek Peaches, artisinal butter, torpedo onions, huge lettuce heads and georgeous flowers. Now we can go home. But not before observing the chef in his chefs whites choosing bunches of gourmet radishes and such. Hmmm... sexy, yes.
Home now, to make pasta salad with items from the garden such as baby sun gold tomatoes, banana peppers, fresh parsley and basil and shallots - tossed with olive oil and aged balsamic.
At the BBQ next door, we began with two kinds of fresh figs - stuffed with chevre and topped with a candied pecan, then figs roasted in the oven with blue cheese. Then triple cream brie and aged gouda cheese.
A Williem-Selyem '07 Zinfandel popped out to accompany the slow roasted peppered pork ribs. Prior to that it had been two Oregon Willamette Valley Pinot Noirs - Lange and Belle Pente, both 2001. Not bad! We also had a Roederer sparkling, a homebrew Rose' and an interesting Red blend from David Caffaro and a Pinot Noir from George Wine, circa 2006.
Later we went backward for a Chardonnay from Napa and a Moshin RRV Chardonnay that was very
"Viognier"-like.
I forgot to mention those oh, so Southern - fried green tomatoes that we savored during the rosy sunset - fried in the bacon fat from that afternoon's BLT lunch. Damn! Wow, so good!
The last course was the Dry Creek peaches, fresh raspberries and fresh whipped cream.
A Sonoma County bounty dinner- as most everything was home-grown or grown here within ten miles. Now that's a harvest party!
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