More about Farmers Markets

I see this Scotland blog is rapidly developing into a Farmers' Markets blog. Hmm.

This weekend I went home and went to the Farmers' Market my parents like to go to. It was a bit smaller than the Cville one, but it took up the entire parking lot it was set in so I doubt they could put in any more stalls. This time we correctly identified zucchini, as well as peaches, eggplant, and blueberries. Mmm. A lot of deliciousness was made throughout the day, including a peach and blueberry pie, grilled zucchini, an eggplant cassarole, and blueberry-peach-blackberry-OJ smoothies. The blackberries were wild, picked from unowned bushes around the corner from our house.

Also at the NOVA F.M.:
A miniature-donut machine!

One guy stirred up donut batter, which went into one side of an automatic machine that pushed the little rings through about eight different sections to fry. Last they were pulled up by a conveyor belt and deposited into a plastic bowl, where the second guy scooped into small bags. It was amazing! I wish I could do that thing justice.
For just $2 we got more mini-donuts than we could handle, and were able to decorate with our choice of toppings---powdered sugar, cinnamon sugar, rainbow sprinkles, chocolate sauce, maybe something else. I had cinnamon sugar on mine. Mm.