Posted 04/30/2013

To find a local farmers market near Amherst, MA: http://www.localharvest.org/

And with Farmers Markets plentiful nationwide and worldwide, please do a search to find one near you.

I love shopping at Farmers Markets.

Even at home in the kitchen, after shopping at the farmers market, this happy feeling continues to emanate.

Whether it is a lemony quinoa salad with organic cucumbers; chickpeas with organic tomatoes and ginger, or jewel-like slices of autumn vegetables in a fabulous curry-vegetable soup, the freshness of the vegetables add great flavor.

And express themselves precisely and clearly.

Even more complicated dishes rest upon a solid foundation of farmers’s market organic veggies mixed and matched with fiber rich beans and grains (whole foods), which allows their more delicate flavors to soar.

Organic oils, herbs and spices add their deep, rich, lush tones. They enhance rather than overwhelm the humble vegetables I bought at today’s farmers market.

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Yet even this more basic fare offers luxurious combinations of flavors from the high quality of the ingredients I gathered at the farmers market, and the pleasure with which they are combined.

Because the earth has been so generous, and organic farmers at the farmers markets working in harmony with it have helped bring forth its goodness, little has to be done to prepare delicious meals. Anyone can do it. Simply chop, mix, stir, and simmer. Then Taste the goodness in each bite!