Good morning. It is a bright beautiful Saturday morning here
and we are headed to one of my favorite places the farmers market.
We're going to the Bay Fair San Leandro Farmer's Market which we haven't been to in over a year.
It's been a long time. We used to go to farmers markets all the time
but since having kids and now because of pandemic we haven't been in forever.
but we're running really low groceries especially fruits and vegetables
so we thought, let's go.
I think that's my favorite part of the farmers market is that you never know what to expect there.
You don't know what they're gonna have, what's gonna be in season.
So it's always a fun little adventure.
We're gonna go and just try some new things, get some fruits and veggies
and afterwards we are going to share our whole grocery haul with you.
Okay, one for mommy, one for daddy and one for Zae Zae,
And one for Mimi
Oh, good idea.
Oh man they no longer accept goats now. Dang it, who ruined that? Vodka, though.
Would you like that too? Yes, please. Very good. That sounds amazing.
Do you guys take credit card? Yes.
So it's $15 for one of these things? Yes.
I got super excited when I saw this.
I haven't had this in so long. We usually used to have this a lot in Malaysia.
Should we get it? I think we need to. It's like five bucks each though
but I think it's still worth it. It's worth it. Just once in a while.
Zaden might be able to try it.
so we ordered some crêpes.
Two crêpes? Two crêpes. Savory one's so that we can share with the boy, this boy.
Little snack right before we head out.
And baby Kyren.. He's asking for milk.
He's awake from his nap.
Is he asking for milk? Yeah, he was smacking his lips.
He's like, "I woke up at a farmers market."
Zae Zae, your butt crack was showing earlier. I had to cover you up.
We are back home.
Got all our groceries already.
Before we reveal our entire haul, we also did get crêpes.
We got a mushroom cheese one. As you can see, I already took a little bite over here
because I was so hungry
and another one.
They look brown in color because it's made with
buckwheat flour which I tasted, I had a bite earlier so awesome
but we're going to eat that and then we'll share with you what we got.
That's okay.
Okay, so here we have all of our grocery haul from the farmers market.
So excited. I'm gonna share with you guys but first here is my piece of advice
because we committed the cardinal sin of farmers market grocery shopping
which is we forgot cash.
So if you go, make sure you bring cash with you.
We only had our credit card and a lot of the booths didn't take credit card.
So we couldn't get everything we wanted but we got some pretty good stuff.
First, over here we have some broccoli and broccolini.
I really don't know what's the difference with the two vegetables.
Maybe this is like baby broccoli. I don't know but Logesh really likes this one. My parents don't as much so that's why we got more of this kind
What we really like is my personal favorite is to roast it in the oven. Oh, it's so good.
Just like a little bit of sea salt, some black pepper and olive oil. It is perfection.
Here we've got a butternut squash.
I think it's butternut. Actually, it wasn't labeled that. It was just labeled squash
but I like this one for baby food.
Kyren has now tried avocado and sweet potato.
This is going to be his third food to try.
Zaden loves it as a baby, so I'm hoping Kyren will.
I just usually just cut it up in a chunk, steam it and mash it. Pretty simple.
Here we have brussels sprouts.
I don't know why people don't like brussels sprouts. These things are amazing.
Logesh makes them in the air fryer. He cuts them in half, puts them in the air fryer
and makes a delicious chili sauce that he sautes in there. Sautes? I don't know, he mixes it in
and then we just had to get these green onions
because we have never seen such giant, beautiful, dark, luscious green onions.
They smell really good too. Smell that.
I put them in everything. He does. Everything.
The aroma of it is really good, so when I saw that
it is so big and so dark green, I was like "Oh my gosh, we have to get this."
So what I usually do to is like I cut off the stem
and if I don't use the stem, here's what I do. Let me show you.
See this right here?
I just put the stem here and they just keep growing in a little thing with water
and I just can keep reusing it but as you can see, these guys are tiny and light green
which is why we got that one.
And then we got some cabbage.
We also have some mushrooms. These are shiitake mushrooms.
Logesh loves to put these in stir fry. They're really good.
I used to not like mushrooms until Logesh started making me mushrooms
and now I actually enjoy them.
And of course we got some cucumbers that are just great for peeling, cutting up a little snack.
Zaden loves them.
I really thought they were so cute and tiny that we just had to get a few
and over here we've also got some lemongrass.
This adds the most amazing aroma to rice and other dishes or even put it inside sauces.
I know it sounds a little bit weird but guys it is amazing and we had to get just a few nut butters.
I love almond butter. Logesh doesn't like as much but I do. I like to eat it with apples or bananas or
just plain and then, we've never seen this before. It is maple walnut butter.
I didn't know you can make butter out of walnuts
but the guy at the stand convinced us to get it, so we had to try it.
And some honey. We like to put honey inside tea or just like a little bit on some toast.
Yeah, honey. Good for a lot of things.
And then over here we've got some more fruit. We've got some apples and then two kinds of oranges
and these grapes you guys this is I know it's like just a little bit of grapes but it's so sweet.
Remember how I said we didn't bring cash, Zaden really wanted grapes from this one place
that didn't accept credit card and we were bummed but we said okay
and the guy was like "Oh, does he want grapes?" Like yeah, so he gave a bunch of grapes for Zaden.
Isn't that so sweet?
So we'll wash them and give it to him later.
Here we have some strawberries.
Zaden loves fruit and strawberries are one of his favorites.
He's already had a couple since we brought them home. Blackberries. These are my personal favorite.
We actually have a blackberry bush in our backyard that is not doing well so that's why we're buying them
and last but not least with the fruit. I don't know. It's not a fruit. What would you call a sugar cane?
Oh, i don't know. It's like in the bamboo family, right? Is it a vegetable then?
Is bamboo a vegetable? I don't know. Guys, let us know.
It's in the bamboo family but it's known as sugarcane which I'm sure you guys know what sugarcane is
but it looks like this and you take off this hard outside part
and inside you can actually like chew on the sweet part of it and it's delicious.
Back where Logesh is from in Malaysia, you can find these sold on the streets
and they'll cut off the outside for you and let you chew on the outside or on the inside
or they'll make it into a delicious drink. That's my favorite. It's when they juice it and it's delicious.
It's really refreshing on a hot day
And then for fun little baked goods, we got a.. I'm trying to remember what this was called.
It's a chocolate cookie but there's coffee in it, right? Yeah, yeah.
It had a fun name like Nisa or something like that but it's like a chocolate cookie. There are walnuts in it.
There's coffee bits in it, so this one's for Logesh because I can't have coffee.
Why can't you have coffee, Rachel? Because I'm allergic.
Have you.. Okay, serious question for you guys.
Have you guys ever heard of someone having a coffee allergy?
I've heard of caffeine allergy. That's a thing.
She can drink tea. That's fine but coffee apparently she's allergic. I think it's all in her head
You're so mean to me. It's a real allergy, guys. I'm kidding.
Then, I got a maple scone that looks delicious. I don't know what else is inside here but I know there...
Honey, was it maple walnut? Oh, maybe it's walnut. Okay. Maple walnut, yeah.
Lots of walnut stuff today. Maybe walnuts are just in season right now.
That's what I love about the farmers market is everything is what's in season right now
and so it changes throughout the year which I love.
And then Zaden is our carb boy, so we got him a croissant to eat.
And then last but not least we got a loaf of roasted garlic sourdough bread
and I wish you guys could smell this at the camera because it is pretty delicious smelling.
Look at that. Sourdough is my favorite bread, so we had to get it.
There it is. There is our whole farmers market haul. I cannot wait to eat all these delicious foods
but guys if you have been to the farmers market and have any great tips or tricks
for how to buy the best food or what to get there let us know in the comments down below
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