Monday evening finds me content and I attribute this to a great weekend. It was full of Capital Region fun.
Saturday morning found us at the Troy Waterfront Farmer’s Market.
Definitely one of the best and biggest in the area. And year-round, which is a beautiful thing in oft-chilly Upstate New York.
I love farmer’s markets. It’s about celebrating the earth, eating well AND deliciously, and getting excited about people selling stuff out of the backs of their trucks in a non-sketchy way. I get so much more excited about food at the farmer’s market versus the not-so-supermarket. I have a whole slew of recipes buzzing around my brain. We came home with zucchini, tomatoes, mushrooms, green beans, peppers, cucumbers, pears, nectarines, and fresh ciabatta and bagels. What a glorious trip. I must have had quite a special childhood to get so excited about vegetables.
Saturday was also Albany’s LarkFest, the time when Lark Street shuts down and everyone comes out to listen to music, eat food, hang out, and hold on to summer before we’re all buried under a pile of snow. For those of you who don’t know Albany, first I ask, why not, and second I will explain it as the Greenwich Village of Albany. The Roommate says, “Or the Haight-Ashbury of Albany.” Basically, a fun and hip part of town.
The Roommate and I started the afternoon off with mini boxes of wine. We’re all about class.
The crowd was thick! The Boyfriend was kind enough to utilize his height to snap this photo:
We hit up the Cheesecake Machismo tent for some blueberry maple cheesecake and sampled some pizza from Elda’s (I’d long heard talk about Elda’s pizza). We shopped the tents and vendors. We heard the tail-end of Bell X1’s set and listened to Moby in the distance as we made our way down to the other end of Lark for Matt and Kim.
It’s such a sign of class when musicians are friendly and willing to meet fans after the show. Plus it was the Boyfriend’s first concert, so this was pretty cool:
LarkFest ended and we headed uptown for dinner and Apples to Apples at a friend’s apartment.
And Sunday found us here:
There is no feeling like the sense of accomplishment one has after doing heaps and piles of laundry. I didn’t count how many loads our apartment did, but it was in the double digits. Mad Lark has free Wi-Fi and Dunkin’ Donuts right next door, making it a destination laundromat as far as I’m concerned.
Expect many delicious meals and recipes as we eat our way through our farmer’s market stash!
Oh wow! I loved your fresh and vibrant pictures! Thanks for sharing! I just went to the farmers market myself but did not get anything because I’m poor and the prices are rather high. I did buy some corn flapjacks from the food truck parked there though!
Gorgeous pictures!