June 25th, 2007 - Biking to local food
Saturday morning, the family biked over to the farmer’s market. It’s the longest bike ride we’ve done together, and one of my longest ever rides. Basically, I ride the mile to the grocery store and that’s been it. This was probably 2 miles away. I know, realllly far. It was a nice ride; going along with Eric made me feel more comfortable on some busier streets and intersections and I’d be willing to do this alone, and even go farther! We bought greens, bleu cheese, more greens since we always run out, fresh strawberries (they are gone already), and egg rolls. We love the fresh made Hmong egg rolls, but they are an expensive meal: $10/12 rolls which is only one meal for us three.
I forgot all week (due to being so very busy and not getting home till 5 or later) about the local organic chicken I bought there the prior week. Luckily, since our fridge is so cold, there was still ice on it when I pulled it out Saturday. I cooked it in the crockpot, seasoned just with salt and pepper and one lemon (squeezed the juice out then put it into the cavity). Cooked it for about 7 hours till it was 180 inside the breast. It was falling off the bones when done! Got 1 cup of stock (concentrated), bones for more stock, 4c of little pieces to turn into chicken salad (or to put on top of green salads), and 4 larger pieces of breast meat for eating larger portions.
If we can afford it in the grocery budget, I’ll see if we can buy a dozen to have one a month. They are a bit heavy for carrying home on the bike trailer; may have to bring my basket or backpack.
June 25th, 2007 at 4:04 pm EDT
i think it’s great that your’e biking to the grocery store. The roads here are too busy for that, but I do walk to work (15 minutes 1-way), weather-permitting.