On Sat. June 11, Super Toddler and I piled into the car with another fabulous mom and her boy, and we headed down to Imperial Beach to take a tour of Suzie's Farm. Yes, that Suzie's Farm -the one featured on menus all over town, from Alchemy to Mistral. $10 donation pp includes as many veggies as you can pick in your reusable bag - oops, I'm the non-eco one who forgot her reusable bag, so let's make that cram into the backpack you had brought for snacks for ST.
The boys were super troopers, esp. considering that the bathroom is super far in the fields (Suzie's is huge!!).
Some of the loot we picked and took home:
--delicious carrots (ST is super strong and wrestled those babies out of the ground)
--a couple of clandestine radishes (we weren't supposed to pick them, but what did ST know)
--fresh dill, parsley, cilantro
--kale of various colors
--a beautiful, vast head of red-leaf lettuce which we are slowly making our way through
--two enormous summer squash (which ST's babysitter sauteed last night for me after bedtime - super yummy!!)
--one humongous ridged zucchini, which inspired me to cook tonight (!!), even if I wasn't sure my boys would eat the kind of food I like to make.
I made zucchini latkes + a zucchini-red pepper frittata. ST was pickier than normal, but at least he add tons of salad and applesauce. CH, who doesn't like "veg food," gamely ate some latkes (he hid the zucchini under mounds of applesauce). Luckily, CH's Mom came to dinner and so was a more appreciative audience for my gourmet veggie cuisine.
Haven't cooked the kale yet - will probably saute it tomorrow and see if ST likes it.
It was a super-fun activity - definitely worth hauling a toddler along! We left a little early (they had had it), but that was fine.
From now on, "Suzie's Farm" on menus will mean something to me - though I'll be thinking also of dirt, flies and manure smell rather than only something gourmet and glamorous (ah....food marketing!).
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