Our goal today was to go to one of two festivals but the weather for both locations looked bad and neither were close enough to chance it.
Instead we went to an urban farm/dye garden/arts collective and picked up some indigo plants they had for sale. I had heard about the place from my weaving teacher last year and wanted to check it out. I’m glad I did; it’s a cute little space and everyone was wearing masks. It sounds like they might have classes and other events in the future.
Then we picked up lunch at a fun fancy fry, wings and bánh mì place. I got “Hawaiian” fries and Matt got a bánh mì and some wings. It isn’t the lightest of lunch but the portion size is actually really manageable—it’s basically the equivalent of what would be on a sandwich but on a single order of fries instead of a roll.
Somehow it’s not even as heavy feeling as you expect, it’s like magic.
I stopped in the organic market while we waited for the food to see if they had anything good and was tempted by purple kohlrabi but it had the greens attached which would mean I’d have to make it ASAP.
We didn’t have afternoon or dinner plans since we thought we’d be on a day trip so I read more Yellowface and we napped. The newest dog, Dottie, likes to get us up at 7 am no matter how late we all go to bed. It is not her best trait!
Then Matt planted the indigo. We have quite a little dye garden going! I figure at least it gives us the option of doing some dyeing this year.
I really wasn’t hungry for dinner at all but at around 9 we had a little breakfast for dinner.
I’m glad we didn’t go on the day trip though! It looks like it got rained out. It would have been awful to drive that far for nothing.
Rachel Eats Dinner 