Biked to the Mar Vista Farmer's Market with Robin. After biking to Echo Park, Mar Vista now feels next door (as indeed it is)--and biking to that market is faster than walking to the market in Ocean Park--and yields a much better--and more reasonable priced range of produce. We'd thought we might buy ourselves a breakfast snack, but there was so much grazing of samples, that we managed to eat our fill as we shopped. I packed backpack and bike basket to the brim with oranges, peaches, kale, beets and potatoes.
I left it all briefly at Tim and Robin's for our planned ferris wheel ride. This police fair was very strange indeed. A mid-way of sorts plunked right in the middle of Windward Circle, adding to the normal weekend traffic chaos, blocking access to all businesses and not seeming to draw much of a clientele. The rides, which were far from state of the art, were mostly too intimidating for us older gals--loops that flipped you up-side down and inside out and perhaps worse. We opted for the most old-fashioned of ferris wheels-- we were the only riders--happily viewing sea and boardwalk from a reasonable enough height at a not frightening pace.
Back home, after unpacking my bounty, I was hungry once again. That grazing only takes you so far. Luckily I was well supplied and sauteed my new beet greens with shallots which were a fine accompaniment to fried eggs.
Later that day, after a walk (actually mostly a sit) on the beach with Patty, I ended the day with a simple salad of greens with
ferris wheel with robin...fried eggs with sauteed shallots and beets.
cucumbers, smoked salmon, tomatoes, lettuce
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