Summer Season's Final Snacks
Eating My Way Through The Saturday Farmers Market (EMWTTSFM)
It can be challenging to admit when you've made a mistake, especially when it involves a Blue Plate Special and EMWTTSFM.
I regret not eating the chicken and fish Bibi's Patties puff pastries right away, instead of storing them in my car for later. When I finally warmed them up in my air fryer, they turned out great. However, looking back, I realize my mistake was not eating them from the individual small paper bags they were served in, each with its own napkin.
There’s a special moment when the lid is opened on the heated container filled with Haitian lakay eats. The aroma of warm, light pastry wafts through the morning air, quieting the bustling sounds of the market.
Gone are the verbal reactions to hands pinching and prodding fruits and vegetables, hoping to find the perfect stage of ripeness. There are no questions about source, ripeness, numbers, or duration. No more parents admonishing their children to stay close in the crowded walkways as they consume their cookies or, dill pickles or frozen snack. No more gurgling of coffee being served and consumed or beignets lightly bitten to keep the powdered sugar from falling onto clothes.
All attention focuses on the patties and Joseline's Carribean patter. She describes the ingredients and sometimes the preparation to inquisitive customers, her voice as soothing as the still morning air.
This is the moment you should do what I didn’t: Eat the patty right in front of Joseline so she can see the joy her food brings you. Or walk through the market, listening to the sounds that return to accompany the fluffy pastry and the meaty filling. You will find yourself in two places. The market, and strolling down a tropical street dining on one of the best street foods I’ve eaten.
Bibi’s Patties describes itself as a home-based, women-owned Haitian restaurant that brings the taste of Haitian cuisine to your door to enjoy the spicy, flavorful, delicious goodness of the Caribbean.
The Rest Of The Week
The week was filled with other Saturday Market foodstuffs.
Clockwise from top left:
The samplings began with an individual charcuterie board featuring honey BBQ beef smokies from C.A.B.B. Farms in Lexington and Gouda from The Cheese People.
Lettuce from Hammerie Farm and tomatoes from High Point Produce Farm formed a salad with cheese shreds from The Cheese People and pickled veggies from Crazy Cucumber. All sitting aside a pork chop and mac and cheese.
Tomatoes from High Point Produce Farm formed a salad with cheese shreds from The Cheese People and pickled veggies from Crazy Cucumber. Another pork chop with rice accompanies this.
Double G maple syrup was the drizzled sweetness on the waffle portion of this breakfast.
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