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Last night was another magical Thursday summer salon at Fairy-Tale Farm in Santa Cruz,
and the crafts table was soon crowded with feather artists and those skilled in the ways of pink fur.
Margaret’s daughter Zsa Zsa (wearing a pink dress that matched her zebra jacket) showed us her flower clip creation,
and I noticed the wonderful sticker affixed to the front of the rickshaw that is a new addition to Fairy-Tale Farm (what a great Santa Cruz organization name).
And then, as the Old Spice Man, who owned the Internet this Wednesday, might say, I’m on a rickshaw.
And then my friend Mike was on the Fairy-Tale Farm rickshaw (and later, so was the open source coder, angling her guitar to play from the cart).
The farm market continues to be part of the salons, and I was happy to have fresh strawberries and butter lettuce,
as well as Aslan’s wild nettle pesto and raw goat’s milk cheese with herbes de Provence and lavender. I always trust people with fantastic millinery and retro apron skirts, and Aslan also makes olallieberry mead, so I hope her lovely wares will be at the farm market again.
Hosts Debora and Karsten made great rice with pine nuts and almonds along with vegetables and the plum pie was warm,
drawing all of us toward the table near a large basket of plums.
Later, another plum pie, this one with a lattice crust, emerged from the farm kitchen and I cut a slice of that one, catching up with Margaret and Mike on all the Bastille Day antics in town.
Throughout, Madeline revealed herself to be the Chicken Whisperer, holding one, and then another, the new white, and two at once, persuading everyone to walk around with a chicken tucked under an arm.
Margaret pointed out grapes growing on a trellis near the roof, and I knew that Debora and Karsten would continue to surprise as organic curators of this weekly event and their space,
just as Margaret’s son Roman would continue to surprise with his joy at new toys and accessories.
Back in my kitchen, I took my collected treasures from the farm and made a fairy tale of a salad,
breaking the soft lettuce into smaller pieces, tossing the leaves with a little of Sciabica’s olive oil Kassandra thoughtfully brought me from the Embarcadero market last weekend, cutting in strawberries and crumbling in the herbed chèvre,
using the rest of the strawberries this morning on hot biscuits (Mica, this picture is to remedy the regrettable lack of biscuit documentation in the last post),
Both times, while eating the strawberries, I closed my eyes like the crafters last night and reveled in summer…
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Posted by Kristen Taylor on Friday, July 16th, 2010, 5:18 pm * Filed in Food, garden, Market, Santa Cruz. * Tags: awesome, beautiful, fairy, farm, kristen, kthread, tale, taylor. Follow responses through the RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
July 16th, 2010 at 5:27 pm
[this is good]
July 16th, 2010 at 5:37 pm
Thanks, Dave, I’ve been loving your peach cobbler and summer food pics, and want to be invited to tea in a few weeks when I’m driving back up to Brooklyn :)
July 16th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
Great photos.
OMG Madelin the chicken whisperer, how awesome!
The rickshaw photos are nice too and WOW everything with strawberries – YUM!
Cheers!
July 16th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
I just looked over them again. Smitten by the pie. nom, nom, nom.
July 17th, 2010 at 12:02 am
Father Mayhem, the pie was enchanting (and really good, nice crust and a nicely tart filling like the plums themselves).
And yes, Madeline was amazing with the chickens—not sure what she levels up to next, but it was impressive.
Happy weekend to you!
July 18th, 2010 at 8:03 am
Thanks for the biscuit documentation! They look delightful, but then again, everything on kthread does…
July 18th, 2010 at 11:05 am
Happy to correct the earlier oversight, Mica! I should make angel biscuits more often, but Kassandra is fond of these cream drop ones…