We celebrated the great thaw by biking all around the town on Saturday morning. We started at the farmers’ market, where our haul included spinach, Napa cabbage, green onions, arugula, and turnips.
My take on turnips: Turnips are one of the very few vegetables that we don’t like (in fact, I can’t think of any others off the top of my head). We’ve tried them a few times, with various preparations including roasting. However, they say you should try a new food ten times before deciding you don’t like it, so here we go again. These were advertised as mild, sweet turnips. Any favorite turnip recipes you want to share?
The streets still had some icy spots, but we carefully avoided them. The fenders were essential with all the melting and run-off. Matthew sported his “3 Feet Please” jersey, shown next to our icy bike lock-up.
After we dropped our produce off at home, we headed back out to the Orchid Show. I really loved the ancient Maya civilization theme they used this year — if you’re in the St. Louis area, you should definitely check it out.
Our next stop was an apartment possibility that turned out to be not a possibility at all. Despite my very clearly asking on the phone if the entire 4-family building was smoke-free, and being assured that it was, our noses don’t lie, but the landlord did — waste of our time!
We made a quick exit and headed to lunch at Sweet Art. Of course, the highlight of lunch at Sweet Art is the cupcakes. We ordered four, and shared half of each at the restaurant and took the other halves home for later enjoyment 🙂 (I brought containers so we didn’t need any disposable packaging.)
Refueled and renewed, we visited one more apartment before heading home. Probably another no-go, though nothing blatantly atrocious, unlike the other.
Sunday brought more gorgeous weather, and I followed up on Saturday’s bike fun with a bit more biking on Sunday. I usually don’t mind winter, but the almost constant covering of ice on the sidewalks and smaller streets was really getting to me — this thaw couldn’t come soon enough!
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