My niece at the prom

My niece is 18 years old and had her prom last night. So have a lot of teenagers. It is that time of year. What makes it special for Kelti is that she is here to have it. 18 years ago she was born at barely 2 pounds. She survived and is still here, with a few disabilities. Here she is with her step dad, Randy. Isn't she gorgeous?

Two of my favorite things to eat:

Goat Cheese and locally baked Artisan Bread!

Today at the City Market I remembered to bring my camera so I could show off two of my favorite yums. Three Graces Dairy sets up next to us at the Asheville City Market and also at our West Asheville Tailgate Market. They have some really amazing goat cheese chevre in a variety of flavors. Our family favorite is the Jumping Juniper which is a combination of juniper and chili. Oh and for a limited time we have been chowing down on RAMP goat cheese. For those of you who don't know wht ramps are, they are a wild onion which are really pungent and strong ... like a combination of garlic and onion. Oh my. This is ramp season, so we don't have a lot of time and I have been getting at least one tub of the ramp goat cheese every week. When it's gone, I'll go back to the garlic & herb. I can't complain about any of it. And soon, they will have feta .... one of my weaknesses.


Check out their website: http://3gracesdairy.com/

A few booths down at our City Market is Farm and Sparrow, http://www.farmandsparrow.com/ , a great small bakery with a wood fired oven. All I can say is WOW.

WOW.

The bread is just amazing. This is what bread is supposed to be like. They offer croisants, tarts, breads with seeds, made from spelt, rye, kamut, organic whole wheat with and with out seeds and nuts and the crust is drop dead amazing. I keep saying amazing, because I just don't have the word in my vocabulary to whine about how I took pictures of the bread and sampled it and then forgot to buy a loaf. I'll get one or two next Saturday. Of course, I could run to a market to pick up a loaf ... they are selling them at the French Broad CO-OP, Greenlife, and Earth Fare.

I want some this second.

WAAH! My aching back

My back is hurting and my laptop power adapter is broken and i had a new one overnighted to me and they sent me the wrong one.

grumble.

They say bad luck runs in threes. My sink at my studio is backed up and I need to call a plumber in.

There. That's three.

Now that it is all over, let's talk about the good things in life. My back is out, b ut my husband has taken it upon himself to take care of me and insist I take a hot bath, take my ibuprofen, make an appointment for a massage (tomorrow, I hope!) and then use my muscle rub.

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Asheville Herb Fest

I will be there at booth 53. http://www.ashevilleherbfestival.com/

9-5 friday, 9-5 saturday, 10-3 sunday

come check us out ... i'll be taking pictures and putting them on here too.

Asheville City Market

Asheville's newest market started last week. I came out today to hang out with Mandy while she vended (you can see her every Saturday through the season until mid October) and I took some pics of the scene there. The market is in the second week and it's onlly going to continue to get better. The veggies aren't in full force yet. I am really excited about this new venture. Glad we could be in from the beginning.

West Asheville Tailgate Market

The West Asheville Tailgate Market opened yesterday and Faerie Made was there. This is the tailgate market here in Asheville that is just a block from my house and my studio. I have been attending this market since my daughter was a little baby who was still crawling.
The night before she was jumping up and down from excitement because it was market time.
Opening day this year was amazing. We were full! Here are a few pics from it, including Mandy my assistant and her husband who were there.
Next week I hope to take my camera again and get a few images of the goodies all the vendors are offering.
We have meat, veggies, soap :), goat cheese, plants,nuts and jams, organic fresh pasta, candied apples and tie dyes ........... and on and on ...

Sunday Dinner

This woman who writes this blog is constantly putting on pounds... Wonder why? Well, my husband is an amazing cook. I am so spoiled. When I was in Costa Rica I missed his cooking. The food there was amazing, as fresh and pure as it could be, but it was lacking my husband's gift of that special something he does. He is good. He should open a restaurant.
Anyway, I didn't get a chance for completing the photo shoot of our Sunday dinner, but he did take a ham, and pulled out this and that ... including some flat cola we had in the refrigerator. MMMMMMM ...... we are still eating on that ham. Tonight he plans to take some amazing fresh goat cheese chevre and black walnuts and organic fresh pasta that I purchased at our local tailgate market yesterday and making an amazing dish with that and the last of our ham.