Sunday I had the pleasure of seeing the Mar Vista Farmer’s Market through Lorraine Wells’ eyes. I refer to Lorraine as the Market Maven. She helped to bring the market into being nearly 3 years ago, and she’s there every week. I’m pretty sure she knows every vendor by name.
She had a delicious menu planned: chicken for Sunday dinner and seafood for later in the week. We started at the seafood booth and she picked up some shrimp and scallops from Ali at Smart Fish.
When she cooks them up, she’s going to use tangerines, limes and ginger. I made her promise to cook it for me someday!
She already had the chicken at home and she was planning to use Shawarma seasonings on it. On the side, she was making basmati rice, spinach and a lovely salad.
We headed off in search of the ingredients for her basmati rice side dish. She caramelizes these beautiful onions
from Gama farms and adds them to the rice, along with cilantro from Gloria’s Fruit and Vegetables.
She sautes these shallots
in a little olive oil and then adds spinach from Gloria’s for a very delicious and iron-rich side dish.
She gets her red leaf lettuce from J.R. Organics, who are part of Community Supported Agriculture, which is a very cool program and you should check it out. And then she adds these awesome tomatoes
to the salad for some color and deliciousness.
Not only am I inspired to cook these dishes myself, I’m thrilled I got to see the market with Lorraine.
An original post by Sarah Auerswald.