Ah Summer! Cedar Park Farmers Market

 I visited a farmer's market this morning and had a lot of funI visited a farmer's market this morning and had a lot of fun! There is a trend around Austin to use part of mall parking lots for weekend farmer's markets. This one is at Lakeline Mall.  

You could get lots of prepared food along with the produce and meats. Even cupcakes were for sale, ready to eat!

This was my favorite farm stand, Tecolote Farm. They offered tastes of their luscious produce and introduced us to Italian cucumbers which are shown next.

These are Italian cucumbers from heirloom seeds. Tecolote Farms have been raising these for over 10 years. They have a milder "cucumber" flavor than the ones we are used to. Cucumbers are actually related to melons, and these have kind of a melon-flavor. Originally native to northern India, cucumbers made their way to the mid-East and Europe in time to be part of Ancient Greek and Roman diets.

This picture above shows red bell peppers and canary melons outside of the basket. I'm not sure what kind of peppers are in the basket.

Tecolate Farms also had wonderful okra and eggplants. I brought home some of each.

These are some of the vegetables that we brought home.