A welcome taste of Spring
Spring in the Northwest is always a mixed bag. It can be sunny one minute, and hailing, snowing, or graupeling the next. This year has felt like Winter took a mulligan--measurable snow, late frosts, and chilly days. Despite all that, the blooming trees and tulips declare that Spring is in full swing, and Pike Place Market was full of the best of the season. Morels, asparagus, and fiddleheads, oh my! My favorite produce vendor claimed that the cool weather has made for the sweetest, most delectable asparagus. I'm usually not a fan of raw asparagus--but the sample of purple asparagus he gave me supported his claim. I've been able to shop the market enough that I have a usual strategy: cruise the flowers, stop at the produce vendor to buy some seasonal awesomeness, go to the fish monger a couple stalls down, and loop back to pick a bouquet of flowers. The spring produce clearly deserved center stage, so I opted for some scallops & halibut cheeks from the fish gu...