It’s time once again for Three Things Thursday, the purpose of which is to “share three things from the previous week that made you smile or laugh or appreciate the awesome of your life.”
1. Farmers’ Market
We hadn’t been to the farmers’ market in three or four weeks because of our European trip. And, because spring arrived about a month early this year, when we went to the farmers’ market last weekend it was much different than the last time we were there.
I’m kicking myself for not thinking to snap any photos. You’ll have to use your imagination to picture all the festive colors of the produce:
- vine-ripened tomatoes
- snow peas
- red and golden raspberries
- green beans
- carrots
- green and yellow zucchini
- Rainier and Bing cherries
- blueberries
- red and golden beets
And, of course, flowers galore. It was certainly a feast for the eyes.
2. Paprika
Before we left for our trip, our daughter surprised me by saying, “If you visit Hungary, you’ll have to try goulash.”
Now I’m sure I made goulash a few times while she was growing up, but I was still surprised that she took such an interest in it. We didn’t buy many souvenirs, but we did buy her a tin of paprika in Budapest:
Paprika can range from mild to wickedly hot. We were careful to get her a container labeled sweet. Now we’ll just have to get her to make us a big batch of goulash.
3. Miska Jug
The only other souvenir we brought back is this wine pitcher from Budapest. The shop was full of variations of these, but we finally settled on this one.
It’s a Miska (which I think is pronounced mishka) Jug:
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