Better Than Bacon - Missoula, Montana

"Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon."

- Doug Larson 

Market Melon - Missoula, Montana, Via Dixon, Montana

Yumdillyicious! 

'Tis the Montana melon season once again! 
For dibs on the best watermelon - or any of several other unique melon varieties - you've ever tasted, plan to be in line early at the Dixon Melon truck at a Farmer's Market near you. 
(Or near me, anyway. Which just means you need to come to visit.)

Beautiful Red Onions - Farmers Market, Missoula, Montana

"Red onions are especially divine. I hold a slice up to the sunlight pouring in through the kitchen window, and it glows like a fine piece of antique glass. Cool watery-white with layers delicately edged with imperial purple...strong, humble, peaceful...with that fiery nub of spring green in the center..." - Mary Hayes Grieco, 'The Kitchen Mystic'

Market Melons - Missoula, Montana

Tuesday evening featured perfect weather for meandering between in-season offerings at the farmers market in downtown Missoula. We are the lucky ones who live in the marketing region of the bounteous, beautiful, and  delicious Dixon Melons, vine-ripened in a temperate growing region near Dixon, Montana. 'Tis the season, to be savoured while it lasts!

Balloonelmo, Missoula, Montana

You never know who you might see riding around at the Farmers Market in downtown Missoula - one of the things I love about hanging out there on Saturday mornings!