veg & 2 veg

bryan and i hit the west allis farmer's market with a vengence this past saturday. august is a great time; lots of beautiful late summer harvests. we picked up a lot of vegetables, as well as some beautiful bread (and a mini pie!) from the amish bakers (probably the only group of people that i don't know and trust blindly to bake for me), and a half dozen pork tamales from a local tamale guy (yes, there is a little mexican woman in the back making tamales; it's his mom). we had an early dinner of fantastic warm tamales that we'll soon be sampling again. who can turn down 6 giant tamales for $5??? give me a piña jarritos and i'm practically in mexico.

last night we made roast veggie sandwiches, and they were so delicious and filling. bryan sliced white eggplant, zuchinni, yellow squash, carrots, and onions on the mandoline and roasted them. i thickly sliced some of the amish bread, and spread the slices with olive oil and sprinkled them with pink salt, then toasted them. i slathered a feta and olive oil spread we had made (take a jar, stuff it with feta, pour in olive oil, herbs, and chile flakes, and refrigerate) on one side of the bread, and layered the veggies on top of that. we added a fresh slice of pink tomato.

bryan dug up some red potatoes from our garden and made potato chips to go on the side. i'm not a big potato chip fan, but the homemade ones always get me.

oh oh oh it was soooo good. everything went so well together. the feta spread had a nice spiciness from the chile, and you know how well feta goes with roast veggies (if you don't i feel sorry for you). the bread was perfection. i was so stuffed i didn't have a single snack all night. which, for me (lately), is pretty unheard of. hey, oliver's a hungry little guy.