OH BOY. 78 degrees today.

On the drive in today, Catherine asked me how long until we get a cucumber (you know like, a good one), and it's like a month. When it's sunny like this, I want strawberries and watermelon and tomato... and none of it is ready yet.

We're waiting anxiously for the first.. anything.. from south of us and we'll be at farmers markets weekly from this point out. To make this week exciting and mark the beginning of yard work, we busted out some pork spare ribs and beef brisket for meal preppers this week. Lots of other meals this week will reflect this emotional gap, summer's food with winter's vegetables.

I just picked up our Bakers Field order, including 25lbs of raw oats and fresh oat flour. Fresh grain gets me goin. Overnight oats wherever applicable.

We've started making ice cream recently. This week, all subscribers get date ice cream as a fun treat and a sorta 'sorry' for some bumpy deliveries last week. I made the date syrup yesterday, they're from coachella valley, you can sort of use it as invert syrup for ice cream. We'll add fragrant green cardamom, too.

Less blog more cook, see you soon.