Day 116: Chard and cherries

With a weather forecast of liquid sunshine, we thought that this weekend would be the ideal time to sample one of Vancouver's farmers' market. We'd been to the one in Kitsilano a couple of years ago, and I guess it was early in the season because the only things for sale were frozen fruit or salad greens. This time went over to East Vancouver's market at Trout Lake, and I was looking forward to getting some colourful photos of all the fresh produce.

Except it was raining as if the clouds had to get rid of it all before the day was done. Just pouring down, and the camera stayed well and truly hidden away. Maybe I should have brought along the old camera, as I wouldn't have been so bothered about it getting wet. Anyhow, we spent our money on fresh Swiss chard, red-leaved lettuce, two types of cherries, a punnet of strawberries, potatoes, some sockeye salmon and pork tenderloin, a mixed bag of three varieties of mushrooms (mushroom risotto!), a loaf of bread and a bag of the subject of today's photo, heirloom tomatoes.

I first tried heirloom varieties of tomatoes at the Kits farmers' market and was really impressed with the flavour, despite them looking nothing like the shiny red orbs we all know. We walked past the tomato stall as we did our first circuit of the market stalls, and noticed that most of them had gone by the time we got back there. No matter, really - just having any of them would do, and so we filled a bag with a load that we liked the look of, and a few that didn't look so great but we were sure would still taste good.

My disappointment with today's photo is having to rely on a boring "still life" composition at home, rather than something more organic (no pun intended!). But it'll do.

Heirloom tomatoes