Last week, I traveled to the downtown Dallas Farmer's Market. I remembered this article in the DMN and decided to try a much closer farmer's market outside Celebration Restaurant & Market. It was very small but still had great produce and a large selection of vendors like: The Mozzarella Company, Oak Cliff Coffee, Texas Honeybee Guild and Lucido's Pasta.I spent $18.50 on a large piece of the Mozzarella Company's Blanca Bianca ($6.00- a great price! Retail normally sells for $18.70/lb), 2 lbs of Lucido's Basil Garlic Linguine ($6.00, 8-10 servings of pasta), a large basket of Grand Saline new potatoes, a couple of large tomatoes from Holt Farms (not so local, but friends of Lemley in Tennessee) and a few freestone peaches from Lemley's Farms in Canton.
On Sunday, I cooked the pasta and roasted the remaining cherry tomatoes from last week's market run. The pasta, fresh but quick dried, takes only about 5 minutes to cook and you can cook only as much as you need. It will last up to 3 weeks on the shelf. We tossed the cooked pasta with homemade basil pesto and topped with the roasted tomatoes. Nothing tastes more like summer than basil, sweet roasted tomatoes and fresh pasta.
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