My husband Laurent and I did our recycling of tin cans, plastic bottles, and glass bottles at Star Market in Salinas, California this morning.
We used our recycling money as a coupon towards buying Wisconsin cheddar cheese and Cypress Grove California Humboldt Fog cheese, similar to Saint Maure Chèvre from Tours, France. (Cypress Grove is located in Humboldt County California).
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Cheese, chocolate, and apple caramel crisp pie from The Far.m. We drank Joffrey’s Tatiana Bayou Beignet coffee with milk along with “lunch.”
We ate sourdough flatbread and baguette with the cheese.
The apple caramel crisp takes about two minutes to warm up and oozes caramel for this pie from The Farm.
Salinas, California has the ingredients for a fall lunch when cool weather comes back.
(Note: My relatives in Wisconsin of English descent ate cheddar with apple pie and coffee or Darjeeling tea. I am continuing the family tradition with local ingredients in Salinas, California.)
(Note: The bakery at The Farm is open year round.)
By Ruth Paget author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
