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Time for hot cocoa and peppermint candy canes.   Oh.  And don't forget marshmallows!

Today was the last day of our summer Farmer's Market with farmers from Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Michigan.  Also, French nuns residing in Chicago who sell their pastries and breads.   I really can't think of much better than local grown foods, and seeing foods in their more natural states, like these brussel sprouts.  My mother said when she was young, grocers always sold brussels sprouts this way and bananas on the stalk, just like I saw them selling bananas in Costa Rica recently.  Anyway, I really like getting out and talking to the producers and getting fresh high quality foods.  They often inspired some of my paintings.  You may have seen some of my farmer's market finds in a...

The paintings in this video are available through Earth Angels Studios.  There will be more fall treats coming soon on my website.  

I know, I know....more food photos.  I am having so much fun with the colors in my garden that it's really hard to not post the photos. My go-to snack/meal lately.  So delicious with herbed cream cheese, shallots, snipped herbs, cucumbers, and smoked salmon.  Yum. Oh, and don't forget dessert!

I recently found this fruit at my local grocer, Fruitful Yield.  The brand is called Divino from Italy. It's basically the freshest fruit harvested from off the Amalfi Coast of Italy at peak of ripeness, the flesh scooped out and made into gelato, refilled into the fruit skin, and flash frozen.   I have to say, if you can find locally, I recommend wholeheartedly.