Originally Posted by chgoeditor

Wednesday, Saturday or Sunday farmer's market? I used to live near the downtown farmer's market but loved biking to the Sunday market. And loved the meals I'd cook those days! Yours looked fantastic.

Tonight Mr CE made NYT's roast tomato and white bean stew. It was featured in one of the recent What To Cook This Week/Weekend columns as a dish that had 4000+ 5-star ratings. My husband likes his animal-based proteins, so I half-heartedly suggested it but didn't push it...and last night when we were menu planning for the week, he said he wanted to make it. Amazing! I told him the only thing he should do differently next time is make a double batch. We had it with the Cook's Illustrated's almost no-knead bread, which I made for Thanksgiving, and it was delicious. (Also fantastic -- despite the fact it's Dec. 1 and we've had below-freezing temps, I was able to cut fresh parsley and thyme from the garden as he was prepping it. Oregano, marjoram, mint and scallions are also still going strong. Maybe rosemary, too, though I didn't look closely.)