At the farmer's market today, I got nice presents from both my meat farm and my goat cheese dairy. Earlier in the weekend, we got a couple extra veggies thrown in from our usual veggie farmer. Of course, it was nice to get about $30 worth of "free" stuff from them, but it was the recognition of the relationship that was more important. I always try and give them good feedback, and they always try and provide me with food that meets my needs.

Tonight I feel like eating some Swedish meatballs, but I'm not feeling motivated to do that much cooking. The meat isn't thawed, and I don't have any lingonberry jam either, so that gives me an excuse not to make it. I'll just be lazy and make a quick chicken teriyaki.

I spent a little time baking last night just to relax and went a little overboard. I put together a 2 lb. sour-white loaf with 1 lb. of cheddar and asiago cheese and a chopped onion.

The resulting loaf tastes really good, especially with a spicy baked coppacollo salami, but it would have risen better if I kept the cheese down to 1/2 lb. I made a salami sandwich with a couple of slices of this bread and it is sort of like eating a sandwich of salami between two thick slices of cheese.