Market Shopping

So today is Sunday... market day :P
This is our third week going shopping at the market in orewa. We first hit the veggies, fruit, and bread at the farmers market. There is a guy who sells these amazing roma tomatoes that are acid free and organically grown... I am new to liking tomatoes so at first I didn't want any, but he gave us a free try. He told us to take one and bite into it... gross for any normal tomato, but we did and it was soooo good. We have gotten them 3 times now, and plan to get them as long as he is selling them. We also get avocados, mandarin oranges, ciabatta bread, and whatever veggies we need for the week. The picture includes lemons, pepper, tomatoes, and oranges from the farmer's market, but the strawberries are from our garden.
Our next stop is the "mad butcher". This is the largest butcher chain in New Zealand, but it still seems pretty small town-ish. We get our chicken there... they said we can special order a turkey for thanksgiving, but it costs about $17/ pound. There is no limit on them if you hunt them though, and there are several areas to do that... Brandon might be embarking on a turkey hunt come November.
Our last stop is the New World market... a mad dash through aisles dodging carts and finding things to make meals of our veggies and chicken. The people are very friendly at these stores, and are quick to make conversation. We have been asked why we are getting certain thing, what we are making, where are we from, and told that you can find the items we are buy elsewhere for cheaper (this by the check out girl!)
Soon we will be eating out of our own back yard! We have already started eating the strawberries, and our bean plants are very healthy. Our tomato plants are getting tall, and our onions have made lots of greenery. The peppers are the only questionable thing, but we are waiting and seeing if they get bigger. You all know that we have been really excited about our lemon tree, so the progress is that it is in bloom. But, the same time it was blooming a tree in our back yard had started blooming as well... it is very similar, but not identical. We think it is another type of lemon or maybe an orange tree. Then I remembered other trees were blooming in our yard a couple of weeks back. So, I checked it and there were fuzzy things growing on it... like peach fuzz. I googled peach trees and it is a dead on match... of course that is to my untrained eye... but how exciting just to find it. We have not one, but three of those trees!! I hope we have peaches!! Some on another tree have started turning peach coloured. (NZ spelling on that one) We also had another blooming tree before that now has little green fruits on it... so we cut it open... googled the tree look and leaves... and, we think it is a granny smith apple tree. It was the only one that the blossom matched and the little green fruits matched... plus the leaves are the same. We can now only wait and see, but I am hoping for lots of pie making this summer :)
I will add pictures so you guys can tell me what you think tomorrow. It is too dark out now.
Love you all!