Grilled Lamb Chops, Heirloom Beans & Tomatoes with Warm Bacon Vinaigrette

My Market Matters post is going to go a slightly different way.

Today I have a colorful selection of beans. Green beans as well as yellow and purple wax beans. But these beautiful beans don't come from the Hollywood Farmers Market right down the hill from me. They come from a Farmers Market in Minnesota. Sartell, MN.

Now I am not on vacation and I haven't moved. You see I did not go to the beans, the beans came to me!

All this came to be because of a certain blogger in Norway, a transpalnted Minnesotan. We bloggers certainly do get around don’t we? You see Siri from The Transplanted Baker likes to arrange market exchanges. This is the second year I have participated and it is a lot of fun.

The concept is simple. Siri matches people up from all over the world. Then these people choose a few items from their local markets and send them to each other.