We didn't spend all of our time in Asheville eating a drinking - we did get out and experience some of the lovely surrounding scenery. One day we took a nice drive along the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Ok, back to food. On the way, we stopped in at the WNC Farmer's Market. Just outside of Asheville, it is open 7 days a week.
Here we tried boiled peanuts for the first time. Once you get past the initial shock of soft peanuts, they were actually pretty good.
There was a lot of nice pork product for sale, including big hunks of cured pork belly:
And cured hams:
We bought some really nice ham hock and a big slice of country ham. In retrospect, though, I wish we'd gotten a whole ham to take home with us.
What a great blog! I'm glad you seem to have enjoyed your time in Asheville - I write about all kinds of Asheville happenings at carolinamornings.blogspot.com. I'm really glad to see you visited (and wrote) about our Farmer's Market - it's a great one! Take care :)
ReplyDeleteKelly - we really enjoyed our stay in Asheville. It was one of our favorite stops on our west-to-east coast road trip.
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