It was a long night, what with one thing and another, mostly the other, and then it was gray dawn and it seemed that coffee would be just the thing. Coffee. I was out of it. Miss Sadie and the Cowboy watched me from the corners of their eyes. Thank goodness for the Eastport Market.
Brush the snow off the car, pile the Disreputable Duo in the back, start ‘er up and we’re off. Slippery out there, the new snow just a sneaky blanket hiding the treachery of the icy old snow, but we are intrepid.
Into the market, pick up the blessed coffee, add a sinfully delicious loaf of cherry walnut bread, a bunch of bananas. Exchange pleasantries with Sandy and Russ and young Russell, who is running the register up front. And there, in plain view, is one of those Eastport Market Moments.
Pretty much everywhere you go you will see the first harbingers of Easter baskets to come. Chocolate bunnies. Yellow marshmallow Peeps. Spun-sugar eggs with tiny worlds inside. But at the Eastport Market, on this Sunday morning . . .
Candy deviled eggs in a basket. I could not make these things up.
I was so delighted that I bought a piece of jerky for each of the dogs and headed home whistling. Let it snow, let it growl, I love living here.
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Kathy
February 27, 2011
Candy deviled eggs in a basket! What will be next? 🙂
Life is a gift indeed…
By the way, Gerry, I just posted a picture of you and the Disreputible Duo on my blog. Pulled it out of long-ago files. Remember that day?
Follow your heart’s quest
Gerry
February 27, 2011
The mind reels at the possibilities of What Comes Next.
I do remember the day I met both you and Loreen for the first time. There is a picture of you, too, on the aptly-titled Hardly Any Days Are Like That!
Sybil
February 27, 2011
Awww Gerry, I’m sitting here in my jammies and you’ve been to market and back — and I’m one hour ahead of you !
I hope you bought one of those candied devil’s eggs.
I better go get dressed.
Gerry
February 27, 2011
I did not buy a devilish egg. I had already fallen off the excellent treats wagon with the cherry walnut bread.
I’m sure you’re dressed by now, and probably tucking into lunch.
I better go make something good to eat.
P.j. grath
February 27, 2011
I’m so curious–what kind of candy are the candy deviled eggs? Are they made by someone Over There, or will we see them appear on our side of Grand Traverse Bay, too? I confess I’m ready to fall off the wagon myself for the Cadbury cream (creme?) eggs to show up on store shelves, but you found something much more unusual–as usual!
Gerry
February 27, 2011
I did not look too closely into the matter of the ingredients, but it is my blogly responsibility to follow up. If memory serves, the purveyors of the eggs are independent candymakers in the Lansing area. I will go back to the Eastport Market to capture the details. I certainly hope I can resist for a second time.
Babs Young
February 27, 2011
Gerry, I saw these other day and said to myself, deviled eggs, I can eat those on my diet. Then I looked closer and it said they were made of white chocolate and they suddenly did not look that good. I love chocolate, but this was not a good idea. I don’t know if they are selling or not.
Gerry
February 27, 2011
Please, you are not on a diet. You are on an adventure that involves much healthy eating. I am glad to hear that a person can become chocolate-averse. I was able to resist the eggs myself, but my addiction is to deep, dark chocolate. White chocolate, not so much. I suspect, though, based on the extraordinary success of the peanut butter and chocolate buckeyes, that the deviled eggs will sell right smartly.
Anna
February 27, 2011
Love the title of the post! I do not function well without coffee. Nope. I make sure I am stocked. Now, I haven’t ever heard or seen candy deviled eggs! Interesting! That cherry walnut bread sounds sinfully delicious!
Gerry
February 27, 2011
Heh-heh. The bread is sinful, but I will make up for it by piously turning down seconds for dessert.
Karma
February 27, 2011
I,too, will take just about any sign of spring, but I can say for sure those eggs hold no appeal. I don’t care for eggs, deviled or otherwise and I’m suspicious of anything calling itself chocolate that is not cocoa-colored! 😉
Fun seeing you and the duo over at Kathy’s place today!
Gerry
February 27, 2011
I just love deviled eggs of the chickenly variety. Chocolate ones . . . dunno. But I admire the audacity of it.
margie
February 28, 2011
Yeah, I saw those, too. Rather disgusting! But hey — it would be fun to pull a joke on somebody with those things….
Gerry
February 28, 2011
Now, see, I found them very enterprising. I am tired, tired, tired of pink lumps of sugar. A new kind of candy egg! Hard-boiled! I like it. OK, I have no plans to actually eat one anytime soon, but you never can tell when a fit will take me in that area.
Nye
March 1, 2011
I glanced over at your weather and it’s 12 F, a good cup of coffee is definitely a must.
Gerry
March 1, 2011
Indeed. Also a comforter and a spare dog or two. And a sweatshirt pulled on over my flannel nightgown. The little wall furnace is running and running, sending ten dollar bills up the chimney. But it is March, and the feeling that a corner has been turned.
flandrumhill
March 1, 2011
I wondered why those deviled eggs were wrapped individually… Real chicken deviled eggs don’t last enough around here to put any kind of wrap on them.
Gerry
March 1, 2011
I did a double-take, too, that day at the market! Then I had a good chuckle. Deviled eggs of the chicken variety disappear pretty quickly around here, too.