Ohio 2011: West Side Market

[torreadora]

You can't go to Cleveland without hitting the West Side Market. Every ethnic food is represented here, including world-famous gyros and falafel. I almost wept when I saw the piles of beautiful rhubarb, which you better believe I bought and pie'd up. But vegetables is not what I am bringing you in this photopost, no.

Comments

[dmacabre]

*sob* Photos... so delicious, and yet so cruel.

[torreadora]

I know! I can't eat anything sticky, so the candy apples were out of the question, but they sure are pretty!

[dmacabre]

West Side Market is just chock full of food pr0n. I may have to schedule a summer visit to Cleveland, especially now that the art museum is open again. :-}

[obliviousally]

In all my years of living in northeast Ohio, I have never been to the West Side Market. I need to remedy that, quickly.

[torreadora]

You seriously do. It's off Lorain Ave., open Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. IT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND.

[kit_a_licious]

Hold the phone -- YOU DIDN'T BRING HOME A CARAMEL APPLE? Lookit them things, they look like if the Baby Jesus was edible! Jiminy Christmas...

Love this. Making me drool.

[torreadora]

Whatever, Kit, it would've been covered with like sock fuzz! We can make caramel apples here! But yes. Yes, they did look like heaven.

[acook]

THIS WAS ALMOST UNENDURABLE TORTURE TO LOOK AT.

IN THE BEST WAY.

/foodrant

(I haven't had money to buy groceries this week... so... you can imagine my suffering)

[torreadora]

Aw, jeez! I'd be delighted to Paypal you some scratch for groceries, if you give me your address?

[acook]

Awwww, you're the sweetest, but I just got my grocery cash today (interning might not pay much, but it does pay... a little XD) and I am happily re-stocked w/ noms.

[oceanstorme]

OMG, I'm SO HUNGRY now. I want to eat everything there!! We have something in Philly, the Redding Terminal Market but I haven't been in ages. I think I need to get there and devour lots of tasty food.

And pierogis! ♥ I tried making them from scratch once, and they were so delicious but so much work! Mmm, food.

[torreadora]

You definitely do; I would love to see your market photos. There are two huge fruit and vegetable corridors that I didn't even take any photos of, and I should have.

Do you still have the pirogi recipe? That's something I'd love to learn to make. Do you need like a little dough-shaper?

[oceanstorme]

I'll dig up that recipe for you! I filled mine with homemade mashed potatoes that had chives and cheddar cheese mixed in. Mmm. And yup, I use a little pierogi mold. :) But you can use a circle biscuit cutter and just fold them up yourself!