As I drink my morning coffee, we still have 6 1/2 hours of the 24 Heures du Mans left to watch.  We need to get  this race watched because this afternoon there is a F1 race airing from Montreal.  Yesterday, we had to get up and go.  We wanted to go to the Athens Farmers’ Market and not get too far behind on the Le Mans race, which had an 8:30am start.

I wanted to make some French food in honor of the race.  When I saw that The Veggie Patch had heirloom tomatoes, I decided to make a tomato tart .  I was inspired by a recent David Lebovitz post about a French picnic.  There is a new bread vendor at the market.  Miche always has a table full of gorgeous bread.  So, I thought I would make Croque Madame.  This would also showcase the wonderful farm fresh eggs from Greendale farms

UPDATE: Descriptions of our market bounty

Got up late so we had to head straight to the Athens Farmer’s Market.

Having finished our shopping,  we stopped at Big City Bread Cafe for brunch. I ordered the Burgundy Mushroom Quiche and Darren had the Meat Omelette, containing soprasetta, arugala & olives.

After putting away our bounty from the market, I began braising oxtails for dinner.  Quite sometime ago I purchased oxtails from Nature’s Harmony Farm through the online market Athens Locally Grown. I had absolutely no idea how to prepare them.   Poking around at some of my favorite locavore food blogs, I discovered Last Night’s Dinner posted a picture of  Braised Oxtails, her significant other had just made.  When we asked for the recipe, we were told that the preparation was based on a recipe from the Zuni Cookbook.  I had not heard of the cookbook.  So I added it to my wish list for our then impending anniversary.  The cookbook is wonderful and the recipe turned out great.  I served the oxtails on Red Mule Polenta de Georgia from Mills Farm