The weather’s still fine enough for grilling, so be sure to get some Bratwurst from Painted Hand, splurge on a Delmonico steak from Truck Patch, try a lamb burger from Groff’s Content Farm with feta cheese from Keswick, and fat slabs of heirloom tomato on a Panorama olive oil hamburger bun. And the veggies are all the better with some grill marks on them: Mexican Grilled Corn with Lime and Mayo ala Robin Shuster’s recommendation, Grilled red peppers add a nice smoky touch to your gazpacho, and Grilled Squash on Atwater Peasant Wheat bread with goat cheese and tomatoes. Richfield Farm has broccoli! I love it grilled in one of those grill woks with the holes in it.
Extras:
- Start the morning with lovely Irish music with Malinda Reese at 9am.
- Then at 11am, the Blind Tiger String Band will grab you and shake you and make you dance and cry - traditional Appalachian mountain music with frenzied fiddling, prize-winning banjo and guitar picking, and thumping bass that will set your feet to hoppin’. Be sure to wear a crinoline if you’ve got one.
- Free Range Bike Clinic: Air, Oil, Advice, and More! Depending on who’s staffing, you can get your brakes adjusted, your tires pumped, or who knows, your bottom bracket overhauled. Or come get advice on a bike you want to buy, or whether your clunker is worth fixing up. Join WABA and get 10% off at bike shops.
- On SUNDAY - from 3-8 is Mount Pleasant Latino Family Day in the plaza: games, prizes, live music, lawyers, and cook out, everything free, open to all MtP residents!
On to the seasonal foods:
Cherry Glen Goat Cheese Company: Shifting things around a bit: look for them in the middle of the market this weekend with delicious, creamy, perfect goat cheeses.
Panorama Bakery: More baguettes and croissants! Sliced loaves too, if you’re really that lazy! Now that school’s back in session, I am that lazy.
Painted Hand Farm: What are you going to put on the grill this Labor Day? Try the German-Style Bratwurst links. Also available various cuts of naturally-browsed goat meat and humanely-raised veal.
Keswick Creamery: Raw milk cheeses, blue cheese, feta, ricotta, quark and yogurt, and chocolate pudding. The Wallaby is back! My favorite melting cheese for grilled cheese sandwiches and cheeseburgers.
Atwater Bread: Organic sourdough and yeasted breads: Peasant Wheat, Caraway Rye, Cranberry Pecan, Kalamata Olive, traditional San Francisco Sourdough, Ciabatta, Country White, Chili Cheddar, French Baguette, Spelt, Sunflower Flax, and more. Brownies, cookies, scones, muffins, and granola.
Tree and Leaf Farm: Feel like sitting on the porch with Peach Vodka cocktail while shelling beans? Sure you do! Dragon’s Tongue shelling beans are pretty too. Radishes, French filet green beans, Red Thumb and French fingerling potatoes. Also Romano green beans. Heirloom tomatoes and Sungold and Suncherry cherry tomatoes. Heirloom sweet pepper and hot peppers. Eight ball and Black Beauty zucchini. Mars red onions, Copra and Torpedo onions. Kale and chard. Basil, parsley and rosemary and garlic chives. Zinnias and celosia bouquets.
Quaker Valley Farm: Concord grapes with seeds and large, juicy, aromatic, green Niagara grapes - never available outside their farming region because they ship poorly. Yellow and white nectarines and peaches. Sweet white corn. Blackberries and red raspberries. Melons and cantaloupes. Honeycrisp and Gala apples are back! With more Ginger Gold and Antique Smokehouse too. Tomatoes, eggplants, onions and red, white and blue potatoes. Apple and tomato sauce, the best jam in DC, honey, apple butter, eggs, and popping corn.
Richfield Farm: The first broccoli of the season! Heirloom, beefsteak, and cherry tomatoes. Peppers, eggplants, zucchini and other summer squashes. Cucumbers and corn. Cantaloupes and watermelons. Shelled lima beans, green and yellow, and cranberry beans. Bouquets. Raw honey. Maybe some winter squash if it fits on the truck - butternut, spaghetti, acorn.
Truck Patch Farms: Stir fry mix, baby Bright Lights chard, curly kale, arugula, and lettuce. Basil, mint (nice add to that Peach Vodka), chives, garlic chives, and dill too. Heirloom, cherry and beefsteak tomatoes. Summer and Zucchini squashes, and squash flowers. Cantaloupes and watermelons. Pickling cucumbers. Jade green, yellow wax, and purple beans. Black Angus grass fed beef, pastured pork products and eggs. Order in advance at orders@truckpatchfarms.com for chickens.
Groff’s Content Farm: 100% grass-fed and -finished lamb and beef, pastured Berkshire pork, beautiful pastured eggs and chickens, and tasty pet treats.
Reid Orchard: Seedless, sweet grapes. Peaches, nectarines, blackberries, plums. Fresh eating and cooking heirloom apples. ALL the heirloom tomatoes.
Audia Farms: Uncooperative crops, and a long drive have conspired to force Robert to take a break from market for the rest of the season. Please come tell me what you’ll miss the most, and maybe we can get him back for a couple star appearances.
See you Saturday! Please bring your own bags for shopping.