The Jack-o-lanterns are coming next week, but this weekend you can indulge in fancy pants pumpkin prettiness for your porch: imagine a pile of small, orange, nubby Kabocha squashes tumbling down the stairs, an orange Cinderella pumpkin perched like a fairy tale coach with some vines around it (time to yank out all that nasty invasive porcelain berry anyway), the smoky blue Jarrahdale pumpkins and the creamy beige Cheese pumpkins are like nothing anybody else on your block has, and Baby Pan pumpkins look like miniature Jack o Lanterns stretched across the dining room table. Heck, get creative an add some acorn, butternut, and spaghetti squashes to the picture. But the very best thing is that these are all outstanding eating pumpkins – pull one in from your porch when you get a hankering for roasted pumpkin soup, pumpkin pie, pumpkin custard, or this vegan Thai Pumpkin Curry (if you can’t stand a meal without meat, I think this would be great with chip steak).Happenings at market:
9am Crystal Bailey and Rob Greenway with Irish music, then at 11am, Will McKindley-Ward will be strumming your market tunes on guitar.
Keswick Creamery: Raw milk cheeses, blue cheese, feta, ricotta, quark and yogurt, and chocolate pudding.
Tree and Leaf Farm: Last week for young, tender ginger! Salad greens with edible nasturtium flowers. Beautiful mild arugula. Collards, kale and chard. Maxibel French filet beans, Romano beans, broccoli and Bianca di Milano turnips. Winter squash.Eggplants, green tomatoes, sweet peppers and hot peppers. White daikon, Nero Tondo black, and Watermelon radishes. Fingerling potatoes, Yukon Gold potatoes, and Colorado Rose potatoes. Purple basil, Italian parsley, rosemary, and sage. Flower bouquets with dahlias, zinnias, celosia and broom corn. Rosemary plants.
Quaker Valley Farm: New this week: Winter squash and PUMPKINS! Sweet potatoes. Apple cider. Red and yellow Bartlett pears. Jonagold, Mutsu, Rome Beauty, Honeycrisp, Ginger Gold, Gala, Gold, and Ida Red apples. Sweet onions and red potatoes. Tomato sauce, apple sauce, jam, honey, apple butter, eggs, and popping corn. Now adopting gently used egg cartons.
Groff’s Content Farm: Family farm raises 100% grass-fed and -finished lamb and beef, pastured Berkshire pork, beautiful pastured eggs and chickens. Plus tasty pet treats. Sunday after next, October 11th, is Family Fun Day at the farm – ask the girls about it at market!
Painted Hand Farm: Full line of all naturally-browsed goat meat cuts: whole legs, leg steaks, shoulders, burgers, chops. Sandy’s goat meat is never gamy because they feed on field forbes and not grain. Similar to venison: lean and flavorful. Perfect for slow Fall braises: think crockpot with dried apples or pears, onions, potatoes and turnips. Also, humanely-raised veal, German-Style Bratwurst links and pork-free sausages.
Truck Patch Farms: Hot peppers, stir fry mix, chard, curly kale, arugula, salad mix, and lettuce. Mint, chives, garlic chives, and dill. A very few tomatoes, summer and zucchini squash. Cucumbers and yellow, purple, and green beans. Broccoli. Black Angus grass fed beef, pastured pork products and eggs. Order in advance at order@truckpatchfarms.com for chickens.
Reid Orchard: Ask Caitlin all about the different flavors of apples: Haralson, Stayman, Ida Red, Nittany, Macoun, Cortland, Fameuse Snow Apple, Honeycrisp, Gala, Golden Supreme, Jonagold, Pinova, Yataka, Northern Spy, Cox Orange Pippin. Concord grapes and cider.
Richfield Farm: Last week for corn – sweet as sugar! My favorite snack: kohlrabi. Lettuce heads. Potatoes. Green and purple broccoli, green, orange, purple and white cauliflower. Savoy, green, and red cabbage. Swiss chard, collards, kale, toscano kale, dandelions and tat-soi. Tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, zucchini and summer squash. Green and Roma beans. Bouquets. Ornamental corn and maybe some pumpkins!
Panorama Bakery: Baguettes, croissants, pain au chocolat, sliced loaves, danishes, sticky buns, apple turnovers. The mini ciabattas were perfect for breakfasts this week with egg salad and bacon and a bit of lettuce.
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.
Cherry Glen Goat Cheese Company: Beautiful goat cheeses at 14th&U Farmers’ Market this weekend.
I’m taking the weekend off from market AND kids to finally indulge my husband in some anniversary bike-ride-dinner-and-movie action. I’ll come back from Restaurant Eve with some creative and indulgent suggestions on Fall produce, since their menu is all seasonal and local. Meanwhile, be nice to Jess and Jody, your market managers this weekend! Please bring your own bags for shopping.
October 10 – Fancy Pumpkins
The Jack-o-lanterns are coming next week, but this weekend you can indulge in fancy pants pumpkin prettiness for your porch: imagine a pile of small, orange, nubby Kabocha squashes tumbling down the stairs, an orange Cinderella pumpkin perched like a fairy tale coach with some vines around it (time to yank out all that nasty invasive porcelain berry anyway), the smoky blue Jarrahdale pumpkins and the creamy beige Cheese pumpkins are like nothing anybody else on your block has, and Baby Pan pumpkins look like miniature Jack o Lanterns stretched across the dining room table. Heck, get creative an add some acorn, butternut, and spaghetti squashes to the picture. But the very best thing is that these are all outstanding eating pumpkins – pull one in from your porch when you get a hankering for roasted pumpkin soup, pumpkin pie, pumpkin custard, or this vegan Thai Pumpkin Curry (if you can’t stand a meal without meat, I think this would be great with chip steak).Happenings at market:
On to the seasonal foods:
Keswick Creamery: Raw milk cheeses, blue cheese, feta, ricotta, quark and yogurt, and chocolate pudding.
Tree and Leaf Farm: Last week for young, tender ginger! Salad greens with edible nasturtium flowers. Beautiful mild arugula. Collards, kale and chard. Maxibel French filet beans, Romano beans, broccoli and Bianca di Milano turnips. Winter squash.Eggplants, green tomatoes, sweet peppers and hot peppers. White daikon, Nero Tondo black, and Watermelon radishes. Fingerling potatoes, Yukon Gold potatoes, and Colorado Rose potatoes. Purple basil, Italian parsley, rosemary, and sage. Flower bouquets with dahlias, zinnias, celosia and broom corn. Rosemary plants.
Quaker Valley Farm: New this week: Winter squash and PUMPKINS! Sweet potatoes. Apple cider. Red and yellow Bartlett pears. Jonagold, Mutsu, Rome Beauty, Honeycrisp, Ginger Gold, Gala, Gold, and Ida Red apples. Sweet onions and red potatoes. Tomato sauce, apple sauce, jam, honey, apple butter, eggs, and popping corn. Now adopting gently used egg cartons.
Groff’s Content Farm: Family farm raises 100% grass-fed and -finished lamb and beef, pastured Berkshire pork, beautiful pastured eggs and chickens. Plus tasty pet treats. Sunday after next, October 11th, is Family Fun Day at the farm – ask the girls about it at market!
Painted Hand Farm: Full line of all naturally-browsed goat meat cuts: whole legs, leg steaks, shoulders, burgers, chops. Sandy’s goat meat is never gamy because they feed on field forbes and not grain. Similar to venison: lean and flavorful. Perfect for slow Fall braises: think crockpot with dried apples or pears, onions, potatoes and turnips. Also, humanely-raised veal, German-Style Bratwurst links and pork-free sausages.
Truck Patch Farms: Hot peppers, stir fry mix, chard, curly kale, arugula, salad mix, and lettuce. Mint, chives, garlic chives, and dill. A very few tomatoes, summer and zucchini squash. Cucumbers and yellow, purple, and green beans. Broccoli. Black Angus grass fed beef, pastured pork products and eggs. Order in advance at order@truckpatchfarms.com for chickens.
Reid Orchard: Ask Caitlin all about the different flavors of apples: Haralson, Stayman, Ida Red, Nittany, Macoun, Cortland, Fameuse Snow Apple, Honeycrisp, Gala, Golden Supreme, Jonagold, Pinova, Yataka, Northern Spy, Cox Orange Pippin. Concord grapes and cider.
Richfield Farm: Last week for corn – sweet as sugar! My favorite snack: kohlrabi. Lettuce heads. Potatoes. Green and purple broccoli, green, orange, purple and white cauliflower. Savoy, green, and red cabbage. Swiss chard, collards, kale, toscano kale, dandelions and tat-soi. Tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, zucchini and summer squash. Green and Roma beans. Bouquets. Ornamental corn and maybe some pumpkins!
Panorama Bakery: Baguettes, croissants, pain au chocolat, sliced loaves, danishes, sticky buns, apple turnovers. The mini ciabattas were perfect for breakfasts this week with egg salad and bacon and a bit of lettuce.
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.
Cherry Glen Goat Cheese Company: Beautiful goat cheeses at 14th&U Farmers’ Market this weekend.
I’m taking the weekend off from market AND kids to finally indulge my husband in some anniversary bike-ride-dinner-and-movie action. I’ll come back from Restaurant Eve with some creative and indulgent suggestions on Fall produce, since their menu is all seasonal and local. Meanwhile, be nice to Jess and Jody, your market managers this weekend! Please bring your own bags for shopping.