Just found out this morning and I’m still dancing around and shouting PEAS! Both sugar snaps and shellin’ peas: not only are they sweet and delicious treats raw or lightly steamed, but they are a great excuse to sit in the shade with my beautiful mother-in-law, drinking Chardonnay and yapping and shelling.
Another farmers’ market + home garden weekend: tender, delicious greens take a fresh strawberry vinaigrette, with barely cooked asparagus, snow or sugar snap peas, loose shelled peas, pea tendrils, cubed Monocacy Gold goat cheese, some almonds, garden weeds (I’m finding dandelion and violet leaves right now), flowers from bolting crops, a couple of torn up mint leaves, mild Japanese turnips, sliced kohlrabi (sorry, got that from my garden), thinly shaved radish.
Fire up the grill this weekend! Memorial Day travel is up this year, so lounge around at home, enjoy the peace, and stay off the freeways if you can help it. In addition to the excellent lamb, chicken, beef, and pork at market, I love grilled asparagus, broccoli, spring onions and garlic scapes.
Events at market:
- In the Kid Pit tomorrow: Face Painting with Greenfield Greetings! Free face painting and kiddie distraction under the canopy. PLUS,
- The kids’ favorite Banjer Dan will be with us in the morning, followed by Chris Ousley on guitar and banjo playing more great traditional music.
- The Farmers’ Market Bike Clinic, staffed by neighbors and random passers-by, can top off your tires, lube your chain, or show you how to maintain your bike..FREE! It always depends on who turns up, but feel free to use the pump and stand.
Local Foods:
The Adelante Co-op fundraiser continues! Platos with grilled borracho chicken and beef, market vegetables and salad, El Salvadoran arroz casamiento (rice with black beans) or Puerto Rican arroz con gandules (rice with pigeon peas) and thick, homemade El Salvadoran style tortillas. Pass the horchata please – sure it’s just sugar and spice and some kind of grain to make it chalky and quasi-nutritious, but really it’s just yummy.
Reid Orchard: Gorgeous Pennsylvania strawberries and the first sugar snap peas of the season! A few Fuji apples left and some great canned goods. Bedding starts for your garden: hot and sweet peppers, corn, zucchini, squash, eggplant, heirloom tomatoes, and a huge variety of culinary and ornamental herbs.
Smallwood’s Veggieporium: New this week: broccoli, baby Detroit Red beets with greens, and shelling peas. This is the last week that Smallwood will be bringing the local high school garden’s asparagus. Garlic scapes, hakurei turnips with greens, spinach, salad mix, loose leaf lettuce, and head lettuces, radishes, collards, kale, mustard greens (purple osaka and green), swiss chard, cut herbs: parsley, cilantro, dill, mint, purple basil, catnip and maybe some oregano. Bedding plants: summer squash (including Ishtar, a small Mediterranean zucchini), cucumbers, melons (try the Asian melon Tigger!), sunflowers, cherry tomatoes, regular tomatoes, hot and sweet peppers, okra.
Groff’s Content Farm: Family farm raises 100% grass-fed and -finished lamb and beef on organic fields, pastured Berkshire pork, beautiful pastured eggs and chickens, both whole and cut up. Dog treats and nice big beef bones. Ground beef, nice big sausages for the grill. NEW – a neighbor of Julie’s is making tallow soap from her beef!
Truck Patch Farms: Spring onions, several kinds of strawberries, asparagus, lettuce, salad mix, arugula, Swiss chard, curly kale, cut herbs. Pork and beef, and chickens, if you pre-order at order@truckpatchfarms.com, plenty of eggs. Ground beef and patties, ground pork, loose sausage, and ground ham that’s technically for ham salad but sounds like it would make for a phenomenal hamburger. Great big pork sausages for the grill: sage, celery, applewurst, country hot, mild and hot Italian, sweet Italian with fennel, kielbasa, bratwurst. Come early if you want beef steaks for your grill, but plenty of pork chops and tenderloins, spare ribs are better for the grill than baby back ribs, pork shoulder if you can do a really slow roast and then have pull pork sandwiches.
Quaker Valley Orchards: Green and purple asparagus. Pink Lady, Fuji, and Golden Delicious winter apples. Applesauce, honey, jam, tomato sauce, novelty popping corn-on-the-cob, dried apples, canned peaches. Pie fillings: cherry, blackberry, blueberry and apple.
Cherry Glen Goat Cheese Company: Handmade, artisanal goat cheese. Fresh chevre and ricotta cheese and delicious crottins and brie-like wedges of creamy, soft-ripened cheese.
Richfield Farm: Finally, some cut flowers and peonies and peonies at market! New this week: kale, Tuscan kale, collards, chard. Strawberries, asparagus, spinach, head lettuce, spring onions, maybe a few more beets and radishes depending on how last night’s torrential rainstorm messed up the fields, rhubarb, hanging flower baskets, herb starts.
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.
Panorama Bakery: Olive oil hamburger buns for your burgers! Baguettes, croissants, pain au chocolat, mini ciabattas are great for sandwiches, sliced loaves, danishes, sticky buns, apple turnovers.
May 29 – Peas and the Big Spring Salad
Just found out this morning and I’m still dancing around and shouting PEAS! Both sugar snaps and shellin’ peas: not only are they sweet and delicious treats raw or lightly steamed, but they are a great excuse to sit in the shade with my beautiful mother-in-law, drinking Chardonnay and yapping and shelling.
Another farmers’ market + home garden weekend: tender, delicious greens take a fresh strawberry vinaigrette, with barely cooked asparagus, snow or sugar snap peas, loose shelled peas, pea tendrils, cubed Monocacy Gold goat cheese, some almonds, garden weeds (I’m finding dandelion and violet leaves right now), flowers from bolting crops, a couple of torn up mint leaves, mild Japanese turnips, sliced kohlrabi (sorry, got that from my garden), thinly shaved radish.
Fire up the grill this weekend! Memorial Day travel is up this year, so lounge around at home, enjoy the peace, and stay off the freeways if you can help it. In addition to the excellent lamb, chicken, beef, and pork at market, I love grilled asparagus, broccoli, spring onions and garlic scapes.
Events at market:
Local Foods:
The Adelante Co-op fundraiser continues! Platos with grilled borracho chicken and beef, market vegetables and salad, El Salvadoran arroz casamiento (rice with black beans) or Puerto Rican arroz con gandules (rice with pigeon peas) and thick, homemade El Salvadoran style tortillas. Pass the horchata please – sure it’s just sugar and spice and some kind of grain to make it chalky and quasi-nutritious, but really it’s just yummy.
Reid Orchard: Gorgeous Pennsylvania strawberries and the first sugar snap peas of the season! A few Fuji apples left and some great canned goods. Bedding starts for your garden: hot and sweet peppers, corn, zucchini, squash, eggplant, heirloom tomatoes, and a huge variety of culinary and ornamental herbs.
Smallwood’s Veggieporium: New this week: broccoli, baby Detroit Red beets with greens, and shelling peas. This is the last week that Smallwood will be bringing the local high school garden’s asparagus. Garlic scapes, hakurei turnips with greens, spinach, salad mix, loose leaf lettuce, and head lettuces, radishes, collards, kale, mustard greens (purple osaka and green), swiss chard, cut herbs: parsley, cilantro, dill, mint, purple basil, catnip and maybe some oregano. Bedding plants: summer squash (including Ishtar, a small Mediterranean zucchini), cucumbers, melons (try the Asian melon Tigger!), sunflowers, cherry tomatoes, regular tomatoes, hot and sweet peppers, okra.
Groff’s Content Farm: Family farm raises 100% grass-fed and -finished lamb and beef on organic fields, pastured Berkshire pork, beautiful pastured eggs and chickens, both whole and cut up. Dog treats and nice big beef bones. Ground beef, nice big sausages for the grill. NEW – a neighbor of Julie’s is making tallow soap from her beef!
Truck Patch Farms: Spring onions, several kinds of strawberries, asparagus, lettuce, salad mix, arugula, Swiss chard, curly kale, cut herbs. Pork and beef, and chickens, if you pre-order at order@truckpatchfarms.com, plenty of eggs. Ground beef and patties, ground pork, loose sausage, and ground ham that’s technically for ham salad but sounds like it would make for a phenomenal hamburger. Great big pork sausages for the grill: sage, celery, applewurst, country hot, mild and hot Italian, sweet Italian with fennel, kielbasa, bratwurst. Come early if you want beef steaks for your grill, but plenty of pork chops and tenderloins, spare ribs are better for the grill than baby back ribs, pork shoulder if you can do a really slow roast and then have pull pork sandwiches.
Quaker Valley Orchards: Green and purple asparagus. Pink Lady, Fuji, and Golden Delicious winter apples. Applesauce, honey, jam, tomato sauce, novelty popping corn-on-the-cob, dried apples, canned peaches. Pie fillings: cherry, blackberry, blueberry and apple.
Cherry Glen Goat Cheese Company: Handmade, artisanal goat cheese. Fresh chevre and ricotta cheese and delicious crottins and brie-like wedges of creamy, soft-ripened cheese.
Richfield Farm: Finally, some cut flowers and peonies and peonies at market! New this week: kale, Tuscan kale, collards, chard. Strawberries, asparagus, spinach, head lettuce, spring onions, maybe a few more beets and radishes depending on how last night’s torrential rainstorm messed up the fields, rhubarb, hanging flower baskets, herb starts.
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.
Panorama Bakery: Olive oil hamburger buns for your burgers! Baguettes, croissants, pain au chocolat, mini ciabattas are great for sandwiches, sliced loaves, danishes, sticky buns, apple turnovers.