We have a new vendor joining us this Saturday with cold, sweet popsicles made from fresh, local ingredients! Promised flavors for this week are Toigo Orchard’s Strawberry Cream, Richfield Farms Rhubarb with Strawberry, and Cucumber Chile. Look for their vintage bicycle cart loaded with kid- and adult-friendly deliciousness on a stick! They are the ultimate in local, making their products just down the street from our market.
This is your last chance for the all too brief season of pie cherries. Don’t make pies, you say? Me neither! They are indeed a bit tart, but sweet enough to eat straight, and the flavor is amazing, like cherry pie on a stem. Hm, almost like nature meant for them to be put in pies. Metaphysical musings aside, tonight I’m going to try a sour cherry cocktail, either with sweet tea and rye whiskey, or as a Sour Cherry Gin Muddler, depending which liquor is safest for my pregnant sister visiting from Madison, WI.
For Independence Day BBQ, I’ll be making red white and blue potato salad, cuz it’s just too cute, Asian slaw, sirloin steaks, and grilled beets (wash, halve, grill face down ’til tender) with Cherry Glen Goat Cheese chevre and diced sweet white Walla Walla onion from Quaker Valley Orchard. The grilled squashes have been delicious this year too, just tossed in a little olive oil and salt, all the different shapes and sizes are fun! Dessert is piles and piles of Truck Patch Farms RED raspberries, Reid Orchard BLUEberries and WHITE currants.
Events at market:
The Jazzy Juggler is back! Enjoy his derring-do from 9a-11a, followed by Nick Bayard and Neal Humphrey playing tunes from 11a-1p.
After the market on Saturday, The FamJam 2010 Festival will take place in Lamont Plaza from 3pm-7pm. It’ll be a festive day of musical performances by neighborhood musicians and artists, plus Instrument Petting Zoo, interactive musical games, face-painting, balloons, an All ages Open Mic and featured performances. Hosted by the Lara and Franko Agbro Family. More details from Franko 202 415 4512 or frankojazz@aol.com or volunteer!
Farmers’ Market Bike Clinic every week, rain or shine, learn how to get your bike in trim!
Local Foods:
Adelante Co-op: Grilled chicken tacos, my favorite! Platos and the usual special rice dishes. This week they’ll have BOTH horchata and chicha morada.
Reid Orchard: Last week for pie cherries. Blueberries, red and black raspberries, red and black currants, red and green gooseberries. Harcot apricots. Yellow and white Spring Snow peaches. Sugar snap peas. Tart Lodi apples great for applesauce.
Quaker Valley Orchards: Pink, red and white currants. Red, golden and black raspberries. Transparent apples. Peaches, sugar plums, a few apricots. Red, gold, and blue potatoes, Walla Walla onions. Applesauce, honey, jam, tomato sauce, novelty popping corn-on-the-cob, canned peaches. Pie fillings: cherry, blackberry, blueberry and apple.
Richfield Farm: Cherry tomatoes, summer squash, potatoes, kale, Tuscan kale, collards, chard, head lettuce, fennel, regular and pickling cucumbers. Green beans. Blueberries. Cut flowers. The corn should be good and sweet by now, and the fava beans plentiful and fun to pick over with a beer and a friend by the grill.
Smallwood’s Veggieporium: Lettuce, Swiss chard, beets with greens, carrots, potatoes, squash and squash blossoms, slicing cucumbers, red and yellow onions, maybe a few tomatoes. Maybe some cabbage, but they got hit by a grasshopper invasion! Cut herbs: basil, mint, parsley, dill, cilantro.
Truck Patch Farms: Hot house tomatoes and a few more raspberries. Summer squash. Greens: lettuce, salad mix, arugula, spinach, Swiss chard. Radishes and beets and green beans. Cut herbs. Eggs. Pork and beef. Chickens, if you pre-order at order@truckpatchfarms.com. Ground beef and patties, ground pork, loose sausage, and ground ham. Sausages: sage, celery, applewurst, country hot, mild and hot Italian, sweet Italian with fennel, kielbasa, bratwurst. Smoked kielbasa and andouille sausages. Steaks, chops and tenderloins, spare ribs, baby back ribs, pork shoulder. Breakfast sausage and bacon. Ask Bryan about goat meat.
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, including spicy lamb merguez. Soap made from their own beef tallow.
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.
Atwater Bread: Organic sourdough and yeasted breads: Peasant Wheat, Caraway Rye, Cranberry Pecan, Kalamata Olive, traditional San Francisco Sourdough, Ciabatta, Country White, Chili Cheddar, Spelt, Sunflower Flax, and more. Brownies, cookies, scones, muffins, and several flavors of granola.
Panorama Bakery: Baguettes, croissants, pain au chocolat, mini ciabattas are great for sandwiches, sliced loaves, danishes, sticky buns, apple turnovers.
July 3 – Mount Pleasant Popsicles!
We have a new vendor joining us this Saturday with cold, sweet popsicles made from fresh, local ingredients! Promised flavors for this week are Toigo Orchard’s Strawberry Cream, Richfield Farms Rhubarb with Strawberry, and Cucumber Chile. Look for their vintage bicycle cart loaded with kid- and adult-friendly deliciousness on a stick! They are the ultimate in local, making their products just down the street from our market.
This is your last chance for the all too brief season of pie cherries. Don’t make pies, you say? Me neither! They are indeed a bit tart, but sweet enough to eat straight, and the flavor is amazing, like cherry pie on a stem. Hm, almost like nature meant for them to be put in pies. Metaphysical musings aside, tonight I’m going to try a sour cherry cocktail, either with sweet tea and rye whiskey, or as a Sour Cherry Gin Muddler, depending which liquor is safest for my pregnant sister visiting from Madison, WI.
For Independence Day BBQ, I’ll be making red white and blue potato salad, cuz it’s just too cute, Asian slaw, sirloin steaks, and grilled beets (wash, halve, grill face down ’til tender) with Cherry Glen Goat Cheese chevre and diced sweet white Walla Walla onion from Quaker Valley Orchard. The grilled squashes have been delicious this year too, just tossed in a little olive oil and salt, all the different shapes and sizes are fun! Dessert is piles and piles of Truck Patch Farms RED raspberries, Reid Orchard BLUEberries and WHITE currants.
Events at market:
Local Foods:
Adelante Co-op: Grilled chicken tacos, my favorite! Platos and the usual special rice dishes. This week they’ll have BOTH horchata and chicha morada.
Reid Orchard: Last week for pie cherries. Blueberries, red and black raspberries, red and black currants, red and green gooseberries. Harcot apricots. Yellow and white Spring Snow peaches. Sugar snap peas. Tart Lodi apples great for applesauce.
Quaker Valley Orchards: Pink, red and white currants. Red, golden and black raspberries. Transparent apples. Peaches, sugar plums, a few apricots. Red, gold, and blue potatoes, Walla Walla onions. Applesauce, honey, jam, tomato sauce, novelty popping corn-on-the-cob, canned peaches. Pie fillings: cherry, blackberry, blueberry and apple.
Richfield Farm: Cherry tomatoes, summer squash, potatoes, kale, Tuscan kale, collards, chard, head lettuce, fennel, regular and pickling cucumbers. Green beans. Blueberries. Cut flowers. The corn should be good and sweet by now, and the fava beans plentiful and fun to pick over with a beer and a friend by the grill.
Smallwood’s Veggieporium: Lettuce, Swiss chard, beets with greens, carrots, potatoes, squash and squash blossoms, slicing cucumbers, red and yellow onions, maybe a few tomatoes. Maybe some cabbage, but they got hit by a grasshopper invasion! Cut herbs: basil, mint, parsley, dill, cilantro.
Truck Patch Farms: Hot house tomatoes and a few more raspberries. Summer squash. Greens: lettuce, salad mix, arugula, spinach, Swiss chard. Radishes and beets and green beans. Cut herbs. Eggs. Pork and beef. Chickens, if you pre-order at order@truckpatchfarms.com. Ground beef and patties, ground pork, loose sausage, and ground ham. Sausages: sage, celery, applewurst, country hot, mild and hot Italian, sweet Italian with fennel, kielbasa, bratwurst. Smoked kielbasa and andouille sausages. Steaks, chops and tenderloins, spare ribs, baby back ribs, pork shoulder. Breakfast sausage and bacon. Ask Bryan about goat meat.
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, including spicy lamb merguez. Soap made from their own beef tallow.
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.
Atwater Bread: Organic sourdough and yeasted breads: Peasant Wheat, Caraway Rye, Cranberry Pecan, Kalamata Olive, traditional San Francisco Sourdough, Ciabatta, Country White, Chili Cheddar, Spelt, Sunflower Flax, and more. Brownies, cookies, scones, muffins, and several flavors of granola.
Panorama Bakery: Baguettes, croissants, pain au chocolat, mini ciabattas are great for sandwiches, sliced loaves, danishes, sticky buns, apple turnovers.