From: Robin Shuster
Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2021 6:40 PM
Subject: Stock Up for Memorial Day at BFM Sunday
Damian will have chocolate
eclairs and strawberry tarts
Hi
BFM Fans,
I wanted to share a special strawberry and rum based barbecue sauce: for
cookouts Monday when it will finally be a lovely, sunny day! So, whether
you are in DC or at the beaches or camping, please try this sauce. Reid
has lots of strawberries.
https://www.finecooking.com/recipe/strawberry-bbq-sauce
Fresh and fruity, it's great with pork and chicken. Think grilled foods,
smoked chicken wings, a glaze for meatloaf or even a dip for French Fries.
From Soul: a
Chef's Culinary Evolution in 150 recipes by Todd
Richards.
Reid is starting to pivot from their impressive popup Plant Nursery --see
the bottom of the email for more details. Meats to grill Monday? Groff's
Content. Their chickens are back in the coolers.
NEW this week:
- Groff's
Content will have their famous Freedom Ranger chickens at BFM again. Just
in time to spatchcock and grill one.
- Damien
at Panorama is bringing the new Strawberry Tart and the Chocolate
Eclair and hot dog rolls and buns
- Reid
will have a BUNCH of sweet PA strawberries, sugar snaps, spinach,
buttercrunch lettuce and ciders in 1/2 gallon growlers
- Garner
will have baby summer squash, baby new potatoes, bunches of basil
- Number
1 Sons will add Sunny Dills to their 4 cucumber pickles-- every
Memorial Day cookout needs pickles or kraut or kimchi
- Whisked
cookies are always the right thing to bring. (Did you know 3 are
Vegan?)
- Chinese
Street Market chili sauce is a perfect condiment to grilled veg or meat.
- Ask
Swirly Girl which of the 22 cheeses will melt best on your grilled foods--
Create a cheese platter.
- Are
you grilling some of the King Mushrooms?
- Green
Kale Fusilli makes the best pasta salad!
Here
is a sample of what we will have at market:
GARNERS PRODUCE: The first baby and teenaged squash, bunches of basil and
tiny new potatoes, English peas, sugar snaps, last of their local strawberries.
Asparagus. Spring onions, scallions, garlic, carrots, kales, arugula, lettuces,
beets, radishes, bok choi, chard, spinach, collards, their own grits, cornmeal,
potted herbs and annuals and perennials.
SWIRLY GIRL CREAMERY: 22 cheeses! Come
check out this spread of cow and goat milk and mixed milk cheeses. Morbier,
Goat Cheddar, Onamar, Tomme, Goast Manchego, Tommy Goat, Goat Gouda, Goat Feta,
Cow Feta, Curds,Winter Morning, Cowttin, Chevre, Bovre, Marinated Feta, Mira
Flores, Farmhouse, Scratch, Garlic Tomme, Brie, Blue Moon, Bhutlah.
Robin says: I really like the new Goat Manchego.
SHENANDOAH SEASONAL: Right now the greens and lettuces and herbs are thriving.
Dill, parsley, cilantro. Big Romaine heads, freah spinach and
green garlic.
Baby carrots, baby red Russian Kale, Siberian kale, curly kale, Blue
Dazzle Dino kale, collards, Rainbow Chard, Vivid Choi, baby bok choi, purple
mizuna, Tokyo bekana, Pea Shoots, Radish micro greens. Lettuces (magenta,
romaine, lime oakleaf), arugula, zesty salad mix, lettuce mix, Cherry
Bell radish. I love their Chinese Sprouting Broccoli which it is hard to find.
Tip: My obsession and favorite green remains their Chinese Sprouting Broccoli,
Toss it into simmering salted water and then stirfry briefly with chopped
ginger -- or grill it. Season with Chinese Street Market's chile oils.
KING MUSHROOMS: Grill these
mushrooms! Skewer them. Oyster, King Trumpet, shiitake, portobello,
chestnut and maitake this week. Also, tinctures, my favorite Hungarian Mushroom
soup ....and marinated mushrooms.
GROFF'S CONTENT: Chicken is back.
Chicken and Duck eggs. Pork and beef and 11 pork sausages and lots and
lots of lamb. Pork shoulder, chops, bacon, pork jowls. Lamb ideas:
Julie's special Leg of Lamb cut for two, Leg steaks for grilling,
shoulder roasts, shoulder chops are great in a crockpot. Have you tried
the Denver Ribs -- Lamb spare ribs. The whole range of steaks and tons of
ground beef. Turkey Lasagne and Turkey Pot Pie, Shepherd's Pie, Meatballs in
Marinara, Bone Broths, Pork Liver Pate. Ham and White Bean soup. Julie
told me everyone needs to try the thinly sliced "Fajita steak"
Best ground meat mixture: I recommend mixing ground beef, lamb and pork for
burgers, meatballs, meatloaf
CHINESE STREET MARKET: Yes, the dumplings
and noodles and the spicy chile oils are back.! Porky and Chinese Celery,
Chicken and corn and shiitakes, ,Veggie Medley & Tofu, Eggplant &
Chinese greens. Dandan Noodes. Special: Tsing rice cakes. Big Steam
pork buns, Pork soup dumplings.
TIP: keep some packages in your freezer for meals you can put together in 10
minutes. Perfect to take off a late May chill.
NUMBER 1 SONS: Crispy Kosher,
Half Sours, Sunny Dills, Honey Habs. Ramp kraut, Clean kraut, Snow Miso Kimchi, Radish kimchi,
Sons Kimchi, Kicky Kimchi, Gin Gingers daikons, Honey Habañero . Masala beets,
Golden beets, Giardiniera. Kombuchas (Turmeric Tang, Lavender Fizz, Original
Ginger and a new seasonal flavor surprize.
CUCINA AL VOLO: Don't forget the Pasta
Salad! Pasta Primavera with asparagus. Pappardelle wtih Arugula,
Fettucine with market Shiitakes and asparagus. Or get a ravioli which
cooks in 4 minutes. I counted 12 different freshly dried pasta choices at
their stand last week plus lasagne and eggplant parmesan lasagne.... and all
their sauces.
Freeze them --they go from freezer to simmering water to your plate in 5
minutes.
WHISKED: Cookies and Pies for every party
and picnic and cookout.
Cookies: Chocolate Chip, Salty Oatmeal, Molasses Spice Hazelnut Swirl, Pretzel
Cowboy, Snickerdoodle. Vegan: Chocolate Black Out, Lemon Poppyseed, Oatmeal
Chocolate Chip. Mexican Chocolate has no Gluten ingredients.
Pies: Apple Crumble, Bourbon Pecan, Lemon Coconut, Sea Salt Chocolate Chess,
Salted Caramel Apple, Strawberry rhubarb.
PANORAMA: This week: 3 of Damien's
new desserts, baguettes, croissants (classic butter, chocolate, rain, almond),
sourdoughs, multigrain, whole wheat, Plie, Danish, sticky buns, Breton Kouign
Amann, palmier, turnover, quiches, bagels, strudle, bricohes, challah, brioche
bun, ciabatta, French boule, French loaf, Foccaccia, Olive seed loaf, pumpernickel,
rye, muffins, breakfast loaf, olive oil bun...
REID'S: STRAWBERRIES! 1/2
Gallon Cider Growlers. Spinach, buttercrunch and red leaf lettuces. Sugar
Snaps.
Still time to buy and plant those herbs, annuals and perennials. Petunias,
geranium, coleus, dahlias, zinnias, marigolds, impatiens, sunflowers,
achillea, guillardia, monarda, flox, heuchera, rudbeckia, agastache,shasta
daisy, coreopsis, Herbs include: basils, cilantro, chives,
coriander, sages, dill, lavenders, cat grass, catnip, parsleys, sweet marjoram,
mints, lemon balm, chervil, lemon verbena, lovage, lemon grass, stevia, French
tarragon, thymes, oreganos, rosemarys. tomatoes,sweet
peppers,hot peppers.
Plus: Apple cider, apple sauce, canned peaches, apple and fruit butter, honey
and maple syrup from neighbors
- We ditched One Way -- you can Zig Zag from stand to
stand as you used to.
- The ropes in the center of the market are gone
- We are welcoming well-behaved doggies on short leashes
again.
- Please continue to mask if you are unvaccinated (or
just want to be cautious).
- Enter and Exit the market at either First and R
or R and Florida only
- Please avoid crowding each other when there are lines
at stands
Looking forward to seeing everyone in person.
Robin and Ted
