Sent: Saturday, September 7, 2013 6:52 PM
Subject: Back to Market Specials
Hi BFM Fans,
Welcome back! The market is a wonderful blend of summer and early Fall so you can make everything you want. Bring your bike so you can get it into shape for long Fall rides at our Free Bike Clinic, run by our friends at The Bike House.
SPECIAL: Baby Ginger is back for a few week. Fiberless, barely covered with a wisp of a skin you can rub off, floral and spicy. Use it raw, stir fry with it, make cocktails and ginger syrup. Shred the leaves into curries. Use the stalk as a swizzle stick or a skewer or underneath whatevery you are grilling -- or throw it into a soup or stew for seasoning. Only 5 or 6 producers grow baby ginger in our region because it is such a pain. It is a tropical rhizome and can't bear our winters or Springs so you have to bsby it inside a greenhouse until the weather turns hot enough for it.
FIGS: Those brown Turkish figs are delicious stuffed with ricotta.
SALES: look aroud the market -- there are sales every week. Mt View often puts their cherry tomatoes on sale. You will find deals on canning tomatoes from Truck Patch, Mt View and Garner. Garner has been stuffing a bag full of eggplant for just 10 dollars. If you want half or full bushels of fruit, you can often get a great price.
You Can Buy Just One. or two spears. Number 1 Sons pickle spears are available for that yen you have while you are browsing the market.
REID: yellow peaches, white peaches, plums, yellow nectarines, apples (Honeycrisp, Gala, McIntosh, Zesta, Earligold, Ginger Gold, Paula Red, Rambo, Mollie’s Delicious), blueberries, blackberries, red raspberries, seedless grapes and heirloom tomatoes. I bought a bunch of their Heirlooms last week. They have some very unusual varieties and very tomato-y flavors.
MOUNTAIN VIEW ORGANIC: Besides the ultimate ginger, you will find nutty flavored Zephyr bicolor summer squash, peppers of all hues and heats including those pale Hungarians, green beans, cherry tomatoes and beautiful small reds, baskets of chard, herbs.. French Fingerlings, Carolas and white Maryland heirloom sweet potatoes (Hayman). Delicata Squash and Acorns too.
TRUCK PATCH: BROCCOLI has arrived. Yay. Plus a huge selection of heirlooms (firsts and seconds for canning), chard, spinach, the famous baby arugula, mesclun, summer squash in many colors and shapes (think flying saucers, for instance. Lots of Fall Squash peeking out from the stand as well-- acorn and butternut. Beans and lots of okra. Sweet Potatoes.
Now, if you are not a fan, of okra, I say roast them toasty to banish the slime. Give them a toss in olive oil and throw them on a cookie sheet at 425 degrees until toasted. Works like a charm.Then sprinkle with salt, a little cumin and a spritz of lime. Addictive. (If the okra are large, stew them instead --or cut them into pieces before roasting)
TP EGG and Meats: Lots of eggs and pastured pork in 30 different cuts including a dozen differnt sausages. Pastured Chickens, whole and in parts. Turkey parts and ground.
GARNER: A TABLE full of Roma flat beans, green beans and those aforementioned Purslane. Tomatoes (heirlooms, field, cherries), 7 different summer squash, eggplants, melons. Okra.Corn. REd and yellow poatoes. Cucumbers. Candy sweet onions. Mint.
KESWICK: Yes, the yogurt is superb -- and no, it is not Greek yogurt but you can drain it a bit and it will turn into the best Greek yogurt you have had. Quark is what regular Cream Cheese aspires to be, and without the additives. Plain or with chives. Pimento Cheese because Mark is a Southern boy. Many flavored of fetas to go with your cucumbers and tomatoes. 15 different aged raw milk cheeses.
PANORAMA: Emmanuel and Damien have your back whether you want French baguettes and croissants or whole wheat/rye/sourdough/pumpernickel/ multigrain loaves. Damien loves his French breakfast pastries...All the breads freeze very well so you can have bread all week.
PAINTED HAND: Sandy has her liver bits for our Bloomingdogs and primal cuts of goat for us. Goat, rose veal, eggs, chickens. Did you go to her annual Labor Day goat roast Monday?
WHISKED: Jenna was featured in the Food Section of the POST Wednesday -- did you see? http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/union-kitchen-gives-small-food-businesses-a-space-to-call-their-own/2013/09/04/6c8ea67c-117d-11e3-b4cb-fd7ce041d814_story.html?tid=gog_ent_article_grid. Pies this week: Apple Blackberry, Nectarine Ginger, Caramelized Onion and Goat Cheese Quiche and teh spicy, cheesy Corn Cheddar and Jalapeno. Pretzel Cowboy Cookies, Salty Oats too. Ask about the Vegan crusts.
NUMBER 1 SONS: Dilly beans, pickled garlic, blonde pickles, Acalpulco kraut (think: the best cortido and would be just what you need on your tacos, just in case you have not tried it yet.) I bought Kicky Koshers today after finishing off a tall container of Dills last week with Jeff. This is the real deal, whether you are looking for traditionally brined NY deli pickles or Kimchi or Krauts. And while I can't eat just one they do sell 2 spears for a dollar if you need a hit while you are shopping.
See you Sunday.
Ted, Ted, Erica, Robin
Welcome back! The market is a wonderful blend of summer and early Fall so you can make everything you want. Bring your bike so you can get it into shape for long Fall rides at our Free Bike Clinic, run by our friends at The Bike House.
SPECIAL: Baby Ginger is back for a few week. Fiberless, barely covered with a wisp of a skin you can rub off, floral and spicy. Use it raw, stir fry with it, make cocktails and ginger syrup. Shred the leaves into curries. Use the stalk as a swizzle stick or a skewer or underneath whatevery you are grilling -- or throw it into a soup or stew for seasoning. Only 5 or 6 producers grow baby ginger in our region because it is such a pain. It is a tropical rhizome and can't bear our winters or Springs so you have to bsby it inside a greenhouse until the weather turns hot enough for it.
FIGS: Those brown Turkish figs are delicious stuffed with ricotta.
SALES: look aroud the market -- there are sales every week. Mt View often puts their cherry tomatoes on sale. You will find deals on canning tomatoes from Truck Patch, Mt View and Garner. Garner has been stuffing a bag full of eggplant for just 10 dollars. If you want half or full bushels of fruit, you can often get a great price.
You Can Buy Just One. or two spears. Number 1 Sons pickle spears are available for that yen you have while you are browsing the market.
REID: yellow peaches, white peaches, plums, yellow nectarines, apples (Honeycrisp, Gala, McIntosh, Zesta, Earligold, Ginger Gold, Paula Red, Rambo, Mollie’s Delicious), blueberries, blackberries, red raspberries, seedless grapes and heirloom tomatoes. I bought a bunch of their Heirlooms last week. They have some very unusual varieties and very tomato-y flavors.
MOUNTAIN VIEW ORGANIC: Besides the ultimate ginger, you will find nutty flavored Zephyr bicolor summer squash, peppers of all hues and heats including those pale Hungarians, green beans, cherry tomatoes and beautiful small reds, baskets of chard, herbs.. French Fingerlings, Carolas and white Maryland heirloom sweet potatoes (Hayman). Delicata Squash and Acorns too.
TRUCK PATCH: BROCCOLI has arrived. Yay. Plus a huge selection of heirlooms (firsts and seconds for canning), chard, spinach, the famous baby arugula, mesclun, summer squash in many colors and shapes (think flying saucers, for instance. Lots of Fall Squash peeking out from the stand as well-- acorn and butternut. Beans and lots of okra. Sweet Potatoes.
Now, if you are not a fan, of okra, I say roast them toasty to banish the slime. Give them a toss in olive oil and throw them on a cookie sheet at 425 degrees until toasted. Works like a charm.Then sprinkle with salt, a little cumin and a spritz of lime. Addictive. (If the okra are large, stew them instead --or cut them into pieces before roasting)
TP EGG and Meats: Lots of eggs and pastured pork in 30 different cuts including a dozen differnt sausages. Pastured Chickens, whole and in parts. Turkey parts and ground.
GARNER: A TABLE full of Roma flat beans, green beans and those aforementioned Purslane. Tomatoes (heirlooms, field, cherries), 7 different summer squash, eggplants, melons. Okra.Corn. REd and yellow poatoes. Cucumbers. Candy sweet onions. Mint.
KESWICK: Yes, the yogurt is superb -- and no, it is not Greek yogurt but you can drain it a bit and it will turn into the best Greek yogurt you have had. Quark is what regular Cream Cheese aspires to be, and without the additives. Plain or with chives. Pimento Cheese because Mark is a Southern boy. Many flavored of fetas to go with your cucumbers and tomatoes. 15 different aged raw milk cheeses.
PANORAMA: Emmanuel and Damien have your back whether you want French baguettes and croissants or whole wheat/rye/sourdough/pumpernickel/ multigrain loaves. Damien loves his French breakfast pastries...All the breads freeze very well so you can have bread all week.
PAINTED HAND: Sandy has her liver bits for our Bloomingdogs and primal cuts of goat for us. Goat, rose veal, eggs, chickens. Did you go to her annual Labor Day goat roast Monday?
WHISKED: Jenna was featured in the Food Section of the POST Wednesday -- did you see? http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/union-kitchen-gives-small-food-businesses-a-space-to-call-their-own/2013/09/04/6c8ea67c-117d-11e3-b4cb-fd7ce041d814_story.html?tid=gog_ent_article_grid. Pies this week: Apple Blackberry, Nectarine Ginger, Caramelized Onion and Goat Cheese Quiche and teh spicy, cheesy Corn Cheddar and Jalapeno. Pretzel Cowboy Cookies, Salty Oats too. Ask about the Vegan crusts.
NUMBER 1 SONS: Dilly beans, pickled garlic, blonde pickles, Acalpulco kraut (think: the best cortido and would be just what you need on your tacos, just in case you have not tried it yet.) I bought Kicky Koshers today after finishing off a tall container of Dills last week with Jeff. This is the real deal, whether you are looking for traditionally brined NY deli pickles or Kimchi or Krauts. And while I can't eat just one they do sell 2 spears for a dollar if you need a hit while you are shopping.
See you Sunday.
Ted, Ted, Erica, Robin
No comments:
Post a Comment