Friday, September 29, 2017

Bloomingdale Farmers Market this Sunday: pizza beans and Collection Truck for Puerto Rico

From: Robin Shuster
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2017 1:19 PM
Subject: Pizza beans and Collection Truck for Puerto Rico

Biggest news:  Puerto Rico Donation Drive, Produce Plus ends SATURDAY — it will be completely over Sunday but our Bonus Matching Program restarts Sunday to fill the gap.

 
 

Hi Friends,

It really will be Fall for a few days before Summer fights back next week.  Bye bye Peaches --Reid's tables are full of pears, grapes and lots of interesting apples.  I am glad DC has such a long transitional season, so I do not have to say goodbye to the tomatoes and eggplant and corn and squash, peppers and okra, while I am  thinking about recipes with apples and Fall Squash and beets and turnips and all of our beautiful potatoes. And I am always excited to have more greens because they prefer the cooler weather.  Carrots also prefer warm days and cool nights which sweeten them up.


Try this cheesy, creamy baked Ziti move on Smitten Kitchen's 
Pizza beans with Garner's October/Cranberry beans and Keswick Mozzarella.

Puerto Rico Donation Drive Truck will be parked on Sunday 9am-1 pm on the north side of Florida Ave between First and R NW.  See the details about what is most needed here for the Sunday collection and thanks to organizers Marta and Jean Christophe. 

Interested in getting diesel fuel to Puerto Rico?  I donated to this vetted GlobalGiving Fuel Relief Project.  

We are open heat, rain or shine.
  • Great Broccoli at Truck Patch
  • Fresh cider at Reid
  • Mozzarella at Keswick is not just for the new flush of tomatoes-- melts on a zucchini or the Pizza bean casserole. 
  • Mountain View has baby ginger this week and it may be the last week.!  No skin, no fiber, floral, the best.  Great for syrups, sodas, stir fries, pickling, freezing. Use  a stalk to flavor some stock  or stir a cocktail and you can use the leaves to wrap fish or chop finely and use as an herb.
  • Reserve your Thanksgiving Turkey at Truck Patch with Stacia. Nope, it is not too early.
  • Pear, both Asian and Bartlett
  • September Fruit Salad Season: melons, berries, peaches, pears, grapes and apples.  Add mint.  You might even like to add some fresh baby ginger....just saying...
  • Fry up some Peppers aand onions as a base for sausages or rice or pasta:we have an amazing selection of peppers among the stands: the flavors are not your boring old bell peppers.
  • We have lots of corn for boiling, grilling American or slathered with mayo, hot pepper, grated cotija or parmesan in a version of Mexico City Style (or off the cob as smoky, creamy, limey Esquites). Corn salad is really good. Corn Soup is amazing and remember to save your corn cobs because corn cob stock is one of those secret ingredients that heightens the flavor or everything.  Like Turkey stock after Thanksgiving.

MOUNTAIN VIEW ORGANIC:   May be the last week for Baby Ginger. Nice to see their greens again: swiss chard, bok choy. Check out the Asian varieties of eggplant and squash. Attila, the Hungarian pepper whisperer, loves his hot and sweet peppers.  Shishitos. Sweet Potato Greens.  Potatoes. Shallots. Onions in yellow, purple and white. Squash and zucchini. cherry tomatoes and beets.  Radishes (eat the greens too). Salad Greens. Mountain View loves growing unusual varieties and everything is certified organic.

REID: 
Concord grapes, pears, UV cider (Honeycrisp, Apple Grape and Apple Cherry ): Apples: Conor has samples of all the apples soTaste taste taste. He brings lots of unusual heirloom apples as well as favorites like Fuji, Gala, Honeycrisp, Mutsu.

NUMBER 1 SONS.  Stock up on cucumber pickles while they last. Super Sours. Half Sours, Crispy Koshers, Distict Dills, Kicky or Krispy Koshers, Honey Habaneros !  Snow Kimchi,Clean Kraut, Stinking Kraut, Ripping Rosetido, Hot hearts, Kale Chi, Kicky Kimchi. 

KESWICK CREAMERY: Check out those Keswick cows parading around their pasture at their F
acebook page. They are featuring some interesting cheeses this week: The Cocoa & Coffee which is rubbed with cocoa and Zeke's coffee and aged 3 months. Creamy and yes, it has a coffee finish. Or try their excellent mixed milk Morbier which was featured at a wine/cheese pairing this week.  Mozzarella for the new flush of tomatoes and for creamy, cheesy Fall dishes as well. Yogurt, ricotta, quark, and 15 other cheeses.

 Ask Sarah to suggest new cheeses for your cheese plate with the local apples, pears and grapes.
 

WHISKED!: The perfect desserts for your parties and picnics are Whisked award winning pies. The Fall Apple pies lead the September parade, followed by irresistible Lemon Blackberry, Cookies and Cream, Bourbon pecan, Sea Salt Chocolate Chess, Cranberry Walnut.

TIP: The New Fall Quiches are perfect lunch or brunch dishes: Three Cheese with Caramelized Onions, Kale and Feta. Butternut Squash Onion and Thyme. And don't forget the dozen different cookies.


CUCINA AL VOLO. Try the new Butternut Squash Ravioli with a simple butter and quickly sauteed fresh sage sauce. The homemade burrata ravioli always sells out fast. The eggplant norma sauce makes a good veggie sidedish and a number of customers use the mushroom sauce as a mushroom soup...

TIP: No time to cook? their fresh pastas cook in less than 4 minutes. Grab a sauce and you can put together dinner in 10 minutes.  Add a salad or cut up some tomatoes and cucumbers and Mozz.  Finish with a Whisked Pie or cookies.

TRUCK PATCH FARMS:  Not to early to talk Turkey with Stacia. Bryan prides himself on his turkeys. Heirloom tomatoes, okra, green beans, many varieties of summer squash. Arugula, mesclun, spinach, kale, chards, eggplants, onions, chives, butternut, acorn and other Fall squash.

Meat Department:  SAY YES to Pork sausages, bacons, pork chops, salt pork, chops, pork sirloins, pork steaks, country ribs, spare ribs, butt roast, boneless shoulder roast, boneless and bone-in loin roasts.

TIP: Brine pork in Number 1 Sons pickle brines.
 

GARNER: Gala Melon.  Corn.  Sweet Potatoes. Many varieties of eggplants, Summer squash, peppers in green and red, okra, basil, potatoes, primo red tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers for slicing and pickling, beans, chard, garlic, candy onions. green beans. Greens.  Red, white and Yukon spuds. Parsley, Mint, Cilantro.  Make Pesto with them. Kales. Swiss Chard. Limas. October beans. Black eyed Peas all love to be dressed in a lemon vinaigrette with chopped herbs.  Cranberry beans. Black Eyed Peas.

TIP: Suffering Succotash. NOT. I call the Lima beans American edamames. Toss them into simmering, salted water, drain, dress with salt and olive oil.  I HATED succotash as a child but now I love a simple saute of parboiled limas with diced zucchini and corn kernels, red peppers and tomatoes.  Dressed with olive oil and lemon, basil or mint, and I usually add some hot peppers of some kind.

 

PANORAMA : French breakfast pastries like palmiers, almond croissants plus the plain and chocolate crosisants, baguettes, the olive oil buns that grace the 25 dollar hamburgers at Central and the Rustiques.  Sandwich breads, too.  If they are out of a bread you crave, ask them to save one for you for next week.  Late risers:  they have lots of whole wheat, multigrain and sourdough boules and loaves that sell out early.  So reserve what you want!  Email if you do not see something you want, please.

Robin, Teds, Danielle

The Produce Plus Program ends Saturday, September 30.  The checks are completely worthless after Saturday, alas.  But you can go to our 14&U FM at the Reeves Center tomorrow Saturday September 30 for your last checks and to spend your remaining checks.  Please use all of them.

We have distributed Produce Plus checks to about 200 customers every week at BFM, double 2016. so that more of our neighbors can eat fresh fruits and vegetables from June-September. 
The Produce Plus Program has been a great success, connecting low-income District residents to fresh produce at farmers’ markets in all 8 Wards of the city. Perhaps the program’s biggest accomplishment was demonstrating the demand for fruits and vegetables. (Hard to believe that anyone doubted that, isn't it?)

Our privately funded Bonus matching program restarts this Sunday so that we can help fill the gap now that Produce Plus has stopped. Ask us about it at the market table.  We will match up  SNAP, WIC and Senior FMNP checks up to $10 per market week. Our Bonus tokens are good for meat, cheese, eggs, fruits and vegetables.
 

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