strawberries everywhere rain or shine at the Bloomingdale Farmers Market

From: "Markets & More"

Date: June 8, 2018 at 11:48:01 PM GMT+2
To: robin@marketsandmore.info
Subject: strawberries everywhere rain or shine at BFM

Hi Everyone,

I am away at a conference in Viterbo, Italy, where there do not seem to be as many strawberries as we will have on Sunday!  I am disappointed because I wanted to try Italian varieties (I really like the tiny French ones).

Last night there was a barbecue and we ate grilled Roman zucchini. long and ridged, and grilled eggplants and grilled red peppers.  The zucchini were cut in half, the eggplant into very thin rounds and the red peppers were scorched on all sides so that the skin could  be removed and the flesh sliced and seasoned with garlic and the local olive oil, which is very peppery and good.  We have zucchini at BFM and you can grill it in a variety of ways.  Today I had grilled zucchini at lunch -- cut very thin, maybe 1/8 of an inch the long way, grilled and presented as individual roll ups and served wth a cruet of local olive oil and vinegar. ( I wish we had olive trees in DC)Very simple and very good.  You will have to wait a few weeks for our eggplants and peppers.  The summer squash and zucchini you can get this week. ( We also had a bean salad dressed with olive oil and herbs and the very lemony lemons, coleslaw and a bread salad.)

I will give you the recipe for the bread salad in a few weeks when we have more tomatoes.

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What's at market:

NEW at NUMBER 1 SONS: Cucumber pickles, Crispy Koshers, Half Sours, Honey Habaneros, Gin-Gingers, Dilly Daikon, the new asparagus kimchi plus the dozen other ferments 

WHISKED: Jenna's cookies are as good as her pies: Chocolate Chip, Salty Oatmeal, Hazelnut Swirl, Molasses Spice, Snickerdoodle, Pretzel Cowboy and two new Vegan winners: Oatmeal Chocolate Chip and Chocolate Blackout.  Pies Pies Pies including Bourbon Pecan adn SEasalt Chocolate Chess Pie. 

CUCINA AL VOLO: Mateo himself was staffing the U St stand 2 weeks ago and we got to chat about their 3 restaurants.  We both agreed that their kale and spinach infused fusilli makes the very best pasta salad because of the beautiful green color and the way the spirals trap little bits of cooked vegetables, meats or cheese.  It should always be in your freezer for spontaneous pasta salad picnics.

Tip: the beef brisket ravioli is marinated and slow cooked for 24 hours. Lots of sauces too.  

REID's ORCHARDS STRAWBERRIES.  Sugar Snap peas too.  Herb plants because there is still time to plant your summer herbs and apples.
TIP: strawberries and asparagus make a great salad.

KESWICK CREAMERY:  The minute the sun comes out, melt some cheese on a grilled meat or veggie burger.  Sara has a lot of choics. Crush garlic with salt and mint and stir it into her yogurt.  Perfect dressing for cucumbers, vegetables and kebabs.  Chevre reminds me of Provence where we eat it every day. 

MOUNTAIN VIEW ORGANIC:  If you have not tried the heads of gem lettuce, you are missing out.  Garlic scapes. carrots, beets, asian geens, chard, summer squash, Strawberries. Sugar Snap Peas, lots of their amazing spinach (cooks up so tender and creamy, salad mixes, kaless, pea shoots.  

GARNERS PRODUCE: Squash and zucchini. Green tomatoes and the first blush of red ones. Spring onions, beets, lettuce mixeis, kales, Swiss Chard, carrots, Purple and whie turnips, kohlrabi the alien vegetable, bok choi, colllard greens. Strawberries.

PANORAMA ARTISANAL BAKERY:  Two French bakers=lots of baguettes and croissants and breakfast pastries.  A whole bakers rack of French inspired breads including their Rustique, sourdoughs, whole wheat, multi grain, pumpernickel, rye. Sliced sandwich breads and round loaves too.
TRUCK PATCH: Carnivores love their pork and chicken. Salad lovers know it has great arugula, mesclun, baby spinach. Asparagus. strawberries. beets. kales. chard.  

PRODUCE PLUS  is back, even on rainy days.  If you want to help us make this enormously popular food access program available to the hundreds of people who come for it very week at BFM (or 14&U FM Saturdays), join the Farmers Market Brigade and volunteer in the PP Program.   We completely depend on our volunteers to make Produce Plus possible.

See you Sunday, rain or shine

Robin, the Teds, Cate and the Produce Plus team