bloomingdale: Bloomingdale Farmers Market: Say Cheese!

Friday, June 26, 2020

Bloomingdale Farmers Market: Say Cheese!

From: Robin Shuster
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2020 2:46 PM
Subject: BFM: Say: Cheese!

Hi BFM fans

Remember we are always open rain or shine.

CHEESE IS BACK! YAY. HURRAH. ABOUT TIME.

Mark K. will be back at the market with their new name-- which they were just starting to use last year: SWIRLY GIRL CREAMERY (named after one of their goats). Here are a few to look forward to on Sunday.

Morbier: this semi soft cow cheese with a layer of vegetable ash is a shout out to one of my favorite French cheeses.
Winter Morning is their most popular, a bloomy rind cheese
Feta, Tomato Basil Bovre and Farmhouse cow cheeses are all great with pasta -- or on crackers.
You like Funky cheese, they have Mooster, Firetruck and Cowttin. Mooster is soft and spreadable and melts well. Firetruck is a salty, hard, grater, Cowttin is similar to a triple cream. The longer you keep it, the funkier it gets. Very French.

NEW PRODUCER: Shenandoah Seasonal has joined the market: You can order online here or shop at their stand in the market.

Number 1 Sons fabulous ferments are no longer by pre-order only but it helps them a lot if you do pre order. They will be staffed by Haley at the stand on Sunday with their most popular pickles, ferments and kimchi in prepacks.

GROFF's CONTENT: Beef, pork and chicken this week at the stand this week...

CHINESE STREET MARKET POPUP (AKA Those DUMPLINGS) Pre Order by THURSDAY 10 PM for your East Asian handmade, flash-frozen dumplings, buns, shumai and more. Don't forget duck stock . Text at 202 596 6985 or email at chinesestreetmarketdc@gmail.com http://www.thepopupchinesestreetmarketdc.com

We love their dumplings but did you know they have a secret passion which they have started to share with us: Dan Dan noodles. Try the New Kit!

WHISKED: Jenna says:

PIE FANS, Key Lime Pies are back.

Summer has arrived in all its hot and humid glory! Celebrate with some of our wildly popular KEY LIME PIE! It'll be making its debut this weekend.

6 Pack Cookies: Chocolate Chip, Salty Oatmeal, Molasses Spice, Hazelnut Swirl, Snickerdoodle, Pretzel Cowboy, Assorted, Flourless Mexican Chocolate (GF), VEGAN: Oatmeal Chocolate Chip, Lemon Poppyseed, Chocolate Blackout. Pies: Apple Crumble, Bourbon Pecan, Lemon Coconut, Seasalt Chocolate Chess, Strawberry Rhubarb, Salted Caramel, Cherry.

Did you meet our wonderful new producers: Ali and Dan Haney of SHENANDOAH SEASONAL. Ali writes:

Fresh baby greens! Lettuce mix, arugula, Pea shoots, baby kale. Three kinds of beets this week: Red globe beets have traditional earthy beet taste. Chioggia (candy stripe) are beautiful when sliced thin on a mandolin and eaten fresh. They have a sweeter flavor. Gold beets are the sweetest and have been known to convert those who don’t think they like beets into beet lovers! Never let those beet greens go to waste. We sauté them in butter.

This week we are eating pasta primaveras with summer squash, caramalized onion, peas from Reid’s and fresh pasta from Cucina Al Volo.

Limited supply of long English cucumbers. Robin says: The real ones that have some shape to them -- no plastic skin. Why do they always have plastic skin in the supermarket?

DYK they were chosen by Shawna and Attila to replace Mountain View at the market? (Attila and Shawna and the kids were supposed to be traveling the world right now but their departure has been delayed by the virus) Ali and Dan have been farming for 9 years - before that they were social workers.... in Cambodia. You can see them and the farm and some pretty vegetables on our fb and twitter and instagram .  (Hey, have you joined our Instagram yet?)

GARNER's PRODUCE: ORDER BY 7 PM FRIDAY if you want one of their vegetable boxes, cornmeal, grits, eggs, pepper jelly: https://www.garnersproduce.com/dcmarket-pickup. Be sure to mark 14&U FM when you order,

  They will also pack what you ask for at the stand: Swiss chard, sugar snaps, citrusy purslane great with tomatoes, kales, squash and zucchini, collard, tomatoes (early girls, cherry, heirloom), spring onions, loose onions, stir fry greens, Salad mix, lettuce mix, cabbages, carrots, cukes, radishes, Napa, arrow, Savoy, regular green round) Stone ground grits and cornmeal, hot pepper jelly. Hot sauces. Some herb plants. berries: blackberries and raspberries
Squash blossoms this week! Green and wax beans back! basil. cilantro. Will there be a few ears of corn this week?

KING MUSHROOM FARM: Pre order available at http://kingmushroomfarm.com. Order by FRIDAY for Sunday pickup at BFM. Shiitake, maitake, cremini, portobello, exotic mix, lion's mane, king trumpet, chestnut, oyster...Yes, you can order at the stand too. Grill those mushrooms.

NUMBER 1 SONS:  Yay. Number 1 Sons is STAFFED again at their stand where you will be able to buy their greatest hits in prepacks so that transactions go quickly ( Haley is back). Cucumber Pickles and hot sauces and kombucha and kimchi and krauts (be still my New Yorker's heart)

Pre Order for market pickup. Their site works best from your cell phone. (If you do not have a cell, use the Chrome browser on your computer.) Order before FRIDAY at 7 am at https://number1sons.com/collections/number-one-sons

Click on the photo of the pickle or ferments you want to put in your cart
On your cart page, change distribution to PICKLE STAND and check that the market pickup info is correct,
Add the date and time and click on Check Out.
Fill out your name and cc -- before you sign off, verify the market, date and time
Your order will be in a brown bag with your pickup sheet stapled to it. Orders will be arranged by last name on the table at the stand next to the market table just outside the market enclosure.

PANORAMA: breads, croissants and baked goods as always.

REID is berry berry good. Look for the strawberries, blueberries. sugar snap peas, English Garden peas. Zucchini. Last of the storage apples and pears The apples and pears have been in controlled atmosphere storage to keep them crisp and fresh. Fruit butters, no sugar applesauce and canned peaches, honey. Apple Cider in 1/2 gallon sealed growlers. If you have not had canned peaches since you were a kid, try them

Herb plants because it is not too late to plant them. And new cilantro plants should be replanted every few weeks. That is what they do in Mexico. Let the older plants go to flower and seed. Save the seeds -- they are coriander seeds. A few houseplants too.

CUCINA AL VOLO: Good pasta weather Sunday. Matteo and Rolando make the pastas and sauces and eggplant parm and lasagna for both their three restos and the markets. IF there is a specialty you want to see at market, tell them! All these homemade pastas love to wait for you in your freezer but cook up from frozen to place in less than 5 minutes (okay, the lasagna takes longer). I keep at least three different pasta in my freezer at all time -- two ravioli and something else. Remember the green kale fusilli makes the best pasta salad. The spirals catch all the bits of vegetable and cheese and chopped herbs.

Here is this week's list: