From: Robin
Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2021 9:50 PM
Subject: Tomatoes, basil, cherries at BFM
Reid has the first ripe tomatoes -- and cherries!
Hi
BFM Fans,
Lots of summer fruits and vegetables this week. First of the sweet
cherries at Reid, eggplant and basil and lots of different shapes and colors of
squash and squash blossoms and maybe some raspberries at Garner
Reid is bringing a lot of their Big Dena tomatoes! A greenhouse grown beefsteak
type of tom. I sliced and salted a big one last week and annointed it in
olive oil and let it sit until the tomato juice made its own tomatogrette.
It was very popular at lunch.
Looking for red fruit? Reid is Strawberry Central at BFM. There will be
lots of delicious strawberries of mixed varieties.
Make strawberry jam - buy a flat. Make strawberry syrup. Strawberry ice cream
or granita. Freeze strawberries for later. Now is the time.
Too hot to cook? Grill everything outside. Or buy dumplings or
pasta: they go from your freezer to your table in less than ten minutes. Fast
food the way it SHOULD be.
Notable this week:
- Last
week for herbs and annuals and perennial plants at Reid's
- Groff's
Content has a huge selection of pastured meats!
- Garner
is welcoming summer with eggplant, basil, many summer squash,
sugar snaps, shelled peas, new potatoes,bunches of cilantrol
and parsley. I am also looking for some blackberries and a few pints
of raspberries.
- Number
1 Sons will add Super Sours and cucumber kimchi
- Which
of Whisked cookies do you like the best? (Did you know 3 are Vegan?)
- Chinese
Street Market has their Dandan noodle kits besides the addictive
dumplings.
- Have
you tried the mixed milk Morbier at Swirly Girl -- and the 21
other cheeses? Create a cheese platter.
- King
Mushrooms? Grill or saute them.
-
Here
is a sample of what we will have at market:
GARNERS PRODUCE:The beautiful Italian eggplant and the summer squash are
begging to be sliced thin and quickly grilled, bunches of basil for Reid's
tomatoes, and new potatoes, English peas, sugar snaps,. Spring onions go very
well with those shelled peas. Scallions, garlic, carrots, kales, arugula,
lettuces, beets, radishes, bok choi, chard, spinach, collards, their own grits,
cornmeal, potted herbs and annuals and perennials.
A nice summer salad is new
potatoes, scallions and shelled peas....
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 tip: grill some young eggplant or some young squash and sprinkled quite a
bit of their feta on it. Olive oil, mint. Could be basil.
SHENANDOAH SEASONAL: Right now the greens and lettuces and herbs are thriving.
Dill, parsley, cilantro. Big Romaine heads, 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: Terrific greens? Wash, slice, Toss into simmering salted water and
then stirfry briefly with chopped ginger -- or season with Chinese Street
Market's chile oils.
KING MUSHROOMS: Grill these
mushrooms! Oyster, King Trumpet, shiitake, portobello, chestnut and
maitake this week. Also, tinctures, my favorite Hungarian Mushroom soup ....and
marinated mushrooms.
GROFF'S CONTENT: 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 for meatballs or burgers or loaf: ground beef, lamb
and pork.
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 NOT heat up your kitchen.
NUMBER 1 SONS: Super Sours Crispy
Kosher, Half Sours, Sunny Dills, Honey Habs. Ramp kraut, Clean kraut, Snow
Miso Kimchi, Radish kimchi, Sons Kimchi, Kicky Kimchi, , Honey Habañero .
Masala beets, Golden beets, Giardiniera. Kombuchas (Turmeric Tang, Lavender
Fizz, Original Ginger and Many Berry. .
Robin says: pickles are so refreshing. And Super Sours make my New Yorker heart
race.
CUCINA AL VOLO: Don't forget the Pasta
Salad! Pasta Primavera with sliced or diced squash. Pappardelle wtih
Arugula, Fettucine with market Shiitakes 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. Try the new "Creamsicles".
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: 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...
Bread Salad: Buy a little extra bread so
that you can make bread salad. Use bread that is a few days old, tear it
into small pieces and mix it with cut up tomatoes that have been salted and
oiled. Let those juices mingle with the bread, with basil leaves, sliced cukes
and radishes. And yes, you can add some feta.
REID'S:Tomatoes. Strawberries!
Cherries. Big Dena beefsteak tomatoes (greenhouse grown) Pasturized Apple Cider
in Glass Growlers. Sugar Snaps. Apples. English Garden Peas, summer
squash.
Yes, there is Still time to buy and plant those herbs, annuals and perennials.
Last week for plants at Reid.
Plus: Apple cider, apple sauce, canned peaches, apple and fruit butter, various
single blossom honeys and maple syrup from neighbors
- 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
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