From: Markets & More
Date: May 28, 2022 at 11:12:11 PM EDT
To: robin@marketsandmore.info
Subject: BFM Sun: Stock up for Memorial Day
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Hi BFM Fans!
Welcome back for your holiday weekend shopping
So
thinking about things I am going to get for my Memorial Day cookout:
SWIRLY GIRL CREAMERY little Elliot will be
supervising his father and grandmother. at the stand! I will
grab some of their "Pub Music". It is a goat's milk
Cotswold (or Double Gloucester style), loaded with onions and chives. Perfect
for melting on burgers or grilled vegetables and snacking. Others: Dill
Havarti, Peach Butlah, Winter Morning, Tommy Goat, Goat Feta, Spring Tulip,
Smoky Isabelle, Smokey Gouda, Sara's Brie, Blue Moon, Onamor, Spring Picnic,
Gouda, Cowtin, Mira, Various flavors of curds and Chevre.
WHISKED COOKIES AND PIES. I was taken with
their Memorial
Day Board of triangles of cookies and pies with fruit and cheese. It
looked very cool. I am not sure which pies I want to bring yet but they would
all be welcome.
- As an omnivore, I will definitely be grilling Hot Dogs,
Burgers, Sausages and Chicken from Groff's.
- And lots of Grilled Vegetables: Squash, Zucchini,
Mushrooms, Fennel, Escarole, Broccoli, Asparagus.
- Garner has Tomatoes already and I will made a salad of
them with Swirly Girl Feta and cucumbers and spring onions and fresh mint
or basil.
- Did you know that Memorial Day weekend is
a traditional weekend to plant your gardens, balconies, patios,
terraces?
REID's ORCHARDS turns into a
popup nursery every year at this time so you can find all the herbs and
tomatoes and peppers and vegetables and Geranium and other annuals you need to
beautify your gardens and patios and balconies -- and make your cooking
herbalicious. So here is a partial list: Many kins of sweet and hot
peppers with their scoville heat ratings so you know if they are hot enough for
the chileheads. Tomatoes include heirloom, cherry, grape and good old delicious
hybrid red. onal Geraniums, Mosquito Shocker Geraniums. Racks of
bedding plants. Strawberries, Apples and Reid's own preserves and canned good.
SHENANDOAH SEASONAL: Beautiful
beautiful heads of various lettuce (gem, red and green looseleaf and
romaine) that I have been eating for lunch all week. Lettuce Mix. Escarole for
eating or grilling or sauteiing with olive oil and garlic and some hot dried
red peppers. 3 varieties of bright red and purple radishes, Chinese
sprouting broccoli, baby candy striped beets, baby red beets, scallions, dill,
fennel, dill bunched greens ( kales, chard, bok choy, broccoli leaves,
collards).Zesty salad mix, Peashoots, Kohlrabi. Remember to cook the
kohlrabi, radish and beet greens.
GARNER'S PRODUCE: Lots of Strawberries, lots of Asparagus. Baby New
Potatoes. Cucumbers. early Yellow Squash, Zucchini and their
Flowers. Head Lettuces. Esarole. Swiss Chard. Spinach, Arugula. Salad
Mix, Collards. Bok Choy. Broccoli, Garlic Scapes: the spiray ones from heirloom
garlic and tall, straight stems from the elephant garlic. Napa
Cabbages. Romaine. Kales. Sorrel, Carrots. Spring Onions. many kinds of
Radishes. Elephant Garlic and Garlic Scapes, Cilantro, Parsley. Rosemary.
Lavender. Mint. Basil, Cilanro. Dill. Stoneground Grits and Stoneground
Cornmeal. LOTS of starter herbs and plants.
WHISKED: Andre says: Whether it is a cookout, picnic or camping trip, come prepared with some delicious cookies and pies. Memorial Day. Pies: Apple Crumble, Bourbon Pecan, Sea Salt Chocolate Chess, Salted Caramel Apple, Cherry. Cookies (Chocolate Chip, Salty Oatmeal, Molasses Spice, Pretzel Cowboy, Snickerdoodle, Vegan: Oatmeal Chocolate Chip, Lemon Poppy Seed, Chocolate Blackout, Peppermint Chocolate.
CUCINA AL VOLO: Green Fusilli makes the
best pasta salad for your Memorial Day cookouts and picnics. Homemade
Fettucine, Bucatini, Strozzapretti, Cavatelli, Mushroom Pappardelle,
Smoked Pepper, Pappardelle, Handmade Gnocchi, Stuffed Squash: Butternut Squash,
Burrata, Spinach and Cheese, Beef Brisket. Buy them frozen and keep them
in your freezer. Toss them into simmering, salted water and they are done
in less than 5 minutes. Perfect fast food as it should be.
KING MUSHROOMS: 8 kinds of 'shrooms
including various colors and size of oyster mushrooms, shiitakes, hen of the
woods, lions mane.
NUMBER 1 SONS: First of the
cucumber Pickles (Half Sours, Crispy Koshers and Honey Habaneros. Ramp
Kraut. Salsa Verde, Giardiniera. 2 kinds of Kimchi
GROFF'S CONTENT: Grass Fed Meats: Beef
(steaks, roasts, ground, sausages, patties etc). Pork (chops, bacon,
roasts, sausages etc). Whole Chickens, some Turkey parts. All Beef Hot Dogs and
Half Smokes. Pork liver Pâté. Birria. Boeuf Bourguignon, Chicken and
Veggie Soup, Italian Wedding Soup, Beef and Chicken Enchiladas, Beef Chili,
Chicken Pot Pie, Beef Shepherd's Pie.
PANORAMA: Croissants, Breakfast Pastries,
Muffins, Bear Claws. Danish, Baguettes, Multigrain, French Boule, Whole Wheat,
Rustiques, Petit Pains, Olive, Sourdough, Focaccia, Challah, Ciabatta.
Loaves and Sandwich breads. Look out for Damien's weekly specials too.
Please spread the word and pass this email to a friend:
What: Bloomingdale Farmers Market
Date: Sundays 9-1
Where: First and R NW near the Big Bear Cafe
See you Sunday
Robin and Ted
