Go "wild" at the market this week!
‘Tis the flavorful and fleeting season when garlic scapes–the flower stalks of garlic bulbs– appear in our market bins! With their delicate, garlicky flavor and fresh green crunch, they’re a crowd-pleasing ingredient for all kinds of dishes you might want to jazz up a bit.
Last week, the folks running the DoughNation Pizza Truck, who like to wander the market early in the morning to find hyer-seasonal ingredients, spied the garlic scapes and immediately snatched them up for their "market special" which was absolutely delicious - even without cheese as I requested!
Use scapes to enhance the bright flavor of this green goddess dressing for your next tender mixed greens salad from Halal Pastures. Jenny from AYA Hummus picked up some scapes at the market last weekend, so you’ll want to keep an eye out for her market special this week, too.
By all means, make garlic scape pesto, since a new vendor, Wildyards Pasta joins us on the plaza. These two women from Brooklyn, who call themselves the "grain girls" use only local, stone-milled whole grain and heirloom wheat for their pasta. Right now, they are making fresh pasta exclusively but plan to get into the dried pasta game soon."
When they applied to the market, they wrote: "We want to help families with young kids eat more “feel good” meals that are fresh, nourishing to us & the planet, and amazingly tasty. Sounds like they landed in the perfect place.
Ditto for Tivoli Farms Mushrooms who joins us weekly starting Sunday with their cultivated and wild, foraged mushrooms. Have you seen their morels? Buy some pasta and mushrooms and scapes and have a dinner party, my friends.
Halal Pastures has gorgeous basil, fava beans and the most beautiful purple snap peas that look so artful on a salad.
This is the first week at the market for Mossy Stone Farm a new small organic farm, coming all the way from Plattsville, NY, with a similar vibe to Stoneberry Farm. We can't wait to introduce them to you and vice versa. Please give them a warm welcome.
Could those Mason jar floral bouquets at Wagonfull Farm be any prettier? They make great, affordable, gifts for anyone who has been extra kind to you this week.
We have no shortage of desserts at this week’s market, either!
If babkas are your thing, grab one or two different flavors from Bitchin’ Babkas. Or try a traditional lemon, sugar butter crèpe from Escargot Voyageur, our resident Frenchie.
I always love yogurt and granola as a light breakfast or snack when the summer sets in, and we’re lucky to have two great small-batch granola options on Sunday: The Hampton Grocer offers your more traditional style of extremely nutty granola in flavors like raspberry lemon and almond butter.
Wildcraft Baking Co. (you may know their cafe and shop down by the River) specializes in gluten-free granolas that lean more vegetal. Think: oat and parsnip, beet and buckwheat etc. They have not been to the market in a long while...what with opening a cafe and having a baby and all...please let them know they were missed!
Whichever way you go, The White Moustache yogurt, sold in adorable squat glass jars, will offer up the perfect creamy canvas for said granola and the beautiful strawberries at the market.
Our musical guest, Peter Calo, will be playing from 10:30-12:30, so make sure to come shop in time to enjoy the music and a breezy Sunday at the market.
We’ll see you there!
