This will our last market for the season. So why not make it a celebration. The harvest is in, my walk-in is filling up with root vegetables, koji is incubating in the back room and the snow is falling. Although not on saturday. I already put my order in for nice weather this saturday so dress in an extra layer and come on down the market to sample some of our pre-holiday flavors. If you go to the online market store to order your meal take note that I have a gluten free and a gluten option available. There is very little difference in the meal. One has seitan in the cassoule, the other does not. We make our own seitan using a very old style of creating gluten from ww bread flour. The dough is made, rested overnight and then kneaded under water until most of the bran and germ are washed away, leaving a very rubbery glutenous blob. I then make a dashi using water, kombu, ginger, onions, garlic & tamari. The glutenous blob is cut into dumplings and put into the hot dashi to simmer and absorb all those amazing flavors. An hour later you have seitan. This seitan is similar to wet bread. Very digestible. It’s lovely added to soups or in this case the cassoulet where it’s slowly roasted for hours in a dutch oven along with those lovely recently harvested root vegetables and white beans. Good enough to warm your hands and your heart. Our market store is open for pre-orders. We pack pre-ordered meals on friday. They stay refrigerated until you pick them up at market on saturday. Market hours are 10-2. If you have a special request with you meal email me at macromamas@gmail.com. I will confirm that I received you email and can fulfill your special request. If you do not hear from me than I did not see your email. Your welcome to email me again or call at 387-9111. We will be there by 9 rushing to get everything ready. If you come early and we seem a little preoccupied hang on and we will help you as soon as we can. Our menu will be available hot at the market, offering both gluten free and gluten options. We will still have the backdoor option of pick up and ordering available if you would prefer not to enter the pavilion.
Be well and stay warm
Peggy