If your not busy dancing around the maypole get down here and grab a macro meal and a dessert. We tried to make it luscious! A bevy of flavors that as always help to support and ground you in this season while peaking into the next. Come in your favorite Beltane outfit, you know we’ll be in ours. This week we will bring you a little tofu, pressed and then marinated before we bake it in a lightly sweet and gingery sauce. Before we even buy tofu the dynamic Potenza father and son team will have grown, harvested, steamed and press these beans into the best tofu you can buy. Talk about living it large. As I always say, we are so lucky to have all these food staples growing and being produced within a 50 mile radius. Give thanks because not every community has this. What a creative and well connected group. Nishimi? you ask. Kombu is soaked overnight in water to make a mineral rich broth to then cook vegetables in. Very little water is used and the results are sweet and soothing to the body. It creates a certain calmness because all of a sudden you feel taken care of with little effort on your part. Last, a little treat. We stuff (pound miso) in lotus root. Dredge it in a little arrowroot and fried. Such a tasty treat.
Just a few reminders. We served from the front and the back of the booth. We take orders from the front and back of the booth. All food going out the front of the booth is cold and package that morning or the day before. This is meant to keep a line at a minimum so more customers can enter the market and reduce the wait time in the entrance line. The back of the booth is meant for picking up anything you desire (that we sell) without having to stand in the entrance line. All hot food and beverages also must be picked up in the back. Have a game plan. Pick up food orders after you completed you market shopping. If you wish to eat by the water, you may need to walk around the entire pavilion to get there. Not a long walk unless you towing a family. We’ll try to help while complying to market rules. Until then enjoy this welcomed warmth and the gorgeous spring flowers.
Saturday Market Menu for May 1, 2021
Walnut Rice
Tofu with a Shoyu-Mirin Sauce
Nishimi parsnips, red onion, sweet potato
Grilled nappa cabbage, carrot, fennel & asian pear with a ginger & sesame sauce
Minted red cabbage salad
Miso stuffed lotus root
Desserts
Tapioca with lemon curd - GF
Chocolate pudding with cinnamon cream & toasted almonds - GF
Lemon-blueberry cake (also available Gluten free)
Hazelnut brownies
Vanilla custard tart with fresh fruit-GF
Cannelé
Apple & dried apricot crisp - GF
Coconut Tart-lettes
Cookies
Peanut Butter - GF
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Chocolate Chip