Menu for Saturday June 13, 2020

This will be our last week in booth 40. You will find us in our own home booth #5 on the 20th of June. I’ll send out a reminder next posting. In the meantime placing an order on line at macromamas.com, click Market Store, click Shop will guarantee your purchase no matter what time you arrive at the market. We do bring extra food done if you what to try your luck. Until then enjoy the heat…..

Gluten Free Menu

Brown rice with pickled ramps & basil

Smokey Black eyed peas

Kohlrabi salad w/lemon-dill sauce

Kale with a smokey eggplant sauce

Roasted Sweet potato

Pickled cabbage, apple, rhubarb, mint, cilantro & lime salad

Desserts

Raw Tiramisu -GF

Parfaits - coconut cream, passionfruit curd, fresh fruit - GF

Tapioca with lemon curd - GF

Panna cotta-rhubarb tart

Lemongrass lemon tarts - GF

Rhubarb-apple-berry crisp - GF

Chocolate custard tart - GF

Chocolate cake with almond cream

Menu for Saturday June 6, 2020

While we maintain our new service style at market I want to assure everyone that the menu will always be gluten free until we can offer up on-site plating options again. Our desserts will offer a variety of gluten free and non-gluten free options. If you have special needs or requests feel free to email us at macromamas@gmaiil.com and we will try to accommodate you. Since the virus we have minimized our staff to 2 so that we can create a safe working environment. Giving us a good “heads up” with pre-order requests will make it much more possible for us to serve you. On that note here is this saturdays menu.

Paella with mushroom, pickled saffron ramps, asparagus & artichokes

chic-peas with greens, capers & currants

Spanish style marinated carrots

Broccoli with a fennel-parsley sauce

Sauteed red cabbage

Minted cabbage-apple slaw

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Desserts

Raw tiramisu - GF

Parfaits - coconut cream, passionfruit curd - GF

Tapioca - GF

Carrot Cake - GF

Cinnamon poached pears with cardamom-coconut cake with rosewater cream

chocolate cake with almond cream

Menu for Saturday May 30,2020

The energetic qualities unfolds according to it’s own time frame whether we are the participants or not. We always measure this season with the last and sometimes within the last decade. Mother earth is always adjusting so why we? Stability is where we find our ground but what if change is where find our ground? However we approach life remember to breathe so that air circulates, expands and contracts. What was, needs a new definition or better yet perhaps the lines remain unclear giving us the freedom to move forth without restrictions. Lofty thought within uncertain times but let’s remember we leave a small indelible footprint with the time we have here. Extending out to each other in love and forgiveness is paramount to our own wellbeing. Let’s enjoy the spring flavors coming forth.

Menu for Saturday May 23, 2020

Temperatures are thankfully warming up this week. We are busy trading plants and anticipating endless gardening time. The farmers market is fully stocked with a variety of garden starts from a variety of vendors. Here in the kitchen we are inoculating rice with koji spores and awaiting our first delivery of local organic soybeans so that we can start the miso crocks. We have more ideas than the hours in the day so we will start slowly whittling away and see how we re-fashion ourselves in this time of fluidity. Pre-orders will guarantee you will receive what you want when you come to the booth. Go to macromamas.com, click market store, click shop. We do bring extra food down for those who miss our friday morning ordering deadline, but we can’t guarantee anything will be left when you show up. Saturdays meal will be provided by the following farms;

Wellspring forest farms, Plowbreak, Remembrance, Home garden

Quinoa with a pistachio salsa verde

Red beans & parsley salad

Roasted Hakueri Turnips & Wellspring Forest Farms chestnut mushrooms with zested lemons

Lightly sauteed Broccoli raab

Cumin roasted sweet potato & red onion with lemon-tahini-sumac sauce

Rhubarb Slaw

Menu for Saturday May 16, 2020

It was really nice to see many of your faces again adorned with with many different styles of masks. It is slowly becoming more of a fashion statement I believe. We have definitely ditched the home made masks for something more durable and colorful. Lately I have purchased masks from Carolina Perez’s etsy account. A local Ithaca Market vendor. She has many colors and designs to choose from. I can wear her masks all day and feel comfortable while I cook and served food. Our masks are popped in the washer and dryer after each shift and still seem resilient enough for another day. The produce this week comes from many of our favorite farms, Plowbreak, Remembrance, Wellspring and Buried Treasures. As always we try to source the freshest ingredients including hiking into the hillside to harvest ramps and glean fresh herbs from our gardens. This might be the last week for harvesting ramps. Some have been pickled, some buried in miso and some dehydrated for a future meal. One last adjustment to this week’s meal. We have taken the salad out of the meal and have instead offered more cooked veggies. We will serve the salad on the side as a salad bowl offering both small and large sizes. As some of you have noticed we also offer additional desserts not offered at our online store. Partially impromptu baking, partially due to the store only being able to offer so many items. We will offer both GF and non-GF options every week. We will maintain a gluten free meal. Our menu for this saturday is listed below. Please order food online so that we will have it ready for you when you come to market. Go to macromamas.com, click market store, click shop. (Shop can be found at the top of the page)

Wellspring Farms Mushroom Risotto

Chickpeas with buried Treasures Spinach, currants, capers and pickled ramps

Plowbreak sauteed Broccoli Raab with Garlic slivers & Aleppo pepper

Braised Fennel, Red onion & Carrot with Green olives, preserved lemon & fresh parsley

Lightly pickled kohlrabi, french sorrel, radish & chervil salad

Menu for Saturday May 9, 2020

Saturday looks to have a bit of a spring chill in the air. Just enough to remind us that we still need to nurture the warmth in our bodies with some hearty flavors while adding a little more spring lift to the menu. Plan to see us at market in booth #40, just across the aisle from our home booth #5. While we are cooking for the ebbs and flow of the spring tide it reminds me that is a time to be flexible. In spirit and in our cooking. In whatever new situation arises. Cleansing the liver and gallbladder by reducing oils in your food, and bringing in some of the spring flavors such a ramps, nettles, spring onions, mustard greens, ginger and wheat will help to ease the liver of the excess of the winter diet. Lighter cooking while adding slightly sour and pungent flavor to the meal will help to encourage that flexibility we all need right now. We will be incorporating all these elements into this weeks meal. We are also encouraging customers to order on line so that they can do a quick pick up at market. This request is meant to help keep everyone moving through the market and back to their homes as quickly and safely as possible. We of course will bring extra food down for those who are a little more impulsive in nature. It’s easy to order. Go to macromamas.com. Click Market Store. Click Shop. This will bring you to this weeks menu and the variety of options made available.

Until then….

We're back!

The spring flavors are here. Herbs are emerging in our garden beds. We are happy to share our local flavors! You can now order our products on-line for pick-up at the Ithaca Farmers Market.

Our products can also be found at the following stores:

*Macro Meals and Peanut-Lime Noodles can be purchased at Greenstar.

* Peanut-Lime Noodles can be purchased at Collegetown Greenstar.

Ricely & Beanly yours,

Macro Mamas

Menu for Saturday, December 14, 2019

This will be our last market for the season! We hope to see you all tomorrow! Thanks for all your support this season. Warm wishes,

The Macro Mamas

|| Menu for Saturday, December 14, 2019 ||

Buckwheat Pilaf

Pinto Bean Cassoulet

Turnip & Squash Gratin

Stewed Greens

Pressed Cabbage, Kohlrabi, & Apple Salad

Field Greens with Lemon Poppyseed Dressing

|| Soup ||

Curried Squash with Rosemary

|| Desserts ||

Buckwheat Walnut Cake with Cranberry Filling

& Spiced Cashew Icing (GF)

Pumpkin Tofu Cheesecake (GF)

Apple Cranberry Crisp with Candied Ginger (GF)

Heavenly Tapioca (GF)

Toasted Almond Chocolate Mousse (GF)

Chocolate Crackles

Maple Peanut Butter Cookies (GF)

Gingersnaps (GF)

Salt and Pepper Chocolate Chip Cookies (GF)

Coconut Macaroons (GF)

Menu for Saturday, December 7, 2019

Hi folks! Yes, we will be at the market tomorrow. Yes, it will be cold. YES, we will have hot soup and a hot Platter and corn fritters and delicious desserts. Hope to see you!

|| Platter of the Day ||

Buckwheat Polenta with Caramelized Onion and Mushroom Ragu

Stewed White Beans with Spinach and Rosemary

Cider-Braised Red Cabbage

Roasted Vegetable Medley

Pressed Turnip & Dill Salad

Field Greens with Lemon Poppyseed Dressing

|| Soup ||

Curried Squash with Rosemary Oil

|| Desserts ||

German Chocolate Cake

Lemon Coconut Tart with Cranberry Drizzle (GF)

Apple-Pear Tart with Mulberries, Figs, and Blackberry Syrup (GF)

Heavenly Tapioca (GF)

Toasted Almond Chocolate Mousse (GF)

Peppermint Chocolate Crackles

Gingersnaps

Maple Peanut Butter Cookies (GF)

Menu for Saturday, November 23, 2019

Hello market friends! We are back this week, to our great joy! With a very seasonal, very celebratory autumn-holiday-harvest-festival inspired menu. Saturday is looking like a beautiful day in the mid-40’s. We hope to see you tomorrow!

|| Menu for Saturday, November 23, 2019 ||

Wild Rice Pilaf

White Bean Cassoulet

Savory Bread Pudding

Kale with Pomegranate Vinaigrette

Maple-Glazed Harvest Medley with Toasted Pecans

Cranberry Relish

Onion & Olive Tartlets

Cabbage-Apple Slaw with Persimmon

Field Greens with Lemon Poppyseed Dressing

|| Soups ||

Creamy Mushroom

Miso Squash

|| Desserts ||

Carrot Cake – A Macro Mamas Classic!

Pistachio & Yuzu Tartlets with Pomegranate (GF)

PawPaw Cashew Cheesecakes (GF)

Apple, Fig, & Ginger Crisp (GF)

Heavenly Tapioca (GF)

Toasted Almond Chocolate Mousse (GF)

Gingerbread with Coconut Cream

Double Chocolate Chunk Cookies (GF)

Hazelnut-Almond Cookies (GF)

Gingersnaps