Saturday Market for August 7, 2021

Saturday Market for August 7, 2021

Once again we will miss you at market tomorrow. A wedding for a happy couple with a variety of treats from some of of favorite farms, Remembrance, Plowbreak, Muddy Fingers, Blue Heron, Andrew Parker and Brownies will grace this couples table tomorrow night. We will be back when we can all gather again as a crew. It will be a little spotty since staff have extended themselves in different directions. All destined to share their talents with others. And why not? One thing Covid has shown us, patience! Next time we meet you’ll be able to enjoy some of our lacto-fermented pickled cucumbers using a beautiful Fleur de sel. Some of younger miso’s will be ready for sale. We will most likely return on August 21. Until then, happy birthday to Yvonne and myself!

Saturday Market Menu for July 31, 2021

Saturday Market Menu for July 31, 2021

We will see you all tomorrow loaded down with fresh flavors picked from all the garden.

Menu

Red Quinoa with celery leaf, preserved lemon & toasted almonds

Moroccan spiced chic-peas with marinated carrots

Lightly steamed green & yellow beans with a creamy tarragon sauce

Charred sweet corn, shiitake mushrooms, red onion, sweet pepper, thai basil, ume & lime

Lightly pickled cabbage, kohlrabi, apple salad with mint

Remembrance Farms salad greens with lemon poppyseed dressing

Desserts

Cookies

Peanut butter - GF

Chocolate chip

Blueberry Maple Thumbprint

Shortbread

Tapioca with lemon curd

Chocolate pudding with Cinnamon cream, chocolate nibs, & toasted almonds

Summer fruit crisp

Vanilla Custard Tart - GF

Mayan Chocolate Tart - GF

Cardamon Cake with chai frosting & passionfruit curd

Carrot Cake - GF

Carrot Cake

Saturday Market Menu for July 24, 2021

Saturday Market Menu for July 24, 2021

Who can deny this is one of the best times of the year to create a menu. Especially a dessert menu based on seasonal fruits. We peek into the walkin and ask, Sour cherries, blueberries, this gorgeous crate of apricots or early peaches? So much to choose from. The green beans (my favorite vegetable) has arrived along with sweet corn. Wellsprings Farms checks in every week to make sure we have plenty of mushrooms. It feels so alive and fresh. We have had plenty of rain so if your garden looks like mine it is over running with potential. Finally the warmth of some dryer days will bring the actuality of fruit bearing buds. Our menu is a little spicy, a little bitter, a little lighter and absolutely delicious. As always we embrace the seasonality of what nature brings aware that the energetic quality will support us through all it’s changes. We thank the following farms for all their work in helping to bring this menu to you. Plowbreak Farms, Remembrance Farms, Mudding Fingers, Andrew Parker and Brownies farmstand.

For this week’s menu we bring;

Platter of the Day

 

Ume Rice with garlic scapes, sweet corn & chives

 

Black beans with fresh grown pasilla peppers, carrots, lime

 

Lightly cooked Plowbreak Farms Swiss Chard with avocado, pumpkin seeds & a avocado-cucumber dressing. (light & oil free)

 

Muddy fingers green beans & shiitake with a lemon & garlic confit dressing.

 

Lightly pickled cabbage, kohlrabi, apple & lime salad with cilantro & mint

 

Remembrance Farms freshly harvested organic greens with Lemon poppyseed dressing

Desserts

Cookies

Chocolate chip

Peanut Butter - GF

Maple Thumbprints

Lemon lavender shortbread

Brownies with beets, walnuts. bittersweet chocolate

Tapioca w/lemon curd

Chocolate pudding with toasted almond & chocolate nibs

Tart cherry, apricot crisp -GF

Peach-lavender upside down cake

Apricot-walnut-lavender cake

Lemon-blueberry-lavender cake ( both GF and non GF)

 

Saturday Market Menu for July 10, 2021

Saturday Market Menu for July 10, 2021

We will be at market saturday. I have posted the menu for you to mull over while you decide what time your going to leave the house and check out the market scene. For this week we will be enjoying produce from Plowbreak Farm, Remembrance Farm and some of our Amish neighbors. Be well…..

Quinoa Tabbouleh with celery leaf, parsley and lemon zest

Tarragon Chic peas

Roasted freshly dug beets with an allspice vinaigrette & toasted walnuts

Dino kale with new carrots & sweet shell peas with a lemony miso dressing

Fennel-apple slaw

Fresh garden salad with our lemon poppyseed dressing

Dessert

Cookies

Thumbprint

Pistachio-rose-GF

Chocolate Peanut butter-GF

Chocolate chip

Peach & apricot crisp-GF

Mexican chocolate tart-GF

Vanilla Blackberry tart-GF

Vanilla-Blueberry Hazelnut Cake

Chocolate Espresso Cake

Carrot Cake

Vanilla-Strawberry-Hazelnut Cake-GF

Tapioca with lemon curd

Chocolate pudding with cinnamon cream & chocolate nibs

Strawberry chiffon mousse with strawberry & coconut cream

Saturday Menu for July 3, 2021

Saturday Menu for July 3, 2021

Sorry for the intermission from last weeks posting. My business has entered the catering season and I have many requests from the community which inhibits our being able to fill individual meals for market during the afternoon hours on friday. We will be at market tomorrow with a freshly prepared locally sourced menu from some of our favorite farms. Plowbreak Farms, Remembrance Farms, Andrew Parker and Six Circles Farm. Feel free to order and receive your meal from the front of the booth. Upon request we will put our delicious salad topped with lemon poppyseed dressing in you meal.

Saturday Menu

Multi-grain cake with a chimichurri sauce

Black Beans with pasilla peppers

Grilled vegetables with blanched vegetables

Collard greens with a hint of cinnamon

Lightly pickled cabbage, apple, lime, kohlrabi, mint & cilantro

Desserts

Cookies

Chocolate chip

Maple Thumbprint

Coconut Macaroon

Tapioca with lemon curd

Chocolate pudding with cinnamon cream, toasted almonds, chocolate nibs,

Peach, apricot, blackberry crisp

Chocolate brownie with chocolate ganache

Vanilla-Strawberry-Hazelnut Cake with Strawberry Mousse & Elderflower Icing (both GF & non GF)

Carrot Cake

Saturday Market Menu for June 19, 2021

Saturday Market Menu for June 19, 2021

Strawberry season is here! Time to pick those sweet gems. I decided to offer a few strawberry ladened desserts. Including paired with rhubarb even though it’s growing season is starting to wind down. Feel free to shop online if you would like us to hold onto a meal for you on saturday. Otherwise come down for our warm version of our menu.

Saturdays Market Menu for June 19, 2021

Garlic scape brown rice with carrots & peas

Smokey Black Eyed Peas, black beans & chili beans

Broccoli with an avocado-cilantro sauce

Lightly sauteed collard greens

Pickled green cabbage, apple, cilantro & lime

Cornbread

Desserts

Tapioca with lemon curd - GF

Chocolate pudding with cinnamon cream & toasted almonds - GF

Strawberry-rhubarb crisp - GF

Strawberry Mousse Cake-GF

Pistachio Semolina Cake with Rosewater Cream

White chocolate sponge cake with black locust cream & strawberries

Blueberry muffins


Saturday Market Menu for June 12, 2021

Saturday Market Menu for June 12, 2021

Summer is quickly making itself known these past 2 weeks. A little early but I love heat. I love that the local farms are starting to offer a small array of veggies. Plowbreak Farm never disappoints with some of their early produce. Beautiful well tended veggies often make up the meal you are about to eat. Wellspring Farms has supplied us with mushrooms at just about every meal. Sorry David. I do think of you, always! Our salad greens come from Remembrance and Plowbreak Farms. Ask about our salad bowl if you want a really light yet filling meal. We will still bring down miso soup even on hot days. We use a light miso with seasonal veggies. As the season progresses our cooking style will lighten so the heat won’t feel so overwhelming. Fresh lightly cooked veggies will keep you hydrated on these oppressive days. If you would like to order your meal ahead of time shop at our market store. Otherwise we try to bring down enough to feed you all. Until then…

Saturdays Market Menu for June 12, 2021

Brown Basmati, Wild Rice, Sprouted Mung Bean, Caramelized onion & fresh herbs

Chic-peas with marinated carrot, coriander seed, cumin seed, allspice, mint and lemon

Roasted Cauliflower, Broccoli & Lion’s mane mushroom with lemon zest

Wilted Dino Kale with red & green cabbage with a tahini dressing

Ume pickled persian cucumbers with mint & toasted coriander seed

Rosemary farinata with Eggplant pate’

Desserts

Tapioca with lemon curd - GF

Chocolate pudding with cinnamon cream & toasted almonds - GF

Apricot, walnut & lavender cake with orange blossom & black locust blossom cream

Ultimate chocolate cake (offered both GF and non GF)

Lemony Tofu Cheese cake-ettes

Summery crisp - GF

Cookies

Peanut Butter - GF

Saturday Market Menu for June 5, 2021W

Saturday Market Menu for June 5, 2021W

What a way to spend them morning. In the black locust tree grasping for flowers, listening to the buzz of bees higher up in the tree collecting that sweet, sweet nectar. The black locust in our yard does not flower every year. This year it is covered in blossoms and every black locust tree that I see is also covered. The smell is ethereal, intoxicating. Orange blossom water? How do I describe that smell, that taste? Imagine yourself covered in blossoms as you reach for the next tendril. Of course we want to add this to our dessert list. How could we not? What else can we use this flavor in? At this point on the precipice of our market cooking day flavors seep in at the spur of the moment. We can give you our intention of menu for the day but saturday may hold a few more surprises as the week unfolds. So far this is the menu. If we decide to add anything else we will let you know. All the best until then….

Saturdays Market Menu for June 5, 2021

Brown Rice with Lime Zest and Chives

Black Eyed Peas with Allspice & Cloves

Sauteed Plowbreak Swiss Chard with Garlic Greens

Sweet Potato Nishimi with Chimchuri Sauce

Rhubarb Slaw

Cornbread

shio-koji persian cucumbers

Desserts

Tapioca with lemon curd - GF

Chocolate pudding with cinnamon cream & toasted almonds - GF

Lemon-Blueberry cake with Blueberry Compote & Black Locust Frosting

Semolina Cake soaked in black locust syrup

Vanilla custard Tart with candied rhubarb-GF

Morning glory muffins

Berry crisp - GF

Cookies

Peanut Butter - GF

Thumbprint

Chocolate Chip

Tahini, walnut, chocolate

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Saturday Market Menu for May 29, 2021

Saturday Market Menu for May 29, 2021

Saturday Market Menu for May 29,2021

Well it has been steamy hot in this kitchen the past couple of days. The weather will cool down for the weekend but we’re still bringing our steam in the form of moroccan flavors. Instead of a traditionally steamed couscous made in a couscousiere I will be serving a quinoa salad full of fresh herbs I pick from the garden. The chic-peas will have marinated carrots dotted throughout and the tagine vegetables will be rich and sweet with long slow simmer in a dutch oven. My next trip to NYC will be to purchase a tagine large enough to feed 50. In 2019 I was fortunate enough to spend time with an woman from Algeria. She was the mother of a bride and I was the caterer they hired to cook the food. It was important to them that I understood the flavors and knew how to properly prepare couscous in a couscousiere. The couscousiere is a 2 part vessel. The bottom holds the water/stock and the top holds the couscous. The bottom of the top pot is perforated so that steam can pass through. The couscous is steamed by a repeated process of steaming and tossing the grain. It’s a process. The couscous never touches the water. Instead, the couscous is tossed with a little bit of water were it will slightly plump. The couscous is then placed in the top part of the vessel where the steam eventually penetrates it’s wafts of vapor through the grain. When this happens it’s time to place the lid on the top pot and carefully cover will a towel or foil to keep all the steam inside. It’s hot! After 15 minutes the couscous is then removed from the upper part of the vessel and poured into a flat pan where it is tossed with a little more water and put back into the vessel for the next round of steaming. Again, it’s hot! This happens 3 times. If your a novice like me, 5 times, until you have the perfect light plump couscous. The final round of steaming includes a bit of olive oil rubbed into the grain before putting it back for it’s final steam. Who knew this process could make such a difference. The quinoa is not steamed but it is light and fluffy, easy on the belly and ready to soak up any juiced from the vegetables. Along with the meal we will try our hand at a moroccan flatbread called msemen. Similar to a crepe. only yeasted, flattened and quickly cooked over fire. We have several bread bakers in the kitchen willing to take on the challenge. We’ll try our hand at GF flatbread too. If we like it we will share it with you otherwise it may just feed the chicken. Until then enjoy all this wonderful rain.