Menu for Saturday June 27, 2020

Now that market is starting to pick up with the warmer weather we are going to establish 2 pre-paid pick up lines. One line will be at the back of the booth. If you just want to pick up the food that you ordered on-line and you don’t wish to do additional market shopping we will make it quick and easy for you. Just let market staff know that your doing a quick back of the booth pick up, should they ask, and assure them you will then be on your way. Also, you can pick up at the back of the booth if your done with your shopping and we are your last stop. The other pick up line will be at the front of the booth where we normally hang our Express Line sign. There will be 1 more person in the booth to help expedite on-line orders while we help other shoppers who have not pre-paid. If you have any requests of us regarding your on-line meal feel free to email us. I will respond and let you know if your request will be fulfilled. Starting July 4th we will be able to offer hot food. I’m thinking fritters. They will need to be packaged to go since eating on site will still be prohibited. The market is entertaining on site eating by July 18th. I will update with current information as I receive it. In the meantime if you want to guarantee a meal and a particular dessert by the time you make it down to market, pre-order. It’s easy. Go to macromamas.com, click market store, click shop and choose what you would like. That way there is no need to rush on a lazy saturday morning. Only thing you’ll need to keep in mind in the market closes at 1pm. Hours will extend till 3 starting in July. I will update. It’s a fluid time, stay afloat!!

Gluten Free Menu

Corn grit Cakes w/sauteed local mushrooms ( Wellspring & Hawk Meadow chestnut, oyster, shiitake)

Black Beans with lime zest & smoked onions

Cinnamon essence stewed greens from Plowbreak Farms

Roasted radishes ,carrot, garlic scapes with a cumin vinaigrette

Refreshing Plowbreak persian cucumber salad with cilantro and lime

Lightly pickled cabbage-apple-rhubarb salad with mint

Desserts

Parfaits - lemon custard with fresh fruit - GF

Tapioca with lemon curd - GF

Chocolate cake with mocha ganache

Pistachio-semolina cake with a rosewater cream

Chocolate custard tart - GF

Strawberry Mousse Cake - GF

Rhubarb panna cotta Tart

Old-fashion rhubarb-strawberry pudding cake

Cardamon cake with poached pears with a vanilla custard

Menu for Saturday June 20, 2020

On the eve of the solstice we step into the driest time of the year, summer We are certainly feeling the heat of the sun and praying for those evening showers that give our gardens that healthful soaking they crave. Roses are in full bloom and it’s floral essence will be dotting in and out of this weeks menu. Cooking will become a little lighter, produce will travel 1 mile down the road instead of across country from more temperate climates. As summer ripens into its fullness the rising potential energy of spring buds explode into realized maturity. Summer is symbolized by the radiant energy of fire. Bitter flavors from dryer weather support the heart and small intestine meridians as well as the heart governor and triple warmer. The small intestine acts as the furnace of alchemical transmutation, transforms our food into blood. It is here that chlorophyll evolves into hemoglobin. The heart, the radiant sun of the body, circulates the red blood throughout the system and with it, rays of warmth and love.

We will be back in our home booth #5 this week and for the foreseeable future. We have been taking many on-line orders at our market store which can be found at macromamas.com.

click market store

click shop

we will have your order ready for pick up so you can make a quick entrance and exit if you wish. If you have any dietary restrictions email us at macromamas@gmail.com and let us know. Our store closes at noon on friday so we have adequate time to prepare and package for the following day. Of course we bring down extra food for those who shop on the fly. This week we will be offering cold beverages to take home. A nice lilac lemonade and our house brewed kombucha. The market still discourages any on site consuming only wishing for your safety while shopping.. All the best to you and hopefully we’ll see your smiling eyes on saturday.

rice & beanly yours,

Peggy, Ian & Julia

Gluten Free Menu

Quinoa with fresh herbs & Preserved Citrus

White Beans with fresh basil

Roasted fennel, asparagus, red onion & garlic scapes

Steamed beets with toasted walnuts, parsley-orange balsamic dressing

Plowbreak kale with carrot threads & une-su

Plowbreak Persian cucumbers with shio-koji-lemon dressing

Desserts

Raw Tiramisu -GF

Parfaits - vanilla custard with stick & stone strawberries - GF

Tapioca with lemon curd - GF

Salted caramel cheesecake with a chocolate crust - GF

Vanilla custard tart with roasted balsamic strawberries & rose petal cream - GF

Rhubarb-apple-berry crisp - GF

Carrot Cake - GF

Carrot cake

Beverages

Lilac lemonade

House brewed kombucha

Kukicha & lemon tea

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)