market

Market Selection

October 24, 2009
Thumbnail image for Market Selection

Natural selection is in full force at the market this week, having winnowed out any vendors that don’t sell root vegetables, baked goods, or meat. As usual, I needed all of those things, so I did my part to provide more evolutionary pressure. The mixed cherry tomatoes are from the greenhouse instead of the field, [...]

Read the full article →

Market Shift

October 17, 2009
Thumbnail image for Market Shift

Apples and squash everywhere, snow yesterday morning — it must be fall in new England. I was hit with a nasty cold this week, which kept me out of the kitchen for a few days, so I still have most of last week’s veggies to work with. Still, I couldn’t pass up the mixed fingerling [...]

Read the full article →

Market Cooldown

October 10, 2009
Thumbnail image for Market Cooldown

The tomatoes are gone and the apples are taking over, which can mean only one thing: farmer’s market season is drawing to a close. A long weekend with dinner invites, a fridge still full of veggies, and a work week that forced me to prepare a lot of quick meals made today’s trip was lighter [...]

Read the full article →

Market Saturation

October 3, 2009
Thumbnail image for Market Saturation

It’s pouring today. Bad news for the market vendors, good news for me: no dogs, strollers, or bicycles to trip over, no lines to buy what I need. Peaches are gone for good, more apples are appearing, and the fall crop is in full swing. Time to steer the menu toward soups and stews. This [...]

Read the full article →

Meat Market

September 26, 2009
Thumbnail image for Meat Market

Everyone seem to understand that the tomatoes will be gone soon, so they’re overcompensating by buying huge quantities of the remaining heirloom crop. Fortunately, not many of the folks at the market realized that peaches are on the wane, so what I lost in vegetables this weekend I made up with fruit. This week’s haul [...]

Read the full article →

Market Revival

September 19, 2009
Thumbnail image for Market Revival

I skipped the market last week: It was raining, and I wanted to force myself to use what was left in the fridge. So today, with plenty of fridge space and a keen knowledge of the imminent end of the tomato and corn season, I restocked the basics: corn , tomatoes (heirlooms and cherry), napa [...]

Read the full article →

Flooding the Market

August 29, 2009
Thumbnail image for Flooding the Market

The vegetables were picked yesterday and on the truck this morning. There’s no way we weren’t coming today.” I heard that from all of the farmer’s market vendors who are actual farmers instead of bakers or artisanal producers. How could I not buy today after they had slogged through hurricane rains? My first purchases were [...]

Read the full article →

Market Doldrums

August 22, 2009
Thumbnail image for Market Doldrums

It’s hot, too hot to cook let alone think about what to cook for the upcoming week. But I forced myself to think ahead and plan my market visit for some of the meals I’ll make in the cooler days ahead. Now that he rains have let up for a while, more produce is arriving [...]

Read the full article →

Market Recovery

August 16, 2009
Thumbnail image for Market Recovery

We returned from Montreal to an empty pantry and fridge; nothing yesterday’s trip to the market couldn’t fix. More new vegetables and fruits are arriving as the season progresses, so it was time to sample some new offerings. Above we have tomatoes (plain ol’ red variety), cantaloupe, green beans, mixed fingerling potatoes, purple carrots, cipollini [...]

Read the full article →

Market Predictions

August 1, 2009
Thumbnail image for Market Predictions

More market goodies today, but again not as much as usual, since we’ll be in Montreal later next week (look for some food posts while we’re there). For baked goods there’s a peach pie, a cookie (breakfast!), another wheel of dinner rolls destined for the freezer, and a ciabatta loaf that’s already been put to [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →