Midtown Farmers Market continues to provide. Carrots were a welcome new addition this week, bringing fresh color and sweet, early season flavor to the table. I’m looking forward to how this crop will inspire Tom’s cooking in the coming days.
1 comment | Beets, Broccoli, Carrots, Cauliflower, Potatoes, Radicchio, Radishes
Look at all them vegetables! Only a couple of weeks ago that I was whining about the slow pace of the season; now the dreamed for abundance is upon us: radishes, fingerling potatoes, frisée, beets, strawberries, rhubarb, spinach, a rainbow of chard, sugar snap peas, broccoli, mint, basil and a jar of the salsa Mayor […]
2 comments | Abundance, Basil, Beets, Broccoli, chard, Fingerling Potatoes, friseé, Midtown Farmers Market, mint, Radishes, Rhubarb, Spinach, Strawberry, Sugar Snap Peas
I’m fully aware of how empty my early farmers market boosterism sounds: “Really, even though you’ll only be able to buy a pint of strawberries and a head of lettuce, it’s totally worth making the trip to the market! Just think what you might find!” Okay, Tom. Whatever. Well I’m happy to say those weeks […]
No comments | Asparagus, Beets, chard, friseé, Garlic, Kale, Leeks, Midtown Farmers Market, Minneapolis, mint, Peas, Potatoes, Rhubarb, Spinach, Strawberries
All the time she spends away from our land – with what seems like most of the year seized by Old Man Winter’s cold, dead hands – makes the return of the Green Goddess to our fields and forests so much more sweet; an unrivaled cause for celebration. The objects of her cult are easily […]
3 comments | Asparagus, Dressing, Lettuce, Pea Shoots, Romaine, salad, Seasonal, Spring, Watercress
May in Minnesota, however mild, is not exactly a month of abundant agricultural production. Plants just haven’t had enough time to shake off the winter chill and start the reproductive cycle that brings us delicious veggies all summer. Given that fresh local produce is hard to come by in this early month, one might question […]
5 comments | Farmers Market, Food Vendors, Lettuce, Midtown, Midtown Farmers Market, Minneapolis, Pizza, Rhubarb, Romaine, Spring, Strawberries, Street Food
As much as I love the fresh vegetables at the Midtown Farmers Market, the joy of shopping there comes from more than just the products you can buy. Today, that joy was most aptly expressed by the beautiful weather: after a season-opener featuring gale-force winds and a second week where we endured a frigid bike […]
5 comments | Bread, Lettuce, Midtown Farmers Market, Seasonal, Spinach, Spring, Spring Onions, Strawberries
We’re not accustomed to visiting the May farmers market the morning after some (very slight) snowfall, but the morning’s bright blue skies were enough to encourage us to hop on our bikes and head down to the Midtown Farmers Market. Though old man winter has stretched out one shivering, icy finger in a desperate attempt […]
2 comments | Lettuce, Midtown, Mutton, Seasonal, Spring, Strawberries, Winter
It’s finally here! It’s been pretty warm in Minnesota for about a month, but that only made the lack of fresh local produce seem even crueler. As of yesterday, the food drought was over with the advent of the Midtown Farmers Market. Martha and I were so excited that we arrived shortly after market open […]
No comments | Barsy's Almonds, Farmers Market, Local, Midtown, Mutton, Ramps, Seasonal, Strawberries
Tom and I returned from a long weekend in San Francisco on Monday evening. Guided by Tom’s brother Mike and a rented PT Cruiser (never even consider buying or renting this car by the way… it will only confuse you!), we walked the Mission, Upper and Lower Haight, and a drove through several other neighborhoods. […]
No comments | Beer, Mexican Food, San Francisco, Spanish Food
The season at the Midtown Farmers Market officially ended in October, though some obsessive hoarding and a special winter market before Thanksgiving kept us supplied with fresh local produce into the beginnings of winter. Eventually though, we ate our way through our fresh supplies, leaving only a few cans of pickles and tomato sauce as […]