Category Archives: Farmers Market Talk
Radish Toast, Two Ways
Perhaps radishes are hearty enough for mediocre gardeners like myself. Perhaps my kids and I just got lucky. But whatever it was, a special moment occurred late last week when we dropped by the community garden to check on our plot. From the spot where we parked, we could see how the tomatoes plants had grown, reaching […]
Rhubarb White Chocolate Muffins
My daughter and I crouched on our porch Monday, our hands covered in gloves. She loosened plants from their trays while I dug in the soil. Potting soil splattered around us, nature’s confetti decorating our small porch. Soon snap dragons and pansies and a creeping little white flower filled the pot. In seasons past, we’ve dedicated […]
Salads with Sauteed Radishes
Sometimes being a single parent means accepting that I am imperfect, that the ability to teleport doesn’t exist and that it has to be okay that I cannot do everything. I received a loud and clear reminder of that last week. It was impossible to mistake. My son’s final middle school track meet of the […]
5 Ways to Cook with Radishes from the Farmers Market
Radishes are popping up at farmers’ markets now. This early season vegetable is delicious sliced thin in sandwiches or chopped for tossed salads. Dainty slices of French breakfast radishes, an oblong variety with a milder taste, atop buttered bread with a sprinkle of sea salt is a lovely breakfast. Radishes from the farmers’ market can be […]
Peppery Parsnip Fries, and the Things We Learn by Listening
7 Recipes to Use Up Leftover Storage Carrots
Thanks to the winter farmers markets, we’ve eaten well through the coldest, darkest months of the year. But now, we’re in mid-May and I am so excited to move on from storage crops … Well, once those carrots (and other stragglers) get eaten up, that is. Do you have carrots still begging to be eaten? […]
German-Style Roasted Cauliflower Salad with Lovage
Herbed Roasted Mushrooms
The white peaks of the first few tents rose in the parking lot at Abbott Square when I drove by Sunday morning. New signs installed declare the space “Home of the Bangor Farmers’ Market” along with the hours, days and other pertinent information. A new addition to the market, a food truck — dubbed the […]