Posted by Jessie Gunnard on Tuesday, September 28, 2010,
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September is perhaps the sweetest month at the market. Summer produce is still coming in, and lettuces that suffered in the heat and drought are freshening up as evenings get cooler. Now the market brims with apples, squashes and plump pumpkins. Last Thursday Silverbrook Farm brought a basket of decorative gourds; they looked harlequinesque, for want of a better word - pear-shaped with big bold white and yellow stripes, with a little green-and-white stripy patch at their base. Our bakers have... Continue reading ...
Posted by Jessie Gunnard on Wednesday, September 22, 2010,
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We had a perfect late-summer day for last Thursday’s market: fresh and sun-dappled, with ample parking spots in town. Great Cape Baking Company did a brisk trade in apple cider doughnuts, now made fresh at their market stand and darned good with a cup of market-brewed coffee. You could scoop up organic cranberries, newly harvested from Falmouth bogs—a milestone in this town of ours—find fresh pasta in several interesting flavors and colors, pick up a fruit tart, buy crisp fennel, Jerusa... Continue reading ...
Posted by Jessie Gunnard on Tuesday, September 14, 2010,
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We’re hoping to see another first at this Thursday’s market: organic cranberries grown right here in Falmouth. Weather-permitting, the cranberries will be dry-picked at small town-owned bogs operated by Fred Bottomley. In addition, there’ll be sweetened dried cranberries (both organic and conventionally grown) and possibly fresh cranberries from Harwich. Bonnie Kavanagh will promote Rubies in the Sand, the cranberry cookbook she co-wrote with Fred Bottomley, which is also available at E... Continue reading ...
Posted by Jessie Gunnard on Tuesday, September 7, 2010,
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It’s a great time of year to go to the market. You can have your summer tomatoes, eggplants and zucchini, and you can have autumn squashes too, including delicata, acorn and spaghetti squashes. Amazing grapes appeared at the market last week. And gladioli! Kat Kadlik of Fromage à Trois even brought fresh pasta, green fettucine made with pea shoots and pink fettucine tinted with beets. More news: Great Cape Bakery’s popular doughnuts, made in Marston Mills, have been an early-bird special... Continue reading ...
Posted by Jessie Gunnard on Thursday, September 2, 2010,
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Peachtree Circle Farm in Sippewissett grows wonderful hard-neck garlic. And unlike some of us unruly garlic growers, who soon lose track of what kinds we planted, Carrie Richter and Heidi Walz keep note of which variety is which. At last week’s market they were selling half a dozen different kinds: Northern Whites, Russian Red, Siberian, Broadleaf Czech, Chesnok Red and a big-seller, Georgian Fire. “Garlic lovers seem to like the word fire,” said Carrie. Indelible pens were on hand to i... Continue reading ...
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