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Fresh Harvest for April 28th
This post expired on April 28, 2023.
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Recipes
Melting Greens
From The Splendid Table
An easy, delicious and basic way of cooking any variety of greens
Ingredients
Good tasting extra-virgin olive oil
1 bunch Swiss chard, or combination of greens (chards, kales, collards), washed, stripped from center ribs and torn into pieces (about 5 cups)
4 garlic cloves, rough chopped
1 whole dried red chile
1/3 cup chicken, vegetable stock or water
Generous salt and fresh-ground black pepper
Instructions
1. Generously film the bottom of a large saucepan with a tight-fitting lid with the olive oil and heat over medium high. Add the garlic and whole chile. Sauté them very briefly – no more than 30 seconds.
2. Add the greens and stock. The pan will look heaping, but prepare yourself – the greens shrink shockingly as they cook down.
3. Reduce the heat to medium low, cover, and cook the greens for 10 minutes, or until they are tender. Check occasionally to make sure the greens are not burning, adding more liquid if needed. Sturdier greens like kale may take 5 to 10 minutes longer.
4. Just before serving, remove the chile and season the greens with additional salt and pepper and more of the olive oil if desired.
Market News
Hello!
What a rainy couple of days! It feels like it will never dry out enough to get the spring planting done! Nevertheless, the fields are coming along. The spring transplants seem to be growing at last, after sitting in the cold ground for so long and looking small day after day. The strawberry plants are covered in blooms and hopefully won’t be far off. The potatoes are up, and the tomatoes and in the ground, so summer must be right around the corner!
The selection is small this week, as we transition form one season to the next. Lots of good greens and lettuces, and don’t forget the tomato transplants for your garden! The basil varieties will be available next week.
There is lots of good stuff from all our vendors this week – check out the Moonshine cheese from The Bloomy Rind, and the new sausages from Wedge Oak. Earthwind Botanicals has great deals on bulk soap.
Tru Bee Honey has let us know they will back with honey in the coming weeks . They say the bees are making honey like crazy right now – enjoying the black locust tree flowers – so they anticipate a harvest in 4 weeks. It is easy to forget that honey production is also seasonal, just like other forms of agriculture. We look forward to their coming season – certainly local honey is worth the wait!
This is the last week to get the Bouquet of the Week Club Special! The offer will end in May, when the flowers start coming in. Sign up and you get 12 bouquets during the summer season for a price of $140.00, which is $12.00 a week, which will be $2.00 off the normal weekly bouquet price.
Please remember to bring back your bags this week! We are getting low!
We really appreciate your support, and look forward to seeing you this Wednesday!
John and Tallahassee
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