Posts containing ‘farmers market

Welcome Mark & Myriam Pasternak back from Haiti

Posted by Mark Leonard / Chief Cook and Bottle Washer | Posted in Events

We’re all a-twitter (even on Twitter) about this week’s event! Join us right here for Secrets of an Award-Winning Organic Farmer on Tuesday the 26th at 6 PM Pacific/9 PM Eastern  with Mark Pasternak and Myriam Kaplan-Pasternak of Devil’s Gulch Farm in Marin County, California. You won’t want to miss this opportunity to ask them [...]

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Bitter Melon: Ugly but (sorta) Good

Posted by Mark Leonard / Chief Cook and Bottle Washer | Posted in Food Specialties

It looks like a cucumber with warts, and has a name to match, but since I’m being somewhat experimental in my farmers market purchases, I decided to give it a try.  The farmer told me that a common way to eat it is in stir-fry, so that’s where it ended up.  I cut it in [...]

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Farmers Market Diversity

Posted by Mark Leonard / Chief Cook and Bottle Washer | Posted in Food Specialties

One of the things I enjoy about the farmers market is learning about different varieties of food that in the past 50 years or so have been lost to the homogenization that has taken place in our food supply. Today, one of the stands had 17 varieties of potatoes! I love it. [...]

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Beautiful Heirloom Tomatoes

Posted by Mark Leonard / Chief Cook and Bottle Washer | Posted in Food Specialties

I was at the Farmers Market the other day and picked up these gorgeous heirloom tomatoes.  They were so beautiful I decided to spare them and keep them as souvenirs. That sentiment lasted until that evening when I decided to make salsa.

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Making Peperonata

Posted by Mark Leonard / Chief Cook and Bottle Washer | Posted in Food Specialties

Sarah Henkin inspired me to make peperonata.  After listening to the replay of our interview with Sarah, market chef for the Farmers Market at the Ferry Building in SF, I went out and bought a wide variety of peppers, chopped them up, cooked them in olive oil with garlic and onion, and added diced tomatoes [...]

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