This week's market musts!

We've got another jam-packed market planned for Saturday which means you may need a little help finding things and staying focused. Come caffeinated and perhaps with an extra market bag...or two. 

Here are a few items/people to look out for:

Harlem Valley Homestead is bringing their first tulips of the season. They will fly, of course, so you should, too! They've sent pictures from the flower field, and, honestly, the parrot tulips are so pretty you should plan a dinner party around them.

Painted Goat Cheese returns to the market this week and how we survived these long winter months without their feta cheese and Cinderella logs, I do not know. But the wait is over and Ted (proud father of cheesemaker, Ilyssa, pictured with her farm dogs) is happy to be back in the saddle.
What's new at the farm? The reprieve from twice-daily milking and cheese production meant his son-in-law, Javier, was able to build a large barn to store bales of hay. Now, says Ilyssa, "We’re back to our spring routine: bottle feeding the babies, taking care of just under 100 goats, making cheese, doing 3-4 markets a week, and raising two smart and rambunctious young boys."
Congratulate Ted on the weddings of both his second daughter and his oldest granddaughter, too!

If you're lucky enough to score a tub of goat feta, why don't you make this spring-y  one pan orzo with spinach and feta. Sun Sprout & Obercreek Farm can help you with spinach, of course. 

Homegrown Nursery is only here through May so if you want to start a kitchen garden this year, plan to spend some time talking to Nick. This Saturday, he will hold two separate "potting up" demos, at 10:30 and 11:30 on the upper level of the market. Those who participate go home with a free Costoluto Genovese tomato plant. Sign up at the market tent for either session. Anyone can watch the demo, of course, but only 20 shoppers per session will get to work hands on with Nick and take home a free plant.

Daniel Teboul of Larchmont Charcuterie is also back and packing plenty of that smoked duck breast we are all so fond of. It could get ugly. Daniel always does cool and interesting things during the winter, and this winter was no exception. In addition to going on "charcuterie adventures" in California, he also volunteered his skills as a photographer on a medical mission helping underserved communities in the Dominican Republic where he bumped into Hastings resident and do-gooder, Amy Della Rocca.

Spring chickens are laying, laying, laying. Grab some from your favorite vendor and make this spring shakshuka with a green curry twist.

If you're a fan of 3x3 Kitchen, specializing in all things delicious and gluten-free, you know they've recently opened a brick and mortar space in Riverdale where they are serving up prepared foods as well as selling their baked goods. Think you're tired of avocado toast? Consider not toasting a slice of their uber-popular Forbidden Rice bread and layering it with smashed avocado and topping with pea shoots from White Pine Community Farm. Of course, a drizzle of Agape Olive Oil will gild the lily quite nicely.  As would some Crawford Cheddar from Aux Bons Fromages (formerly Cooperstown Cheese Co.). The Crawford is a traditional cloth-bound Cheddar cave-aged for 16 months. It has a firm texture that is simultaneously crumbly and creamy with notes of nuts and fruit.

The knife sharpener will be here to gussy up your pruning shears and carving knives and scissors. Remember those tulips need a nice clean cut before you put them in your favorite vase.


See you at the market!