Posted in Farmer's Market on 07. Mar, 2010
Today my guest was Tara Settembre, a Mar Vista resident whose blog is When Tara Met Blog, which is awesome and I recommend checking it out. She bought a loaf of bread and some honey, and she got a sandwich from Earl’s Gourmet Grub (the grilled gouda), which looked delicious and she said she enjoyed [...]
Posted in Farmer's Market on 28. Feb, 2010
Today’s shopper is Kathy Owens and she’s making a cheese plate from Lelio & Sons Cheese. Kathy’s showing off her cheese plate with Chris Masson of the Cheese Booth. She’s got cranberry-cinnamon goat cheese, parmigiano-reggiano, stilton with apricot, havarti with dill, smoked gouda, jarlsberg, danish blue, and garlic and herb chevre. She’s going to serve [...]
Posted in Farmer's Market on 21. Feb, 2010
Today’s shopper is my friend Donna Blazwich, who’s going to make Sole with Bundled Vegetables. She starts by parboiling her vegetables a few minutes to get them tender: asparagus and carrots from Maggie’s Farm.Then she slices them very thinly and 2″ long, along with some red onion and finely chopped garlic. Then she takes the [...]
Posted in Farmer's Market on 14. Feb, 2010
Today’s shopper is Caroline De Vita, a talented designer and illustrator. She’s going to make pasta primavera to celebrate this lovely warm weather. She’ll start by oven-roasting this Romanesco cauliflower in chunks with a little olive oil drizzled over top. While that’s in the oven, she sautes some chopped broccoli, zucchini, garlic, and halved cherry [...]
Posted in Farmer's Market on 07. Feb, 2010
Today’s shopper is Lauren Johanson, co-founder of YourDailyThread.com. (She and co-founder Tracy Hepler were also the guests at the Green Booth today.)
Lauren is going to make Tuscan Winter Tomato Soup. She starts by blanching the tomatoes, peeling them, and then coarsely chopping them. Then she sautes chopped garlic (onions are optional) in a generous amount [...]
Posted in Farmer's Market on 31. Jan, 2010
Today’s shopper is Elise Derby, who writes Elise’s Ramblings, and she’s going to make Potato Leek Soup. Start with leeks — clean them and separate the white parts from the green. Boil the green parts with chicken stock (or vegetable stock if you prefer) for about 20 minutes, then remove the green leeks from the [...]
Posted in Farmer's Market on 24. Jan, 2010
Today’s shopper is Jennifer Wilson and she’s going to make vegetable juice. She’s buying all organic vegetables, starting with beets, then celery, carrots, parsley and apples. She throws them all in her super-duper juicer, and bingo! Delicious and healthy!
Today in the Green Booth, The Master Gardeners were on hand, as they are every month, doling [...]
Posted in Farmer's Market, Mar Vista on 17. Jan, 2010
Today, inspired by my recent viewing of the movie Food, Inc., I am profiling an organic vendor here at the market. Givens Farms is located in Santa Barbara County and has been in operation since 1980. Here at the market, Kristi Curtis and William Herbe run the booth, but John Givens is the farmer. He’s [...]
Posted in Farmer's Market on 10. Jan, 2010
Today’s shopper is Birdie Mendoza, of Birdie’s Playhouse. She makes music for kids — and so much more. Today she’s shopping for a greens dish. (I think she heard I’m into greens these days!) She’ll start with Swiss Chard and Kale, and she prefers organic.Clean and chop the leaves, separating them from the stems. But don’t [...]
Posted in Farmer's Market on 03. Jan, 2010
Today was a gorgeous 80-degree day in Mar Vista, and it happens to also be the 1-year anniversary for the Sunday Market feature, and so I’m doing my own shopping this time, just as I did a year ago. I’m starting a veggie-heavy cleanse tomorrow (along with half of Southern California, it seems like) and [...]
