(expected produce mentioned for this coming Saturday subject to availability)
Hallo and apologies for the late delivery of this week's produce list. It has
been all hands on deck as we are all busy, busy, busy excitedly preparing for
our Autumn Equinox Sustainability Festival happening in conjunction with the
market this coming Saturday. If you haven't yet been to one of our festivals,
we encourage you to come and sample the myriad of activities and stalls that
this year's festival will have on display. Oh and don't forget to come and say
hi to us market crew - it will be wonderful to see you!
This week's produce is reflecting the festive autumnal spirit, with magnificent striped butternuts that are just begging to be stuffed and baked, or turned into a delicious spicy pumpkin pie, or that eternal favourite of busy mothers, good old pumpkin soup. Want to dress that pumpkin soup up a little? Just add a dash of cumin, a handful of chopped organic garlic, yoghurt and market fresh organic coriander, served with this week's offering of olive and rosemary or fig and pistachio bread and your taste buds will be jumping for joy!
We also have a wonderful colourful trio of carrots on offer this week:
standard sweet orange, deep yellow and yes, purple carrots have finally arrived
- a feast for the eye and the palate. The red capsicums look magnificent this
week, as does the sweet corn and our local Mt Cotton sprout king has come up
trumps with punnets of radish microgreens, as well as his traditional offerings
of mixed microgreens and salad sprouts. Not only are these sprouts a perfect
food from a nutritional perspective, they are packed with flavour and texture
making them a wonderful finishing touch for any salad. Speaking of salad, we
have both our ever popular salad mix as well as baby spinach leaves to choose
from this week, and knowing that there are those of us that have a weakness for
the grown up bunches of English Spinach, we have also made sure that there is a
limited supply on offer.
In the fruit department, with Autumn breaking into its stride, all I can
say is apples, apples, apples. Ever tried a Green Mutsu? The favourite of the
most upmarket chefs, these green apples are crisp with a slightly spicy
flavour, making them perfect for baking in a pie, a cake, turning into fritters
or, if you come from my family, you can't go past a delicious apple strudel,
stuffed with walnuts and sultanas and finished off with a generous serving of
whipped Barambah pure cream.
The sultana grapes are back, after a week's hiatus and are as sweet as
ever, as are the sugar plums and the just ace plums are still waiting for the
jam makers among you to come and transform them so that you can still enjoy that
beautiful plum flavour in the winter months. Dragonfruit are still fruiting,
farm paw paws still pawpawing and despite the harsh summer condition, the farm
lemons are full of flavour and combined with Stradbroke honey, ginger and
garlic, perfect for helping the body adjust to the transition from summer to
autumn.
As always, I remind you that all orders need to be in by 1pm Friday afternoons, so that our team of farm goddesses can don their magic wings
and put together your box of goodness in time for delivery (or pick up) on
Saturday.
Just send your orders through to:
or text the market phone on
0476 000 996
and we will be more than delighted to help make your start to the weekend a
delicious one!
Hope to see you on Saturday at the Festival, but if not, just keep your eye
on Facebook and Instagram for snapshots of the day :)
Yours in health and wellness and great organic food always
Camilla and all the other magic people that together help make The Organic
Market Macleay the coolest place to hang out on a Bay Island Saturday.
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