Farmer's Market -- 20 May 2017 (Alfalfa Day, 1st of Meadow, Year 225)

[neotoma]

Cheese curds, eggs, spanakopita, tiropita, melitzanosalata, strawberries, pink lady apples, tomatillo and chile pepper plants -- jimmy nardello, fish, buena malata, and king of the north.

I'm hoping the buena malata is productive so that I can make salsa morada this year.

I'm also thinking about making strawberry preserves of some sort, now that strawberry season is fully upon us. I have recipes for strawberry syrup, strawberry vanilla jam, honey sweetened strawberry jam (would a light or dark honey be best?), strawberry meyer lemon marmalade, quick pickled strawberries, and whole strawberries in vanilla syrup.

And lastly, I was at the library yesterday and looked through a cookbook titled Vintage Cakes -- it has a recipe for Watergate Cake with Impeachment Frosting, so I at least know what to serve if the time comes...

Comments

[jenab]

Strawberry season is still a good month away from me and I can't wait for it.

[fyrdrakken]

If you want to go with the peach cake theme and not screw around with pistachios, my grandmother came up with a lovely variant on peach cobbler where she put yellow cake mix across the top instead of a pie-style crust. It was delicious. I have no recipe, though.