Fresh Sheet: May 28, 2014

Looking forward to more delicious food and great crafts?

Join us WEDNESDAY in the Terwillegar Recreation Center Parking Lot from 4:30-7:30

Wednesday should be a break from the chilly temperatures and rain, so be sure to get outside and enjoy the weather tomorrow at market! We have a great vendor lineup for you, from fresh vegetables to sweet and delicious cupcakes to handmade soap.

For market shopping tips, be sure to check out this page to ensure your market visit is everything it should be. And remember, please leave Fido at home- no dogs are allowed where food is being served!  

Stop by the info tent and the Experience This! table for great market themes every week. This Wednesday, we're hosting an ingredient challenge for our vendors, where they'll be competing for your votes for products made with carrots. Be sure to stop by, check out the great themed products to plan your shoping, and vote for your favourite!

Participating this week:

Honest Dumplings with her Ginger Beef Dumplings, filled and coloured with fresh local carrots.
Celebrate, Gluten Free with special chocolate carrot brownies and carrot hand pies.
Riverbend Gardens bags of Sweet Nantes carrots (sometimes you just have to keep it simple!)
Ada's Soap Shop with his"Carrot Soap".
Forgotten Favourites with their famous carrot muffin recipe. In the 1990’s, every Second Cup, Java Jive, Coffee Factory, and Winks location bought these muffins from Dagmar Kuehn to sell in their store. Check out our blog this Friday for the recipe! 
The Owlery is taking her own spin on the carrot challenge with her adjustable carrot rings. They're adorable and perfect for all veggie lovers! 
Sweet Stuff Cupcakes with miniature carrot cupcakes that are perfect for a little treat!

 The Southwest Edmonton Farmers' Market aims to enhance and support our vibrant community. Check out how to engage with your neighbours this week! 

The Terwillegar Community League will be joining us in our Community Tent to offer information about your community league membership and all of the great benefits membership has to offer. Be sure to stop by and learn more!

The Terwilegar Riverbend Advisory Council will be promoting their 10K Rock N' Run on June 1st again this week. The run is coming up fast and will feature musical acts all along the route, so be sure to sign up for this fun Sunday event!

  

The inflatable slide will be here again this week! It's only $5 for unlimited rides all market and is the perfect way to burn off extra energy (or that extra cupcake!) before bedtime. If the weather isn't perfect, don't fret! Bob the slide guy has also brought a bouncy castle combo unit for hours of fun, even in the wind!

 






The Sprouts Program for kids continues this week. Children who enrolled last week between 4-12 will receive a $2 token to spend with our fruit and vegetable vendors. Be sure to stop by to fill out an an entry to win a healthy prize pack from Choose Well! There are currently no spaces available in Sprouts, but you can put your child's name on the waiting list. For more information on the Sprouts Program, click here.

We don't fail to entertain at the Southwest Edmonton Farmers' Market! Check out this week's entertainers and buskers below. 

Our resident balloon artists, Pretzel and Russ, and the face painter extraordinaire, Lady Dolphin, will be joining us again this week.

We have a great lineup of musical buskers this week as well, so be sure to drop them a listen!

There's nothing more refreshing on a summer day than biting into a fresh piece of fruit from the farmers' market... Get your fix of nature's candy this week!

Red Apple B.C. Fruit is back this week with their delicious B.C. apples and pears. Ask them for a recommendation when choosing your variety; they always pick the best!

 

There's nothing like fresh local vegetables to make your salads and dinners better. Check out what our veggie vendors are bringing this week:

Dargatz Family Farm will be bringing their herb pots and other plants to market again this week.

Holden Colony will be bringing a variety of fresh vegetables, including peppers, cucumbers and tomatoes, along with root vegetables and delicious preserves.

Riverbend Gardens will have radishes this week fresh from the field, as well as herbs, tomato plants (see the varieties available here), flowers, vegetable seedlings, hanging baskets, along with potatoes, carrots, onions and cabbage.

S4 Greenhouses will be bringing their freshest tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and lettuce (along with those adorable $2 bags for our little Sprouts).

Our meat line-up has some old favourites and some new vendors to try: 

Sunworks Farm brings a variety of grass-fed and organic meats to market. They have delicious samples, so be sure to swing by and try one!

Jerky Jerky is back this week bringing his delicious jerky. If you haven't tried it yet, you're missing out!

Our bakers are back this week! Satisfy your sweet tooth and grab your new favourite loaf of bread this week from these wonderful vendors:

Celebrate, Gluten Free is the wonderful for those who avoid gluten. Try her chocolate carrot brownies and carrot hand pies as part of our carrot theme this week!

Sweet Stuff will be stocked full with her adorable cupcakes. Be sure to grab her limited edition mini carrot cupcakes this week!

Confetti Sweets will be back again with their delicious cookies. They have so many varieties you'll have to come back week after week to try them all!

Cafe O' Play's Little Crumbs is back this week with more of their hit nut-free baking. Their products are perfect to pack to nut-free schools, so pick up some cookies to treat your child's entire class this week!

Prairie Mill Baking Co. will have their fantastic locally-baked bread. If you're looking to satisfy a sweet tooth, their chocolate banana bread is to die for!
Raspberry and Cocoa will be joining us this week and offering their perfect croissants and other baked goods.

 

Want a quick and delicious take-home food item? We've got you covered!

Cravings Gelato will be bringing their gelato in a variety of flavours. 

Freaking Fantastic Flax will be back this week offering whole their healthy ground flax seed, granola bars, trail mix and more.

Fruits of Sherbrooke will be bringing their oh-so-popular preserves made from rescued fruit in Edmonton neighbourhoods.

Melodi's Kitchen will be bringing their wonderful Turkish food again this week. 

Mini Kitchen specializes in delicious Indian and Thai food. Stop by and say hello!

The Mallow Fellow will have her perfectly soft and sweet marshmallows. They're absolutely perfect for a mid-market treat.

Theo's Greek Kouzina bringing their well-loved Greek dips and treats to market this week.

Honest Dumplings will be bringing five flavours of dumplings: Maple pork belly with quinoa and baby bok choy; pork with edamame beans and shrimp; spicy chicken with peanuts and flat beans; spicy tofu with peanuts, and new this week, ginger beef.

The Violet Chocolate Company is back with their delicious specialty chocolate! Once you try her chocolate bars, you'll never go back to mass-produced chocolate again.

Simply Supper brings ready-to-eat meals to market to make your busy life easier.

 

No farmers' market visit is complete without dinner at one of our fantastic food trucks. Where will you eat this week? 

La Poutine is back this week with their ever-popular poutines made with fresh cheese curds. 

Bully Food Truck makes drool-worthy comfort food using fresh and local ingredients and will be joining us again this week.

Fat Franks is back and will be ready to serve you their delicious hot dogs and smokies with all the fixings!

The Pink Kernel will be at market offering mini doughnuts, cotton candy and snow cones.

Original Canadian Kettle Corn, a farmers' market staple, will be here this week satisfying all of your cravings for this summer favourite!

Yellowbird Food Truck will be offering their fantastic Japanese fusion cuisine.

We have only the best artisans at SWEFM. Be sure to finish off your market experience with a great item for you or a friend!

Ada's Soap Shop will be selling cold-processed soap along with lip balm, lavender flowers and more. Grab a bar of his Carrot Soap for our theme this week!

Forgotten Favourites will be selling their fantastic self-published cookbook this week. It's a great book to find inspiration on how to use your great market ingredients in new ways! Stay tuned for our wonderful plans with these ladies at our Experience This! table.

Morrie's Handicraft is back again with his beautiful handmade stone housewares. Ask him about custom orders, he'd love to make your vision come to life.

The Owlery is back this week with her eclectic jewelry. If you didn't have the chance to visit her stall last week, you have a second chance!

See you at market!

Warm Panzanella Salad

This recipe comes to us this week from Dr. Darcy Dietz, the main sponsor of our Sprouts Kids' Club. A local orthodontist, he has a passion for local food and for the culinary arts. On the weekend he sent me photos of a dinner that he made that looked mouth-wateringly delicious! He serves this salad warm, with a halibut steak (and because of this recipe, it's time to let the proverbial cat out of the bag... in June, we will have a wonderful, ocean-wise fish seller at our market that runs a very popular CFA, called Skipper Otto's).  The beauty of this dinner is that the traditional starch is absent, and you won't miss it a bit!

Dr. Dietz is always experimenting with his food, with what it means to truly cook local, and he is constantly learning new techniques, experimenting with new combinations and growing his own food. In this weekend dinner, he caught the halibut and grew the sprouts that garnish this salad. 

Panzanella Salad

Panzanella salad is served warm. Made from mini-roma tomatoes, red and yellow peppers, red onion, shallots, kalamata olives and capers, it is seared and tossed with a red wine vinaigrette and then tossed with the rosemary bread croutons that have been fried in butter. 

Toast the croutons by pan frying them in
grape seed oil and butter.

Dr. Dietz says, "This is a great substitute for potatoes, rice, or pasta. The textural crunch of the ingredients is great beside the halibut or any main protein. I have vegetarian friends who would be happy to eat this as their only course."

Today he shares with us this recipe.

He writes, "I cheated. I’ve done this so many times that I had to look up quantities. Ina Garten’s recipe is spectacular and most true to what I do, but I pre-fry the bread in a bit of grape seed oil and butter. I also toss the other ingredients into heat as I like everything to be hot for this particular presentation. 

A Farmers' Market is the perfect place to pick up
fresh red onions and incredibly sweet grape tomatoes.

The farmer’s market is perfect for picking up the tomatoes, basil, peppers, bread (although the rosemary-olive bread at the Italian Centre is superb) and parsley. 

I added ½ cup of capers, and 1 cup of sliced in half Kalamata olives.  I used the small mini-Roma greenhouse tomatoes. 

On the left, pan-seared halibut. In the middle, croutons toasting
in grape seed oil and butter. On the right, the vegetable
ingredients sautéing.

And, if I can be so bold, the vinaigrette is great but substitute 30ml of FISH SAUCE instead of salt. That flavour punch is terrific Umami.  And you can sub red wine vinegar for the champagne vinegar which for some reason is hard to find in town exempt at Sunterra." Darcy learned a  lot about the culinary arts during his mini internship at Stella, a wonderful restaurant in Lake Tahoe. There, Chef Jacob's Filippino wife suggested the fish sauce substitution that is used in this recipe adaptation

ingredients 

For the salad:

3 tablespoons good olive oil


1 small French bread or boule, cut into 1-inch cubes (6 cups)


1 teaspoon kosher salt


2 large, ripe tomatoes, cut into 1-inch cubes
 or the equivalent volume of small grape tomatoes

1 hothouse cucumber, unpeeled, seeded, and sliced 1/2-inch thick


Topped with fresh sprouts and a pan-fried
halibut steak, this goes brilliantly with a
chilled, crisp white wine.

1 red bell pepper, seeded and cut into 1-inch cubes


1 yellow bell pepper, seeded and cut into 1-inch cubes
1/2 red onion, cut in 1/2 and thinly sliced


20 large basil leaves, coarsely chopped


3 tablespoons capers, drained
1/2 cup capers
1 c. sliced kalamata olives


For the vinaigrette:


1 teaspoon finely minced garlic


1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard


3 tablespoons Champagne vinegar


1/2 cup good olive oil


1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
 OR 30mL fish sauce***

1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

directions 
Heat the oil (or oil & butter) in a large saute pan. Add the bread and salt; cook over low to medium heat, tossing frequently, for 10 minutes, or until nicely browned. Add more oil as needed.

For the vinaigrette, whisk all the ingredients together.

In a large bowl, mix the tomatoes, cucumber, red pepper, yellow pepper, red onion, basil, and capers. Add the bread cubes and toss with the vinaigrette. Season liberally with salt and pepper. Serve, or allow the salad to sit for about half an hour for the flavors to blend.

where can you find ingredients at our market?

• Greenhouse cucumbers can be found at S4 Greenhouses and Holden Colony. 
• A rainbow of mini tomato varieties can be found at S4 Greenhouses. 
• Red onions can be found at Holden Colony, Riverbend Gardens and Dargatz Family Farm. 
• Wonderful breads can be found at Prairie Mill Bakery and Celebrate, Gluten Free.
• And fresh basil plants can be purchased at Dargatz Family Farm and Riverbend Garden and grown on your kitchen windowsill, garden plot or back deck/patio pot

Contributed by Dr. Darcy Dietz
Recipe adapted slightly from http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/panzanella-recipe.html
***Darcy learned a  lot about the culinary arts fusing his mini internship at Stella, a wonderful restaurant in Lake Tahoe. There, Chef Jacob's Filippino wife suggested the fish sauce substitution that is used in this recipe adaptation

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Fresh Sheet: May 21, 2014

Get ready for our second market of 2014!

Join us WEDNESDAY in the Terwillegar Recreation Center Parking Lot from 4:30-7:30

The weather forecast is looking great this week, and so is our lineup of vendors, entertainment and great eats!

For market shopping tips, be sure to check out this page to ensure your market visit is everything it should be. And remember, please leave Fido at home- no dogs are allowed where food is being served!  

 

We're launching our Experience This! table at SWEFM this week. Stop by the info tent for a themed display of fantastic products from our vendors, nutrition tips, vendor challenges and more! We're kicking off the fun with Everything Garden this week, where you'll be able to spot all of our flower and garden-related products all in one place before you get shopping. It's just in time for your lovely spring gardening in the days and weeks ahead!

Participating this week:

Sweet Stuff with her adorable flower miniature and full-sized cupcakes. 
Riverbend Gardens with gorgeous bedding flowers, vegetable seedlings and tomato plants. 
Celebrate, Gluten Free with cupcakes iced to look like frosted roses.
Morrie's Handicrafts with his handmade garden stones.
Dargatz Family Farm with their delicious Fresh culinary pot filled with parsley, rosemary, purple sage, thyme and tarragon and the "Aussie" variety of tomato plant that produces giant tomatoes!  
Ada's Soap Shop with his "Loofa Soap", made with loofa, a member of the cucumber family. It's great for scrubbing away dirt and grime after a long day of gardening!
The Owlery with her beautiful garden-inspired jewelry pieces. 

Swing by Experience This! every week to see what's new and exciting at market!

  

The inflatable slide is back! Bob the slide guy is back for the season this week, bringing his giant slide and combo bouncing unit for kids of all ages to enjoy. It's only $5 for unlimited rides all market and is the perfect way to burn off extra energy (or that extra cupcake!) before bedtime.

 







The Sprouts Program for kids continues this week. Children who enrolled last week between 4-12 will receive a $2 token to spend with our fruit and vegetable vendors. Be sure to stop by to fill out an an entry to win a healthy prize pack from Choose Well! We only have five spaces left in the program this week, so come early to ensure your child can participate. For more information on the Sprouts Program, click here.

We don't fail to entertain at the Southwest Edmonton Farmers' Market! Check out this week's entertainers and buskers below. 

Our resident balloon artists, Pretzel and Russ, and the face painter extraordinaire, Lady Dolphin, will be joining us this week. Their services are great for kids of all ages (even you, Dad)!















We have a great lineup of buskers this week, including Matt Graham, Clinton Richardson, and our feature busker this week, Spencer Vaughn. Spencer is pursuing a music diploma from MacEwan University, and draws upon a wide range of influences including Coldplay, John Mayer and Ray Lamontagne. He will, along with our other talented buskers this week be playing acoustic in the market.

 The Southwest Edmonton Farmers' Market aims to enhance and support our vibrant community. Check out how to engage with your neighbours this week! 

The River Valley Alliance will be joining us in our Community Tent to connect with you and fill you in on the Terwillegar foot bridge, awesome trails to explore and new bike paths to enjoy this summer. They're your connection to outdoor fun this season, so stop by and ask them a question or three!

The Terwilegar Riverbend Advisory Council will be promoting their 10K Rock N' Run coming on June 1st. Stop by, say hello and sign up for this fun run! 

There's nothing more refreshing on a summer day than biting into a fresh piece of fruit from the farmers' market... Get your fix of nature's candy this week!

Red Apple B.C. Fruit is joining us for the season this week with their delicious pears and apples. They have multiple varieties of these ripe favourites, so branch out and try something new!

 

Veggies may not be coming from the fields yet, but we'll have piles of root crops, greenhouse favourites and bedding plants available this week:

Dargatz Family Farm will be bringing their herb pots and other plants to market again this week. With instructions from Keith, they're perfect for green and not-so-green thumbs alike!

Holden Colony will be bringing a variety of fresh vegetables, including peppers, cucumbers and tomatoes, along with root vegetables and delicious preserves.

Riverbend Gardens will have herbs, tomato plants (see the varieties available here), flowers, vegetable seedlings, hanging baskets, along with potatoes, carrots, onions and cabbage.

S4 Greenhouses will be bringing their freshest tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, lettuce and more (along with adorable $2 bags for our little Sprouts).

Our meat line-up has some old favourites and some new vendors to try: 

Sunworks Farm brings a variety of grass-fed and organic meats to market. They have delicious samples, so be sure to swing by and try one!

Jerky Jerky is back this week bringing fantastic jerky products. Our guests last week said it was the best jerky they'd ever eaten... try it yourself and be the judge!

This season we're proud to include baking vendors that cater not only to your sweet tooth, but to your dietary restrictions, too! From gluten-free to nut-free, everyone can treat themselves at SWEFM this season. 

Celebrate, Gluten Free is the perfect option for those with gluten sensitivities. Try their rose-themed cupcakes this week along with their other fantastic baked delights!

Sweet Stuff is bringing her adorable garden-themed cupcakes this week. Try a little bite of heaven with her mini flower cupcakes!

Confetti Sweets will be back again with their awesome cookies. If there was a flavour you didn't try last week, here's your chance! 

Cafe O' Play's Little Crumbs is back this week with more of their hit nut-free baking. They'll be bringing all of the kids' favourites including their delightful "Little Crumbs" and cookies.

Prairie Mill Baking Co. will be offering their delicious fresh bread. Our favourite this week is the Sunflower Whole Wheat, so be sure to pick up a loaf!

 

Want a quick and delicious take-home food item? We've got you covered!

Birds and Bees Winery will be bringing their delicious honey wines and meads to market this week. Grab a bottle to enjoy on the deck after dinner!

Cravings Gelato will be bringing their fantastic gelato in a wide variety of flavours. Get more than one... we won't judge!

Fruits of Sherbrooke will be bringing their delicious preserves made from rescued fruit.

Melodi's Kitchen will be bringing baklava, beef and feta cheese sigara boregi, spinach boregi, apple cinnamon cookies, raspberry jam cookies, Easter bread with raisins, simit, lentil burgers, tahinli corek, eggplant dolma, and yaprak sarmasi.

Mini Kitchen specializes in delicious Indian and Thai food. Stop by and say hello!

The Mallow Fellow is back with new and old favourite flavours including cotton candy, licorice, bubble gum, espresso, grapefruit, toasted coconut, cinnamon roll,
and more!

Theo's Greek Kouzina bringing their well-loved greek dips and treats to market this week.

Honest Dumplings will be bringing five types of dumplings this week, all made with organic unbleached flour and fresh ingredients: Maple pork belly with quinoa and baby bok choy; pork with edamame beans and shrimp; spicy chicken with peanuts and flat beans; spicy tofu with peanuts, and new this week, ginger beef.

The Violet Chocolate Company is back with their delicious specialty chocolate!

Simply Supper brings ready-to-eat meals to market to make your busy life easier.

 

No farmers' market visit is complete without dinner at one of our fantastic food trucks. Where will you eat this week? 

Sailin' On Food Truck will be joining us this week with their ever-popular vegan menu! If you're hesitant to try vegan foods, Salin' On will be the food truck to make you fall head over heels in love. 

Bully Food Truck makes drool-worthy comfort food using fresh and local ingredients and will be joining us again this week.

Fat Franks is back and will be ready to serve you their delicious hot dogs and smokies with all the fixings!

The Pink Kernel will be at market for all of you who can't turn down childhood favourites like mini doughnuts, cotton candy and snow cones.

Original Canadian Kettle Corn, a farmers' market staple, will be here this week satisfying all of your cravings for this summer favourite!

Yellowbird Food Truck will be offering their fantastic Japanese fusion cuisine this week.

Ada's Soap Shop will be selling cold-processed soap along with lip balm, lavender flowers and more. 

Forgotten Favourites will be selling their fantastic self-published cookbook this week. It's a great book to find inspiration on how to use your great market ingredients in new ways!

Morrie's Handicraft is back this year with his beautiful handmade stone housewares. He's joining in the fun garden theme this week with his beautiful garden stones.

The Owlery is new to the market this year, and will be selling her quirky jewelry made from found objects. Be sure to swing by and give her a warm welcome!

See you at market!

Recipe: Mimosa Salad

Christina & Dagmar

One of our goals here at the market blog, and through the Sprouts Club recipes, is to show you just how easy it is to make meals at home... how easy it is to cook simply and affordably.

This recipe does just that, and it comes to us from two new vendors to our market this year, Dagmar and her daughter, Christina, authors of the cookbook, Forgotten Favourites.

Mountains of radishes at Riverbend Gardens

Forgotten Favourites is a cookbook that brings to life recipes that are a fond memory for so many from their family dining room table.

Dagmar says that her goal is to make cooking at home an easy endeavour.  And she firmly believes that wonderful meals prepared at home and shared together with your family are an easy and affordable thing to do. 

With people relying more and more on take out food, ready-to-go meals and eating in restaurants, the art of home cooking is being lost. Dagmar and Christina want to help you remember what good home cooking is, and they want to help you rekindle that love of forgotten favourites in your own home. They want to bring back the tradition of family meals and gathering with friends around the dining room table, sharing simple, tasty dishes that you would be proud to serve.

Butter Lettuce at S4 Greenhouses

They are sharing this recipe with you today because you will find many of the ingredients at an early spring farmers' market... hot house butter lettuce, farm fresh - free range eggs, radishes (one of the first field crops to ever come in!), greenhouse grape tomatoes and honey.

Christina and Dagmar will be at the the market each week from May 21 until June 18 selling their cookbook, full of those feel good, heritage recipes.

Eggs from Dargatz Family Farm

• Lettuces are available at S4 Greenhouses, Dargatz Family Farm and Holden Colony. 
• Farm Fresh eggs are available at Sunworks, Holden Colony and Dargatz Family Farm. 
• Small, grape tomatoes are available in a rainbow of colours at S4 greenhouses and Dargatz Family Farm. 
• Radishes can be found at Riverbend Gardens, Dargatz Family Farm and Holden Colony. 



Mini tomatoes come in so many varieties! Expe

• And honey is available at Holden Colony.

MIMOSA SALAD

This colourful salad of bright green lettuce topped with chopped egg can be served at any meal.

Yield:  8 servings

Wash and spin dry:   3 heads of butter lettuce

Alberta honey

Cover:   3 large eggs with enough cold water to cover by 1 inch.  Bring to boil over high heat. Immediately remove from heat and let stand 20 minutes.  Drain and run cold water over the eggs for 2 minutes.  Gently crack the shells and cover with fresh cold water.  Leave for 30 minutes or so. Drain and peel.

Drain:                                     
one 540 ml. jar mandarin oranges

Wash:                                     
1 container grape tomatoes

Wash and Slice:                  

Radishes and fresh, washed, ready to eat tender lettuces from
Dargatz Family Farm

6 to 8 radishes

Make dressing:

Combine:                               
¼ cup olive oil

4 tsp. red wine vinegar

 2 tsp. Dijon mustard

1 pinch salt

1 Tbsp. honey (or 1 tsp. granulated sugar)

Assemble Salad:

Line individual salad plates with the lettuce.  Spread mandarin orange sections over the lettuce.

Top with the grape tomatoes and finely chopped egg.  Garnish with radish slices.

Drizzle with the dressing just before serving.

             

Contributed by Christina Lofthaug and Dagmar Kuehn from their cookbook, Forgotten Favourites
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