Charm City Cook
Food is good
Spring. It gives you a feeling of hopefulness, no? Me, I’m hopeful for asparagus. And peas. And oh yeah, rhubarb! (And tulips, peonies, hydrangeas…) The JFX farmers market opened last Sunday, daffodils are out and the winter coat has been moved to the back of the closet. Thank GOD.
Baltimore has had some pretty entertaining slogans. We’ve seen “The City That Reads”, “The Greatest City in America”, “Get In On It” and ”Find Your Happy Place.”
One of my favorite food websites is The Kitchn. For a home cook like me, it is a great resource. I have already referenced this post about a dozen times to see if I’m storing my farmers market purchases properly! A Few General Guidelines Do Not Store Fruits and Vegetables Together. Fruits that give off high …
I love Waverly Market. I shop for my weekly groceries there every week and love seeing local chefs shopping from local farmers and purveyors. I go early and I usually see Chris Becker of the Bagby Restaurant Group and John Shields of Gertrude’s, talking with farmers, buying cases of fruit, vegetables, herbs and more. This makes …
If you’re like me, you love tomatoes. But not those tasteless ones you see at the grocery store in the dead of winter. No, I’m talking summer tomatoes. From Maryland. And they’re beginning to pop up at local farmers markets, roadside stands and maybe, in your very own garden. My friend Sean invited me a …
Oh, say it ain’t so… This just may be the last week or two of local strawberries and rhubarb at the farmers market. Highly recommend getting the rhubarb from Gardeners Gourmet (the folks with the lovely salad greens, herbs, cabbage and radishes…) and the strawberries from the “pea man” Thomas McCarthy of Woodside Greenhouse. (And…be …
I’m a big Waverly Market fan. Since it’s a year-round market, I go every week for staples like milk, eggs, bread, lettuce, apples, potatoes, onions and bacon (yes, bacon is a staple in my house.) The selection of fruits and veggies, of course, is a bit more limited in the cold winter months…but I feel good supporting local folks as much as I …
what are some of your favorite things at the farmers market? here are some of mine from waverly… berries, berries, berries thomas’ peas broom’s bloom ice cream andy’s eggs rhubarb – for pies and…making rhubarb vodka right now… one straw farm beets fiddlehead ferns from the mushroom lady corn tomatoes chesapeake microgreens – love their boston …
i first saw garlic scapes in my one straw farm CSA share last year. they are like garlic, only milder and they come in season earlier than garlic. to me, they look sort of sculptural…beautiful, actually. as i walked out of the farmers market this morning, three people stopped me to ask what they were and how to use …
