Don’t you love a Farmer’s market? My favorite one in town is open for the season, and the bonus is that it isn’t far from the quilt show venue. If you come to the show, on your way home, stop by the Johnson Family Farms produce stand on the corner of Kanuga and Erkwood. Right behind the stand is a big field planted with all kinds of vegetables. Talk about fresh from the field!
They have a section with homemade food items, baked goods and local honey.
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Heirloom tomatoes, Roma tomatoes, little grape tomatoes, and big beefsteak tomatoes vie for my attention. I wanted to take the entire rack home.
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This is the market where I got the three color tomatoes for my Tomato Tian last year at the State Fair. Download a pdf of the recipe – Tricolor Tomato Tian.
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For new readers, I won third place at the Mountain State Fair with that recipe.
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Yellow summer squashes were beautiful alongside fresh green okra and cucumbers, and deep purple eggplants.
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These peppers are just begging to be stuffed with ground beef and baked with cheese.
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My photo of their colorful peppers last year won third place in the photography contest at the Mountain State Fair.
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Here’s what I got this time. I nabbed one of the last pints of strawberries available, their aroma was mouthwatering. I will be stopping by again one day this week after my work at the quilt show. With such gorgeous tomatoes available, I see a tomato pie in the near future.
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If you do a really good job with cleaning the seeds and jelly out of the tomatoes, and drain them for at least 12 hours, you get a pie that doesn’t have water in the bottom or a soggy bottom crust. Here’s my recipe – Carole’s Tomato Pie
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Next visit, I’ll get some of the yellow ones. Nothing like several thick slices on toasted sourdough bread with mayo and a bit of bacon.
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Or a stacked tomato salad with mozzarella cheese, a bit of avocado and cracked black pepper.
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Just to have a bit of quilting on this post, here’s my Farmer’s Market Picnic Quilt. It is lots of different blocks, joined together with just rectangles of food prints.
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It won a third place at the Mountain State Fair in 2014.
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So, on to the quilt show. I’ll try to bring you some of that on Friday.
Do you have a favorite farmer’s market?