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For Those Who Do Not Like Kale

July 19, 2011

Each market season, I pull out the stops in praise of kale as the super vegetable, the one that overshadows all others in the “it’s good for you” category. When you ask why it’s such nutritional wonder, the answer stretches on and on, blending into a polysyllabic haze.
Here’s a shortened version: Kale comes loaded with antioxidants, which [...]

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Cooking Shallots

June 24, 2011

Julia Child made shallots a mainstay in her cooking for what she called their “delicate flavor and slightest hint of garlic.” Chefs love shallots.
These little bulbs that look like small, brown oval onions are not really onions. They are related though. They are alliums, the same family to which onions, leeks and garlic belong. They [...]

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Beautiful Beans

June 13, 2011

The Alvarez Organic Farm booth has stacks of colorful boxes of dried beans—red beans, kidney beans, black beans, pinto beans, and butter beans, along with chickpeas, technically not a bean but still a member of the legume family to which beans belong.
These are to be savored. It’s quite an opportunity for us to be able [...]

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Prize-Winning Cheese and Yogurt at the Market

June 1, 2011

Silver Springs Creamery  from the Lynden area is new to the market this year. In 2010, this dairy won the American Cheese Society’s awards for their yogurt and cheese, which the Sundstrom family brings to our market.
As a yogurt lover, I think there could not be a more divine yogurt than this creamery’s Jersey milk [...]

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Peanuts from Alvarez Organic Farm

June 1, 2011

Don’t all of us think that peanuts are grown only in Georgia? Yet Hilario Alvarez of Mabton in the upper Yakima Valley has figured out how to grow peanuts in Washington.
You can buy bags of their salted and unsalted peanuts at the market. Even though this is just the third week of the market, we’re [...]

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All Hail Asparagus!

May 15, 2011

One or more farmers intend to bring their asparagus on opening day. We might even have asparagus from east of the mountains as well as from western Washington. Things like tumultuous rain and muddy fields can change those plans, but for now, we’re likely to be able to bring home sweet, tender bundles of asparagus.
It’s [...]

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