Last year I did a little experiment that I called market week where I bought all my groceries including milk, cheese, meat, vegetables and bread at the greenmarket. It was really fun and I’ve found that in the year since, I do about 75% of my shopping at the market, which makes me really happy. I love seeing the farmers and people who make the food that I put in my body and knowing how much they care about what they’re doing.
This year I wanted to do market week again, but there needed to be something bigger and better about it. That’s where YOU come in. Please join me in market week 2009, a week where we buy everything from the farmer’s market, a farm stand, a local CSA or even grow it in our own gardens and create delicious meals. Maybe you can’t do a whole week, maybe you can just commit a day, whatever it is, I’d love to have you participate.
I realize this is quite a heads up, but I’m hoping to get people excited and thinking about what they’d like to do for market week. We all love delicious, fresh food and hopefully this little experiment will allow everyone share their goods and see what’s in season across the country (and hopefully around the world).
How it works:
Buy your groceries
Make a list and visit your local farmers market to buy your groceries for the week.
Photograph your goods and upload to our flickr group:
Whether it’s at the market or in your kitchen, photograph what you’ve purchased and upload the photos to out market week flickr group right here. I can’t wait to see what’s in season around the country.
Make delicious meals and upload to our flickr group:
Now here’s the fun part. Create a week’s worth of meals and upload your photos to the flickr group.
If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at kelly(at)carambula.com or ask questions in the comments section.
fresh cherry + raspberry muffins
It’s that happy time of year when each time I visit the market a new berry or fruit is there to welcome me. The sucker I am, I scoop up little bundles left and right, not sure what to do, just sure that they’re pretty and I’ll figure something out. This week’s big score was sweet cherries. I brought them home, popped a few in my mouth then started thinking about what they might become. Weekends in our apartment usually include one fancy breakfast, and by that I mean something requires me to turn on the stove or oven, so I immediately started thinking about muffins. I found a recipe that sounded different than the usual muffin recipe because it included jam, so I was sold. Only one problem, I didn’t have any jam.
I got resourceful though and used a handful of raspberries I had tucked away from last weeks fruit spree, combined them with about a third of my cherries and cooked them down to get a sort of compote. Perfecto! Oh, and here’s a hot tip. I don’t have a cherry pitter, so instead I used these reusable plastic straws to poke the pit out. It worked like a charm and kept my cherries in tact.
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