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Two years ago I took a girlfriends-only trip out to California. We flew into LA and drove to Santa Barbara for our first stop. I woke up on Cincinnati time and was ready for an early walk on the beach, but Cheryl and Ally were not ready to tackle the day. Shelly however, was up and out with me. We walked down the beach to the end of the Santa Barbara pier where there was a restaurant. Believe it or not it was opening at 7 am. Shelly and I waited for the doors to open and went in to have breakfast.
On the menu I saw Orange Marmalade stuffed French toast with Ricotta cheese! Guess what else, Bloody Marys! You have to love California, cocktails at 7 am! Well, Shelly and I ordered breakfast and ate looking out over the pier. It was a beautiful morning. We then rented bicycles and rode all around the Santa Barbara beach bicycle trail to work off our calorie-filled breakfast.
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Fresh and Crunchy Italian Bread Salad
Hello and Welcome to the Anderson Township Farmers Market Blog!
Shadeau gets my vote for best bread in the City!
I hope you have purchased the yummy bread from Gary Skitt and Shadeau Breads. If you have, you know that they are some of the finest, freshest breads in the city. When you walk around the corner of the parking lot to enter the main walkway where the farmers and vendors display their wonderful products you can smell bread in the air. The smell will make your mouth water and you have to go right to his booth to buy a loaf or two. The bread that is for sale at the market is baked that morning and delivered by Gary straight to you. He never sells day old bread. Shadeau follows European tradition in baking bread, crusty outside, good mouth-feel on the inside and flavor, so much flavor. Gary has been known to sell out of bread due to the repeat customers who just cannot get enough.
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Hello and Welcome to the Anderson Township Farmers Market Blog!
If you are like me, sometimes I get a little overexcited when I shop at the Farmers Market…. Well this week is no exception. I bought about 10 big Kirby cucumbers from Maddux Farms. I had a big swim and dive banquet to go to and thought I would make the chopped cucumber salad that was such a hit at The Market last weekend. Lets just say I overbought. So I have some cucumbers hanging around my house that I bought, AND my cucumbers from my own garden are starting to come in. So, what to do with these extras? Obviously, make pickles, right? Well, never done that before, can’t be that hard. I had some initial criteria, I wanted to make refrigerator pickles, not the kind you have to can. After all we are only talking about a half dozen cucumbers here. Dill, not sweet, and had to be dummy-proof. So I do what I always do when I am faced with a recipe conundrum, go to the internet.
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Meet this girl’s favorite way to prepare potatoes. Developed by an Australian food writer (hence the funky, memorable name), these potatoes are simple and amazingly delicious. They’re not quick (plan on an hour’s total cooking time), but totally worth it. You must try these, okay?Thank you to everyone today at the Anderson Township Farmers Market who made me feel so special on my birthday!
We had an incredible turn-out today! Everyone just loved the chopped cucumber and tomato salad with the Sun-dried tomato vinaigrette. Cherry Orchard Foods sold out of the dressing mix due to the GREAT response. For those of you who were not able to get a seasoning packet, rest assured they will be bringing LOTS of them next week for you to purchase to make your own dressing.
Due to popular demand here is a recap of the dressing recipe
1 Tablespoon of Sun Dried Tomato dressing spice mix (make sure you shake the packet to get the seasonings distributed)
3 Tablespoons of your favorite vinegar. I was using White wine with pomegranate juice today, but any vinegar will work. Red wine vinegar would be awesome!
1/3 cup Olive oil. I used regular olive oil but extra virgin will work fine too.
Mix ingredients in re-purposed glass jar and let sit for 5 minutes to let flavors marry.
Pour over your favorite chopped salad and enjoy!
Thank you to all of our vendors, farmers and shoppers at The Market. You help to make our community, just that a community and a wonderful place to live.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
If you have any cooking or recipe questions for me, please just email me at thesuburbanchef@fuse.net.
Happy Seasonings!
Barbie
