Downtown Market - August 24th

 diverse & beautiful food at the woolerdale booth

 mixed salad greens

 Heirloom Tomatoes

 Early pumpkins

Next Week - Guest Chef Dahn from the Planet!!

The Peterborough Downtown Market is very excited that Dahn is returning next week to be our Guest Chef. I have re-posted the entry from last year's visit in anticipation! Come on down next Wednesday to try out to some of his famous & delicious vegan treats, and learn how to prepare some of the great foods at market in new & interesting ways:

roasted peaches atop of a fresh baked summer squash scone

Produce donated from Downtown market vendors . . . muse. inspiration. ingredients

Gazpacho made from heirloom melons, peaches & tomatoes

Rainbow Chard stems diced. Sliced white wonder cucumber

A delicious pate made from sprouted sunflower seeds, tvp & fresh herbs was placed on top . . . .

Here are some of the ingredients for the pate. Dahn sprouted the sunflower seeds in his apt over the last three days . . . Basil!

Downtown Market - Aug. 17th

 Beautiful bouquets of flowers & veggies! 

 Diverse veggies & full market booth at Fisher's Farms

 Heirloom Tomatoes!! 

 C. Bruni & Sons full booth from both sides! 

 Me showing off the basket of goodies donated by the vendors & raffled off to one lucky market-goer! 

 Beautiful booth of Woolerdale Farms!

 Diversity of Deer Bay Farms

 SunRoot Organics

Lovely line-up waiting for delicious Taste of Russia 

Market this Week

This week at the Downtown Farmers' Market, the tomatoes are starting to roll in. Come down early to get yourself a basket of brightly coloured and delicious heirloom tomatoes! You can also pick up some fresh baked bread & goat's cheese or chevre and feast on toasted tomato sandwiches all week long.

 Of course, there is also tonnes of prolific produce at market right now. It is the season of plenty, so come down & buy a bushel and get home & start canning, freezing or dehydrating.
  There will also be a draw to win a basket of fresh market goodies. Come down & enter to win some of the best groceries you could imagine.

Brio Gusto Recipe

Here is the recipe for the delicious treat made by Brio Gusto last month at the market: 

Garden Vegetable Sliders

3.5c chickpea flour

4 cups split peas

1 can chick peas - rinsed

8oz mushrooms (we used button, crimini & portobella)

1tsp cumin

1 tbsp soy sauce

1 white onion - sauteed

lots of garlic

1/2 cup of nutritional yeast

scallions to your taste

Sautee onions allow to cool

blend 1/2 of the split peas, all of the mushrooms, chickpeas, soy, cumin, garlic & yeast in a food processor. add cooled onions and blend to smooth

Add the other 1/2 of the peas for mouth feel and work the chickpea flour in with you hands until it form a thick pancake like batter

season to taste with salt and pepper

to cook : heat a cast iron pan to medium, with a bit of oil fry about 1 oz of batter for slidders and 3-4 oz for regular size until heated through

Support Toronto Farmers' Markets

Support Toronto Farmers' Markets! Sign the petition!

Mayor Ford and some City councillors want to increase user fees across Toronto for many important services and programs. Sign a petition to help stop fee increases for Farmers' Markets. Any increase in the cost to Toronto Farmers' Markets may put farmers in a position where they can no longer participate. Please send a message to Mayor Ford and your councillor telling them to keep fees to Farmers' Markets low. 

Farmers' Markets make Toronto a greener and healthier City.

Toronto residents benefit from fresh seasonal food brought directly to their neighbourhoods and the markets encourage people to participate in their communities and meet their neighbours. The environment benefits when food travels a shorter distance, using less fossil fuel and less packaging. Markets support and encourage family farmers. Increasing the costs of running farmers’ markets will make it prohibitive for farmers to attend. It is already difficult enough for farmers to earn a living at markets. 

Farmers' Markets contribute a lot to the City, the environment, our neighbourhoods and the local economy.

We the undersigned are asking that Mayor Ford and Toronto City councillors: 

• Do not vote to increase costs for Farmers' Markets. Instead please work to reduce barriers;
• Facilitate space in parks, parking lots and other suitable locations;
• Keep fees low to market organizers and vendors; and, 
• Maintain low cost parking options for farmers. 

Please visit the Toronto Farmers' Market Network for details, sign the online petition and share it with friends and neighbours.

Upcoming Canning Workshop

Want to feel confident about the process of preserving fruits & veggies that are so abundant at this time of year? Both sweet and savory recipes will be demonstrated and sampled. Each participant goes home with a cloth tote bag, recipes and safe canning information.

Date & Time: September 13th - 6:00pm-7:30pm
Instructor: Emerie Brine, Bernardin
Cost: $20
Location: Knox United Church

Please register with the Learning Source office by 12pm on Tuesday Sept. 6th.
Phone: 705-743-2141 ex. 3
In Person: 251A Charlotte St.
On-line: www.learningsource.ca (follow the registration link)

Downtown Market - Aug. 1oth

 Summer Squash

 Heirloom Tomatoes!!

 Glads

 Diversity!

 Beautiful Cabbages

 Fresh Dill available for pickling! And a tiny monarch butterfly to be! 

Groceries!

 My fabulous haul from the market on August 3rd . . .  so much inspiration for cooking & eating! 

Market August 3rd

 The first of peppers, eggplants & cauliflower! 

 A fabulous selection summer squash from the colour coordinated stand of SunRoot Organics

 Beautiful & Bountiful Beets

 The beginning of many diverse heirloom melons from Deer Bay Farms