Here’s what’s NEW in this week’s newsletter:
1. New produce boxes—try out the new Community Supported Agriculture box!
2. Great recipes for warming dishes with cauliflower and chard!

new: PRODUCE BOXES at the South Anchorage Farmers’ Market!
Have you been waiting for a South-side, Alaskan alternative to the boxes of produce shipped up from Washington every week? A&M Farms is launching a trial run with some big beautiful boxes of produce! You pre-order them by e-mail, and then pick them up on WEDNESDAY at the Dimond Center Farmers’ Market from 10am-2pm.

These first boxes will cost $25, and will contain a variety of beautiful all-Alaskan bounty!  If you sign up for the box, Arthur Keyes will email you the contents of the box on Sunday; I’ll let you know in the Tuesday newsletter about the contents, too.

To order a box and have it waiting for you on Wednesday, please email Arthur Keyes, at , or call him at 907-354-5833. Please include your name and phone number in your order. Arthur will send you a confirmation email within 12 hours. Then you can bring your check or cash to the Dimond Center Farmers’ Market on Wednesday, between 10am and 2pm.

recipes
This week I can’t help putting in two recipes that are especially great on cold days… they each have a bean or legume in them to add heartiness, so they are meals in themselves! The first is a beautiful golden-colored dish that takes advantage of the glorious cauliflowers at the market: a red lentil & cauliflower curry with golden raisins. (Those salmon-colored red lentils do turn golden when you cook them.)

Another bean dish is one that I’m very fond of… it’s for chard & fennel with tomatoes & black-eyed peas. Have you cooked many black-eyed peas? They are very quick to cook, and I love their sweet, earthy flavor. They go SO well with chard, tomatoes, and if you have it, the slightly licoricey taste of fennel!

And last, I’m including a beet salad with horseradish dressing, because the beets (and their greens) are coming in with such reckless abandon! Take advantage of them now while they still have their greens on for this delicious salad.

vegetables
Here’s a list of the vegetables I’ve seen at the market—but there are new things arriving all the time! 

arugula | basil | beet greens | beets, red | beets, chiogghia | broccoli | cabbage, green | cabbage, napa | cabbage, red | carrots | cauliflower | chard | cilantro | collards | cress | cucumbers, pickles | cucumbers, slicers | daikon | dill | eggplant | fennel | kale, lacinato | kale, red russian | kohlrabi | lettuce, buttercrunch | lettuce, iceberg | lettuce, red | lettuce, romaine | mustard, mizuna | mustard, red | mustard, tatsoi | onions, green | parsley, italian | parsnips | peas, sugar snap | potatoes, butterball | potatoes, new | radishes | rhubarb | salad green mixture | shingiku | sorrel | spinach | squash, blossoms | strawberries | sugar snap peas | tomatoes, cherry | tomatoes, red | tomatoes, yellow | turnip greens | turnips (white, snow apple) | turnips (purple-topped) | zucchini blossoms | zucchini, green | zucchini, yellow

bread
Rise & Shine Bakery will take this Saturday weekend off, but we’ll be back next Saturday (September 13th).

Mary Jane will also be at the market with all kinds of breads, croissants, palmiers, and macaroons from the French Oven Bakery.

farmers’ market cookbook
The South Anchorage Farmers’ Market Cookbook is filled with 100 pages of delicious, healthy recipes that showcase our flavorful, fresh local Alaskan produce. Recipes provide inspiration for ways to use Alaskan vegetables, fish, fruits, bread, and other products that can be found at our farmers’ markets. The cookbook focuses on vegetable recipes that have fantastic flavor and top-notch nutritional value. And if you’re wondering about how to process our Alaskan produce to freeze for the winter, the book includes instructions!

seafood
Arctic Choice Seafoods will have all kinds of fresh, delicious, Alaskan fish! Here’s a list of what they are likely to have.

fresh king salmon | fresh sablefish | fresh rockfish | fresh halibut | fresh clams | fresh oysters | halibut cheeks | king crab | snow crab | spot shrimp | side stripe shrimp | Dungeness crab | scallops | smoked salmon bellies

Saturday South Anchorage Farmers’ Market
Dates: May 10-October 4
Hours: 9am-2pm
Location: Subway/Cellular One Sports Centre at the corner of Old Seward and O’Malley

Wednesday South Anchorage Farmers’ Market
Dates: July 2- October 1
Hours: 10am-4pm
Location: behind the Dimond Center, in front of the Dimond Center Hotel

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For more information about the market, contact Arthur Keyes, South Anchorage Farmers’ Market Manager, at 907-354-5833, or at .

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Cheers! And see you at the market!
Alison Arians
Farmers’ Market Reporter

RISE & SHINE BAKERY
Long Term Baking Schedule, Summer 2008
6 September
OFF
13 September
• pan loaves: 100% whole wheat sourdough levain, Alaskan baked potato, raisin & toasted pecan
• hearth loaves: fresh rosemary, Alaskan onion rye
20 September
• pan loaves: 100% whole wheat sourdough levain, golden maize
• hearth loaves: toasted seed, Alaskan cheese & roasted garlic, dark chocolate & cherry
27 September
• pan loaves: 100% whole wheat sourdough levain, Alaskan barley, raisin & toasted pecan
• hearth loaves: Kalamata olive, Alaska potato & chive
4 October
• pan loaves: 100% whole wheat sourdough levain, Alaskan baked potato
• hearth loaves: Alaskan onion rye, savory pumpkin, fruited almond

related recipes

chard & fennel with tomatoes & black-eyed peas
red lentil & cauliflower curry with golden raisins
beet salad with horseradish dressing