This Week's Haul From Green City Market
By Chuck Sudo in Food on Jun 29, 2009 8:20PM
Our Saturday visit to Green City Market resulted in a pirate's booty of fresh produce, planters, milk and meats. The highlight of our visit was the purchase of French breakfast radishes and white carrots from Green Acres Farm in North Judson, IN. June is when radishes just begin to make their way to farmers markets and Green Acres's French breakfast radishes have a crispness when you bite into them and taste best raw with a little bit of butter and salt. Wanting to use all of the purchase, we made a pesto from the radish greens. (Incidentally, radishes will be the subject of a future "Ingredient in Focus" post.) The white carrots were a revelation, with a taste to their greens similar to cilantro. We dehydrated some and used them on tacos last night.
Cherries and strawberries are also in season right now, although the unpredictable weather of recent weeks has narrowed the availability of the latter. The strawberries — purchased from Seedling — are going into our morning oatmeal with brown sugar and Blue Marble 2 percent milk the rest of the week. We bought a quart of rain-cracked black cherries and promptly brandied half the batch, with the other half being saved for smoothies and ice cream toppings.