Granny Shaffers is bringing their $3
Catfish and Fried Potatoes to the market today and they’re bringing twice as
much as last time so there should be plenty for everyone! And they’ll also have those coupons for catfish
in the restaurant that we’d promised last week. Better late than never, right. So
Granny Shaffer’s is offering the deal of the week at the market this week or
should I say one of the deals, because there are plenty of other reasons to
come to the market. Did I hear someone say “strawberries”? Or green beans and new potatoes? Or sugar snap peas? Oh yes, it’s that delightful time of year
when new produce seems to come in every week, like green garlic and garlic
scapes which made their first appearance Tuesday. Don’t know what to do with
garlic scapes? Go to the Market Lady
Facebook page where we’ve pinned a post featuring our favorite food blogger,
Frank Reiter with his recipe for garlic scape pesto.
Today we’ll enjoy the golden oldies
sung by William Adkins. Lumpy’s Express is serving barbecue. We’ll have a ton
of fresh produce both days and plants of the hanging basket, vegetable,
flowering and herb variety. On Fridays we also have Madewell Pork with a wide
array of nitrate and chemical free pork, as well as Penn Acres with pastured
chicken, grass fed beef and goat meat. Cottage Small Coffee Roasters is usually
at the market on the weekends, but they are waiting on a part for their roaster
so it may be a while.
Tomorrow we’ll have many of the same vendors,
especially growers, but we’ll also have Oakwoods Farm and Center Creek Farm
which do a lot of specialty produce, as well as E & O Produce (aka Owen
Detweiler) with his gorgeous hanging baskets.
Cooking for a Cause tomorrow benefits
the Ronald McDonald House, home away from home for families with children at
the Joplin Hospitals. Volunteers will serve farm fresh eggs to order, biscuits
and gravy, sausage and coffee or orange juice for $4.50. You can have it
without the eggs for $3.50.
The Radley’s are playing for the first
time at the market. They’re a well-known eclectic folk group that includes many
of our favorite market musicians, just in a different configuration. It should
be lots of fun.
Music and breakfast run from 9 to 11. The
market is open until noon on Saturdays.
On Tuesday when we’re open from 4 to 7,
you may need to enter the park on Garrison Street off of Hall Street. The city
is laying the sewer line to the kitchen and, while they hope to have the road open
by Tuesday, they may not. There will be plenty of parking on the south end of
the pavilion. And it will be worth coming. Supper with Trish (which begins at 5
pm) is pork loin chops, au gratin potato, market fresh salad (and when I say
market fresh, I mean it. Trish comes by the market about an hour before we open
to pick up the fixings from the growers), chocolate cake, and a drink for $5.
Carmine’s Wood Fired Pizza will be
baking from 4 to 7. The Pommerts will play and Extension will demonstrate a
quick, easy, budget-friendly recipe. Tuesdays are a great day to pick up your mid-week
veggies, meats (we have Luman Farm with some of the best “hillbilly” bacon
around, as well as other pork cuts and chicken, as well as Penn Acres with
beef, goat and chicken), and other tasty offerings.
To market, to market, twice a week to
keep your family’s diet full of fresh and local.
