BUY FRESH BUY LOCAL

This past Saturday we (John and I) got up bright and early and headed down to the Franklin Farmer’s Market, not to shop, though we did get a few things…
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but to set up for a cooking demo using fresh, local ingredients donated by Juneberry, Chatley Farm, Brown’s Pure Maple Products and Sugar Sisters. You can’t get stuff like this from the grocery store. I made 4 different dishes, handed out FREE tastes and recipes.

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The fun started with Scrambled Eggs with Cream Cheese & Fresh Herbs and Buttercrust Toast strips, eggs donated by Chatley Farm and Buttercrust white bread donated by Sugar Sisters. Next up Spinach Salad with Black Cherries & Goat Cheese with a warm bacon dressing, spinach donated by Juneberry, black cherries donated by Chatley Farm and maple mustard for the dressing graciously gifted by Brown’s Pure Maple Syrup Products. Finally the last two treats cooked up where Asian Peanut Noodles and Spicy Ginger Asian Vegetables, maple peanut butter donated by Brown’s Pure Maple Syrup Products and zucchini and yellow squash donated by the nice people who’s tent was behind the gazebo (sorry I didn’t get a chance for a formal intro — but I’ll see you this weekend!)

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Thank you to ALL of the farmers, food makers and local craftspeople who make up our farmer’s market for doing what they do so well and giving us delicious, healthy and creative products. Please support these people, we are lucky to have them and we want them to keep doing what they do.

The Franklin Farmer’s Market is every Wednesday and Saturday from 8am to 1pm. The next franklin foodie cooking demo will be Saturday, July 31st (Taste of Market) 8am – 11am, bring your appetite and your wallet so you can take home some of these wonderful locally made products and locally grown treats and host your own cooking demo.

Click on the links above for the complete recipes.