What’s good this week?
Capsicum are bursting with flavour and are such a versatile vegetable! Delightful sliced and diced or roasted. How about a marinated roasted capsicum bruschetta? Recipe available at http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/28302/marinated+roasted+capsicum+bruschetta?ref=collections,capsicum
The perfect spring salad includes the crunch of sweet red capsicum and crisp cucumbers diced and tossed with rocket, mixed lettuce and a good splash of olive oil and lemon or even balsamic vinegar. Cooling and nourishing!
Bio Organic Farm has sweet red capsicum and Lebanese cucumbers grown in their hot houses.
Cecil Farm and Jumping Red Ant both carry capsicum and cucumbers.
Cool of this Wednesday with Chai Harem’s new iced Turkish Apple Tea. It is made from freshly pressed apples, cinnamon and cloves to give a subtle yet totally refreshing flavour.
Blueberries are at the market every week now so rock along for your weekly supply.
Stallholder Update: Local Fusion Foods may be absent this week.
Supporting the community:
The Murwillumbah Community Men’s Shed is back this week with their brilliantly priced Camphor Laurel breadboards. Great Christmas gifts.
At the market this week will be the official launch of a new local FREE magazine Healing Times Nourishment for Inspired Lives – Spring Edition. The editor and founder Jenny Willis and some of the contributors will be at the market for the launch at 9.30am. Bring your copy for a signing session or pick up a copy at the market. Jenny says in the introduction:
Healing times has arrived to offer support for our journey, and to provide a means for our community to share information, experience, knowledge and ideas that may contribute to making our individual and global worlds a better place for all.
Recipe of the week:
Cucumber and Tarragon Soup
This refreshing soup is simply made in a blender.
Place a couple of large chilled cucumbers, fresh tarragon leaves, garlic, freshly squeezed lemon or lime juice in a blender and blitz until 
smooth. Add about a cup or so of yoghurt or kefir milk. Blitz. Add olive oil and blitz to achieve a smooth consistency then season with salt and pepper. Serve topped with a sprinkling of black pepper or coriander. If you are a coriander fan then add coriander to the blender in the first step.
So simple and so refreshing! ENJOY.
Entertainment: Guy Kachel is BACK with his unique style that includes strains of country, rock and blues
Weather: Overnight temperatures falling to around 15 with daytime temperatures reaching high 20’s. 50% chance of a showers.
Produce of the week (newest season produce is in bold):
- Avocados
- Bananas
- Beans
- Blueberries
- Broccoli
- Cabbages
- Capsicum
- Carrots
- Cauliflower
- Corn
- Cos lettuce
- Cucumbers (Lebanese)
- Custard apples
- Fancy lettuce
- Fennel
- Leafy greens – lots of varieties including herbs, kale, swiss chard and many more.
- Lemons
- Mandarins
- Passionfruit
- Potatoes (various)
- Red Papaya
- Sweet potatoes
- Sprouts
- Strawberries
- Tomatoes
- Taro
- Swedes
Seasonal Produce List Updated:
Vegetables
Beans (+organic), Beetroot (+organic), Broccoli, Cabbage, Capsicum, Cauliflower, Chard (organic), Chilli, Cucumber (+organic), Corn (+organic), Eggplant (+organic), Garlic (+organic), Herbs (basil + organic basil, coriander, fennel, ginger, rocket, turmeric and more), Kale (+organic), Lettuce (cos organic), Fancy Lettuce and mixed salad greens, Micro greens (+ wide variety of organic such as alfalfa, barley greens, sunflower, broccoli, chick pea), Peas incl snow peas (+organic), Mizuna, Onion (+organic), Mushrooms, Pak Choi (organic), Potato (Sebago) , Potatoes (kipfler ++), Pumpkin (+organic), Salad Mix, Silver Beet, Sprouts (+organic), Spinach (+organic), Sweet Corn, Sweet Potato (+organic), Tatsoi (organic) Swedes, Tomatoes (+organic), Taro, Watercress, Wheat grass, Zucchini (+organic).
Fruit
Apples, Avocados, Bananas (Cavendish, Lady Fingers (organic also) and Little Gem), Blueberries, Carambola (star fruit), Custard apples, Dragon Fruit, Grapefruit, Grapes, Kiwi fruit (organic), Lemons + Limes (incl organic), Mangoes, Mandarin (organic), Oranges (organic), Passionfruit, Paw Paw, Pears, Rock melons, Strawberries, Watermelons.
Flowers
Gerberas, Lisianthus, Roses,
Eggs – including organic
Nuts
Pecan nuts and macadamia nuts, nut oils, butters and choc coated nuts
Dairy
Cows milk, cheeses and yoghurt, kefir, cultured butter ++
Goats milk and soft cheeses, kefir
Honey
Raw unprocessed honey, creamed honey and creamed honey with cinnamon! And bees wax candles.
Rice and Breads
A variety of artisan sour dough breads baked with a range of organic flours (including spelt and rye) and flavours that use local market products including macadamia nut bread!
Meat
Beef, lamb and pork (All Natural Meat Company) and goat, Salami (Nimbin Valley Diary) periodically. + lamb and chicken sourced within the broader market radius and locally caught fish 9very seasonal).