What’s NEW at the Market this Week?
Quarterdeck Organic Citrus returns this week. Phil will have his new season navel oranges and will be selling the fruit plus freshly juiced oranges at his stall located between 11th Hour Coffee and Seafood under the camphor laurel trees
Freshly dried new season pecans from Tweed River Pecans are available from Ian at his Nudgel Nuts stall NOW.
Kaye McNaught said that after a perfect sunny weekend harvesting they are thrilled to be offering this years packaged nuts freshly harvested and dried to perfection.
Ian has also been busy processing his macadamia nuts. Ian offers a range of macadamia nuts from raw to lightly roasted, salted or unsalted, honey roasted and milk or dark chocolate coated as well as honey roasted nuts. He also has macadamia oil and maca nut butter and crushed nuts. There are so many choices for those of us who adore macadamia nuts.
Why not try some macadamia nut crusted fish this week. The recipe is on the Nudgel Nut website at
http://www.nudgelnuts.com.au/baked-macadamia-crusted-fish
In case you missed last week’s late Facebook post – Jumping Red Ant
has custard apples. John has commenced picking so these deliciously sweet fruit are now in season.
Commencing this week – we welcome Jeremy Gudsell whose stall is Flat Earth Organic. Jeremy is bringing on tap kombucha to the market this week. Kombucha is a fermented tea that is believed to offer all the healing benefits of fermented foods.
Being on tap you can decide from a whole range of flavours including strawberry blonde; ginger, tumeric and lime; and more.
Looking for breakfast this week? Ben at the French Patisserie has all sorts delicious french pastries as well as sweet and savoury crepes.
Lani at the Bagel stall has very popular sweet and savoury filled bagels.
Greg and Alison at Chai Harem have very healthy breakfasts
in a bowl and smoothies.
The Murwillumbah Community Men’s Shed is at the market this week with their very popular camphor laurel boards.
Coming Soon: Re Wandering Waffles – Oops due to unforeseen circumstances this stall is no longer commencing.
Entertainment: Guy Kachel
Weather Forecast is for: Mostly sunny tis Wednesday so another perfect market day. Winds will become light during the morning and the temperature will range from around 14 early reaching a very pleasant mid 20s.
Produce of the week (newest season produce is in bold):
- Apples
- Avocados
- Bananas
- Beans
- Custard apple
- Capsicum
- Carrots
- Corn
- Cucumbers (Lebanese)
- Fennel
- Dragon Fruit
- Garlic
- Kale
- Kang kong
- Passionfruit
- Potatoes (various)
- Radish
- Sweet potatoes
- Sprouts
- Tomatoes
- Zucchini
Seasonal Produce List Updated:
Vegetables
Beans (+organic), Beetroot (+organic), Bok Choy, Broccoli, Cabbage, Capsicum, Cauliflower, Chard (organic), Chilli, Cucumber (+organic), Corn (+organic), Eggplant (+organic), Fennel, Garlic (+organic), Herbs (basil + organic basil, coriander, fennel, ginger, rocket, turmeric and more), Kale (+organic), Kang kong, 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, Tropical flowers – currently red and yellow heliconias.
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 – very seasonal).
Seafood
Locally harvested oysters by Noel Baggalay from his Brunswick and Tweed Rivers oyster farm. Seasonally caught local fish, prawns and other seafood as it becomes locally available.