What’s GREAT at the Market this Week?
After such wonderful rain the farmers who grow zucchinis will have them bursting out of their skins. Did you know that although the ZUCCHINI is used and enjoyed as a vegetable, botanically, zucchinis are fruits, a type of botanical berry called a “pepo”!! So let’s try some new “pepo” recipes this week and enjoy this low calorie vegie.
On hot days it is delicious spiralized and used with a pesto dressing and some olives. Served over a rocket base – or any mixed greens as a base it makes a cooling and delicious easy to prepare lunch or vegie accompaniment to dinner.
For our Zucchini Muffin Recipe visit our Recipes and Tips page.
Fresh local zucchini is available from the following market stalls: Cecil Farm, Everest Farm and Jumping Red Ant.
Enjoy The Bay Smokehouse’s award winning smoked fish rillettes this week
Seasonal, Fortnightly or Absent Stallholder Changes this Week:
Back THIS week are:
- Spice Palace (with olive oil, olives and Pecans) AND
- The Bay Smokehouse
- Tweed Palliative Care
Back NEXT week:
- Costanzo Apples
- Belles Kitchen
- Murwillumbah Community Men’s Shed
Back next MONTH:
- Tallogum Raspberries – November is now their expec
ted return date.
Check out our fabulous organic fair trade market t-shirts too. Women’s are in organic bamboo with a cap sleeve in white and grey. Unisex short sleeved organic cotton t-shirts are in organic cotton.
*REMEMBER* ATM at the market!We now have an ATM onsite for your shopping convenience.
Entertainment: Rob Csokas
Weather: Cloudy with the occasional shower passing over although the rainfall prediction is VERY low. I think we will see the sun peeking through. Daytime maximum temperatures will be in the low 20s.
Produce of the week (newest season produce is in bold):
- Apples
- Avocados
- Bananas
- BEETROOT
- BLUEBERRIES
- Carrots
- Fennel
- Kale
- Lettuce and lots of leafy greens
- Passionfruit
- Potatoes (various)
- Pumpkins
- STRAWBERRIES
- Sweet potatoes
- Tomatoes
- Zucchinis
Seasonal Produce List Updated:
Vegetables
Beans (+organic), Beetroot (+organic), Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrots, 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 Potato (+organic), Tatsoi (organic), Swedes, Tomatoes (+organic), Taro, Turnip, Watercress, Zucchini (+organic).
Fruit
Apples, Apricots, Avocados, Bananas (Cavendish, Lady Fingers (organic also), Black muscat grapes, Blueberries, Carambola (star fruit), Custard apples, Dragon Fruit, Grapefruit, Grapes, Kiwi fruit (organic), Lemons + Limes (incl organic), Lychees, Mangoes, Mandarin (organic), Oranges (organic), Passionfruit, Paw Paw, Pears, Plums, Raspberries, Rock melons, Sapotes, Strawberries, Watermelons.
Flowers – Gerberas, Lisianthus, Roses, Tropical flowers – currently sassy 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 Caldera 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 diversity of organic flours (including spelt and rye) and many flavours that use local market products including macadamia nut bread!
Mushrooms – Gourmet mushrooms – king oysters, white oysters, pink oysters, blue oysters, shiitake and Shimeji available at Wollumbin Gourmet Mushrooms and button mushrooms at Mountain View Eggs.
Meat – Beef, pork and goat (All Natural Meat Company produced), Salami (Nimbin Valley Diary) periodically + lamb and chicken sourced within the broader market radius and locally caught fish – very seasonal.
Seafood – Locally harvested fish locally wood smoked by The Bay Smokehouse plus smoked fish rillettes (like a fish pate).