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Saturday 2015-0516 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Broad Ripple Farmers’ Market: Ramps, morel mushrooms, thin/pencil green & purple asparagus, shiitake mushrooms, bunching broccoli florets, chicken carcasses (pastured chicken) for stock. Carmel Farmers’ Market: Green/baby garlic, baby kale, teeny green zucchini, two heads of spinach (whole, somewhat spreading heads), BBQ'ed rib tips (pork) w/ tangy sauce. The rib tips & sauce - snarfed down by me and Emerson (my cat) for lunch at home after rewarming in the microwave. Yes, yes, I had most of it. I also had the chopped Napa cabbage as accompaniment, not him. :-) Most of the veggies etc - most were just part of the full amount. The ramps. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Asia Mart: Live “long clams” (razor clams), soft tofu, canned whole straw mushrooms, holy basil chili paste, jarred baechu kimchi, fresh longans, bitter melons, Persian cucumbers, large mustard greens (“kai choy”; 芥菜) (which were actually relatively smaller plants – looks like the new crop of the season), rice bran oil, 8-year-old drinking quality rice wine (a Shaohsing wine variety) (the usual stuff I pick up from here, other than salted cooking rice wines), Noodle King wonton flavor bowl noodles, Nong Shim kimchi noodle bowls (a case), Little Cook “Pork & Mustard Stem” noodle bowls & vegetarian mushroom noodle bowls, Thai basil/Vietnamese rau húng quế, Vietnamese mint variety rau húng cây, young Chinese celery, green onions/scallions (6 bunches for $2), angled loofah (“Chinese okra”; Luffa acutangula), Chinese chive flowers, limes, fresh rice noodles (“hor fun”; 河粉; sheets cut into wide strips), fresh ginger, fresh woodear fungus, Korean radish. Some of the more interesting things for many folks here (I think). Some are just a part of the whole batch. Hmm, I forgot to include the mint. Most of the other stuff listed but not included in the picture I rather suspect would be commonplace to "everyone" (I believe). Top left to bottom right: large-type mustard greens, Chinese chive flower buds, Thai basil, angled loofah, woodear fungus, young Chinese celery, Korean radish. As a gauge of size the loofah is 22 inches long excluding the stem. The Shaohsing-type wine & two jars of the holy basil chili paste. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Namaste Plaza: Tilda basmati rice, wax potatoes, curry leaves (கறிவேப்பிலை), fresh gunda, fresh hot green chillies. No pic, sorry.

Some of the things I came home with from the Indy Winter Farmers' Market. Ramps!!! These came from just south of Bloomington, IN. Red-streaked sorrel & Dragon Tongue mustard greens, both hydroponic. Fresh-picked baby portobello mushrooms (and some giant shiitakes), grown by a fellow who looks just like the protagonist from that excellent TV series "Breaking Bad" :-) ; and beautiful fresh broccolini.

huiray, that's a beautiful haul. I'm looking forward to finding ramps soon, either in our woods or at our farmers' markets. The capacolla and salami look wonderful, too. Will you use those for snacks, or in something?

Saturday 2015-0425. Indy Winter Farmers' Market (last weekend): Hydroponic "Miner's Lettuce" (see below) & Dragon Tongue mustard greens 2 doz farm-fresh chicken eggs 1 doz farm-fresh duck eggs Smallish & still-closed-capped Portobello mushrooms (see below) 2 bunches ramps (see below)(last of the season from this guy) Goose the Market: 2 duck legs Asparagus (from Anderson, IN) Dodge City Salami (see below) [smoking Goose] Hot Capocolla (see below) [smoking Goose] Andouille sausage (one link)** (see below) [smoking Goose] Fresh ground chuck (very good meat) A nice crusty baguette ** The car and house (currently) smelled/smells pleasantly of the sausage...very very nice. The Fresh Market: De Cecco fedelini & angel hair pasta Broccoli rabe (I intend to mate this with the capocolla for pasta) Middleneck clams (currently soaking in salted cool water) Grated Parmigiano Reggiano Miner's lettuce. Ramps & portobella mushrooms. L to R: Hot capocolla, Dodge City salami,¶ Andouille sausage. ¶ I had wanted some Finocchiona salami but they were out of it. (I have bought this at various times over many years at Goose the Market) Their Dodge City salami is close – instead of fennel it uses fennel pollen instead plus some other minor tweaks.

At Broad Ripple Farmers' Market (BRFM) & Carmel Farmers' Market (CFM) today, 2015-0530. BRFM: Ramps (FAT bulbs; $10/lb), wild-collected oyster mushrooms, baby zucchini w/ flowers still on, broccoli, young Swiss chard, young beets. CFM: Asparagus, portobello mushrooms (not pictured), baby curly kale leaves (special request to the vendor), sugar snap peas. The ramps today came from around Portage, IN. Appropriate - the source of the ramps I've been picking up from this vendor has been "progressing north" with each passing week. The earliest ones I got this year, from a different vendor (the owners/originators; at the Indy Winter Farmers' Market) were these (mid-April) from south of Bloomington, IN.

from USGM: today: RAMPS!!!, clams, herbs, eggs, duck gizzard confit, shallots, apples, baby mesclun, sorrel from Eataly: wild striped bass, morel mushrooms, fresh pasta, dried chickpeas, grated Parm-Reg cheese, herbs, baby leeks from my corner store: milk, sugar, unsalted butter, garlic

from USGM: French breakfast radishes, spinach, squid, scallops, baby lettuce, sweet cherry cake. from Eataly: sable, kumquats, herbs, ramps, lentils, cheese, wild mushrooms, pancetta. from a deli on the way home: a stuffed pepper, mixed greens.

So far today: Indy Winter Farmers' Market (last day): Chives, fresh shiitake mushrooms, free range brown eggs. Goose the Market: Fresh duck leg quarters, fresh marinated (jerk-rubbed) duck leg quarters, ramps, bread baguette, Finocchiona, Kenny's St Jerome cheese, house beef pastrami.

Broad Ripple Farmers’ Market (BRFM): Anna Belle’s Garden: Fresh oyster mushrooms, ramp bulbs, fiddleheads. Amelia’s Bakery: Poppyseed, aniseed & sesame seed Francese loaf. The Apple Works: English thyme. Harvestland Farm: Western chives. Nicole-Taylor’s Pasta: Bag of fresh radiatore. Silverthorn Farm: French Breakfast radishes, green onions. Binford Farmers’ Market: Shamrock Farm: Fresh shiitake mushrooms. St. Athanasius Bakery: Kolachy (with the traditional fruit-based fillings, assorted). Unknown vendor: Asparagus. Asia Mart: Fuzzy squash, long hot green peppers, Japanese cucumbers, yu choy sum, J.Z. bamboo shoots, red-flushed yin choy (edible amaranth), lettuce stems (celtuce), kangkong (water spinach), lemon grass, wong nga pak (Napa cabbage), Thai basil, shimeji (brown beech) mushrooms, fresh galangal, black Chinese jujubes (dried), fresh skinny wonton noodles, dried anchovies (small ones, “stock fish”), firm tofu, fried tofu puffs, chicken drumsticks.