In This Issue
Apricots
Summer Squash
Foodie Festivals
Market Highlights
Market Events
Locavore
Cookin' the Market
Fresh Approach
Father's Day Recipes
What's in Season
Foodie Festivals
Crawdad Festival
Friday to Sunday, June 14 to 16, Isleton. Crawdads, jambalaya, gumbo, and more food and drink. Great music, a carnival and kids’ activities, a 5K run, and vendor booths. Sponsored by the Isleton Chamber of Commerce and Budweiser, Southwest Airlines, 95.3 KUIC, and the Contra Costa Times.
The Golden Glass
Saturday, June 29, 2013 1:00pm to 5:00pm, 11:00am-1:00pm, City View at the Metreon, 135 4th Street, 4th floor, San Francisco. The Golden Glass is a lively gastronomic and educational event featuring local and international sustainable wines complemented by culinary delights from the Bay Area's top restaurants and artisan producers. Golden Glass is the annual fund-raiser for Slow Food San Francisco.
Fresh Approach
June is a great month to get involved with Fresh Approach! Our Healthy Food/Healthy You classes, VeggieRx program, and “Freshest Cargo” mobile farmers’ market truck are up and running.
Interested in checking out one of our events that is open to the public? We’ll be at the Health Fair at The Garden Academy in Bay Point on Saturday, June 8th from 11am-2pm! This free celebration will have food samples, games, crafts, raffle prizes and much more. It’s located at 205 Pacifica Avenue in Bay Point right next to Riverview Middle School.
We’ll also be at the District 2 Health Fair on Saturday June 15th, from 10am to 2pm at Kaiser San Jose, at 250 Hospital Parkway. This free event will have live entertainment, kids’ activities, prizes, fresh fruits and vegetables, and more. Come stop by! Or, find out about our events by following us on Facebook!
What's in Season
Fruit: Apricots, blackberries, blueberries, cherries, peaches, plums, raspberries, strawberries.Vegetables: Artichokes, arugula, asparagus, avocados, beets, bok choy, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, chard, collards, cucumbers, eggplant, garlic, green beans, herbs, kale, leeks, lettuce, longbeans, mushrooms, onions, peas, potatoes, spinach, summer squash, tomatoes. Coming Soon: Bell peppers, corn, melons.
►Pick up a copy of "Summer Produce Selection & Storage" at your farmers' market information booth to learn how to keep summer fruits and vegetables at their best.
Pittsburg Farmers' Market
Saturdays, 9am to 1pm, May 4 to October 26,
Old Town Plaza, Railroad and 6th.
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| Market Highlights
Diablo Creek Apiary:
Sweet local honey and honeysticks in a wide variety of floral and clover flavors. Make a summer marinade for your next barbecue!
Stackhouse Brothers: April Glo and Arctic Gold nectarines, Super Lady peaches, and lots more stonefruit as the season progresses. Stop by for some of their delicious almonds.
G&S Farms: Awesome Brentwood sweet corn has returned, perfect for Father's Day on the grill.
BerryLicious: It's just not summer without a big bowl of fresh strawberries, blackberries, and raspberries. Delish!
Beckmann's Old World Bakery: Their healthy whole grain and whole wheat breads are awesome, their marble rye to die for, and their cheese sourdough amazing. For a sweet treat try some of their pastries. | Apricots
Fresh apricots are now available at your farmers’ market, a sure sign that summer is here. Gather them now and make some fresh fruit salads, apricot sherbet, or apricot preserves. Yum!
About 95 percent of the apricots grown in the U.S. come from California. Many different varieties grow in California, each with special characteristics.
The most prevalent varieties are the Poppys, Pattersons, Blenheims, Tiltons, and Castlebrites. The season usually runs from May through July.
Look for fairly firm, smooth, plump, well-formed fruit that has an orange-yellow to orange color. If the fruit is hard and tinged with green it won’t develop its full flavor. Fully ripe fruit is soft to the touch, full of juice, and should be eaten as soon as possible. More here.. | Summer Squash
Summer squash tops the list of easy-to-prepare and good-for-you summer fare. A very prolific vegetable (remember all those zucchini your neighbors tried to pass on to you?), summer squash is a soft-shelled variety with thin edible skins and edible seeds, as compared to the hard-shelled winter squash with inedible skin. It has a tender flesh that requires only a short cooking time. It's available now through August or September.
And don’t forget you can eat squash blossoms! Squash Blossoms are the flowers from the squash. They come in varying shades of yellow and orange, with a flavor similar to the squash itself. Use as a garnish, either slivered or whole, for almost everything from soup to main dishes, stuff and grill them, or use them to add color and flavor to salads. Read more here... | Market Events
June 1 & 8: Enter to win a gift card to EJ Phair for Father's Day!
June 15: Bring the kids for some Father's Day card making and button making. Lots of fun for everyone!
June 22: Fine the secret word of the day on the market Facebook page and mention the word to the market manager for a free produce prize. While supplies last. ►Keep up-to-date! Check the farmers’ market Facebook page for event updates or changes. |  Cookin' the Market -
Chef Anna Buss
Kohlrabi, a member of the brassica family, is one of those vegetables at the farmers’ market that people tend to look and think “what am I supposed to do with this? I don’t even know where to start.” In contrast to its perplexing appearance, preparing kohlrabi is actually very simple.
The flavor is mild and delicious; it tastes like the marriage of cabbage and broccoli with a  little bit more sweetness. The middle is crisp and hydrating which makes it easy to enjoy raw. You can also purée, roast, or sauté kohlrabi. Don’t forget to blanch the leaves and add them to your dish for more kohlrabi goodness.
Next time you are at the farmers’ market make it a point to try something different, you may just stumble on your new favorite vegetable!
►Look for recipes, cooking tips, tricks, and more on the Cookin' the Market Facebook page! | Locavore
"The changing of the seasons provides us with the unique opportunity to buy a variety of fantastic foods that are only available during that season. Seasonal foods offer a natural diversity that we should take advantage of when eating holistically for both our health and the health of our planet. There is nothing better than eating a juicy organic summer peach, vine-ripe heirloom tomato, or sweet strawberry grown by a local farmer that you know by name."*
The best thing about summer produce is that you will find varieties of fruits and vegetables you won't find in the grocery store! Many of these old heirloom varieties do not travel well and therefore are found at the local level. They were not bred to travel thousands of miles! Blenheim apricots are a prime example of produce that is found locally. Many types of heirloom tomatoes or interesting summer squash have varieties best purchased and eaten locally. So get out there and try some yummy heirloom produce with honest-to-goodness flavor!
*Shelley Alexander, CHSF, eatlocallygrown. |
Dinner for Dad
Keep it simple for Father's Day with great grilling recipes, plus side recipes and dessert recipes guaranteed to please.
Plank-Grilled Sweet Soy Salmon
Spicy Grilled Zucchini
Grilled Herbed Potatoes & Onions
Grilled Peaches with Brown Sugar
More delicious recipes can be found at pcfma.com/recipes.
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