When summer meets fall.
What do you do with your menu when the corn is at it’s best, but Frog Hollow Warren pears start up? Corn becomes stone-ground polenta with fresh corn underneath some braised lamb. Tomato salad becomes pappa al pomodoro. Melons get shiso instead of basil, speck instead of prosciutto. New pear desserts should be getting tested now, since peaches will be over quickly and nectarines are done. Plums and pluots should start to yield to concord grapes. But we don’t have to tell you.
Other things to consider:
Vinegars: quince, chestnut honey vinegar, balsamic-apple, fig, blackcurrant
etc: maple 8 brix verjus, apple cider syrup from Maine, smoked cherrywood honey, chestnut honey
Oils: argan, pumpkin seed, walnut, hazelnut, almond, mustard
Grains: native triticale, rye and wheat berries, red flint corn polenta, black barley
Legumes: oja de cabra beans, scarlet runner beans, native soldier beans, maine yellow eye beans
market update
First of the Season
- Baby Brussels Sprouts
- Concord Grapes
- French Butter Pears
Fresh Start Farm- Lisbon, ME
Husk Cherry Tomatoes, aka Ground Cherries, aka Cape Gooseberries
Farmer Ken Elliot- Lakeville, MA
- Native Corn
Farm Girl Farm- Great Barrington, MA
- Native Fairy Tale Eggplant
Equinox Farms- Sheffield, MA
- Native Mesclun Mix
Frog Hollow Farm- Brentwood, CA
- Warren Pears
- Emerald Beaut Plums
- Fire King Pluots (v. limited)
Ward’s Farm- Sharon, MA
- Purslane
- Concord Grapes
- Early Girl Tomatoes
- Mixed Medley Tomatoes
- Sungold Tomatoes
- Heirloom Tomatoes
- Yellow Tomatoes
River Dog Farm- Guinda, CA
- Mixed Medley Tomatoes
- Lemon Cucumbers
Now in season
- Comice Pears
- Seckel Pears
- Forelle Pears
- French Butter Pears
- Wild Maine Blueberries
- Fresh Oregon Huckleberries
- Native Cape Gooseberries
- Champagne Grapes
- Saskatchewan Chantarelles
- Native Lobster Mushrooms
- CA Plums
- CA Peaches
- CA Nectarines
- Quebec Strawberries
- Fresh Black Mission Figs