by Toni | Jun 19, 2020 | Farmer's Market, Let's Eat, Vegetables
Carrots are, perhaps, one of the most familiar and popular of vegetables. Maybe the first veggie you ever ate—I do recall carrot sticks with cheese whiz….oh my. But carrots can be sort of scarce at farmers markets. You can find them, to be sure, but carrots take...
by Toni | Oct 29, 2019 | Farmer's Market, Let's Eat
Pears are as comfy cozy on your dinner table as they are on your dessert table–especially the hard green and gold speckled pears I bought up this fall at the Goshen Community Market, which were wonderful in baked goods, like my Vanilla Spiced Pear Muffins, and...
by Toni | Oct 28, 2019 | Farmer's Market, Let's Eat, Live Green
I thought I’d died and gone to heaven… or at least gone back in time. I was at the Goshen Community Market on a typical fall Saturday, filling my bags with great food, when I spied this large basket of pears—big green speckled pears like the ones I picked with...
by Toni | Sep 29, 2019 | Come Home, Farmer's Market, Sinful Sensations
Well there’s a new vendor at the Goshen Community Market, who just happens to be an old friend…. Jane Zappia, of past Green Gal Keto fame, is the owner and proprietor of Pop’s Pies. She’s at the Market with her daughter Hayley this coming October—which is, like,...
by Toni | Jul 29, 2019 | Farmer's Market, Let's Eat, Vegetables
Ok, enough with bad punning because there is nothing bad or far away about this easy, totally-transportable salad that tastes just like a summer garden. But it’s true, isn’t it? Just when all the great salad fixin’s arrive at the farmers markets—the tomatoes, bell...
by Toni | Jun 28, 2019 | Farmer's Market, Let's Eat, Vegetables
I know that I go on and on about the Goshen Community Market on this blog. You’d think I never went anywhere else in town. There are, however, other community events in Edwardsville that are favorites of mine—especially St. Andrews Church Used Book Fair. It happens...
