Vendor Profile: Lick Ice Cream          

What if you took two sisters with a passion for flavor and gave them an ice cream maker? You just might end up with Lick Ice Cream. Sisters Kelly and Meredith started taking their homemade ice cream to family gatherings and getting raves and requests for more. Now we can all enjoy their creative genius along with free tastes and their wonderful handcrafted organic waffle cones at the Market every Saturday morning!

Banana Hazelnut Milk Chocolate Ice Cream

Calling themselves the "Anti-Ben & Jerry's,"  these self-proclaimed foodies have taken ice cream to new levels of cool, creamy deliciousness. Kelly has worked in the food business for years, most of that time at BRAVO Restaurant. Meredith is going to Ivy Tech Culinary School, studying baking and pastries. Even with two jobs each, school, and children, they find time to experiment with new flavors.  Whatever they love to eat, they try putting in ice cream.    

Their most recent offerings were a Roasted Balsamic Strawberry and a collaboration with Sun King Brewery for a Toffee Wee Mac ice cream based on the popular ale.

Celebrate National Ice Cream Month in July by coming to the Market on Saturday mornings and trying their variety of unique artisan ice creams! You can follow Lick Ice Cream on facebook and twitter, and their blog at tumblr.com.    

Green Transportation Raffle

The BRFM is conducting a raffle for market goers who bike, walk, carpool or ride the bus to the Market. Entries are accepted on both Wednesdays and Saturdays, and you may enter every time you visit. There will be one winner for the month of July.  

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First prize is a beautiful wicker bike basket for your front handle bars OR Simply Organic, an organic sustainable cookbook (valued at about $45). Both prizes will be on display at the info booth, where you can fill out your entry. Go green! 

Focus On: Summer Berries

Here we are in mid-July with the Market full of beautiful juicy blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries. The weather is hot and humid, and we long for something cool and refreshing. I don't know of anything more pleasing to both the eye and the palate than a summer trifle. Layers of light cake and creamy whipped goodness are punctuated with colorful and flavorful bursts of summer berries for a wow factor that will impress your family and friends with very little effort on your part.  

 Angel Berry Trifle

from Taste of Home  

Ingredients:

1-1/2 cups cold fat-free milk

1 package instant vanilla pudding mix

1 cup (8 ounces) fat-free vanilla yogurt

6 ounces reduced-fat cream cheese, cubed

1/2 cup reduced-fat sour cream

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 carton reduced-fat whipped topping, thawed,  

1 prepared angel food cake cut into 1-inch cubes 

1 pint each blackberries, raspberries, blueberries

Directions: In a small bowl, whisk the milk and pudding mix for 2 minutes. Let stand for 2 minutes or until soft-set. In a large bowl, beat the yogurt, cream cheese, sour cream and vanilla until smooth. Fold in pudding mixture and 1 cup whipped topping. Place a third of the cake cubes in a 4-qt. trifle bowl. Top with a third of the pudding mixture, a third of the berries and half of the remaining whipped topping. Repeat layers once. Top with remaining cake, pudding and berries. Serve immediately or refrigerate.

Once you have made a trifle, you will appreciate their ease and versatility. You can use different kinds of fruit and cake and try different flavors in the creamy layers. All you need is a deep glass bowl to show off the layers and then, get creative! In the winter, I do a trifle with chocolate cake and pudding and sour cherries for the holidays. 

Here are more cool and refreshing berry recipes from marthastewart.com for these sultry summer days.        

Berries with Buttermilk and Honey 

 Berries with Kirsch and Mint  

Mixed Berry Terrine    
Ice Cream and Mixed Berry Pops 

Musical Guests:     Wednesday Market - Paul Matthew Lauck     

                                   Saturday Market - Dave Duvall

Dave Duvall

Don't forget to stop by the entertainment booth at either market and catch our musical guest of the day. 

Paul Matthew Lauck has been hailed as "one of the great finds of the downtown music scene."  Visit his website here. 

Dave Duvall plays jug band, blues, and hillbilly music with banjo, guitar, harmonica, stand-up bass, and vocals. For more information go to his website here. 

As always, the entertainment is provided at no cost to the BRFM.  If you like what you hear, please consider purchasing a CD and/or leaving a tip.   

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Dinner in the Garden A Success!

The Broad Ripple Farmers Market "Dinner in the Garden" was held on the evening of Sunday, June 26, in Your Neighbor's Garden.  The fund-raising event sold out within a few days of its being announced.  Every seat was filled!  

"Dinner in the Garden"

Menu items were donated by Broad Ripple Farmers Market vendors and prepared by Chef Greg Hardesty, owner of Recess.  He was assisted by Recess personnel and Broad Ripple Farmers Market volunteers. Proceeds will be used to continue improving both the Saturday Morning Market at Broad Ripple Magnet High School and the Wednesday Evening Market at Broad Ripple Park.  

If you'd like to view additional photos from the event, there are two albums available online. Click here for the first photo album. Click here for the second photo album.  When you arrive on these pages, click on the word Slideshow in the upper left-hand corner for easier viewing.    

About the Market

With more than 50 vendors, you'll find just about everything you need at the Broad Ripple Farmers Market (BRFM).  We are open rain or shine, every Saturday from May through November, 8 a.m. to 12 noon at Broad Ripple Magnet High School, 1115 Broad Ripple Avenue and every Wednesday from June through September, 5 until 8 p.m. in Broad Ripple Park, 1550 Broad Ripple Avenue.   

Market Master:  Barbara Wilder 

Newsletter Coordinator: Jinny Sauer Bastianelli