Dane County Farmers' Market
 Dane County Farmers' Market eNewsletter

December 18, 2010
7:30 am - 12:00 Noon

Getting to Monona Terrace

Downtown Madison Parking Map
(Private ramps and street parking are also available.)

Squash from Blue Valley Gardens. --Photo by Bill Lubing


In This Issue
This Week ...
Easy to Prepare Appetizer, Salad, and Veggie
AT MARKET THIS WEEK
Music this Week
Market Information
Looking Ahead ...

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This Week ...
cookies from the Gypsy Travelin' Market & Bakery --Photo by Bill Lubing

Ready for a Little Winter Travelin'
... these cookies are in great company with other
decorated cookies from Jae Almond's
Gypsy Travelin' Market & Bakery.
--Photo by Bill Lubing


Dear DCFM Enthusiast,


The Dane County Farmers' Market takes a short break after this Saturday's market. So, here is still an opportunity to stock up on those locally grown foodstuffs and decorative items made by DCFM vendors!

Apples, cookies, vegetables, and more, the list of those vendors who have signed up to attend this market is impressive. Cheese, meats, fish, spinach, and potatoes, there is plenty to stock up with to hold your pantry until the market resumes on January 8, 2011.

Enjoy the music, the conversation, and the friendly crowd. Make your last market of 2010 one to remember.

There will be no market on Saturday, December 25 nor on Saturday January 1. The Dane County Farmers' Market resumes on Saturday, January 8, 2011 at the Madison Center Center, 330 West Mifflin St. Along with the superb farm products we expect at the DCFM, the "Taste of the Market" breakfast resumes, featuring ingredients sourced from market vendors and area chefs and organizations providing the kitchen talent.

See you at market!


Bill Lubing
[email protected]


 

Easy to Prepare Appetizer,
Salad, and Veggie Using
DCFM Ingredients
Phyllo wrapped goat cheese. --Photo by French Tart

                        Phyllo Wrapped Goat Cheese --Photo by French Tart

Phyllo Wrapped Goat Cheese

By LoriInIndiana


Ingredients
  • 1 tablespoon light butter
  • 4 small white onions, chopped
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • 1/2 cup balsamic vinegar
  • 1/3 cup honey
  • 1 teaspoon fresh thyme, chopped
  • 4 frozen phyllo pastry sheets, thawed
  • Butter-flavored cooking spray
  • 3 ounces goat cheese, crumbled

Directions
  1. Melt butter in large nonstick skillet over medium heat.
  2. Add onions and sugar; cook, stirring often, 30 minutes or until caramel colored.
  3. Add vinegar and honey; cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, 15 to 20 minutes or until thickened.
  4. Stir in thyme.
  5. Stack phyllo, coating each layer with cooking spray.
  6. Cut into 6 (5 inch) squares and spoon onion mixture evenly onto center of phyllo squares.
  7. Top evenly with goat cheese.
  8. Lift corners and twist together.
  9. Place packets on a lightly greased baking sheet and lightly spray each packet with cooking spray.
  10. Bake at 375�F for 12 minutes or until golden.

                                            Adapted from www.food.com


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Spinach salad. --Photo by Marg
                            

         My Favorite Spinach Salad --Photo by Marge (CaymanDesigns)


My Favorite Spinach Salad


by Marg (CaymanDesigns)

Ingredients
  • 1 bunch fresh spinach
  • 4-8 ounces shredded sharp cheddar cheese
  • 1 cup crouton
  • 5-6 slices bacon, crumbled

Dressing
  • 1/2 cup wine vinegar
  • 3/4 cup sugar or 3/4 cup Splenda sugar substitute
  • 1 tablespoon grated onion
  • 1 teaspoon paprika
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup good quality olive oil (Or use sunflower oil)


Directions


  1. Mix first 4 ingredients together in a large bowl.
  2. To prepare dressing, warm wine vinegar slightly.
  3. Add sugar and stir to dissolve.
  4. (If you prefer a tangier dressing, reduce the sugar to 2/3 cup.) If you don't warm the vinegar, you will have trouble getting the sugar to dissolve.
  5. Allow to cool.
  6. Add onion, paprika and salt.
  7. Stir well.
  8. Add oil and blend.
  9. I prefer to put it in a bottle and shake it.
  10. Pour over salad and enjoy!


                                              Adapted from www.food.com

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Brussels Sprouts in Onion Butter. --Photo by Parsley

                          Brussels Sprouts in Onion Butter --Photo by Parsley



Brussels Sprouts in Onion Butter

by SooZee


Ingredients

3-4 lbs Brussels sprouts
2 medium chopped onions
2 cups chicken broth
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/2 cup butter
salt and pepper


Directions

  1. Melt butter, cook onions until soft.
  2. Add the lemon juice.
  3. You can do this and then place in fridge until later.
  4. Just before serving, cook brussels sprouts in chicken broth.
  5. 5-8 minutes for frozen.
  6. 10 minutes for fresh.
  7. Drain liquid and add onion butter.
  8. Season to taste.
  

                                            Adapted from www.food.com





marketAt Market This Week

Carrie Johnson of Jordandal. --Photo by Bill Lubing

Turkey for the Holidays ...
... Carrie Johnson of Jordandal Farms
notes that they will
have a good supply of their pastured turkeys available
at this weeks' market. --Photo by Bill Lubing


We strive to keep this list as accurate as possible. We probably  missed an item or two that is at the market or listed an item as available when it is not. Chances are not all items mentioned or listed below will be at each market. If you'd like to check with your favorite vendor about product availability, go here, then do a search for contact information.

Whether you're looking for fine cuts of meat, frost sweetened spinach, freshly laid eggs in a rainbow hue of colors, or staples like garlic, onions, and carrots, you'll find plenty at this week's market. Great cheeses made from cow, sheep, or goat milk from the very fresh to that aged over a decade is offered by some of the finest cheese makers in the nation ... perhaps the world.

Honey, maple syrup, and a huge variety of jellies, jams, pickles, and preserves make it easy for you to add that special touch to your holiday cooking.

Gifts, soap, candles, and table decorations give that local flavor to the season. Too busy to cook? No problem. Check at the Information Booth on information on frozen entrees, condiments, soups, sauces, and more.

From fun cheese bread to seriously stout sour dough, bakers at the DCFM offer a terrific variety. Cookies, cheesecake, and other delectable sweets round out the full assortment of products at this week's DCFM.


To find a vendor or product you can: 1) check the DCFM website; 2) Ask at the DCFM Information Booth at the top of State Street; 3)  or take a leisurely stroll through the market. Remember, weather plays a significant factor in winter market attendance by vendors.

Breads
Biscotti
Cheesecake
Cinnamon rolls
Cookies
Flat breads
'Mpanata
Muffins
Panettone
Pastries
Ragusa Style Semolina Bread
Scaccia
Scones
Sweet breads
Tea breads
Torts
Whole wheat sourdough

Cheese
Cheese curds
Goat cheese
Sheep milk cheese
World-class aged cheeses



               Painted gourd from The Gourd Guy. --Photo by Bill Lubing
     
                                        Gourd from The Gourd Guy ...
                                        ... Art from The Gourd Girl
                                               --Photo by Bill Lubing



Fresh Cut, Dried Flowers
Cut Flowers
Dried Arrangements

Fresh Vegetables
Arugula
Beets
Brocholi
Cabbage
Carrots
Cauliflower
Celeriac
Collard Greens
Dry edible beans
Garlic
Herbs
Kale
Kohlrabi
Leeks
Lettuce (several varieties)
Onions (several varieties)
Parsnips
Peppers (hot)
Potatoes
Radishes
Shallots
Salad mixes
Savoy
Scallions
Spinach
Tomatoes, canned
Tomatoes, fresh
Turnips
Winter Squash


Fruit
Apples
Jams, jellies, preserves
Raspberries (frozen)
Cranberries
Strawberries (frozen)
Tomatoes (Heirloom and Hybrid)
Tomatoes, canned

Potatoes from Butter Mountain. --Photo by Bill Lubing


                 Potatoes from Butter Mountain. --Photo by Bill Lubing



Meats (Grass and grain fed)

Angus beef
Beef
Bison
Brats and sausage
Chicken
Conventional cuts
Emu
Goat
Ham
Highland beef
Lamb
Pork
Rabbit
Special cuts
Fresh and smoked trout
Smoked salmon



Specialty Items
Baklava
Bloody Mary mix
Candles
Decorative gourds
Dried Gourds
Dry Edible Beans
Eggs
Flavored sea salt
Goat Milk Soap
Hickory Nuts
Honey
Hot sauces
Infused olive oil
Maple syrup
Mushrooms
Pasties (frozen)
Pesto
Salsa
Soup (canned and frozen)
Sunflower oil
Tomato sauces
Vinaigrettes



Music This Week:
Hoot 'n Annies Share Stage
with Oak Apple Morris Dancers
Musicians for Dec. 18 DCFM --Photos by Bill Lubing    
This week's musicians (top) Hoot 'n Annies and
(bottom) The Oak Apple Morris Dancers


                                  

The Hoot 'n Annies and the Oak Apple Morris Dancers will share the Farmers Market musical entertainment. Hoot 'n Annies play 9-10 and 10:30-11:30 with the dancers at 10:00 and 11:30.

Hoot 'n Annies:
Featuring Sally Bennett on fiddle and Colleen Foley on guitar the "Annies" play hard driving tunes and songs with down to earth country harmonies from a time that marked the beginnings of recorded country music. They will be joined by Karen Holden on electric bass and Bill Foley on mandolin. In honor of the holidays they will be playing traditional carols and holiday songs with a few rags and jigs included--but all songs played and sung with that honky-tonk spirit and good humor.

The Oak Apple Morris Dancers dance with bells strapped to their shins and waving hankies or sticks to the music played by fellow members of their group. Morris dancing is an old dance form practiced in Britain from the Middle Ages to the present day. It is a very enthusiastic dance style, performed at seasonal festivals. Oak Apple Morris dances predominantly Cotswold Morris-from the Cotswold area of England between Oxford and the Welsh border. It is usually danced in sets of six dancers wearing white shirts and trousers with colored vests or sashes.


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Market Information

Fresh pine from Rare Earth Products. --Photo by Bill Lubing

Love the Smell of Pine?
Then stop by the Rare Earth Products stall for fresh,
aromatic pine wreaths and accents. --Photo by Bill Lubing


Early Winter Schedule
Date: November 13, 2010 through December 18
Hours: 7:30 am to Noon
Where: Monona Terrace
Last Session: December 18, 2010
(No market on December 25, 2010 and January 1, 2011)

Late Winter Schedule
Date:
January 8, 2011 through April 9, 2011
Hours:
8:00 am to 12:00 Noon
Where: Madison Senior Center
Last Session: April 9, 2011


2011 Saturday Outdoor Market Schedule
Date: Begins April 16, 2011
Hours: 6:00 am to 2:00 pm
Where: Downtown Madison on the Capitol Square

2011 Wednesday Outdoor Market Schedule
Date: Begins April 20, 2011
Hours: 8:30 am to 2:00 pm
Where: 200 Block of Martin Luther King Blvd.
Last Session: November 3, 2010
 
Parking
Click Here for Madison Parking Information
(Private ramps and street parking are also available.)

Questions About the Market?
 If you have any questions about the market or the vendors, please contact the market manager, Larry Johnson, at 608-455-1999 or email him at [email protected]. The  DCFM website provides much  information as well.

Dane County Farmers' Market
Volunteer Opportunities

Please contact Ruth Miller at [email protected] for information about volunteering at the market breakfasts (winter months only) or during the outdoor market at the information booth. It's fun, rewarding, and really appreciated by the market-going public.

Friends of the DCFM
For information on volunteering for any educational projects and programs on the Square or becoming a member of Friends of the Dane County Farmers' Market contact Danielle Wood at [email protected].


Looking Ahead ...
Far from the crowd. --Photo by Bill Lubing

A Quiet Corner ...
... for a mid-morning meal is easy to find, despite the
bustling activity of the market.
--Photo by Bill Lubing


Gift Boxes at the Info Booth
If you're looking to create a gift box (or two or ten) consisting of DCFM products, check out the attractive boxes offered at the DCFM Information Table, found at the market entrance. A gift consisting of DCFM products is always a pleasure to receive. These boxes make that much more attractive.

A Few Friendly Reminders ...
  • Friends of the DCFM is still accepting your unused cookbooks for the annual Used Cookbook Sale, coming up in March. Please bring your books in bags or boxes that are easy to transport.
  • The Friends 2011 Raffle includes over 50 chances to win market products, books, hotel stays, clothing, photographic prints, and more. The tickets are $2 each or 10 for $10 and are available at the Friends Table, at the market entrance. The drawing is at the January 29 Winter DCFM.
  • Products sold at the Friends table fund the FoodShare program and the Friends School on the Square.

Finally ...
This is the last market of the year. There will be no market on December 25 or January 1. The market will resume on January 8 at the Madison Senior Center, 330 West Mifflin St.

Have a safe and healthy holiday season. And thank you for your patronage.

 

Until next year ...

Sincerely

Bill Lubing
DCFM

[email protected]