One of the benefits of foregoing a vegetable garden and buying all your vegetables from the Wake Forest Farmers Market is that you will not be faced with the perennial dilemma: How to use all the zucchini that just one plant can produce. If you choose the market you can buy only the zucchini you can use.
This summer our family has been using zucchini in a mixed grilled vegetable dish along with a variety of the other squash and the sweet onions available at the market and our own green tomatoes.
With all the variety of the vegetables and fruits spread out on the vendors’ tables at the market, it can be a dilemma to choose how to use them. Should we turn the Cherokee Purple tomatoes into gazpacho or tomato and bacon sandwiches or a Spanish-style tomato salad? Do we eat the blueberries and blackberries by themselves or take the trouble to make a crumble? Is there a better way to eat the purple potatoes than by roasting them?
Thankfully, you can solve this by trying all the above and more.
And it is not just the vegetables and fruits that provide a quandary; those who are decision-challenged will be in a dither trying to choose between all the different meats – beef, pork, lamb, rabbit, goat, chicken and turkey – and all the different styles for each. A whole chicken or parts? The morning sausage or the bratwurst? Ham steak or hamburger?
The variety goes on in the vendor booths offering baked goods, eggs, honey and even the pottery and wooden articles. It makes for an interesting, always fresh market.
The Wake Forest market is open every Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon in the parking lot behind CVS. Shawn Deena will be the musician this week. The market does not pay the musicians so show your appreciation by leaving a few dollars in the tip jar.
See the market on Facebook and at www.wakeforestfarmersmarket.org or call 919-671-9269 for information.
