Super Food for the Super Bowl at the Chappaqua Farmers Market!

February 3, 2012
by Pascale LeDraoulec

Our “local” team is going to the Superbowl. This Sunday, make your party spread local, too!  Come get everything you need for your game-watching party at the Farmers Market this Saturday: pickles, hummus, organic sausages, delicate veal pastrami, artisanal cheeses, and lots of organic, locally farmed meats from both Stone Barns and Gaia’s Breath for chilis and stews.  The market runs from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturdays at St. Mary’s next to Bell.

Too busy to make soup or chili? We’ll forgive if you head to Fork & Glass for some of their crowd-pleasing soups. This week, they’ve got two new soups: Sweet Potato with Rosemary and Local Maple Syrup as well as Mediterranean Chickpea with Sundried Tomatoes and Kale. For the first time this week, Sunny and Mark will be preparing their popular pork tacos at the market with pork from Stone Barns.

You can take some of their packaged chicken and cheese enchiladas home along with some “cowboy” beans (pinto beans slow-cooked with roasted onions, tomatoes and jalapenos and finished with cilantro and lime.) For those of you who are trying to eat lighter, their Moroccan barley salad made dried cranberries, almonds and tangarine zest is as sensible as it is sublime.

In addition to their popular hummus, Taiim is now selling packages of their delicious house falafel that you can either bake or fry up at home. Wouldn’t that be an interesting departure from chicken wings on Sunday?

True Food of Nyack will be serving up their retro pot pies filled with all things local and healthy.

Flour City Pasta is back this week!  This small-batch, organic pasta is intensely flavorful so you really can go light on the sauce. Tomorrow they will be unveiling a new pasta: Pizza Blend - shaped like a fresh baked pizza!

Also tomorrow, Buddhapesto is back with that wickedly good pesto sauce and Bombay Emerald Company is visiting us with a decidedly different “green sauce” which is no less delicious: try their mint chutney on some local lamb! Also: they sell healthy samosas that are ready to bake and serve.

Don’t forget to buy olives and organic Tierra Farm nuts!

Of course, all of the above would work just as well for those (like me) who will be settling into another episode of Downton Abbey instead of watching football…

See you at the market!

Pascale LeDraoulec is Director of the Chappaqua Farmers Market.