Dear Market Goers,
A few words about shopping at farmers markets. And I’m sure all of you that are regulars at PCM will understand what I’m saying, but I’m gonna say it anyway! I know I’ve been shopping outdoors at the market too long because when I go to a traditional grocery store to pick something up, it’s almost painful. When I walk inside one of those windowless monstrosities, my body is assaulted by the chilly air, the sterile ambience created by the fluorescent lighting and the endless rows of shelves lined with the most garish packaging that is begging and screaming at you to “buy me, buy me”! And the realization that almost all of it is dead….kept edible by processing and additives that interminably extend its shelf life. And the food that isn’t processed is so old; it’s lost its essence. It’s a former shadow of what it is supposed to be.
Which leads me to the subject of quality and customer service! We hope you feel confident and comfortable enough to let you know how you feel about our products. If you really love something, feel free to let us know. And if you don’t love something, we certainly want to know! You can talk directly to a vendor and get a refund or an exchange. If you don’t feel comfortable with that, just e-mail me and I will confidentially relay your input to a vendor.
We had a situation with a customer this summer. He ordered a smoothie and then accidently dropped it in the middle of the market. When Mike, the Juiceman, later discovered this, he was really bummed….he would have made the guy another one at no charge! It is important to Mike and of all of us that customers enjoy our products and come back. And he will…next summer!
Wow! Weren’t Sam and Tabitha of “Mucho Gusto” just FANTASTIC last week? They were so mucho fun… and skilled…ain’t nothin’ like an accordion to liven things up ….and then the fellow with the bagpipe joined in! Check them out on our facebook page and check out their cd on http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/muchogusto.
This week, Leanne Wiberg will be back, teaching people how to play the musical saw! She’s awesome!!
Look for Meredith of Singing Frog Farms and Kate Hopkins, our intern (who is working on our website…..check it out at www.purcellvillecommunitymarket.com…still needs a lot of work but we’re gettin’ there) who will begin selling hot cider this weekend and working their way up to hot chocolate, chai tea, and then breakfast!
Don’t forget the HATS FOR HAITI DROP BOX – Soulstitch, a local community group, would like to send 400 hand knitted or crocheted hats to the St. Helen’s orphanage in Haiti for Christmas. The orphans (between 7-18 years old) live in the mountains and actually don hats when the temperature dips below 70 degrees. Our deadline for mailing is early December. Use acrylic or cotton yarn (no wool yarn – too warm) and for free patterns go to www.knittingpatterncentral.com. We need approximately 133 youth small hats, 133 youth large hats and 133 adult size hats. Please consider making a hat and spreading the word to any group or anyone you know who knits or crochets or would like to learn. Bring your finished hats to this market each week. If you have any questions or would like to pick up yarn, please contact Monica Deaver at 540-338-6057 or mojoknits@comcast.net. For information about Friends of the Orphans in Haiti (the organization we are working with) or to make a contribution go to www.friendsoftheorphans.org. Thank you!
Here’s who is at the Saturday Market this week:
Message from Lothar: the WORLD’S BEST German, Master, Artisan Butcher.
Dear Valued Customers and Friends of Good Taste,
For this weekend, we have bulk Stuffings (80% Pork ,20% Beef & ground organic Cranberries) for meatballs, meat loaf, burgers or stuffing, delicious!
We offer to you 18 different kinds of sausages in pork, beef, and lamb. Fresh fine meat cuts (not frozen), pork roasts, ready to go, bacons galore, bulk sausages, and much more. You can find all these at the Purcellville Market on Saturday along with Hot Sandwiches under our tents – you can’t miss us with the Big German in Lederhosen! So come and join us for fresh food! We appreciate your support in local economy and less carbon footprint 
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Cheers!
Lothar, June, and family
1st AVE Bakery, best pie-bakers in the universe, will be bringing their award-winning Peanut Supreme Pie, Apple Pie, Coconut Cream Pie, Pecan Pie, Pecan Sweet Potato Pie, Pumpkin Pie and Sweet Potato Pie. “Thanks for visiting our website. We look forward to seeing you at the Purcellville Community Market on Saturday November 6th, 2010”.
You might have noticed that last week we had a new beef vendor called What’s for Dinner Now?
(www.whatsfordinnernow.com. What a nice family and great addition to our market! They raise all natural pasture raised, grain finished beef. They are a wonderful compliment to Lothar’s incredible meat products and Chicama Run’s grass fed, grass finished beef. Now we have something for everybody!
Gonzales Produce is going to be bringing their usual selection of great veggies…While I’m out setting
the market signs, I take pictures of what they have brought to market and post those pics on Facebook
before market.
Here’s a message from Erica of the Magnolia Girls:
We will be there this week with all the flavors of the fall! Ginger, Cloves, Cinnamon, Pumpkin…we will have cookies, breads, scones, and pound cakes this week. We will have our Pumpkin Bread and Applesauce cakes! We sold out last week! Peanut Butter Cookies, M&M, Chocolate Chip, Snickerdoodles, Ginger, and Coconut Chocolate Chip Macaroons are available this week. Pecan Bars and Banana Coconut Pecan Bread, are as well. We also have Almond Pound Cake. Keep us in mind for your holiday entertaining! Our products make the perfect gifts for teachers and co-workers! Stop by and try some samples!
Chef Christopher Carey, of Harvest Market, DC, will be back this week with incredible prepared foods made with fresh, local ingredients. This week’s menu:
Beef and Mushroom Pot Pie
Tomato and Braised Beef Stew
Chickpea, Cranberry, Red Onion and Celery Hearts Salad
And more….
Rob Young of Community Gardens will be back this week. Sorry about last week. The cooler weather slowed down the growth of the greens and he was caught without a lot last week. He says that this week, he’s caught up and will have plenty!
Liz Handcrafted Soaps will be at the market this week! Here’s a message from Judy, the Soapmaker:
Liz Handcrafted Soaps will be at the market this week with fresh batches of Sea Fresh and
Red Currant. Many of you have been asking about Scruffy’s Bath Bar. It will not be ready
until 11/10 (sorry, but this good stuff has to finish curing!); however, Judy can send some
along on 11/6 if you let Ken know this Saturday. Judy is going to make another batch early
next week to try to keep ahead of sales. We’ll also have a number of seasonal soaps for sale.
We are still waiting for many of your favorite soaps to finish curing. Please be patient–we’re on it!
So please stop by, say hello to Ken, and stock up on your favorite soap!
Joey Coburn, owner of Cornerstone Bakery is bringing her fantastic tasting cupcakes and “Pupcakes” week. Here is a message from Joey:
Thanks to everyone who has been coming out to buy cupcakes. We will have the same great flavors this week which include Pumpkin Maple, Gingersnap, Chock Full of Nuts, Carrot Cake with Cinnamon Cream Cheese, Vanilla, Espresso and Mexican Chocolate. We will have these flavors up until Thanksgiving and then almost all the flavors will change. If you are a fan of one particular flavor come get them while they last.
A few words on donuts. We always sell out! We were thinking with the Thanksgiving holiday coming up and most of us having family visiting it would be nice to have breakfast taken care of. Think about ordering donuts for your family and guests. If you pre-order you can be assured of the flavors you want and I will box them up in a bakery box ready for your morning guests. I will take pre-orders through the end of the year for all your holiday needs. Just e-mail me at joey@cornerstonebakedgoods.com by 5 pm on Thursday and let me know what you would like and I will have your box reserved at the market. You can also order them at the market for the next week. Whatever works for you.
The donut flavors are vanilla, cinnamon sugar, chocolate coated vanilla, chocolate, chocolate glazed and chocolate coated chocolate.
We will have Doggie Delicious Cookies and Pup Cakes at the market. �
Look for upcoming yogurt glazed Doggie Delicious Cookies coming soon.
This time of year is the perfect time to mention that we do custom orders for all your party needs. Just stop by to discuss or check out my website at www.cornerstonebakedgoods.com.
Chicama Run will be at the market with their grass-fed, grass-finished beef, pork, lamb and farm fresh eggs!
Here’s a message from Liberty Hill Farm:
Dear Customers,
This Saturday once again we will be selling chicken, free range eggs and whole wheat products. Our chicken is pasture-raised and is offered as a whole, half, four piece half, leg quarters, and skinless boneless breasts. We also provide chicken hearts and livers. It is soup making season and our carcasses create a rich, nutritional broth. �
Our bread is made with organic freshly ground whole wheat flour. Our selection of organic whole wheat products includes: large and small loaves of bread, apple cinnamon bread and cinnamon raisin bread. Take home a loaf of bread for sandwiches, French toast, or to serve with soup. We also sell chocolate chip cookies made with organic freshly ground whole wheat flour and organic chocolate chips.
The season for growing pasture-raised chicken is coming to a close and you may want to stock up your freezer for the winter months when pastured raised chicken is not available. Stop by Liberty Hill Farm’s table to buy your chicken and whole wheat products or just to visit. �
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The Matich Family
from
Liberty Hill Farm
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Hondo will be there this week with all of his excellent homemade products as well as his non-local products… He makes Red Hot, Horseradish, Garlic, and Half-Sour pickles as well as pickled beets, pickled okra, pickled green tomatoes, pickled garlic, and a spicy hot pepper mélange. He will also have his non-local products: three NY Style pickles (Kosher Dill, Full Sour and Half Sour) and sauerkraut.
Kilmer Orchards will have Cameos, Winesaps, Fujis, Granny Smiths, Mountaineers, Red Delicious, and Jonagold apples. Don’t forget to pick up fruit for your kid’s lunchbox and pack their lunch!!!!�
We are so happy to have a “Local Artist’s Tent” at the market. Dave Levinson of Loudoun Landscape Photos (www.LoudounLandscapes.com) and Deborah Morrow of Cowgirl Smiles (www.cowgirlsmiles.com) will be in the tent this week. Stop by and see their beautiful work.
The “Smoothie Guy”, Mike Schreiber, will not be at the market until the weather gets warm again. We miss him but if you have a hankerin’ for a fresh fruit smoothie, you can find him at the Purcellville Sports Pavilion Juice Bar
Oak Spring Dairy will not be at market this week.
Linna the Locavore
A home food gardener’s job is never done. Fall is the perfect time to get a head start on making harvest 2011 even better. It all begins and ends with the soil, so take care of this precious resource. Check out (3) simple fall chores to properly ‘tuck your garden in’ for the winter!�
(http://www.examiner.com/food-gardening-in-washington-dc/fall-chores-for-the-home-food-gard ener)
Happy gardening!
Be vocal. Eat, think, and buy local!
www.foodscaper.com
www.123foodgardening.blogpspot.com
www.locavorechronicles.blogspot.com
www.linnasgarden.blogspot.com
www.locavoreliving.ning.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Loudoun_locavores
And don’t forget, we are on www.loudounfarms.org and on Facebook, where we post pictures of happy
customers and vendors each week! Check the market table for all kinds of info, cookbooks, recipes,
community events, local businesses, health information and my favorite magazine, Flavor!
Don’t forget to RECYCLE YOUR EGG CARTONS, berry containers and WINE BAGS. Thanks to all of you
that do!!! There’s a basket in the middle of the market where you can put those items and we will
give them back to vendors.
So come out on Saturday, purchase some GREAT food, have a chat with your faithful vendors, happy
neighbors, and enlightened folks from other communities and sip some fresh coffee and have a bite to eat. We will be there from 9 to 1 at the Town Hall Parking lot
at 130 E. Main Street in beautiful, downtown Purcellville, VA. Look for the cannon…it’s point’n right at us!!
Enjoy!
Juanita Tool
703.967.0431
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Marna’s Chili Recipe
Ingredients
Serves 4
* 2 slices bacon, cut crosswise into 1/4-inch pieces (I actually used 1 Tbsp of Bacon Bacon from Tastefully Simple)
* 1 onion, coarsely chopped
* 3 cloves garlic, chopped (1 1/2 tablespoons)
* 2 tablespoons paprika
* 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin �
* 1 1/2 teaspoons dried oregano
* 1 small, green chile * 2 chipotle peppers in adobo (approx. 1 1/2 Tbsp)
* 1 1/4 teaspoons salt
* 1/2 teaspoon pepper
* 1 1/2 pounds ground beef chuck (I just used regular ground beef, though)
* 1 can beans
* 1 15 oz can of tomatoes (diced, pureed, or whole stewed tomatoes that I cut up — whatever you have)
* 1 1/2 tablespoons cider vinegar
* 1 cup water
* Beef stock (add until you get the consistency you like)
* Chopped jalapeno, chopped onion or scallion, grated cheddar cheese, lime wedges, and sour cream
Directions
1. In a Dutch oven, cook bacon over medium heat until just beginning to brown, about 4 minutes.
Add onion and garlic, and cook for 30 seconds. Add spices, chiles, salt, pepper, and ground beef.
Cook, stirring occasionally, and breaking up the meat with the side of the spoon, until the beef is cooked through, about 10 minutes.
2. Stir in water, tomatoesl, and vinegar, and bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer and cook, stirring occasionally, until liquid thickens, about 20 minutes. It may be necessary to add beef stock to thin the chili. Serve hot, garnished with desired toppings.
White Chicken Chile with Poblanos
6 cans chicken broth
2 lbs chicken breast
2 cans navy beans
6-8 poblanos
1 sweet onion
1 yellow onion
couple cloves garlic
Adobo seasoning
black pepper
1 sweet red pepper
Roux
Boil chicken for 20 min in chicken broth and water. I didn’t use 6 cans…I just used whatever I had and used water to make up the difference…I figured the chicken itself would make the missing broth! While chicken is boiling, dice ingredients. Remove chicken, cool and shred with a fork.
Add to chicken stock: garlic, Adobo to taste, poblanos, navy beans, onions, and red pepper. Cook for at leastanother 1/2 hour, along with the shredded chicken…
When you are happy with the flavor, make a roux with 1/4 to 1/2 stick of butter and 4 tbsp or so of flour and add to chili to thicken.
If you have time, sauté the garlic and onions in olive oil, then add the poblanos, red peppers and Adobo seasoning, sauté longer, then add to broth along with chicken.
