This Week at the Market

This Week at the Market

12th September 2019

Hi there

This weather just cries out for gardening and what better place to buy your seedlings and get great advice than the farmers market. All of our plant vendors have interesting varieties that are grown for local conditions. I heard a wee rumour that Kakanui Produce will be back this weekend so you really will be spoilt for choice.

Last weekend we welcomed Abdal Catering to the market. Some of you may already be aware of Abdal and his impressive Syrian food, but for those of you yet to try it now is your opportunity. He does food to eat at the market and also to take home - read below for more information. His Syrian saj bread wraps are both delicious to eat and entertaining to watch being prepared.

Waewae Permaculture started last week at the market as well. They are a small scale market garden growing in Purakaunui using permaculture principles. They are spray free and grow a diverse range of salad and leafy vegetables. Check them out up on the platform next to Bennies Honey.

Afife from Lebanese Cuisine is taking a well-deserved break from the market and having a visit home to Lebanon. She will be back on 26^th October.

Wild Smokehouse are also going through some significant changes and whilst that is all in process they will be absent from the market. Watch this space for future updates.

See you Saturday

Best Regards

Kate

This Week in the kitchen

Kia ora folks,

Jamalia is celebrating good, tasty kai again this week. She has bacon hocks, rewana bread, yams & lots of greens! Try the tasty vegan sweet treat with no refined sugar, a spin on french toast using local Rewana bread from Beano's Bakery. Either make the recipes yourself at home or taste as you walk in the main gates on Saturday. Jamalia has the recipe sheets listing all the supportive vendors & product used.

Pai ki a koe kai! Enjoy your food!

Stir-fried Yams with Spinach

Produce from Oamaru Organics Waewae Permaculture

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Kale, Apple, Cranberry and Almond Slaw

Produce from Ettrick Gardens

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Pork Hock Soup with Silverbeet

Produce from Ettrick Gardens

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French Toast with Coconut Caramel Apples

Produce from Rosedale Orchard Agreeable Nature Free Range Eggs

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Syrian Food at the Market

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Abdal Catering:

Some of you may have already noticed some new & exciting dishes & products at the market last weekend. We welcome Abdal Moneem-Kyassah who moved to Dunedin with his family two years ago as part of the United Nations refugee resettlement program. Originally a chef from Syria after working in Saudi Arabia & Malaysia. Abdal will bring his personality & delectable Syrian flatbreads (Saj), shatta, za'atar, cheeses & other wonderful delights to introduce to the market goers. He will be cooking at the market on a gas fired saj dome to make his flat breads fresh in the morning. He has his own catering business here in Dunedin. All his dry goods are purchased in Dunedin & his za'atar features a special ingredient which he was happy to discover in Otago. Realizing that Central Otago thyme was just like the thyme that grew in his homeland was a happy shock, now he regularly heads to Central in summer to forage for thyme. Abdal Catering shares chef Abdal’s love of Syrian food with the people of his new home, Dunedin. Enjoy the flavours of his delicious range of gourmet products including Abdal’s Za’atar and Abdal’s Shatta, you will find him between the good folk at GUD Coffee & Le Crepe.

Waewae Permaculture

Up on the platform you will now find the lovely Lian Redding & Fiona Collings who have a small scale market garden in Purakaunui which is spray free. They grow to permaculture principals with a diverse range of colourful vegetables including heirloom varieties. Great to get a bit more produce variety for our market goers, their purple kale looked gorgeous!

Ettrick Gardens

Lettuce, Spinach, Spring Onions, Brightlights Silverbeet, Celery, Leeks, Celeriac, Coloured Carrots, Garlic, Parsnips, Cauliflower, Carrots, Shallots, Onions, Green Cabbage, Kale, Savoy cabbage, Artichokes, Yams,

Potatoes, 3 types Beetroot, Elephant Garlic, Silverbeet, Walnuts & Pumpkin. Check out our ‘bring your bag’ to ‘bag your own’ section.

Coloured Carrots, Beetroot (3 Types), Yams, Washed Agria & Red Fantasy Potatoes.

Crunchy Royal Gala, Golden Delicious, Fuji & Pacific Rose, Braeburn, Granny Smith, Sturmer, Cox’s Orange, Pink Lady Ballerat Cooking Apples.

Beurre Bosc, Winter Nelis Pears.

Frozen Raspberries, Boysenberries, Blackberries, Strawberries, Tayberries, Blueberries and Mixed Berries.

Check out our range of reuseable bags!!

Super Special’s this Week:

Cabbages $1 each.

Elephant Garlic spray free 250gm bags only $5.

Boysenberries free flow 1 kg $15 or 2 for $25.

Red Fantasy Potatoes: A smooth red skin, yellow flesh potato.

Great flavour, roasting, boiling, mashing & baking in stews and salads. A great all-round potato.

Ettrick Gardens

On your right at the main gate, or

Rapid 5104, State Highway 8, Ettrick.

Central Otago. 03 446 6863

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