Visit us at the New Amsterdam Market on Sunday, 9/13
 
Hot Bread Kitchen and the region’s finest farmers, purveyors, and producers will be selling their delicious wares this Sunday at the New Amsterdam Market in South Street Seaport.  If the food isn’t enough of a draw, it is also the celebration of the 400th anniversary of Hudson’s Voyage to the New World which will be marked with free boat rides and other activities. 

The market gathers on South Street, between Beekman Street and Peck Slip in Manhattan between 11:00am – 4:00pm.

To mark the event, Hot Bread Kitchen offering seasonal, delectable breads.
Here are some highlights:

Fresh Masa:  For the first time ever, Hot Bread Kitchen is offering our stone-ground corn masa– the dough that we use to make our famous tortillas.  Pick up some masa and make your own tortillas, gorditas, tamales, and even papusas.  We will have a limited quantity, so stop by early. Prepared tortillas will also be available.

Trio of Challahs:  Just in time for Rosh Hashana, Hot Bread Kitchen is offering three types of challahs shaped in the traditional year-end crown shape.  We’ll have a sephardic challah with sesame and caraway, a traditional egg challah made with local whole wheat flour from the Finger Lakes, and a honey-sweet raisin challah.  You can pick them up Sunday and eat them this week or they’ll freeze beautifully for Rosh Hashana celebrations next weekend.

We’ll also have asiago and cherry tomato focaccia and lavash for snacking.

To learn about Hot Bread Kitchen, visit www.HotBreadKitchen.org

This week’s newsletter includes these great recipes:

Horseradish Potato Salad

Couscous with Red Veined Sorrel

Fresh Red Veined Sorrel Soup

Sour Cream Apple Pie

Sesame Beets

Newsletter Week 14

Dear CSA Member,

What a beautiful first harvest of potatoes. Called “Seed Potatoes”, potatoes are planted as pieces of potato with a couple of “eyes” or dormant buds on each piece.  The buds will sprout and develop into independent plants.  The seed potato provides the nourishment from its stored starch supply.

The main stem will appear above the ground.  There is a lot of leaf growth during the first four to five weeks and then the plants flower. The potatoes growing underground develop above the original seed piece and so the  potato plants are hilled with soil to keep the growing potatoes covered during the growing season.

We will have the potato digger hooked to the tractor to show members that come to the farm visit just how we harvest potatoes.  I think it is one of the favorite farm visit activities.

Next week, Saturday September 12 from 11-3 is the farm visit.  If you are coming, please remember to bring your own plate, cup, utensils and also a dish to share.  If you could also have the name of the dish, labeled if it is a vegetarian, meat or dessert  on an index card so we can have a vegetarian table. We will have water to drink, Farmer to Farmer coffee, roasted pork and sweet corn, local fruit.

If you need to get in touch with me, just call my cell phone 518-291-2467.  Last year the road sign was missing at the end of Garcia Lane and so there were members all over South Cairo not being able to find us.  The road sign is now in place.  We are really looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones.

Enjoy the vegetables,

Deborah for everyone at Stoneledge Farm

Full Vegetable Share
Potatoes – 2 pounds
Beets – 1 1/2 pounds
Swiss Chard – 1 bunch
Leeks – 1 bunch
Summer Savory – 1 bunch
Sweet Peppers – 5
Red Vein Sorrel – 1 bunch
Eggplant – 1

Fruit Share
One bag.  It will contain:

Fix Orchard Pear – an Anjou
Red Bartlett - they are pretty green this year, not enough sunshine this summer to bring out the red color
Macintosh Apples - good all purpose apple for cooking or eating fresh
Gala Apple – one of my favorite eating apples

I don’t know about you but I want to hold onto the little bit of summer we had for as long as possible!

Zinnias are the epitome of summer so this weeks bouquet will be a salute to the zinnia…

A collection of …

‘Sunbow’,
‘State fair’,
‘Oklahoma’
‘Benary’s Giant’

We will include a package of flower food this week so be sure to use it as Zinnias are ‘big eaters’!

Enjoy!  Enjoy!

Bernadette & Walt

The River Garden