Dawn Troutner Toledo Market Master

Market Report for June 17, 2016

Another successful Toledo Farmers’ Market was held on this Friday night. There were 19 vendors with plenty to sell. Kristi had her delicious bakery, rolls, pies, cookies, twisty’s, kolaches, rolicky and crisp’s. Vernon and Wilma had eggs in the shade. Cindy was back with kohlrabi, and onions. Hopefully she will have peas next week.

Caryn was there with jams, snack mixes, and her caramel corn assortment. Darold brought broccoli, sugar snap peas, Chinese cabbage, turnips, green onions, and kale. Shirley and Michael had delicious Czech bakery, kolaches, buchty, kuchen, kolaches and noodles. Chuck and Ginger filled there tables with pies, kolaches, breads, peas, black raspberries, summer squash, zucchini, and potatoes.They also had popcorn, cabbage, and broccoli.

Nancy and Tom had bush cherries, zucchini, and assortment of frozen buffalo meat. Dawn had jams, jellies, fresh and dried herbs, green onions, houseplants, turnips, leeks, garlic scapes, sweet onions, potatoes, rosettes, breads, energy bites, and help from her grand kids. Sheryl along with her sister-in-law had ceramics, some new towel sets, and American flag dishcloth with scrubbie, recycling bags, and a new bowl holder for the cold bowls of ice cream.

Janice came back with kolaches, rolls, beets, cabbage, zucchini, and instant oatmeal mixes. Jim brought an assortment of his hand made leather goods. Janet had eggs, cupcakes, brownies, and breads. Joe and Barb had their tent up with breads, jams, onions, beets, sugar peas, broccoli, granola, cabbage, and kohlrabi. Karen was back from vacation with a new Minnesota shirt and her soy candles along with soy candle products.

Kathy had an assortment of her delicious bakery. New this week was oatmeal cake, and magic bars. She sold the cantaloupe bread pretty fast this week. Tassy had radishes, whoopee pies, lemon bars, her delicious cookies, homemade popsicles, trail mix, lemonade, ice tea, and her hand scrub. The girls from My Mother’s Place brought yummy cake pops, kolaches, pretzels, caramel corn, jams, bars, brownies, and a snow cone machine.

And holding up the market on the North end was Red Earth Gardens. Their market wagon had kale, lettuce, radishes, garlic scapes, kohlrabi, lemon balm, bok choy and yukina.

Oh what a nice night for the Toledo Farmers’ Market. Be sure to get out there and make your delicious purchases soon.

Yukina, what is it?

Yukina is a beautiful leafy Asian green. It has a similar texture to American mustard greens, but has a more delicate flavor, mild and almost sweet. You can eat it raw, in a salad, or substitute it for spinach or mustard greens in any recipe.

Chinese cabbage, this can be confusing. It is sometimes confused with well-know subspecies, bok choy. Chinese cabbage has crinkly, thickly veined leaves that are cream colored with celadon green tips.

Unlike the strong flavored waxy leaves on round heads of cabbage, Chinese cabbage is thin, crisp, and delicately mild. Napa cabbage is a type of Chinese cabbage. Napa cabbage is popular in Asian recipes because of its distinct taste, similar to celery or bok choy. And napa cabbage is considered healthier.

Fewer calories and a little more protein than the regular cabbage you find in the produce isle. Bok Choy does not form a head; instead it has a smooth dark green leaf blade that forms a cluster reminiscent of mustard or celery. Bok Choy is packed with vitamins A and C and has very few calories.

The exciting thing about these vegetables are they are part of the produce available at the Toledo Farmers’ Market.

See you at market.