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Happy fair week, local food lovers!
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Place your order from Western Maine Market today or early tomorrow for pick-up or delivery this Friday or Saturday.
Enjoy the Farmington Fair any day this week and / or the Common Ground Fair next weekend! Whitehill Farm is away at Common Gound this week but will return next week.
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New and Returning Products
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Buttery biscuits
Menu Group: Food
Section: Baked Goods
Category: Biscuit
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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The biscuits I loved as a child, but made with Maine Grains all-purpose flour, which gives them a darker color than traditional biscuits, and butter instead of vegetable shortening.
Ingredients: flour, organic whole milk, butter, local eggs, baking powder, sugar, and salt
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Whole Wheat Bread
Menu Group: Food
Section: Baked Goods
Category: Bread
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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A simple, old-fashioned loaf. Great for toast or sandwiches. Made with whole wheat flour, water, nonfat dried milk, brown sugar, canola oil, yeast, and salt.
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Cheesecake
Menu Group: Food
Section: Baked Goods
Category: Cheesecake
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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Creamy, delicious, New York-style cheesecake made with cream cheese, sugar, local eggs, vanilla, organic lemon juice, and salt.
Topping: sour cream, sugar, and vanilla.
Crust: graham crackers, butter.
Contains milk, eggs, wheat, and soy.
Maine sales tax included in price.
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Pie
Menu Group: Food
Section: Baked Goods
Category: Pies
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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We make our all-butter crust with Maine Grains organic pastry flour, butter, water, sugar, salt.
Apple Pie - crumb topping: Mixed apples baked with sugar, flour, lemon juice, & nutmeg. Contains milk & wheat.
Custard pie: A simply delicious old-fashioned favorite. Organic milk, local eggs, sugar, vanilla, freshly grated nutmeg, & salt. Contains milk, eggs, & wheat.
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Heritage apples - Red
Menu Group: Food
Section: Fruits and Berries
Category: Apples
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Vendor: Hemlock Hill Farm
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Heritage apples of unknown variety freshly picked from our neighbors' orchard. Never sprayed. Expect occasional bumps, bruises, or bug bites.
Red skin with streaks of pink. Bright white flesh. Crisp and very firm. High acidity. Very low tannin. Good flavor.
Flesh - Very firm, crisp white flesh
Sweetness - 4/5
Acidity - 4/5
Storage potential - 3/5
Best for - Fresh eating, pies & baked goods
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Heritage apples - Golden
Menu Group: Food
Section: Fruits and Berries
Category: Apples
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Vendor: Hemlock Hill Farm
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Heritage apples of unknown variety freshly picked from our neighbors orchard. Never sprayed. Expect occasional bumps, bruises, or bug bites.
Golden-green with occasional blushes of pink. Good flavor, low acidity, medium tannin.
Flesh - Medium firmness, not mealy
Sweetness - 4/5
Acidity - 2/5
Storage potential - 1/5
Best for - Fresh eating, apple sauce
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Watermelon
Menu Group: Food
Section: Fruits and Berries
Category: Melons
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Vendor: Fairbanks Farmstand & Nursery
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SALE-Free Stone Peaches -seconds
Menu Group: Food
Section: Fruits and Berries
Category: Peaches
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Copper fungicide, organically approved, used in the fall, and early in the spring, not during fruiting.
Seconds=misshapen, or visible "scab", none of which affects the taste. No soft spots. May need a few days on your windosill to fully ripen.
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Quiche
Menu Group: Food
Section: Prepared Foods
Category: Quiche
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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Our all-butter crust made with Maine Grains flour, butter, water, and salt.
Quiche base: local eggs, organic milk & cream, salt, pepper
Artichoke & cheddar, with Cabot's Seriously Sharp cheddar cheese.
Roasted red peppers, Kalamata olives, and feta cheese
Contact barefootfarmerdeborah@gmail.com for other filling options.
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Gazpacho
Menu Group: Food
Section: Prepared Foods
Category: Soups
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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Vegan, delicious, coarsely pureed. Serve cold. Gazpacho is a tomato-based vegetable soup. It's an excellent meal for a hot day, but we enjoy it even on cold evenings - it's just too delicious to resist.
We use both cooked and raw tomatoes, everything else is raw.
Veggies are all homegrown or from our local farmer friends. Contains tomato, cucumber, onion, green pepper, extra virgin olive oil, balsamic vinegar, garlic, salt, and black pepper. Keep refrigerated or freeze. Now available by the quart.
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Northeastern Pole Beans
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Beans
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Vendor: Shady Maple Farm Products
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long, flat beans, super tender even when 7-8 inches long
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Bok Choy
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Bok Choy
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Vendor: Shady Maple Farm Products
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Purple Pac Choi is the variety - Full head: Great for stir-fry or soup. The white stems can also used raw in salads, or cook the greens likes kale or spinach. Full heads.
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Red cabbage heads
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Cabbage
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Vendor: Shady Maple Farm Products
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Large, beautiful, white cauliflower
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Cauliflower
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Vendor: Shady Maple Farm Products
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Greens - Braising mix
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Greens
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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A mix of greens for braising. May include kale, Asian greens, lamb's quarters, radicchio, mustard, amaranth - whatever nutritious and tasty treats are plentiful in our gardens this week.
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Patterson Yellow Onions
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Onions
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Vendor: Shady Maple Farm Products
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Peppers
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Peppers
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Vendor: Shady Maple Farm Products
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Goddess Peppers-Sweet Banana Type, mild flavor, great for pickling
Jalapeno - 1 pound, great for pickling or making a batch of cowboy candy. Between 8-10 peppers
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Winter Squash
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Squash - Winter
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Vendor: Shady Maple Farm Products
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Acorn
Mashed Potato Acorn Squash: From the Kitchen Garden Seeds website, where we sourced the seeds from: "What a sneaky little Squash! It has pure white skin and off-white flesh that, when roasted and fluffed with a little butter, looks just like mashed Potatoes. While it might not taste just like it’s namesake, it is delicious, with fewer carbohydrates. "
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Sweet Potatoes
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Sweet Potatoes
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Extra Large: Who says one can't grow large sweet potatoes in the Northeast? Purple/Red skin with orange flesh.
Sweet potato pie?
Grown Naturally.
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A mix of cherry tomatoes
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Tomatoes
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Grown naturally in our greenhouse - no spray. Nothing synthetic touches these tasty cherry tomatoes.
Red, Orange, and Yellow.
All fully ripe and ready to eat.
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