Celebrate Celery! And a new French vendor!

If you’re tired of eating green leafy salads, invite celery to the salad bowl for crunch and character. Pick up some fennel, celery’s bulbous cousin, also at the market this week, to make this lemony David Tanis salad. The perfect opening act or side gig for these simple grilled pork grilled pork chops with a balsamic pepper and plum reduction. Or make this marinated celery salad with chickpeas and parmesan for a satisfying and refreshing vegetarian main. 

Celery root, also known as celery knob, is no less interesting. Delicious when roasted and folded into mashed potatoes or julienned, raw, in a classic celery remoulade one of the most popular bistro appetizers in France. 

Speaking of the mother country...we are thrilled to have Pistache NYC join us this week. A French bakery & caterer based in Brooklyn, Pistache will be offering those classic stretch sandwiches on authentic baguette, inspired salads and other French confections like sablés and chouquettes  and those hard-to-find (and make) canelés cakes.

The name canelé comes from the French word for “fluted,” and it refers to the small fluted copper molds the custardy cakes are made in. According to French culinary lore, the pastry originated in various convents around the winemaking regions of Bordeaux in the 16th century. Winemakers used egg whites to clarify wine and would give the excess yolks to the nuns to make food for the poor children in the surrounding villages. With the addition of a few other ingredients, the canelé was born.

If cookies are your jam, you're in luck because Nikki, from Butter + Bow is also here this week with her global-inspired cookies, many of which count pistachio as a key ingredient.

Springbrook Hollow is also here so make sure to pick up some of their Two Sisters Vodka to make Bloody Marys on Sunday–with a leggy stalk of market celery, natch.

And come to the market extra hungry because The Fearless Cook food truck bakc with their delicious biscuit-driven breakfasts, and so much more. 

A gentle reminder that this is the week we take your food-pantry cash donations and use them to buy market produce and proteins for the Mt. Kisco Interfaith Food Pantry. Please contribute if you can on Saturday at the market tent. Last month we were able to deliver about 150 lbs of fresh food to the pantry. Thanks in advance, and thank you, too, to our vendors who always contribute generously to the cause.

See you at the market!