Mill City Farmers Market is here to inspire nutritious, local recipes all year! In our weekly email newsletter, we feature recipes from market chefs, MCFM vendors and local cookbook authors featuring seasonal items from the market. Take a look at the 10 most popular recipes of 2021 and get ready to save and bookmark your… Read More →
These tender, sweet, white roots are only available when the farmers around here grow them. Hakurei salad turnips behave more like a radish in a horticulture sense, but are milder, juicier and just as crunchy. They can be eaten raw, lightly steamed, quick pickled or pickled for canning like in this recipe. Look for roots… Read More →
This is a Market Salad in the truest sense. Only the dressing ingredients are not from the market. The idea is to use whatever is available, and not rely on lettuce as the foundation for the salad. This time of year (summer) offers hearty vegetables and proteins (legumes, meat, and there are local tofu, tempeh,… Read More →
This is a stir fry so make sure that all your vegetables are ready to go when the time comes to make this. I usually group heartier veggies together and soft veggies together. This helps to keep the stir fry technique moving along. As well, always add a bit of stock if your food starts… Read More →
Using local organic cornmeal from our vendor Sunrise Flour Mill and whatever seasonal vegetables and proteins stand out to you at the market, you can put a simple and delicious meal together. Serve with a chutney, sauce or salsa from one of our vendors or make your own sauce! We recommend Market Chef Jenny’s Chimichurri… Read More →
This recipe is made to be flexible. Use the ingredient list here as a template and substitute leftovers or whatever vegetables, herbs or greens are in season at the market–have fun!
By MCFM’s 2020 nutrition intern, Jessica Bruggen In the US approximately 72 billion pounds of food is wasted every year, not including food wasted in the home. A majority of that food waste ends up in landfills with only 6.3% of it being composted. Food rotting in landfills produces methane, which is 84 times more… Read More →
To celebrate National Farmers Market Week and the bountiful summer harvest, we’re sharing our canning and food preservation resources! Follow us on Instagram @millcityfarmersmarket August 2 – 8 for TWO giveaways of market produce and canning supplies and check out our recipes and resources below. With lots of us spending more hours in the kitchen… Read More →
