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A smorgasbord of open-face sandwiches

January 11, 2022 By marketeditor

Recipe by parchment

Top thinly sliced pieces of Rugbrød with local produce, spreads, cheeses, or other products to prepare Scandinavian-style open-faced sandwiches.

Suggested pairings

*Ingredients currently available at the farmers’ market

  • Lightly salted potatoes* with sour cream and chives
  • Pork rillettes with pickles*, mustard, and pea shoots*
  • Goat cheese* with roasted root vegetables*, herbs*, and pepper
  • Hummus* with red onion* and capers
  • Butter and jam* or honey*
  • Tomato with mozzarella* and basil and a dash of flavorful olive oil
  • Olive tapenade with arugula and roasted peppers
  • Honey* with apple* and cinnamon
  • Nut butter spread* with dried fruit

Filed Under: News, Seasonal Recipes Tagged With: Apple, buy local, chives, goat cheese, honey, hummus, jam, mozzerella, nut butter, pickles, potatoes, red onion, sandwich, shop local, smorgasbord

Jam Makers Preserve a Sweet Tradition

December 13, 2018 By marketeditor

By Himanee Gupta-Carlson

Homemade jams are a longtime staple of the Saratoga Farmers’ Market. These treats – made from fruits grown and harvested spring through fall – gleam like jewels in glass jars. They are rich in fruit flavor, and thick with sweetness. They fill holiday stockings, they sit on breakfast tables, and they work great in holiday recipes.

Two vendors – Laurie Kokinda of Kokinda Farm and Anna Mae Clark of Clark’s Dahlia Gardens & Greenhouses – offer jam. For both, jam-making runs in the family.

“My mother taught me how to make jam as a young child,” says Kokinda. “We would go picking fruit at ‘pick your own’ farms and gather wild huckleberries in Luther’s Forest.” 

“Then,” Kokinda recalls, “as a teen, I started making it by myself.” Her mother had had a horse accident and had broken her wrist.

Kokinda joined the farmers’ market in 1997. Since then, she has sold jam under the name of Laurie’s Jams, alongside produce, eggs, and handmade items.

She makes jam once a week, in between driving a school bus and caring for horses, chickens and dogs. She grows raspberries, currants, gooseberries, blackberries, apples, pears, rhubarb and grapes. She obtains other fruits such as cherries, plums, blueberries, and apricots from other local growers. Of particular pride is her favorite, peach jam, made from peaches from her own trees.

Clark was a Saratoga Farmers’ Market vendor when the market started in 1978. She began selling jam around 1998 when, she recalls, she had “a freezer filled with fruit that wasn’t being used.” But she has made jam for 50 years. She inherited the tradition from her mother and grandmothers. “We all made jam,” says Clark. “We had to at the farm, or you wouldn’t have any.” 

Clark perfected her jam-making through 4-H and Cornell Cooperative Extension classes. She grows most of her fruit, though relies on others for products she cannot grow herself such as oranges and cranberries. She goes through a pallet of sugar a year. Jams, insists Clark, need sugar. Sugar brings out a fruit’s flavor in a way that other sweeteners cannot.

Many of Anna Mae Clark’s recipes come from her mother and grandmothers. They create “older flavors” that people enjoy, and can’t always find outside of farmers’ markets.

The Saratoga Farmers Market is 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays at the Lincoln Baths Building in the Saratoga Spa State Park. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and on the FreshFoodNY app.

Filed Under: Featured Article, homepage feature, News Tagged With: Anna Mae Clark, jam, jam tradition, Laurie Kokinda, Saratoga Farmers' Market

Delicate Squash with Maple Syrup and Jam

October 24, 2017 By marketeditor

Adapted from recipe by Dinner at the Zoo, shared by My Saratoga Kitchen Table

Serves: 4

 

INGREDIENTS

*Ingredients currently available at the farmers’ market

  • 2-3 pounds delicata squash* (about 2 average sized squash)
  • 2 Tablespoons olive oil, plus more for coating the pan*
  • 2 Tablespoons maple syrup*
  • 2 Tablespoons raspberry jam*

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cut the squash lengthwise and remove the seeds. Cut the halves into ¾ inch slices.
  2. Line a sheet pan with foil and coat with olive oil.
  3. In a small bowl mix together the olive oil, maple syrup, and jam.
  4. Pour the olive oil mixture over the squash and toss to coat.
  5. Bake for 20 to 30 minutes or until the squash is tender and starting to brown. Serve immediately.

Filed Under: News, Seasonal Recipes Tagged With: delicata squash, jam, local ingredients, maple syrup, recipe, Recipes, Saratoga Farmers' Market, seasonal

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After a much anticipated wait, come June 1st, the After a much anticipated wait, come June 1st, the Saratoga Farmers’ Market will be returning to High Rock Park for our Wednesday and Saturday Markets! Thank you to everyone on our team, our vendors, customers and friends who have helped to make this transition happen. Stay tuned for upcoming events celebrating our move! 

Photo: Flowers from @lovinmamafarm 

Parking will be available on High Rock Ave and in the new City Center Parking Garage (free for the first hour and $1/hr after that) 

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It is our second to last market on High Rock Ave b It is our second to last market on High Rock Ave before heading back over to the pavilion on June 1st!!! Stop by tomorrow from 3-6pm for our musical guest Dave Moore and our friends from @bsneny 

Photos by Pattie Garrett @mysaratogakitchentable 

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Join us this Saturday for the Saratoga Farmers’ Join us this Saturday for the Saratoga Farmers’ Market located at the Wilton mall from 9am to 1pm. Our friends from @comfortfoodcommunity will be there along with our musical guest @maltacoustic . Don’t forget your sunscreen!

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Tomorrow at our Wednesday 3-6pm Market outside the Tomorrow at our Wednesday 3-6pm Market outside the lower city civic center parking lot @northernriversfostercare will be joining us for a seed planting activity for kids! #saratogasprings #farmersmarket #shoplocal

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