We're back!  Having had such a wonderful time last time we did a demo, we wanted to do it again!  The whole crew assembled again, Erin, Sarah, Alex, Zack, and Myself, joined by our cute as a button, and under the weather, dog, Xena.  At our last demo we did a taste of Summer, gazpacho soup and BLT's, so this time it was a taste of autumn with celeriac soup with homemade bacon and homemade pork sausages with mustard on homemade parkerhouse rolls.  To answer your question; Yes, pork does go with all seasons.

 

    As per usual, the food arrived and immediately people started to crowd.  It's amazing how people reach for things that a) are not their's and b) are not ready to eat!  We started heating soup and laying out little slices of toast with mustard on it and people tried to eat it!  It's a condiment and starch!  We learned our lesson last time, don't offer the first taste unless you have 75 more backing it up.  We also made sure to get taste to all the vendors, because without them, there would be no food.  Very Matrix, I know.

 

 

     Xena spent the morning about 5 feet away from all the food, it was torture.  She kept looking at us like our entire goal of the morning was to taunt her with delicious food then give it away to total strangers!  On the upside, she did get to meet a lot of new friends, as she is so adorable people can't help walking right up to her and petting her, which she doesn't mind at all.  We always start well before we are supposed to, 9:30am versus 11am, but we always manage to have enough to last and this week was no exception.

 

 

     With the first bites going out around 10am we had a crowd for over an hour solid.  I figure that as the weather turns cold and breezy, the people who arrive early are the dedicated food lovers, and they are my target audience.  If you look in the photos below you will see our local restaurant magnate, Jose Andres, drinking the soup.  He said,  "Delicious, surprising, how did you make this?"  I took that as high praise.  Also the running out of everything, that was high praise too. 

 

 

 

   With winter approaching, most area farmers markets will be on hiatus till spring.  Don't let this make you think that you can't get a wonderful variety of local ingredients all winter long.  Both the Arlington Country Courthouse and Dupont Circle Farmers Market's are open all year long, with adjusted hours.  Check out FRESHFARMS site for DC markets and the Post's site has a great area farmers market map and I encourage you to utilize both this winter.

 

 

   For this week's recipe, we will take advantage of all those tubers hanging out at the market.

 

Roasted Winter Root Vegetables

 

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