Brickworks Farmers Market

Saturday was a beautiful day and perfect for our first outing to the Brickworks Farmers Market.  The little man has been sick and not cooperating fully, so the plan to head out at 9 am turned into us going there at noon.  Grand scheme of things not a big deal.

Our first stop was to have our knives sharpened by Sharp My Knife who is at the market every other Saturday.  I have had my knives for years and never had them sharpened, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to have them sharpened while I was shopping.  They did a great job with the knives and cutting things isn't such a chore now.

After we dropped off our knives we did a quick tour around the market.  It was much smaller then I expected.  When you look at the list of vendors on the market website you expect that the place is huge.  But you can do a quick stroll around looking at the vendors in about 5 minutes.

The best part about this market is that you are dealing with the actual farmers/producers and that everything is organic, all the beef is grass fed.  Overall everything is just really good quality.

I don't remember the names of all the vendors that we purchased from but here is a quick list of what we purchased:

• Fresh and smoked trout from Fisherfolk - absolutely delicious
• Fresh ramembert cheese from Best Baa Diary - om nom nom I couldn't stop eating this stuff
• Spring salad mix from Vicki's Veggies - I eat organic spring mix from the supermarket all the time, that stuff has nothing on the spring mix I bought from Vicki's.  Oh so GOOD!
• Russian kale, grass fed ground beef and soup bones from Earth Haven   - We ate the russian kale last night as a salad and it was amazing.  Russian kale is not bitter like the curly kale we normally buy and makes for an amazing salad.
• Chorizo sausage and summer sausage.  Unfortunately I don't know who the vendor was.  But the summer sausage was great.
• Green beans - again don't know who the vendor was.  AMAZING!  It was $4 for a small basket of them and then he offered to give me 2 baskets for $6.  So glad I went with the 2 baskets, these are better then anything found in the supermarket.

We did a stroll through the food court, but from what I could tell, everything there was off diet.  

I also really wanted to buy Salami from Dolce Lucano but the guys were rude and arrogant so I spent my money elsewhere.

When we were in the car driving home we chatted about the market and what we thought.  My original reaction was that it was just OK and not really worth the 20 minute drive.  Items weren't cheap, but I was ok with that given the quality of the items.  I would say that the prices for most items were what I was expecting to pay for organic veggies and grass fed meat.

After eating all the wonderful food and realizing that we were eating much like we did in Provence again, I need to change my vote.  

Our dinner on Saturday night started with a platter with the sheep cheese, smoked trout and summer sausage.  Then we grilled the fresh trout on a pizza stone on the bbq, accompanied by the green beans pan fried with mushrooms and almonds.  (damn my mouth is watering just thinking of it)

I really want to go back again this week to the market and get more of the wonderful food.