Festive Feast 4 Four | December 9, 2019

Fresh & Local:

Festive Feast 4 Four

In the spirit of the holidays and supporting local farmers and eaters, Crescent City Farmers Market will host local food distributor JV Foods on Tuesday as they distribute locally-sourced prepared meals for a family of four - the Festive Feast 4 Four. If you have signed up to receive a meal, please pick it up at the Tuesday, Uptown Market (200 Broadway at the River) between 9am and 1pm. The meal will be prepared, but refrigerated and include:

Raines Farm wagyu roast beef
Fletcher Farm collard greens
Schexnayder’s Acadian Foods jambalaya
and a dessert.

It’s too late to sign up for it now, but if you didn’t get a chance to sign up for the Feast and receive SNAP benefits, stop by the welcome tent where you can double your dollars with Market Match. Market Match doubles SNAP dollars spent at market, dollar for dollar, up to $20 every market day, including at the ReFresh Farmers Market.

‘Tis the season!

Join us in the giving and sharing spirit by making a donation to Market Umbrella and the Crescent City Farmers Market today! We rely on support from generous donors like YOU to bring our markets and programs to the New Orleans area and beyond. Your generous contribution will ensure that Market Umbrella has the resources needed to respond to new challenges and opportunities in our local food system as we promote the benefits of fresh, local food and healthy eating throughout our community. Make a gift online now or at any market location.

Cultivating Communities

You’ll find plenty of local goods provided by the fresh faces from Waldo Burton Memorial School at the Tuesday market this week. These young gentlemen participate in Longue Vue House and Gardens’ Cultivating Communities, a three-part program which develops skills in gardening, entrepreneurship and philanthropy. Through this year-long curriculum, students learn how to grow vegetables and herbs, sell the produce and value-added products at farmers markets, learn about cooking and careers with a professional chef, and research local non-profits and organizations. This week they’ll have fresh herbs (rosemary, thyme, lemon balm, bay leaves, and many more!), fresh cut flowers, edible food plant starts, propagated ornamental plants, herbed butter and cream cheese, mustard greens, collard greens, and radishes.

Holiday Bake Sale & Gift Market

Throughout December, market vendors are invited to bring hand-crafted items that support the local economy as well as make great gifts. If you’re looking for more gifts from local purveyors, former vendor Jamboree Jams is organizing a bake sale with other past vendors, restaurant shoppers, and friends of the market.

On December 15 from 11am-3pm the Church at Hotel Peter and Paul will be hosting a Holiday Bake Sale and Gift Market featuring many of the city’s top bakers, printmakers, florists, vintage treasure hunters, ceramic artists, perfumers, jewelry makers and beyond.

Snack on holiday exclusives from bakers, find that perfect gift, or just experience the beauty and merriment of the Church with a hot bowl of pozole from Little Kitchen or a glass of mulled wine from Bacchanal Wine. Fill your cookie tins, fill your stockings, fill your heart. Something special to behold! And surely not to be missed.

Check out the line up here!

Vendor of the Week:

G&M Goat Farm

After 4 years with Crescent City Farmers Market, the Richardsons will be retiring. It is with a heavy heart that we must announce that this December will be the last month that G&M Goat Farm will be at the Tuesday, Uptown Market. Morris and his wife Gloria hail from Wiggins, Mississippi where they raise a happy family of lamb and goats. They started the goat business in 2000 and quickly became the first farm in Mississippi licensed to sell goat meat. G&M’s extensive offerings over the years have included goat cheese, butter, milk, goat and lamb milk, ice cream, and an offering of luxe goat milk bath products during the holidays. G&M Goat Farm will be at the Uptown Market December 9th, 16th, and 30th so stop by to say your farewell and stock up on the goat goods.

Tuesday’s Green Plate Special:

Gabrielle Restaurant

Our good friends Greg and Mary Sonnier of Gabrielle Restaurant are joining us under the GPS tent the first three weeks of December to wrap up a year of local chefs committed to cooking with local ingredients at the Uptown Market. Originally located on Esplanade Avenue, Gabrielle Restaurant reopened its doors on Orleans Avenue in September 2017 after a twelve year post-Hurricane Katrina hiatus. Award winning Chef Greg Sonnier serves his take on Cajun food with New Orleans flair and uses seasonal, locally sourced ingredients in every dish! If you enjoyed their crab bisque at our October fundraiser, you’ll love the dishes they’ll be serving up to keep you cozy in this chilly weather!

Recipe of the Week:

Roasted Beet and Goat Cheese Salad

Impress your dinner guests (or yourself) with a salad that is healthy, seasonal, and downright beautiful. If you think you dislike beets, we urge you to give ‘em another chance! I used to be a beet-hater myself (I always thought they tasted like dirt) until I tried them in this recipe. Roasting the beets gives them a rich, sweet flavor that is wonderfully complemented by tangy goat cheese. This salad is pretty easy to throw together and touts gorgeous autumnal colors. You can modify it by adding roasted sweet potatoes for heartiness and color, chickpeas for protein, microgreens for garnish, or whatever you feel!

- Allegro Hopkins, Market Coordinator

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