Ready for the big Falmouth Road Race weekend? Fromage à Trois, which sells pasta, was ready even last week. Two chalkboards popped up at its table. “Road Race, Stock Up For Your Guests,” said one. “Get your carbs early!” advised the other, next to a hand-drawn running shoe. Pain D’Avignon will feature buns and hot dog rolls for your cook-outs […]
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This week is Farmer’s Market Week in America. Here in Massachusetts, the week got off to a grand start with the opening of the Boston Public Market, a year-round, covered, regionally-sourced market planted smack in Boston’s downtown. “I encourage everyone to support Massachusetts’ hard-working farmers by visiting their local farmers market this week,” said Governor Charlie Baker. (That would be […]
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New potatoes are here! Freshfield Farm is bringing the season’s first potatoes from East Falmouth : Irish cobblers (for mashing) Superiors, Yukon and new red potatoes, perfect for salad. Freshfield, which sells potatoes and onions from handsome wooden boxes, often brings an extra surprise: black radishes, last week, and decorative sheaves of winter rye. This Thursday, Nobska Farms make another […]
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Fromage à Trois is back! Its return last week made a lot of people happy. Fromage à Trois burratas, mozzarella and Armenian string cheese have been missed, not to mention its fresh pastas. Fettuccine, pea-tendril fettuccine, angel hair and pappardelle all sold out fast. The timing couldn’t be better. Tomatoes and cherry tomatoes are now in good supply. Basil and […]
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It’s berry time. week we had raspberries, black raspberries, red currants, champagne currants, even a first glimpse of blueberries. They make a great fruit salad; dust mixed berries with powdered sugar and dish up with a spoonful of whipped cream, ice cream, Greek yogurt—or even a scoop of Long Lane super-fresh goat’s cheese (mild as milk, cool on the tongue, […]
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This week you’ll find little boxes of sparkling red currants and champagne currants. Local raspberries—we can hardly wait—are just around the corner. Can blueberries be far behind? Also in the fruit department: you’ll see a greater variety of early tomatoes this week. Come and get ’em! Now is also the time to pick up bunches of lavender. Your friendly lavender […]
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School’s out. The Fourth of July is this weekend. There’ll be ice cream at the Falmouth Museums on the Green, the children’s annual Bike Parade on Main Street, seaside fireworks in the evening—and family gatherings and cookouts all over town. At the market this Thursday, just in time for your celebrations, you’ll see local hoop-house tomatoes, so welcome until field […]
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Strawberries. We adore the idea of strawberries so much many of us eat them all year round. But you’ve never tasted a strawberry—really tasted a strawberry and inhaled all its lovely fragrance—until you’ve eaten a ripe one in its proper season. That means a local strawberry, because fully-ripened strawberries, juicy and red all the way through, are too fragile to […]
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