From Chef Lesley Stiles:
Chicken Breasts SautÉed with Fresh Shitake Mushrooms and Leeks
2 boneless, skinless organic chicken breasts
1 large leek, split, washed and sliced thin
˝ pound thinly sliced fresh shitake mushrooms
1 stalk green garlic, washed and thinly sliced
1 cup white wine
2 cups chicken stock
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon fresh chopped tarragon
Salt and pepper
Heat olive oil in a large sauté pan that has a lid. Brown on both sides and add the leeks, mushrooms and garlic. Let sauté for a couple minutes. Add the wine to deglaze. Add the chicken stock. Place lid on pan and reduce heat to medium. Let simmer for 15 minutes and add the tarragon. Season with salt and pepper.
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From the General Manager, Jessie Neu:
Dear Friends,
We will begin to shift our resource efforts
in publishing the e-newsletter after the Feb
16 issue. The new
publishing schedule for 2007 will be as follows:
There will be one issue in
March on the 16th and beginning in April we
will begin to publish twice monthly on April 13th and 27th. This
Bi-monthly schedule will run through October. Our plan is to bring
you well researched features, recipes, links, market information and
updates on current events with each issue.
Thank you for supporting small family farms at your local farmers'
market.
Please don't forget to...
Ask your friends to sign up for the e-newsletter at our website:
cccfm.org
See you at the market!
Jessie Neu can be reached at gm@cccfm.org
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2007 Opening Dates
for the Seasonal Markets:
Pleasant Hill - Saturday May
5
Orinda - Saturday May 5
Martinez - Sunday May 6
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Walnut Creek:
Music:
2/18 Idyll Frets
2/25 Fred McCarty
3/4 Liedstrand Family Band
3/11 Jose Reynolds
Manager: Keith Farley. E-mail: wmarket@cccfm.org
Market Hours:
Winter hours 9 am to 1 pm
thru April.
Cooking Demo: Chef Lesley Stiles 10am
- 12pm.
Programs:
The Frequent Shopper Card (from Nov. thru April);
Year-Round Parking Validation;
The Veggie Valet booth.
From Keith Farley, Manager:
 Howdy
Walnut Creekians, hmm, going to have to work on that
one. In any case, I hope you have had a splendid week.
Did you get a chance to say welcome to Swank
Farms and
their hot house tomatoes and yummy salsa last Sunday?
Stop and try some. You'll be glad you did. I am expecting
asparagus any moment and with the rain the past week
or so it should be leaping out of the ground. Look for
Lesley to be demonstrating some of her splendiferous
recipes soon. (Maybe something with eggs, hint hint).
It's time to start looking towards our move this winter (coming). While we are
still in talks with the city, it looks like the North Locust location is a go.
I am getting more and more inquires every week as to the location and the circumstances.
I wanted to keep it quiet until we got a little closer and details began to smooth
out to avoid confusion. As it stands right now, we should pack up our tents
and move to the Locust location at the end of this year or as late as the middle
of January 2008. It will be a change, no doubt, but one for the better. More
parking, easier access for all, room to grow, and being in the business traffic
area. It will take a concerted effort on all of our parts, city government, CCCFM,
and the consumer to make this work. So let's start getting the word out now and
maybe we can reach everyone so that when the time comes to move someone doesn't
drive up to the library lot and say "where the heck is the market." So
start encouraging your friends to attend the market and forward this to everyone
you know like a chain letter and add something like, if you don't forward this
to 10 people in the next 10 minutes stink weed will invade your garden... that
oughta do it. Seriously, get the word out and drag some of you friends and relations
to the market and let's party.
Keep in mind, we still validate for all Walnut Creek Garages and have the Veggie
Valet Service to mind your produce while you fetch you car.
See you Sunday in the sunshine.
More
info.
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Martinez, Orinda
& Pleasant Hill:
Markets closed for the season |
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FROM
OUR MARKETS by
Chef Leslie Stiles |
A little known fact regarding great wines is that
more than a few outstanding winemakers are plying their trade in the
East Bay. Live / work warehouse space in Emeryville takes a lot less
of a chunk out of a struggling winemakers budget than would Napa real
estate. Such news only serves to reinforce our capacity to buy local.
Most of these winemakers are buying grapes from Napa and Sonoma with
a few procuring in Lodi and Brentwood. Recently I had the chance to
talk with four winemakers located in Oakland,
Berkeley and Emeryville. Energy wise these folks are all a lot more
laid back than up in the wine country. Brendan Elaison, Wine Program
Director at Va De Vi and winemaker and owner of Periscope Cellars
has an adamant no fee policy for tasting and is only getting his grapes
from people that actually do all the growing of them with no vineyard
manager at all. He has some great bizarre old varietals and is producing
amazingly outstanding wines. Brendan will do no exporting and is hoping
to keep all of his wines local for local buyer. Edmund St. John also
had some very tasty nectar and Tayerle Cellars
had some of the most quaffable wines of the. They were all outstanding
and could hold their own against any Napa vintages. For more info
check out eastbayvintners.com.
 I
don't know if it is the weather or what but
all the Swiss chard that I have tasted lately has been amazingly
sweet and tender. It is in season now being a cool weather crop and
abundant in all of its guises at the farmers market. Citrus is still
holding strong and Shirley
Lea from Cabrillo Farms has some very tasty small artichokes
that when stripped down, lubed up and grilled
with sea salt are melt on your tongue awesome.
No rain in the forecast so you have no excuse
not to get out and enjoy this spring like air. I am thinking that
there may be some water coming down those falls on Mt. Diablo. Now
that is am amazing hike and this is the perfect time to check it
out. Use it or lose it.
Be sure to get out to your farmers market this weekend. I will be doing
a cooking demo on Sunday at the Walnut Creek farmers' market from 10
am to noon! See you there!
Lesley Stiles can be reached at chef@cccfm.org or
on the market hotline 925 431-8361 |
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DID YOU KNOW? by
Manager Keith Farley |
You are an advocate? By shopping at the farmers'
market regularly you send a message to the
federal, state, and local governments that you want and need your
farmers' market. Do you
cook for guests and brag about the produce
you bought at the market? That makes you an advocate! We need
advocates to shout from the rooftops the praises of fresh fruit
and vegetables. Shout how the markets impact the community you live
in and how what we do has a positive impact on the quality of life
of your family.
Here is a list of folks you can start with:
Gary Porkorny, City Manager, Walnut Creek pokorny@ci.walnut-creek.ca.us
June Catalano, City Manager, Pleasant Hill jcatalano@ci.pleasant-hill.ca.us
Janet Keeter, City Manager, Orinda jkeeter@ci.orinda.ca.us
Don Blubaugh, City Manger, Martinez dblubaugh@cityofmartinez.org
Drop these nice people a line and bring farmers' markets
to the front of their minds. |
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