Jubilee Seafood, our featured vendor this week, wants you to know all about their crabs, direct from the waterman to Old Beach. Here’s the demonstration timing:

9:30  – How and where we catch our blue crabs

10:00 – How blue crabs molt to become softshells and how to clean them

10:30 – Hot to cook pick hardshells

Jubilee also brings just-pulled East Coast shrimp and Littleneck clams, and this week they add seaside oysters direct from the briny Eastern Shore, with an intro special: pre-order 50 oysters before Thursday and pay $30, a $5 discount. Order from their website:  www.JubileeSeafoodCompany.com

And to round out your knowledge of local seafood, Lynnhaven River Now will join us to answer questions about how oysters filter the water and other clean water news. Tis the season for seafood, and we’re here to provide.

Edwards Bison Farm is going on a break for the rest of June, so now is the time to stock up on their bison and pork selections. If you haven’t tried bison yet, it is a mild-tasting, super-healthy addition to your menu options. Full Quiver and Pendulum Fine Meats offer delicious, small-farm options, too.

Surf and turf this week. Come on down.

OBFM NEW TIME:  8 a.m. to noon

RECIPE

SOUTHERN TWIST TARTAR SAUCE

 A great way to enjoy soft shell crabs is with my Southern Twist Tartar Sauce, a sweet/heat, crunchy/cream topping for crabs ala carte or sandwiched between slices of soft, white bread.

In a large mixing bowl, add 1⁄2 cup mayonnaise; 1-1⁄2 teaspoons bread and butter pickles, finely chopped; 1-1⁄2 teaspoons minced sweet onion, such as Vidalia; 1-1⁄2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice; and 1⁄8 teaspoon salt and mix well. Add garlic powder,freshly ground black pepper and red pepper flakes to taste and mix well. Cover and refrigerate at least 3 hours. Yields approximately 1/2 cup

VENDORS

The Bakery at Riverside Farm

Brentwood Farm

Build Your Food

The Creative Wedge

Croc’s 19^th Street Bistro

Cromwell’s Produce

Edmonds Farm

Fudge Grudge

Full Quiver Farm

Give. Treat. Love

Grace and Gratitude

The Green Cat Cafe

Hashi Food Truck

It Started With A Fig

Jubilee Seafood

Mattawoman Creek Farms

My Vegan Sweet Tooth

The Neighborhood Harvest

New Earth Farm

Pelon’s Baja Grill

Pendulum Fine Meats

Pennacook Peppers

Rockafeller’s Restaurant

Roost Flowers

Speedy’s Hot Sauce

Terrapin Restaurant

Three Ships Coffee – offsite

Vy’s Pies

Whole-ly Rollers

Zinnia Girls

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