TOMAT-OHS!
Elizabeth Eats will be selling vanilla protein squares, brownie bites, berry bites, vanilla cake bites, strawberry chocolate fudge, pecan cashew butter, chocolate hazelnut butter, savory nut and seed bread, vanilla almond milk, chocolate cashew milk, and turmeric almond milk. All products are gluten-free, refined sugar-free, dairy-free, and organic.
Flour Child Bakery comes with made-from-scratch sweet treats… cinnamon rolls, scones, cookies, brownie bites, and deep-dish pies made only with fresh, seasonal fruit. Whole pies can be pre-ordered to pick up at the market by calling in advance.
Mattawoman Creek Farms will have an abundance of organic cherry tomatoes and sweet corn, plus first-of-the-season organic slicing tomatoes, Asian long beans and purplette onions. They will also have organic cucumbers, lettuce, beets, zucchini, kale, savoy cabbage and turnips.
My Vegan Sweet Tooth will be at OBFM with their award-winning cinnamon rolls, from-scratch Chick-Un Burgers and raw cookie dough in a jar which is easy to snack on while you are walking around the market.
FOOD NEWS YOU CAN USE
Help The JCOC
This is the last Saturday the Old Beach Farmers Market will be collecting hard food goods for The Judeo-Christian Outreach Center (JCOC) in Virginia Beach from June 9th till July 7th.
Please drop all food donations at the information booth inside The Farm Market behind Crocs.
Items needed: canned fruits and vegetables, canned meats, canned meals, pasta and pasta sauce, soup, canned beans, macaroni and cheese, peanut butter and jelly, cereal, oatmeal and/or grits, bottled water, and juice boxes.
Old Beach Markets on the move
Remember: with construction beginning on the 19th Street Corridor improvements, which is anticipated to take two years and reduce the street to two lanes, the Old Beach Markets have shifted locations around the corner.
The Old Beach Green Market and the Old Beach Art Market are now at the new ViBe Park at Cypress Avenue and 18th Street. Old Beach Farmers Market vendors such as Cromwell’s Produce and The Chilly Mermaid are affected as well. Market hours remain the same, 9 a.m. until noon on Saturdays.
The new park is behind Wareing’s Gym and across from Bad Ass Coffee. The park will also host afternoon concerts on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month. Free parking is available at the Virginia Beach Convention Center and at The Runnymede Corporation on Cypress at 20th and 21st Streets.
Happy July 4th
OBFM wishes you all a happy and safe Independence Day.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Who has green hair and sings rock-and-roll ??? … Elvis Parsley !!!
RECIPE
A simple seasonal pleasure are rich, red, ripe tomatoes; Mattawoman Creek Farms brings first-of-the-season organic slicing tomatoes are at the market this weekend.
Slice these bad boys and serve on soft, white bread. Cut them up and add them to a green salad. Grill slices along side burgers and dogs; it’s all good. Also good: my recipe for Tomato-mole, a spreadable dip that’s one of my favorite ways to enjoy fresh tomatoes. Here’s how you make it –
Finely chop one large, ripe tomato and add to a medium bowl. Toss it with a tablespoon of lime juice, a teaspoon of hot sauce, 1/2 teaspoon sea salt, 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder. Then fold in two peeled and mashed avocados and a quarter cup of sour cream, stirring until well combined. Chill for about an hour before use, and enjoy as a dip with chips, a spread on sandwiches, or a topping on grilled seafood. Yields 4-6 servings.
Recipe from Chef Patrick Evans-Hylton
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VENDORS
The Bakery at Riverside Farm
Beach Biscotti
Buck & Bramble
The Butter Brothers
The Creative Wedge
Croc’s 19th Street Bistro
Cromwell’s Produce
Crunchy Carrot
Doughminion Donuts
Elizabeth Eats
Flour Child Bakery
From Rome With Love
Full Quiver Farm
Give. Treat. Love.
Grace & Gratitude
The Green Cat
Iron Goddess Tea Room
It Started with a Fig
Joysicles Gourmet Pops
JR’s Microgreens of V.B.
Jubilee Seafood
Mattawoman Creek Farms
Max the Knife Sharpening
My Vegan Sweet Tooth
The Neighborhood Harvest
New Earth Farm
Pelon’s Baja Grill
Pendulum Fine Meats
The Prissy Pickle Company
Speedy’s Sauce Co.
Terrapin
Three Ships Coffee
Udder Chaos Farm
Vy’s Pies
Whole Body Health
Whole-ly Rollers
Zinnia Girls