Warm up at our WinterFresh Market
“A good doctor uses food first, then resorts to medicine.” This ancient Chinese proverb reveals that a steaming bowl of homemade soup offers some surprising health benefits! Although canned soups tend to be loaded with salt and chemicals, nutritious, low-salt soups you make from scratch will nourish you as they flush excess wastes from your body. Soup may help in weight loss, too, as protein in hearty soups helps satisfy your hunger, and the nutrient-rich liquid is digested rapidly and signals your brain that you’re full. Unlike what happens during stewing and frying – vegetables, mushrooms, meat and poultry cooked directly in soups conserve much more of the vitamins and minerals your immune system needs to function properly. There is no better healing food than soup. It doesn’t require as much energy to digest, freeing your body up to fight infection. Studies have found that chicken noodle soup seems to relieve the common cold by inhibiting inflammation and breaking up congestion.
Dr. Maoshing Ni, in Dr. Mao's Secrets of Longevity, explains, “You always want to eat for the season. Soups provide something the body craves in cold weather. When you cook foods into a soup, you are adding a lot of what Chinese nutrition would call “warming energy” into the food. Warming foods to feature in your soups include: leeks, onions, turnips, spinach, kale, broccoli, quinoa, yams, squash, garlic, scallions, and parsley.” Spices like turmeric aid circulation, a great boost against the cold weather.
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The best soups begin with a stock made from scratch. Fantastic stock can be made from a chicken carcass and water, period, and a rich beef stock with little more than bones and a few veggies.
Shop the market for ingredients to concoct a fabulous soup or stew: Stew beef and soup shanks from New Boston Beef; we love Tasha Tudor’s Beef Stew Recipe
Very small yellow storage onions with great flavor and keeping quality from Wayne’s Organic Garden
Garlic and kohlrabi, which can be peeled and cut like a potato for a sweet addition to soup, from KD Crop
To serve alongside, Morning Glory Homemade's mouthwatering butter rolls are made from scratch, twisted and baked into their distinctive pull-apart shape, just right for soaking up every last drop of soup in your bowl. This week, Wave Hill Breads will be bringing Just Crust Chips With A Kick! It's a new flavor of crust chip made with hot pepper infused olive oil perfect along with a steaming stew!
Signs of Spring
Imbolc: Hundreds of years ago, when our ancestors relied upon the sun as their only source of light, the end of winter was met with much celebration. Although it is still cold in February, often the sun shines brightly above us, and the skies are often crisp and clear. As a festival of light, Imbolc came to be called Candlemas. On the evening of Feb 2, when the sun has set once more, call it back by lighting the seven candles of this ritual. Swift Farm will be well stocked with beeswax candles for celebrations of the holiday. As usual, Friends receive a free tea light or mini-rose candle with any purchase. Fabyan Sugar Shack is up and running for the season. They tapped last weekend and have already collected 1700 gallons of maple sap with the first 25 gallons of syrup made. The Steam Away is in and working beautifully! This weeks Friends receive $1 off any maple cream. Birthday Baker: Scott, the Morning Glory Homemade baker, is celebrating his birthday and has a gift for YOU! Any customer who stops by his booth and wishes him a happy birthday this Sunday will get a free sample of a new cookie flavor, while supplies last. Scott will also be baking butter rolls (plain, garlic, dill), maple corn muffins, molasses crinkle cookies, and 7-grain Harvest bread.
Top Ten Reasons to come the WinterFresh Market this Sunday: Kale, chard, collards, and fresh spinach from Wayne’s Organic Garden Tie dyed undies from Rainbow kids to make your Valentine smile--bikinis for girls and women, briefs and boxer briefs for boys and men. Cranbanero, a hot habanero~cranberry jelly from KD Crop that warms up any cold day, 50 cents off for Friends JOBS… learn about available census jobs from Brenda Sullivan Homemade Apple Pies, new from Summer Hill, a delicious dessert for a cold Sunday evening Old-fashioned banana oatmeal bread from Morning Glory Homemade is baking for a hearty start to your day, with added chocolate chips, just because it's January in Connecticut and we all deserve a little treat. Friends are invited to try a sample. Ponchos made from recycled sweaters in super soft lambswool, cashmere and angora from Bethany Homecrafts. MaryLynne is also making Mug Huggers - cup cozies made from recycled sweaters that insulate your cup, protect your hands from your hot drink, and make a "green" statement all at the same time, $1 off for Friends Irish Tweed vegetarian soap made without milk or eggs from Susan Parks, a light, bright fragrance… New Boursin Garlic Herb spreadable fresh cheese from Ladies of Levita Road Lidded forms blending the unexpected and the elegant. Come play, feel, touch, and open at Silver Thumb Studios
Guest Vendors we're expecting…
Connecticut Candle: soy wax, cotton wicks, gorgeous scents! Rainbow Kids: fun tie dyed shirts, onesies and socks, sunshine rainbow spiral t shirts for children and adults 10% off for Friends Can’t Beet It: an all-natural savory condiment made from beetsand horseradish~ authentic Ukrainian/Polish flavor Earth & Sea Jewelry with new cobalt blue sea glass earrings… 10% discount for Friends; all sales donated to the Haiti Earthquake Relief Susan Parks Soaps brings back Lavender Rosewood Goat Milk Soap. Rosewood essential oil brings out the floral aspect of lavender in this proprietary blend. FRIENDS will again receive certificates good for a free bar of "Friends' Soap" redeemable anytime during the year 2010 Wook’s Beef Jerky makes a delicious snack for you and a bribe treat for which your dog with do ANYTHING. Silver Thumb Studios will be bringing jewelry… a unique blend of vintage glass, brass and semi-precious stones. Her latest work in polymers has been showcased in several magazines and books.
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