Admit it. This time of year rolls around and you actually enjoy entering your local Starbucks and being enveloped by the smell of pumpkin chai lattes. You might not order one, but the aroma beckons like your favorite fleece.
You can actually have all those good fall smells and feels at home with Copper Faucet Soap Co.’s newest batch of scented candles: cinnamon chai, pumpkin soufflé and even “fallen leaves.”
They are also bringing their fall line of cold-processed soap bars (charcoal, English Garden and Feelin’ Groovy) and they’ve just introduced two new bars: green tea and hygge.
Hygge, of course, is the Danish mantra of living your life on the “cozy” side.
You know what the food equivalent of hygge is? Lasagna! Truly, there are few dishes that make you embrace the inevitable arrival of colder weather than lasagna. Especially butternut squash lasagna, just the dish to get the whole family to happily gather around.
Also, since leeks are at their peak, make some belly-warming leek soup. Do yourself a favor and pick up some extra leeks this week to use instead of regular onions to start your soups or risottos. Their elegant and delicate flavor really shines through. They taste so sweet when cooked. Consider this leek tarte tatin as main course. Serve with frisée salad or some of Obercreek Farm’s spicy salad greens as a counterpoint.
Speaking of delicate flavors, Delicata Squash is in season and couldn’t be easier to prepare. Try this Love & Lemons recipe for baked delicata squash with apples and sage.
Don’t forget to stop by the 7 Kitchen Road tent to pick up a pack of “seednola.” Ali’s newest creation: a unique, healthy, protein-packed granola made from all of the "cuttings" from her baked cracker sheets. The perfect thing to scatter over ice cream or yogurt. Or to snack on smugly out of hand. Perhaps some of you are already using her delicious nut-filled crackers as “clean” croutons over salads. If not, you should try it!
Red Barn Bakery is now coming weekly so you don’t have to go through withdrawals.
Also, in the baked goods department, New Castle Scone returns this week (last Saturday was a bonus visit!) and so does Dora, from The Countryside Bakery with her traditional Hungarian Beigli cakes. Such a unique flavor profile.
Grumpy Dumpling will be dishing out their farm-to-wonton wrapper dumplings again this week. So come hungry! Or take them home to eat later in the week adorned with your favorite MOMO Dressing.
Our Halloween Pet Parade is slated for October 26th. Start thinking of a creative costume for your canine!
See you at the market!
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