Small Bites

Today I got to go to the Nyack Farmers Market for the first time this season. Here’s the loot.

Dines Farm: 4 ribeyes (I’m only showing you 2) and 1 dozen eggs: $62.

Blooming Hill Farm: Kennebunk Potatoes: $5.

The Orchards of Concklin: 3 quarts strawberries, 2 bunches asparagus: $19

The Baker’s Wife: 1 loaf cranberry-walnut bread: $5.50.

Emmaline’s Hot Sauce: 3 bottles for $10.

Total: $101.

Here’s a list of Farmers Markets in the region.

Today
Nyack: 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Municipal parking lot, Cedar Street. 845-353-2221.

Saturday
Bronxville: 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Stone Place. 914-479-2246.
Cold Spring: 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Route 9D South Route 301. 845-265-3611.
Cross River: 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. John Jay High School, 60 North Salem Road. 914-923-4837.
Larchmont: 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Metro-North upper lot 3 off Chatsworth Avenue. 914-923-4837.
Hastings-on-Hudson: 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Maple Avenue behind Municipal Building. 914-923-4837.
Ossining: 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Main and Spring streets. 914-923-4837.
Pleasantville: 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Memorial Plaza. 914-923-4837.
Tarrytown: 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Patriots Park, Route 9. 914-923-4837.

Sunday
Haverstraw: 9 a.m.-2 p.m. West Broad and Maple avenues. 845-429-5731.
Piermont: 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. M&T Bank parking lot, Ash and Piermont avenues. 914-923-4837.
Pocantico Hills: 1-5 p.m. Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture, 630 Bedford Road. 914-366-6200.
Rye: 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Parking lot 2 on Theodore Fremd Avenue. 914-923-4837.

Wednesday
Pocantico Hills: 1-5 p.m. Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture, 630 Bedford Road. 914-366-6200.
White Plains: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. White Plains International Market, 255 Main St. 914-422-1411.

Here’s my plan: grill the ribeyes with brown sugar and cayenne (a la Peter Kelly on Iron Chef), grill the asparagus, roast the potatoes and eat the strawberries out of hand. The bread and eggs and hot sauce will be breakfast!

Other suggestions on cooking are welcome!

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