Photo Gallery Update: Benicia Farmers Market

Update: July 26, 2012

The peppers have arrived! They come in all strenths from muy caliente to barely registers on the heat scale.  

Marty Duvall suggeted I add strawberries to the peach salsa I'm planning to make this weekend.  I'm not sure about that so I'll make half a batch with and half a batch without.  

Next week I'll be shopping for plums and peaches for fruit pies.

Update: July 19, 2012

This week there was a mission to be completed at the Farmers Market.  

There are tomatoes at the Farmers Market, lots of tomatoes.  There are big tomatoes and little tomatoes, red ones, green ones and yellow ones.  Some tomatoes are multicolored.

There are onions and garlic and peaches too.   Most of the ingredients for fresh salsa are available at the Farmers Market.  The only thing missing is jalapeno peppers. Many vendors said they would be available next week.

If you have a favorite salsa recipe send it to Patch and we might try to make it.  If you have a great recipe for peach salsa, it will definitely get made.

April 27, 2012
The cherries aren’t ripe yet.

The strawberries and oranges and Fuji apples are sweet and juicy and the cut flowers are beautiful and the artichokes are huge.  There are organic tomatoes on hand along with bok choy, broccoli and real baby carrots. 

But the cherries aren't ripe yet.

In what has become a rite of spring in downtown, the is back for its 20th year.

Benicia Patch was on hand for the fun and sun and smiles.

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