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Spring Pea Soup

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(4 to 6 servings)

Ingredients:
2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
1 cup sliced leeks (white and pale green parts only)
1 small sprig fresh marjoram
1 small sprig fresh thyme
4 cups chicken stock or low-sodium chicken broth
4 cups shelled English peas (from about 4 lbs peas in the pod)
¼ cup heavy (whipping) cream
½ tps. salt, or to taste
Freshly ground black pepper to taste
Crème fraiche (optional)

Directions:
Heat oil in a large pot over medium … Continue Reading ...

Winning Recipes from the Great Tomato Recipe Contest

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Winning Recipes from the Great Tomato Recipe Contest

1st – Tangerine Tomato Tart
2nd – Golden Gazpacho
3rd – Mediterranean Tomato Salad

Robert Perri’s Grilled Tangerine Tomato Tart with Lucky Penny Tangerine Tomatoes

Ingredients:

  • 10 tangerine tomatoes
  • 5 plum tomatoes
  • 3T butter, melted
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • 1t vanilla
  • Puff Pastry

Directions:

  • Blanch tomatoes, peel, seed and slice in half
  • Place butter in 9 inch sauce pan
  • Add sugar on top of butter
  • Place sliced, peeled, cored and seeded tomatoes rounded
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Chilled Sun-Gold Tomato Soup

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Ingredients for Soup:

  • 2 pints Sun Gold tomatoes, stems removed
  • 2 shallots, finely diced
  • sea salt
  • 1 cup water

Ingredients for Relish:

  • 3 tbsp. Spanish Chardonnay vinegar or champagne vinegar
  • 2 tsps. finely diced and seeded serrano chile (optional)
  • 2 tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil
  • 1 firm avocado, pitted, peeled, and finely diced
  • 1 tbsp. chopped basil or cilantro

Directions:

Rinse the tomatoes and put them into a heavy saucepan with a tight-fitting lid. Add half the shallots, ½ teaspoon salt, … Continue Reading ...

Summer Fruit Soup

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Cape Gazette food writer Denise Clemons demonstrated this delicious, yet simple, recipe at the Market on August 29.

Ingredients:

  • 2 C peeled, seeded, diced tomato
  • 1 peeled, seeded, diced melon (honeydew, cantaloupe, Crenshaw or small watermelon)
  • 1 peeled, seeded, diced cucumber
  • zest and juice from 1 citrus fruit (lemon, lime or small orange)
  • 2 T minced mint
  • 2/3 C sour cream

Directions:
Place tomato, melon, cucumber and citrus in a blender or food processor. Puree until smooth and pour into … Continue Reading ...

Roasted Beets with Fennel Oil

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Ingredients:

  • ¼ tsp. fennel seeds, crushed in a mortar or spice grinder
  • 2 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
  • 1½ lbs small beets, preferably a mix of red and golden
  • 1 tbsp. sherry vinegar
  • salt
  • 1 tbsp. thinly sliced fresh chives (optional)

Directions:

Heat fennel seeds and olive oil in a small skillet over low heat until oil is fragrant with fennel, about 5 minutes. Cool, then strain through a sieve.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. If greens are attached, … Continue Reading ...

Welcome To Your Market.

Where Fresh Food is Rooted in Community.
The Historic Lewes Farmers Market (HLFM) is a non-profit organization with a producer-only farmers market located in Lewes, Delaware. The HLFM provides a family-friendly, community gathering place where consumers may purchase the freshest local foods available. It also provides alternative educational and marketing opportunities for emerging farmers and others to help create local and sustainable food systems that are environmentally sound, economically viable and socially responsible and which improve the variety, freshness, nutritional value and distribution of fresh farmland foods to the community. Welcome To Your Market--Where Fresh Food is Rooted in Community.