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Mercado Kitchen: Caramelized Carrot Soup with Carrot Top Pesto

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Delicious carrots are in season at the market! Celebrate the tasty root vegetable by making this sweet, creamy carrot soup. And don’t throw away the green, leafy carrot tops – you can use those to make fresh pesto that tastes great drizzled over the carrot soup. Pick up a bunch of carrots from Blue House Farm this week at the market and try it out!

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Carrot flavor really shines in this soup made with both carrots and carrot juice. The carrots are cooked in a pressure cooker, resulting in richly browned and caramelized carrots thanks to the addition of baking soda that triggers browning reactions. Plus carrots are at their sweetest in the winter when the cold encourages conversion of starches to sugars, making it an ideal time to enjoy this soup.

Full recipes are after the jump!

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Mercado Kitchen: Garlic-Rosemary Mushrooms over Ravioli

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Our clocks have moved forward an hour, but our palates may still crave a little taste of fall. This week’s savory recipe highlights a few amazing items from our market, including microgreens from our newest vendor Lifefood Gardens!

Garlic-Rosemary Mushrooms with Home Maid Ravioli

Ingredients:
3 Large cloves of garlic
Olive oil from Terra Savia
Mushroom assortment from Far West Fungi: Maitake, Shiitake, King Oyster
Salt and Pepper
Package of mushroom and roasted garlic ravioli from Home Maid Ravioli
Spicy variety of microgreens from Lifefood Gardens
Fresh rosemary from a neighbors bush (or Rainbow Grocery)

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Directions:

In boiling water, add raviolis (previously frozen). Boil on medium for roughly 8-10 minutes.

In a separate pan, heat olive oil. Add rosemary and chopped mushrooms. Once this is cooked down a bit on simmer, add garlic. Stir occasionally. It is important to use a larger pan so the mushrooms do not crowd and the heat is on simmer. This concoction should simmer until the raviolis are compete and the meal is ready to be served.

On a plate, place raviolis and drizzle olive oil, salt and pepper. Place sauteed mushrooms on top of the raviolis and sprinkle a small handful of spicy microgreens to complete the meal! Enjoy with fresh bread from Marla Bakery or Arizmendi Bakery, available each week at the market!

Support MCM While Shopping at Cole Hardware

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Shop for a great cause next time you need to visit the hardware store! Thanks to a community partnership with Cole Hardware, you can help fundraise for MCM while shopping for things you already need!

How does it work, you ask?

When you’re checking out, just mention Mission Community Market (or our Group Number which is 21558), and 10% of your total bill will get kicked back to MCM. Pretty easy, right? You can even save and print the card below and stash it in your wallet to remind you to post your purchases to our account.

Community Partner Wallet Card- 1 We know where we’ll be going this year to get all our canning supplies, seeds, gardening supplies, kitchen gadgets, and so much more! If you’ve never taken a stroll through a Cole Hardware, check out one of their four locations and prepare to be amazed! They offer so much more than your average hardware store. Support your local non-profit community market while shopping locally!

Big thanks to Cole Hardware for their support and generosity.

Mercado Kitchen: Navel Orange Pound Cake

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The love that we express on Valentines Day does not have to be just once a year… Extend the love with this week’s Navel Orange Pound Cake recipe! Treat your partner every day of the week and show them (and their stomach) the love they deserve. And speaking of love… We are happy to welcome back Twin Girls Farm to the market this season! Come by their stall to pick up some delicious navel oranges, lemons, blood oranges, pomelos, and mandarins. Get ready for their wide selection of apricots, cherries, grapes, guavas, jujubes, nectarines, peaches, persimmons, plums, pluots, pomegranates, and more as the year goes on. Their amazing variety will change as the season moves into spring and summer. This week’s recipe features their sweet and juicy naval oranges, perfectly ripe and dangerously addicting. Try out our Navel Orange Pound Cake recipe, adapted from Ina Garten’s Pound Cake recipe, after the jump! Read more

Fall in Love with MCM!

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This Thursday is February 13th, and we have everything you need to get ready to help you show your loved ones you care this Friday!

Rainy Showers Bring You Flowers!

Need a bouquet for that special someone in your life? We’ve got you covered this Thursday at MCM.We’ll have flowers available from Floreria la Poblanita and Home Sweet Flowers. That’s right–we’ll have not one but two amazing flower vendors ready to help you find just the right bouquet for the sweetie in your life. Floreria la Poblanita has been with the market since 2010! Locally based out of their shop near 24th and Mission, they’ll help you find some romantic roses or other gorgeous stems for your honey!

Do you know the meaning of a Tulip? It’s a declaration of love, of course! Home Sweet Flowers will bring mixed bouquets and flower bundles with romantic meanings. All their flowers are California grown and wrapped in burlap.

Come on down and pick out something nice for your sweetie pie!

Shop Locally for your Love

Why stop at flowers?! We’ve got some Valentine’s Day specials this Thursday at MCM that you won’t want to miss! Check them out:
  • Gift set containing three mini (1.5 oz) jars of jam in Strawberry, Quince, and Raspberry ($10)
  • Full size (8 oz) Strawberry Jam for just $5.00

Marla Bakery

  • Confection box ($15) containing: dark chocolate brownie bites, caramel, hazelnut & chocolate baci, and mini Mexican wedding cookies
  • A Chocolate Candied Orange Torte for Two may be special-ordered ($20)

En Vie Naturals

  • Body butters, soaps, and other all-natural body care products
…and even if you don’t have a special someone in mind just yet, you can always find a great lookin’ date at the Palmero Date Shop!

Cute as a Button!

We recently hosted a student intern for eight weeks and one of her many great artistic contributions to MCM was creating some unique new buttons and magnets for us! They are perfect for Valentine’s Day – tell someone how you feel with the message “Olive You!”

Check out her masterpieces at the MCM booths, and take one home for just $1 (suggested donation).

Thank you very much to Hannah for all of her hard work!

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