Photo courtesy of David Gartner www.versusgoliath.com
Location: San Jose, CA
Coastside farms offers delicious, freshly caught and smoked salmon, trout, and lox, as well as salmon jerky. All the albacore and salmon sold by Coastside are wild-caught in Alaska each week, then brought to San Jose to be smoked and sold. The fish is smoked simply with the use of brine and hardwoods, nothing else, which gives the fish a rich, smoky flavor.
People of MCM: Tina & Zoe
Meet Tina and Zoe (16 months), MCM regulars who love the music, food demos, and seeing their neighbors! Where do you live? Liberty & Guerrero How often do you come to the MCM? Every week, pretty much. What are you buying? Peaches from Twin Girls, a special order from Bok Ssam (in a bowl) so that Zoe can eat it. I love all the samples that the vendors give out, so that Zoe can try new things. Often, we get salmon … →
People of MCM: Shirley and David
This week there were so many great folks at MCM, we decided to feature two! Meet two of our market patrons, Shirley and David. Meet Shirley, who we wanted to feature because she is one of our most dedicated MCM customers! She’s always at the market, dressed to the nines and looking fabulous. AND every week, she leaves with her cart filled to the brim…. Where do you live? 23rd between Guerrero and San Jose How often do you come … →
Monday Feature: Coastside Farms
Meet Charlie of Coastside Farms!! Charlie is the owner and founder of Coast Side Farms, a specialty smoked fish business. Charlie’s family knows fish in and out, so six years ago after 25 years of doing litigation support and touring as a jazz musician he decided to start his own business. Charlie’s family in Alaska does all of the fishing by line and they travel up and down the west coast through British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon to catch wild … →
Mercado Kitchen: Breakfast Taco
Inspired by Chaac Mool‘s delicious handmade tortillas and a recent dinner with friends at Gracias Madre I decided to make a breakfast taco featuring Coastside Farm’s delicious pepper smoked salmon and rainbow chard from Blue House Farms. Yields: 1 Taco (disclaimer, these are delicious, one will not be enough!) Total Time: 10 Minutes Ingredients: 1/4 bunch Rainbow Chard from Blue House Farms 1 Handmade Organic Corn Tortilla from Chaac Mool; you can order as many as you want from them! 1 Egg Pepper Smoked … →
