Basket Range Baker will have these delicious pane tomorrow, sourdough chocolate croissants. As well as all their other sourdough sweet treats, and amazing bread. Yum.

And Francesco, Virgara’s Garden has been picking sweetcorn today, ready for tomorrow’s market.

Missing tomorrow, Hey Bagels, Anna’s Homestyle Baking, Calico Cakes and H Kouzina Mas.

With us will be Gina’s Kitchen & Field Berries, Jelly.PortElliot, including Fleurieu Milk Company products, Health by Flora, Chocolique, Healing Harvest Farm, Studio Goolwa, VICTORFISH, Garden candy, Con and Harry Fresh Fruit, Unique Cheeses and George’s Folly Wines.

Our musician will be the always popular Garry Searle.

Still on the sick list, had hoped to be there.

8.00am to 12.30pm, should be a great morning.

Sweet, crunchy red onions, being harvested and bunched today by Matt and Ian, ready for sale on Saturday at Gina’s Kitchen & Field Berries.

Delicious when they are so fresh, a simple salad of sliced tomato, from Francesco at Virgara’s Garden, layered with sliced red onion. Add some extra oomph with a crumbling of Woodside Persian feta buffalo cheese from Barb and Bianca, Unique Cheeses, they are back with us this Saturday.

John makes a great salad with Cos lettuce, or baby spinach, but you could experiment with any of the lettuces at Virgara’s Garden and Con and Harry Fresh Fruit. Thinly sliced red onion, these will be perfect, avocado, Con and Harry’s of course, and Mango. It doesn’t need a dressing, the mango tossed through well is enough. Be generous with the avocado and mango. Add some left over BBQ chicken, the breast is really good sliced thinly, and you have a meal, not just a side salad.

Easy and quick in this hot weather, and sooo tasty.

Bona from H Kouzina Mas sent me these mouthwatering photos of her freshly baked Ricotta gnocchi at the very moment I was looking for inspiration for today’s post. Spooky! 

She and Angie will also have Moussaka, traditional or vegetarian and Pastitsio bake. And packs of Zucchini fritters and meatballs, and their various dips, all gluten free, such a great bonus.

And of course they will have their usual range of delectable Greek cakes and other sweets. That corner of the market is always so happy, with Bona and Angie on one side and Con and Harry Fresh Fruit opposite, especially when Dino, working for Con and Harry gets going.

Second Saturday of the month, so Shawn, Kangaroo Island Living Honey will be with us, and Minka, Kimchi Club, as mentioned earlier in the week. And back after missing a few weeks, Anna’s Homestyle Baking.

Having the first week off of a two week break, Hey Bagels, so no Bagels, a blow for many! Unique Cheeses are also still away, they’ll be back with us next week.

With us will be Health by Flora, Virgara’s Garden, Gina’s Kitchen & Field Berries, Chocolique, Jelly.PortElliot, including Fleurieu Milk Company products, Calico Cakes, VICTORFISH, Studio Goolwa, Healing Harvest Farm, Garden candy and Basket Range Baker.

Our musician will be Maggie O’Moore, lovely to have her back again.

I am missing being at the market, hopefully I’ll be back soon.

8.00am till 12.30pm, it will be a good market.

Matt tells me that delicious green beans will be the go at Gina’s Kitchen & Field Berries tomorrow, they are picking them now. Strawberries are going to be limited until mid March. Whole green beans blanched in boiling water, rinsed, then tossed in butter with toasted flaked almonds, yum.

And the cool weather and end of their holidays sees Chocolique back with us. February can be difficult for Kate, too hot often, this slice of winter will welcome her back. As will so many members and customes desperate for their chocolate fix.

Other stallholders tomorrow will be Health by Flora, Calico Cakes, Virgara’s Garden, H Kouzina Mas, Jelly.PortElliot including Fleurieu Milk Company products, Healing Harvest Farm, Hey Bagels, VICTORFISH, Studio Goolwa, Con and Harry Fresh Fruit, Basket Range Baker and Garden candy.

Missing tomorrow Anna’s Homestyle Baking.

Our musician will be Alex de Rosa.

8.00am till 12.30pm.

John tells me he’s signed up four new members this morning already. Membership renewals are ticking over, good vibe at a busy market this morning. Wish I was there!

Barb and Bianca are doing well as usual at Unique Cheeses. I’ll be trying this delicious looking Langres Champagne Washed rind cows milk soft cheese that was sent home for me last week.

Barb is an excellent saleswoman, but having all the cheeses available to taste certainly contributes to the “Unique” in their name.

Funny, humid morning, at least it’s not blazing heat, or blowing hot north winds.

Cooler tomorrow for our market, maybe even a drop of rain! I think it will be a wonderful morning for the last market for January 2023, and I can’t believe I just wrote that.

De at Calico Cakes has had these yummy Summer Fruit and Nut Cakes as Cake of the Month, I wonder what February will be? Pretty hard to top these rather stunning creations.

The summer veg are front and centre at Virgara’s Garden. Francesco has so many beautiful salad veg, and he sells out pretty quickly.

Con and Harry Fresh Fruit have a great veggie range too, and of course at the moment their stone fruit is literally mouthwatering

Kate and Olivia at Health by Flora call these ‘Naughty & Nice’ Cookies. I think they are just incredibly delicious! I’m still on the sick list, home from hospital, but not up to coming to the market, these are definitely on my shopping list for John.

Other stallholders tomorrow are Gina’s Kitchen & Field Berries, Jelly.PortElliot, including Fleurieu Milk Company products, Basket Range Baker, VICTORFISH, H Kouzina Mas, Garden candy, Hey Bagels and Unique Cheeses.

Anna’s Homestyle Baking won’t be back until the second Saturday in February, the 12th.

And in a late update, Sarah from Healing Harvest Farm won’t be at tomorrow’s market.

Our musician tomorrow will be Dean Bird.

8.00am till 12.30pm, one month gone already! Crazy!!!!

I’m missing my delicious Breakfast Pots from Health by Flora this morning. Weetbix in Flinders MC isn’t quite the same!

Brent and Courtney at Jelly; Port Elliot have jars of Organic Bay leaves, soups, curries, casseroles, so many dishes will get a lift from these flavoursome leaves.

Don’t forget to try and buy the wines at George’s Folly Wines, between VICTORFISH and Hey Bagels. They’ll be coming on the third Saturday of every month.

All being well I’ll see you next week.

Enjoy this week’s bumper market, including the music of Jessi Jasmine & Luke Music.

Looks like being a perfect day at tomorrow’s market, may be a bit windy.

We’ll be introducing our new stallholder, George’s Folly Wines tomorrow. The bulk of their grapes come from their Currency Creek Property, the Grenache has juice from Blewett Springs.

Unfortunately I’ll be missing their debut, a messy acute appendix has me laid up in Flinders Medical Centre. John will be there at the Membership/Information Stall of course.

Our other Stallholders will be Gina’s Kitchen & Field Berries, Health by Flora, Hey Bagels, Anna’s Homestyle Baking, Virgara’s Garden, Calico Cakes, Jelly. PortElliot, including Fleurieu Milk Company products, VICTORFISH, Garden candy, Basket Range Baker, Con and Harry Fresh Fruit, Healing Harvest Farm, Unique Cheeses.

Our musicians will be Jessi Jasmine & Luke Music, always a great show.

8.00am till 12.30pm, should be a great morning, wish I could be there!

Very pleasant at the moment.

Shawn at Kangaroo Island Living Honey has some very interesting products to tempt us, as well as his beautiful raw organic honey from those Ligurian Bees on KI. Squeeze bottles available today. Sticky Figs, if they are anything like his Sticky Fig Salad Dressing they will be sooo good. And now he has Brazilian Coffee Honey Roasted, beans or processed.

Alex will be here soon to sing us through the morning, Morning Buns are back at the Basket Range Baker, Nick is with us there this morning.

I can see the strawberries flying off the table at Gina’s Kitchen & Field Berries, and Health by Flora have the most amazing looking Passionfruit and Lemon Cheesecake.

We’ll see you soon.

Glorious morning!

So much great produce, hot coffee at Jelly.PortElliot, sourdough bread and bagels at Hey Bagels.

Anna’s Homestyle Baking is back, some amazing cakes there, the same at Calico Cakes.

And Con and Harry Fresh Fruit is just overflowing with luscious stone fruit, fresh veggies, orange juice etc.

8.00am till 12.30pm, see you soon.