Monday, September 14, 2009
People Yes, We Can...Peaches
Posted by Carrington Fox on Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:34 AM
Top tip for party planners: Invite Marne Duke to your potluck. The local food booster and former head of marketing for the Nashville Farmers' Market just might present you with a gorgeous mountain of open-face sandwiches like the platter pictured here.
For this seasonal appetizer, Marne piled soft rounds of Silke's bread from Clarksville (purchased at the Turnip Truck) with fresh homemade ricotta from a friend in East Nashville and canned peaches from the Farmers' Market.
If you invite Marne to your fête, she just might reciprocate with an invitation to a canning party, like the one where she--along with Friends of the Nashville Farmers' Market founder Jennifer Hagan-Dier, Slow Food Nashville director Robin Riddell and Caroline Trost--put up more 60 pounds of local produce.
"The peaches look like beautiful plump babies' bottoms when they are done," Marne said. "And it only took a few hours after work one day to make sure I can make yummy peach cobbler in January. I know that makes me officially old in some way. Next thing I'll be bragging on my knitting party that was off the hook!"
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Those are awesome peaches. Great recipe, too. It really is easy to preserve fruits and veggies for the off-season. I'm dehydrating 80 pounds of apples and making pie filling for the winter.
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I've been pickling and making jam since I was about 25, but only telling people about it since I turned 45. Canning needs a re-brand, like "Canning is the new air-guitar" or "Canning: More Addictive than Smack." Or some slouchy models with mason jars.
Can you buy the fresh ricotta somewhere? I have not had good luck with fresh local cheeses in the area. I would love to buy some! These look delicious!
I know that the fresh made ricotta was on sale at the Nashville Farmers Market as recently as a few weeks ago. Beth at http://betheats.blogspot.com/ probably knows the skinny better than I do.
