The Vinings Jubilee Farmers Market is open 2-5 p.m. Thursdays through Oct. 26 at 4300 Paces Ferry Road. The market is in its third year and features more than 30 vendors with locally and organically grown produce, flowers, baked goods, prepared foods, seafood and condiments. More information: facebook.com/viningsfarmersmarket.
Tomatoes
Villa Rica farmers Alli and Marshall Small of the Small Garden started this year with a license to grow cannabis but have switched full-time to growing San Marzano and beefsteak tomatoes in their 4,000-square-foot greenhouse. They grow their tomatoes using the Dutch bucket hydroponic method and have found it so productive that many of their plants are over 20 feet tall. Sold at the Vining and Villa Rica farmers markets, Small Garden’s beefsteak tomatoes are the kind you dream of for tomato sandwiches and San Marzanos, while delicious eaten fresh, are perfect for turning into sauces and putting up for the winter.
$4 per pound of beefsteaks and $6 per pound of San Marzanos. Also available at Community Market of Villa Rica. facebook.com/p/The-Small-Garden-100083777599524
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Credit: Handout
Plant-based tacos
Chef Anne Onyeneho transitioned in 2022 from a career in health care to starting Plantbaed, a business that helps her customers enjoy an alkaline and whole foods plant-based lifestyle. She published a cookbook, offers prepared meals including roasted stuffed tomatoes with Brazil nut “cheese” and a pesto pizza salad, caters, and on Thursday afternoons, comes to the Vinings Jubilee Farmers Market with her walnut meat tacos and fresh pressed juices. The tacos see vegan tortillas filled with a mix of spiced ground walnuts, topped with fresh pico and drizzled with her signature hemp seed aioli, ready to enjoy on the spot. You can also purchase a tub of the filling; we used it to make nachos and tacos, and the tub provided enough well-spiced filling to serve four hungry people.
$6 per taco or $10 for two; $20 per 12-ounce tub of filling; $7 per 16-ounce bottle of juice. plantbaed.com
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Credit: Handout
Black garlic cooking paste
Black garlic is fresh garlic that has been aged so the cloves turn brownish-black and develop a rich, almost caramel-like flavor, with none of the pungency associated with fresh garlic. Husband and wife team Senya Laryguine and Victoria Rossi of Atlanta-based Soul to Belly perfected the process by aging California-grown garlic for up to 60 days, and then turning it into black garlic cooking paste, salt and powder. In 2021 they began selling to chefs and home cooks. We’ve been using their cooking paste and have found it just takes a tiny bit to add a deeply savory flavor to almost everything we’re cooking. We’ve used it to season burgers and in a marinade for chicken breasts, both destined for the grill. We stirred some into a pot of baked beans and tried the black garlic, lemon and parsley compound butter recipe we found on the website. Adding black garlic is a simple way to really amplify the flavor of everything we’re cooking.
$12 per 4-ounce jar. Also available at the Front Porch, Buford Highway Farmers Market, Chop Shop, Olea Oliva, the Butcher on Whitlock, Buckhead Butcher Shop, Midtown Butcher Shoppe, Kelly’s Market, Common Roots Farmers Market, Cleaver & Fork, the Keeping Room, A Peach of a Party and soultobelly.com.
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