Community Market: November 18, 2009, 6-10 PM
After Sunday’s Farm to Table event at Enzian theater, all of us at the Audubon Park Community Market are feeling energized about beautiful, local food. And with Thanksgiving right around the corner, we’d like to encourage you to include fresh, locally grown or locally handmade items to your holiday menu. For a hassle-free way to serve up Thanksgiving dinner or side dishes, check out Big Wheel Provisions’ options available for order. You can check the list out here, and stop by the market to make your order. If you just need to arrive at your holiday dinner with an appetizer, side dish, or dessert, the market has that too. Bring along a loaf of freshly baked bread from Olde Hearth, or some fresh salsa from Loco Miguel’s, or a bag of handmade chocolates from Chateau Confections.
But Thanksgiving isn’t the only thing on our minds! We are also very excited about all the fun at this week’s market, including a charity vegan bake sale from the friendly folks at VegCF:
Oh, and come hungry, because ROOTS will be serving up the lovely menu they had to cancel last week:
Artichoke, Eggplant, & Tomato pasta
a marinara sauce of california artichokes, homegrown eggplant, and carolina tomatoes served over a bed of quinoa spaghetti pasta
Stuffed Peppers
Florida red peppers stuffed with wild rice, gainsville tempeh, fresh herbs, and broccoli greens with a balsamic dressing and a side of garlic toasted olde hearth bread with a herb and olive oil dip
And that’s not all! We are also pleased to have the Barnstorm Quartet. For a preview, visit them online and check out their music. It looks like it’ll be a lively night at the market!
Add comment November 18, 2009
Special Event, November 15, 2009
Join us this weekend at the Enzian for the Farm to Table event, hosted by Ourlando’s Local Food Alliance. this event aimed at jump-starting a truly local food system in Central Florida. This Sunday, November 15, from 12:30-2:30 you will have a chance to meet our local farmers and local food vendors, including some of the Audubon Park Community Market’s wonderful vendors. The event begins with passed hors d’oeuvre made with locally grown produce by Chef Josh Oakley, the executive chef of Enzian, followed with the showing of Food Fight. After the documentary, there will be plenty of time to meet and mingle with our local farmers and vendors. We will also be featuring the organically sourced, fresh brewed beer of Orlando Brewery, fair trade coffee from Austin’s and assorted blends of tea from Dandelion Communitea. All of this is covered in the cost of each ticket, which can be purchased on the Enzian website or at the door. For more information, click here.
Add comment November 13, 2009
Community Market, November 11, 2009
It looks like all the rain Ida sent down will pass and we will have a rain-free market this week. This is good news, because it will give you the chance to plan out the great local food and gifts you can include in your updoming holiday meals and parties. The Audubon Park Community Market is a great place to pick up appetizeres, side dishes, desserts, and other great ingredients to include in your locally-minded or just plain delicious holiday meals. Ask the folks at Big Wheel Provisions about their Thanksgiving packages, which will be available by pre-order for pickup right before the holiday. Spending Thanskgiving at a friend or family member’s home? Don’t arrive empty-handed! You can bring a loaf of locally made, fresh bread from Olde Hearth, handmade chocolates from Chateau Confections, or bring a Florida-fresh appetizer like Wild Ocean Seafood’s smoked mullet paired with Big Wheel crostini. And if you’d like to bring a thoughtful gift for your host or the chef, browse our handmade vendors for unique items ranging from jewelry and accessories to soaps and lotions.
And as always, come hungry, because ROOTS is sereving up an Italian-themed menu:
Artichoke, Eggplant, & Tomato pasta
a marinara sauce of california artichokes, homegrown eggplant, and carolina tomatoes served over a bed of quinoa spaghetti pasta
Stuffed Peppers
Florida red peppers stuffed with wild rice, gainsville tempeh, fresh herbs, and broccoli greens with a balsamic dressing and a side of garlic toasted olde hearth bread with a herb and olive oil dip
See you there!
Add comment November 10, 2009
Community Market, November 4, 2009
Have you heard about Ourlando’s Farm to Table Event? On November 15, Enzian Theater is graciously hosting this event aimed at jump-starting a truly local food system in Central Florida. Join the Ourlando Local Food Alliance on Sunday, November 15, from 12:30-2:30 to meet our local farmers and local food vendors, including some of the Audubon Park Community Market’s wonderful vendors. The event begins with passed hors d’oeuvre made with locally grown produce by Chef Josh Oakley, the executive chef of Enzian, followed with the showing of Food Fight. After the documentary, there will be plenty of time to meet and mingle with our local farmers and vendors. We will also be featuring the organically, fresh brewed beer of Orlando Brewery, fair trade coffee from Austin’s and assorted blends of tea from Dandelion Communitea. All of this is covered in the cost of each ticket, which can be purchased on the Enzian website.
Not sure you can swing the ticket price? Come to the Audubon Park Community Market this week and next for TWO chances to win gift baskets with tickets for you and a friend to attend the event! Stop by the Ourlando tent at the market for more details.
And while you’re there, you might be tempted to buy your dinner from ROOTS. This week they’re serving up:
Sweet and Sour Tempeh
Gainesville Tempeh smothered in a homemade sweet and sour sauce, and served with a generous portion of brown fried rice with homegrown eggplant, georgia zucchini, california carrots, and california snow peas
Red Thai Curry
Florida bell peppers, califorina carrots, homegrown eggplant, and homegrown basil simmed in coconut milk served with a side of brown basmati rice
You can enjoy live music from Tony Macaluso too!
See you at the community market!
Add comment November 4, 2009
Halloween at the Community Market (Wednesday, October 28th)
With Halloween right around the corner, the Audubon Park Community Market would like to join in on the fun! Costumes are encouraged, and there will be trick-or-treating for the kids at all the vendor sites! Bring your family along to the market for live music, beautiful local food, local art, Halloween activities and more! And if we get enough costumes for a contest, there will be a great prize in store for the winner!
We’ll have a few extra handmade vendors on hand with some Halloweeny wares, including ZombieHead, makers of grotesquely detailed, undead jewelry and accessories!
And come hungry, because ROOTS will be serving up seasonal dishes in celebration of Halloween, and they sound delicious!:
Pumpkin Soup: California pumpkins roasted and pureed with almonds and spiced with nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon served with a slice of homemade bread, and a side spinach salad with candied pecans
Lentil stew and cornbread: Stew of lentils, florida tomatoes, california potatoes, and california collards, served with a side of homemade corn bread
Might we also recommend the LOCAL PUMPKIN BUTTER from Big Wheel Provisions or the SMOKIN’ Barkolate from Chateau Confections?
We’ll see you at the market this Wednesday!
Add comment October 26, 2009
Community Market, October 21, 2009
Hello, Fall Weather (for real this time)!
Finally! It looks like we are going to have fabulous weather for this week’s market! Wednesday’s market should be even better, because we’ll have more of the same great stuff, plus cool, breezy weather. We’ll have music under the stars from Sarah Purser, Roger Docking, and Matthew Mendel, plus great food, art, and handmade.
We love local food!
This week, ROOTS is serving up two delicious entrees. They have been selling out every week, so come early!
We hope you all enjoyed the return of Chateau Confections last week! We are so please to have Donna and her beautiful, gourmet chocolates back at the market. And in case you didn’t notice, the market welcomed 2 new food vendors last week! Wild Ocean Seafood Market charmed us with their fresh, Florida-caught seafood. The smoked mullet was a sell-out hit, and we recommend that you try it! Some of you probably had the chance to try Marley’s homemade spring rolls and summer rolls, ready to take home and enjoy! We are very happy to welcome our new and returning food vendors.
Follow your favorite food vendors online!
Did you know that Big Wheel Provisions posts updates about their latest yuumy food on their Facebook page and Twitter? They often publish a list of items available for each week’s market, and will let you know what’s coming up. You can also visit our other local food vendors by clicking on the following links:
AE Foods: website.
Chateau Confections: website.
Homegrown Co-op: website and blog.
Wild Ocean Seafood Market: website and Twitter.
And of course, you can always talk to these great people in person, when you visit them at the market. See you there!
Add comment October 20, 2009
Community Market, October 14, 2009
We’ll be back out there this week for another night of outdoor fun and beautiful local food. In case you didn’t know, the market is proud to feature food that is truly locally grown or prepared, including but not limited to:
*ROOTS:
fresh, seasonal, vegan meals to enjoy on site or take home
*Big Wheel Provisions:
a full selection of items, all handmade, and locally sourced if at all possible. From Local Farm Fresh Eggs only hours old, to Local Free Range Heritage Breed Pork, Big Wheel will have an ever changing catalog of items for sale, including Big Wheel Charcuterie, Snacks, and Professional Quality Stocks and Sauces.
*Wild Ocean Seafood Market:
Wild Ocean Seafood Market has over six generations of fisherman, shrimpers, and shipwrights behind it.They strictly deal in East Coast Florida Shrimp and hand-process all of the shrimp. Depending on the season, they will carry Canaveral Whites, Browns, Hoppers, Rock, Key West Pinks and Royal Reds (all native to the Florida Coast). They also carry other wild-caught, regionally available seafood products.
*AE Foods:
a great selection of healthy, vegetarian dips, hummus, and sauces, including a popular spinach pesto hummus and a variety of flavorful hot sauces.
*Loco Miguel’s Salsa:
Delicious, fresh, locally-made salsa in mild and spicy flavors. Made every week from fresh ingredients and free of preservatives, this salsa is ready to take home and serve!
*Chateau Confections:
Exquisite, decadent handmade chocolate and chocolate products by Donna Moore. Visit her every week to sample her latest creations, from key lime pie barkolate to peanut butter fudge, available for sale in gift-ready packaging
*Dansk Farms:
Local, raw honey in from a variety of flowers and blossoms.
*Homegrown Co-op:
Visit the Homegrown Co-op’s table to learn about Orlando’s own local produce cooperative. Homegrown is at the market every week to fill you in on the co-op and sell their surplus organic produce and prepared food.
Come see how you can bring more local food into your life. If you’re staying for dinner, ROOTS is offering two entrees this week:
Mushroom and Wild Rice Soup
Orlando button mushrooms, florida green bell pepper, gerogia sweet onions, red wine, and wild rice served in a bowl
Chole Palak with Tempeh
Gainsville tempeh, chickpeas, califorina spinach, florida tomatoes curried and served over a bed of brown basmati rice
Add comment October 13, 2009
Seasonal Grand Opening!
The Audubon Park Community Market is welcoming the arrival of fall with its first outdoor market of the season on Wednesday, October 7th, from 6:00 to 10:00 PM. After taking shelter from a long, hot and rainy summer, the market is ready to move back outside Stardust Video and Coffee with a special opening event. The Seasonal Grand Opening will feature an evening of local evening of local goodness, including music, food, art, and more!
The Seasonal Grand Opening will feature the arrival of the Ourlando Local Kids corner. Different fun, creative activities will be available at the market each week, free of charge. For the opening night, Ourlando Local Kids will be feature Shine On Kids Yoga. The market will be adding to the fun with great raffle prizes provided by many of the wonderful vendors. A partial list of prizes you could take home includes:
- 1 pound of handmade chocolate from Chateau Confections
- dip from AE Foods
- salsa from Loco Miguel’s
- yummy local food from Big Wheel Provisions
- happy plants from Amanda Martin (Backyard Gardening)
- 10-minute massage gift certificates from Karmonic Hands
- a saturn returns cd and tarot card reading from Holly Riggs
- a stardust gift certificate
- a membership and t-shirt from the Audubon Park Garden District
- more to be announced at the market!
This week’s market will also feature the sets by Sarah Purser and Matt Mendel, with a DJ keeping the party going in between sets.
Come hungry, because ROOTS is serving up a “Sustain-B-Q”, featuring:
Bamboo skewers of georgia zucchini, pennsylvania button mushrooms, georgia sweet onions, and florida golden tomatoes basted in Big Wheel Provisions barbeque sauce with a baked califorina potato.
Seasonal Grand Opening Vendors and Organizations:
Ourlando
ROOTS
Big Wheel Provisions
Fresh, Locally Grown from Pam
Homegrown Coop
Loco Miguel’s Salsa
AE Foods
Chateau Confections
Orchid Nirvana
Backyard Gardening
Simblissity
Shine On Kids
Son of a Gun Vintage
Holly Riggs
Zombiehead Jewelry
Argyle Gifts
Simone Photography
KarieSue Creations
Maria Bolton Art
Karmonic Hands Massage
Rusted Chain Bicycle Collective
Audubon Park Garden District
Orange Juice Collective
Add comment October 6, 2009
Community Market, September 30, 2009
On the Menu from Roots this Week:
Eggplant Polenta
north italy slow cooked polenta patties of corn meal, homegrown basil, and oregano, topped with a marinara sauce, roasted homegrown eggplant, and chopped california spinach
Vendors at this Week’s Market:
ROOTS
Big Wheel Provisions
Simblissity Soaps and Bodycare
Orchid Nirvana
Backyard Gardening
Poet Tom’s Etched Recycled Glass
Karmonic Hands Massage
Joyas Jewelry (from recycled and salvaged materials!)
WPRK 91.5 FM (hundreds of used cds for sale as a fundraiser)
Add comment September 29, 2009
Community Market, September 23, 2009
What’s Happening at the Market this Week:
ROOTS will be serving up a tasty Thai green curry and lentil basmati pilaf, featuring florida fingerling potatoes, florida bell peppers, califorina onions and california broccoli cooked in a thai curry of florida lemongrass, florida chillis, ginger and other spices placed on a bed of brown basmati rice and lentils pilaf. Wash it down with a refreshing beverage from the Stardust bar.
No dinner at the market is complete without visiting all of our vendors to see what new and special products they have to offer.
This week you’ll get to visit:
Loco Miguel’s Salsa, with delicious options from mild to very spicy
Amanda from Backyard Gardening, offering native and Florida-friendly plants for inside and outside your home
Kristen of Orchid Nirvana, with a great selection of beautiful orchids in different sizes and colors to fit every budget
Simblissity Soaps, featuring beautiful, natural handmade body care from soap to conditioner to body lotion
Other People’s Property vintage clothing and accessories, and vintage reconstruction
WPRK 91.5 will be selling used cds at ridiculously good prices to raise funds for their independent radio station
Relaxing Massage from Jenny of Karmonic Hands
Etched recycled glass products from Poet Tom
Local, handmade ceramics from Joshua Freeman
Original screen-printed art and t-shirts from Danny Sheehan of Absent Muse
Handmade cutout paper designs, sculptures, and paintings from Loop Loop
Have you heard the news?
The Audubon Park Community Market is finally moving back OUTSIDE on OCTOBER 7, 2009. We are very excited to move our nights of local music, local food, local art, and local fun back into the great outdoors. If you can’t make it to the market this week or next, mark your calendar for October 7th. It’ll be an extra fun night, with special activities including a kid’s activity tent and raffle prizes from many of our fabulous vendors.
Add comment September 22, 2009
