One of our favorite demo chefs, Carla Hall, came out to the Olney Farmers and Artists Market last Sunday. She did not disappoint the biggest audience of the season (by my estimate). She cooked a mess of country-style greens and served them with cornbread. Both recipes can be found in her new cookbook Cooking With Love, which will be published on November 6.
Before she started cooking, she took a tour of the produce vendors at the Market and came back with hot peppers from Mike at Homestead Farm, assorted veggies from Pleitez, Penn Farm, Westmoreland and Valle, and a bunch of rutabaga greens (!) from Joan Riser at AvianMead.
She chopped them all up and made a pot of greens on the spot, to supplement the already-prepped batch she brought with – proving that you can use any greens for this recipe, as long as you cook each until tender. They were served with cornbread to soak up the pot likker, and everyone agreed they were delicious, even those who don’t generally like greens.
The recipe for the greens is posted on the OFAM website, but for the cornbread you’ll have to buy her book, publisher’s orders!
Also last Sunday, we welcomed The Winery At Olney to the Market. They have just opened in the Fair Hill shopping center (see Bending An Elbow In Olney for a description of their operation).
