potato salad

Get in touch with your sour side at the Little Italy Mercato with delicious pickled vegetables. Starre Spice’s Vintage Veggies include tomatoes, green beans, white asparagus and carrots, all organic, pickled with their secret spice blend. They’re crisp and tangy; try them with Ewephoria, a sheep’s milk Gouda available at Taste Cheese, or chop them and add to potato salad - visit Polito Farm, Sage Mountain Farm or Proios Family Farm for the spuds.

Ever wanted to make your own pickled veggies? With an abundance of green tomatoes available at Rodney Kawano Farms, you can pick up a pound and try this technique yourself!

Majestic Garlic’s pickled garlic cloves are raw, organic, made with apple cider vinegar and surprisingly mild. They deliver all the health benefits of raw garlic without the bite, and come in fun flavors like curry and cayenne. Want to try making your own pickled garlic? Grab some heads from Suzie's, Vang's or Proios farm and follow these steps. 

Take a walk on the wild side at Happy Pantry, where all the pickles are naturally fermented by wild organisms - popular items include California kimchi, ginger radishes, rutabaga with chard and classic sour dills. Try the spicy pickles on your next tuna sandwich or by themselves as a snack. We’re pickled to have them at the market!

What to do with locally grown, pesticide-free potatoes from Proios Family Farm at the North Park Thursday Farmers’ Market? Turn them into home fries and serve with scrambled eggs from Paradise Valley Ranch (grab a bag of valencia oranges while you're there and squeeze som OJ for your breakfast), roast them with a grass fed beef chuck roast or all natural chicken from DaLe Ranch for a classic meat-and -potatoes dinner, or make a healthy, vegan potato salad using creamy garlic spread from Majestic Garlic and olives from Lisko Imports.

Pick up curly kale from African Sisters for this soup. Toss potato wedges with avocado oil from the California Olive Oil Company and bake them; serve with a baked yellowtail fillet from the Ocean Beach Seafood Truck for a lighter version of fish and chips. Or grab a tuna steak from Miss Sushi and make this potato salad with tuna and arugula, using almonds from Hopkinds AG, arugula from J.R. Organics and apples from Smit Orchard in place of the pears for a crunchy twist.

Pick up some spuds today!

GERMANY COMES TO SAN DIEGO

In case you weren't able to book your own tickets to Munich this week to celebrate the all too indulgent Oktoberfest, we've got a few ideas up our sleeves at the North Park Farmer's Market to help you throw your own lively festival. Oktoberfest began as a wedding celebration for Crown Prince Luitpold I and Princess Theressa of Bavaria, and has since transformed into a festival for music, dancing, singing, eating -- and lots and lots of beer drinking. 

Gather your friends and family and enjoy a feast of royal proportions with these rich recipes: Try a vegetarian take on traditional Bierocks and pick up a jar of spicy sauerkraut from Happy Pantry, swing by Taste Cheese for some yummy, savory spreads, and put them together on fresh slices of sourdough bread from Belen Bakery. If you want some meat, take home a pound of savory ground beef from Da Le Ranch to add to the dish. Or create your own German style potato salad using Russet potatoes from Produce Stand, onions and parsley from Suzie's Farm.  Make Jagerschnitzel to meets everyone's needs, using Kawano Farms mushrooms, Bari's garlic olive oil, pork from Da Le Ranch, and Spring Hill Cheese new slightly sweet sour cream. 

Oh and don't forget your authentic, german style beer. Stop by the Linkery or Ritual Tavern on your way home for a pint!