Cheese and Pears, Anyone?

Pears, pears, regally delicious pears. 2009 is the year of the pear at Prairie Fruits Farm, because it is one of the few fruits we have to offer for sale this year. We have a very nice crop of Harvest Queen (a Bartlete variety) and maybe a few Moonglo that we will be bringing to the markets this coming Saturday.  We may also have some blackberries for sale if we don’t use them all for the farm dinner this Saturday.

We will be doing three markets this coming Saturday, August 8^th: Green City Market, Oak Park and Urbana.  Cesar, our head “cheese-whiz” at Green City is away this weekend (attending the American Cheese Society’s Annual Conference in Austin, Texas), so we please welcome Ava Friedman to the Prairie Fruits Farm farmers’ market team on Saturday.  It is her first farmers’ market, so be nice to her. 

We are bringing a somewhat tailored assortment of cheeses this Saturday as we wait for several to age:

Fresh Chevre—plentiful, creamy and delicious with those fresh tomatoes and basil you might be buying.
Angel Food
Little Bloom on the Prairie
Krotovina
Moonglo—great with some of those pears we will be selling. 

Ewe Bloom and Roxanne likely will be back in the line-up next weekend.

Farm Dinners
The menu for the “Fiesta Mexicana” dinner is on the website now. If you’re coming, you might consider bringing your favorite beer or tequila to enjoy with this meal.  It is expected to be hot, but it IS august after all—perfect weather for some “comida piquante.” Dress accordingly as we will be dining outdoors.
The menu for the September 12^th “Illinois Fish Tale” is also on the website to tempt you into signing up for that dinner. There are only a few seats left.