This week at the Farmers Market

Rough Draft Atlanta is partnering with Community Farmers Markets to let you know what’s in season at your local market. Each week, we’ll share a list of ingredients that are farm fresh as well as a couple of recipes including those products that you can try at home. 

Here’s what we’ve got for you this week: Apples, satsuma oranges, meyer lemons, grapefruit, ginger, sunchokes, carrots, sweet potatoes, bell peppers, daikon and watermelon radish, hakueri and scarlet top turnips, garlic, winter squash, greens like bok choy, napa cabbage, kale, and collards, herbs like basil, thyme, rosemary, fennel, flower bouquets with mums, green onions, pea shoots and microgreens, gourmet mushrooms like oyster and lion’s mane, eggs, honey, shrimp, beef, pork, chicken, duck, sausages, bacon, charcuterie, cheese, raw milk, broths, breads, jams, ferments, fresh juices, pastries and sweet treats including gluten-free options, smoked trout and salmon, raw and flavored pecans, honey, coffee, teas, pickles, cocktail mixers, ghee, cooking oils, vinegars, hot sauce, homemade pasta and sauces, spice blends, pet treats, loofa sponges.

Atlanta non-profit Community Farmers Markets (CFM) has been building community through farmers markets since 2011. Operating five weekly outdoor farmers markets and seven farm stands at MARTA stations is one of the strategies by which the organization addresses food access in Atlanta. CFM also offers educational programming in the community, financial incentives to make local food more affordable, and professional development for small businesses. See you at the farmers markets!

Coffee Chocolate Pot Roast Recipe:

Ingredients:

• 2 lb kabob/sirloin tip beef
• 1 bunch (2 cups) carrots
• 1.5 TB fine coffee grounds
• 2 whole star anise
• 2 small or 1 large bay leaves
• 1 cup brewed coffee
• 1 tsp ground: cloves, garlic, onion, brown or yellow mustard
• 3 TB dark brown sugar (use less if chocolate has sugar)
• 2 TB bitter chocolate or very dark chocolate (preferably 70% or up)

Directions:

1. Brew 1 cup coffee and set aside. 
2. Thoroughly wash carrots, then chop large chunks and set aside.
3. Grind 1.5 TB coffee beans until fine but still grainy-stop right before it becomes powder. 
4. Pat beef dry with towel and toss to season in ground coffee, cloves, garlic, onion, and brown mustard. 
5. In a wide pan or pot, heat to medium, add neutral oil, and at sizzling point, place kabob meat in pan and without moving them around, allow to brown on one side, then flip to brown on the other side. Take out meat and set aside. 
6. Turn heat off and using the residual heat, start deglazing all the flavor from the brown bits left over in pan with 1 cup brewed coffee, then add star anise, bay leaves, brown sugar and chocolate just to melt (careful not to burn chocolate!). 
7. Transfer meat and carrots to pot and pour pan liquid into same pot. You can cook this many different ways – on the stove on low heat for at least 1.5-2 hours or until meat is tender/in a crock pot on low for at least 6 hours/ Either way, the kabob meat should easily fall apart with a fork. You can add a little bit of cornstarch and cold water mixture to thicken the sauce, but this is totally up to you! 

Loaded Sweet Potato Recipe:

Ingredients:

• One sweet potato 
• Toppings of your choice (some options):
  • Quinoa⁣
  • Greek yogurt⁣
  • Crunchy chickpeas
  • Feta⁣
  • Green onions⁣
  • Parsley⁣
  • Olive oil⁣

Directions:

1. Bake the sweet potato at 400* for 45 minutes. 
2. Cook some quinoa in the rice cooker.
3. Add your toppings!

You can also find the recipes for Coffee Chocolate Pot Roast and Loaded Sweet Potato on Community Farmers Markets’ Instagram.