Instead of showing up with a recipe in mind, and a shopping list in hand, for ingredients you found in a book — buy the seasonal produce you find in market and cook according to those ingredients.You will become a very creative cook!.
Jacque Gates believes Bastrop Producers Market is a way to contribute to her community by providing opportunity. She says her life has been blessed and it seemed a way to give some back for all she had.
In an unassuming wood frame building on the eastbound frontage of Highway 71, just outside the city of Bastrop, area farmers and food artisans sell their wares — even when they’re not on site. This is the Bastrop Producer’s Market, owned and operated by Jacque (Jackie) Gates and her husband Jim McCracken.
Carla Crownover creates her own homemade goodness from the bounty of her backyard vegetable garden, and from her finds at area farms and farmers markets. Most recently she’s been enamored of Orange Blossom Farms’ tangerines.
David Barrow is one of the filmmakers (and producer) behind Farm-City, State, a documentary that strives to answer the question: What if a city could feed itself?
Because we have two shows this weekend featuring different cooks with different recipes, I decided to put up the web pages that would ordinarily go live on Saturday now. It gives my guest a little extra “face time” with you, and give you a little extra “taste time” with her delicious Winter Squash Chutney recipe.
