Did your June vanish in the whisk of a puppy tail like mine
did leaving you reeling; perhaps the analogy should have been like a minnow at
the end of a short line! And the month
is high summer, the roses are in bloom and the countryside is green and fresh. June is also birthday month with the dear SO’s
right at the beginning, this year colliding with Adderbury’s Community Food Market
meet on June 11th making it the obvious place for supper with family
and friends.
Virginia was presenting Salmon and that seemed
just the very thing to share over a
glass of wine so there we all gathered at 6 o’clock, along with everybody else,
bent on gathering in their favourite food picks from the assembled cornucopia
of fresh homemade foods and products
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To kick our evening off we picked up coffee from Paddy's Buzzy Beans
mobile machine, chatted to organising friends handing out market cards and
crispy biscuits all just within the doorway into The Institute, the village
place for a host of activities and gatherings.
A vital resource for every Village resident, The Institute is managed by
a small keen team of volunteers actively engaged in promoting and servicing this
wonderful facility, keeping it available and fully operational.
He made a beeline for Smart Cookies serving hatch for
Virginia’s Salmon Teriyaki ...
while I whizzed about the market wishing all our friends a good sales session. Markets are great fun and I am a huge fan of this collective food explosion, a monthly"pop-up" market brought into being by an ardent team of forward-thinking food enthusiast Adderbury Village residents. I love to see food displays wherever I am but a market environment has something else besides piles of food. There's zing and freshness about its display because the collection has been assembled for a particular event. It's not there for ever, just an evening comprising two and a quarter short hours, limited time indeed to discover the freshness, the taste and texture of good local food and produce. You're here to buy favourite items for your store cupboard, to chat to your stallholder friends and friends who, like you, have rushed here this evening for the very purpose of shopping and shopping with the particularly attractive knowledge of finding really fresh and wholesome and creatively delicious food. And yes, you may probably find some items a little more costly than generally found at elsewhere food outlets but, hey, you're paying for that freshness, that certain unique quality which keeps customers coming back for more, on a regular monthly basis.
We were not really here at The Institute's market for shopping this month - sorry guys - but to celebrate His birthday; just let me tell you who was there, it might encourage you to meet us there at a future meeting...
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| Bar King |
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| Moore & Lyon Produce - e: - Chummy567@yahoo.co.uk |
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| find Sara West at e: - appletreeproducts@hotmail.co.uk |
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| Every Last Crumb of Rupert and Susan Lloyd - find them at email: EveryLastCrumb14@gmail.com |
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| Grumpy Bakers from - e: grumpybakers@yahoo.co.uk |
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| chris@monsoonestates.co.uk |
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| Gorgeous Greek pastries and cakes by Elie at e: ellistago@gmail.com |
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| Homemade in Oxfordshire for delicious preserves |
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| Cotswold Baking by Paul - find at - info@cotswoldbaking.co.uk |
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| Jo Thompson of Once Bitten for all sorts of delicious goodies find at - www.oncebittenltd.co.uk |
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| Always super fresh vegetables and plants from Mr. Anson |
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| Beany Podd for "tasty vegan treats" via - http://beanypodd.com |
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| a really good range of beautiful cheese from Tastebuds Cheese Board |
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| Winslow Pates & Terrines by Richard Cox - find them at winslowpatesandterrines@gmail.com |
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| two for the Market scene... |
I visit Adderbury's Market every month because I just cannot get enough of that certain fresh food thing. The buzz I get from this market,, any market in fact, has been with me all my life. I've embarrassed my children, my friends and myself over and over again. It's something I anticipate doing for ever somehow, somewhere because that zing, appreciation and enthusiasm is just a part of my make-up and is with me every day. So I'm always looking forward to my next market buying experience...and then I write about that expeerience here, with photos, for they are all part of that experience too!!!
Daisy xxx
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