My upcoming gig - so excited!

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Starting a little later this season, I am going to have a booth at the local farmer's market, where I suggest recipes to people based on their purchases. Anyone want to help me brainstorm? Suggest away!

I've been thinking about this for some time and finally got up the courage to try to move forward. A vendor friend floated the idea at their recent board meeting and they loved it. I meet with them in a couple weeks to flesh out a plan. As I envision it, I will bring my binders of printed recipes (all things I have made) and maybe a couple of my veg-centric cookbooks. If I am provided with electricity and internet access (this is a volunteer gig and I don't want to incur a lot of personal expense) I could email recipes on the spot. Otherwise I could take email addresses and do it from home. I hope to primarily provide recipes that I have made and know to be good but could also help people pick something that looks good from the internet.

tag line ideas - Show me what you bought, I'll help you find a recipe; I Bought This, Now What?

name ideas - Recipe Resource, Recipe Recommendations, Recipe Help, How to Use it

I'm so looking forward to have the opportunity to talk to people about food and hope to make many new friends that love food as much as I.

 
oh, oh...pick me, pick me....I've actually suggested this to several organic shops

First off: GOOD LUCK! Have fun!

"Why" I ask, "don't you have someone COOKING a simple vegetarian stir fry or something to show folks how to use these great ingredients."

My other comment to them is "why don't you PREPARE some interesting dishes showcasing these foods and have them packaged and ready to sell."

Here are a few suggestions I made to them:
1. calabacitas = sautéed onions, zucchini, squash, tomatoes with optional corn & chili.

2. Evelyn's briyami: potatoes, zucchini, cheese, garlic

3. stir fry veggies that can transition to:
Chinese by adding soy sauce & chili/garlic
Italian by adding pasta, cream sauce & fresh basil
Mexican by adding cumin, coriander, fresh tomatoes, avocados and warm tortillas
French by adding sautéed eggplant and tomatoes to make ratatouille, served with warm crusty bread.

4. crushed kale salad with tomatoes, avocado, cucumber, sprouts.

5. fresh corn & (canned) black bean salad with tomatoes, minced onions, cilantro & lime.

 
OK. Odd again. Yesterday I was thinking that there should be a website that takes the ingredients

that people want to cook with and filters through recipes that will fit the categories that the user stipulates. I knew a fellow who created one for alcoholic beverages many years ago so the format is there. He was quoting on the creation of a complex search engine for me and in fact, I started using his site.

I was peering into my jammed up freezer drawer thinking how much the spirit of cooking had left me in the last year. An idea did come to me and I tried something surprisingly good but I have the time to think.

Wouldn't it be nice??????????????

 
thanks for the great ideas

Little does my husband know that he is about to be served all sorts of new recipes as things come into season! BTW - he is not a veggie fan.

 
I sometimes use this search engine

Sometimes I just google terms and include the word recipe. It is helpful to recognize reliable sources and see obvious flaws in a recipe. I try lots of new recipes but rarely one that isn't highly rated or recommended by someone I trust.

http://www.recipepuppy.com/

 
At the Portland Farmers Market (OR)....

I fell in love with what they did and have been suggesting it to the local markets for years to no avail. They have a bunch of recipe 'cards' using all the products and you pick the ones you want and add them to your 'book'. They have big 'o' rings and hole punches and covers and such. You punch holes in them and put them on the ring each week to build your cookbook. They were printed on a heavy heavy paper, not quite card stock. And they were in different colors but I am not sure what or if that even meant anything. Will try to take pictures of my collection from there and post so you can see.

 
thanks, I'll watch for that

If this is a success and they want to dedicate some resources something like that could work.

 
also visiting with the vendors to find out what will be new next week would give you a bit of time

to put something together for the new produce coming in.

 
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