#Adelaide Central Market Watch #10 Published 20.4.11

Now is time for some serious market shopping. The Central Market is open today, all day Thursday until 9pm and 7am-3pm Saturday re-opening Wednesday 27th.


Fruit and Veg

Premium quality broccolini $2.99 bunch, asparagus bunches 2 for $5 and leeks looking sweet at $2.99 Bananas and grapes are in short supply but Adelaide Hills pears and apples are going hard. Try the Coromandel Valley Howell pears all at Aubergines. Eggplants are perfect now and great for grilling or stuffing. Cocos has the best range of Easter berries including raspberries, blueberries $8 punnet and kiwi berries $6 punnet. Try his fresh guavas at $ 12.95 kg.



Meat and Seafood.

Pork is the best buy at this time of the year. Shoulder on the bone is best for roasting $5.99kg . Blade steak, osso -bucco both $10 kg and Ox tails form Tony O’Connel & Sons make for long slow cook-ups. Samtass seafood sale is red hot and should not be missed.



Sweets and Cheese

Le Delice des Cremiers, presented in a round timber box, is rich and decadent. The triple cream is encased in a velvety white mould $15.95 ea Smelly Cheese Shop.Fresh cream Pavlova Rolls at Providore come in three flavours. Berry and choc chip, apricot and almond and wattleseed and macadamia $28 ea.



Special

Pashmak Persian Fairy Floss comes in 5 flavours costs $8 per pack and is served on its own or as an accompaniment to fruits, cakes, ice creams, puddings and desserts The word Pashmak means "little wool" in Persian, as the confectionery resembles sheep's wool. The pistachio is my favourite. Jaggers Stall 38

Market Watch #9 Published Advertiser 13.4.11

The Adelaide Central Market has joined the City Solar Grid and is now powered by 50 per cent accredited green power. Traders divert 90 per cent of market waste from landfill each year including 700 tonnes of organic green waste for composting.


Fruit and Vegetables

Put local hybrid potatoes on the shopping list. The waxy Virginia Rose is perfect for gnocchi and the Cashmere Gold makes great mashed potatoes. Rhubarb, quinces and pears should also be on the list. Nashi, corella and Beurre Bosc varieties are the best choices. Beetroot and cauliflower prices are down. Good sized local garlic $25kg and yellow/green squash at Stall 69.

Everyone loves Pink Ladies and they are here now $5.99kg. Baby sprouts and broccoli make perfect cool weather eating. Amber jewel plums are fat and juicy $2.99kg.The best tomatoes are sometimes behind counters and you have to be in the know. Try Stephan at Stall 47

Meat and Seafood

Going 4WD camping? Camp-oven pot-roast rump $9kg and redgum-smoked ham in $10 pieces are in cryovac and perfect for the esky. Ten types of snags from $6kg at Stall GR47. Swieconka, the Polish Blessing sausage, is only available this week - Stall 75. Samtass seafood sale is well and truly on and best buy is SA Spencer Gulf green prawns slightly damaged $11.99kg

Sweets and Cheese

Le Delice des Cremiers, presented in a round timber box, is rich and decadent. The triple cream is encased in a velvety white mould $15.95 ea Smelly Cheese Shop.Fresh cream Pavlova Rolls at Providore come in three flavours. Berry and choc chip, apricot and almond and wattleseed and macadamia $28 ea.

SPECIAL

Dough baker and chef Sally Chant makes sour dough baguettes that are the closest thing to the Champs Elysees. Her secret is in the two-year old grape-skin starter. The dough is sprinkled with semolina for that crusty texture then baked on stone at 3am each market morning. $3.50 each Stall45

Adelaide Central Market Traders call for more Easter trading hours.

"I have been instructed by our committee to write a letter regarding the trading hours proposed for Easter Thursday. The 5.30 pm closing time is too early to allow our customers to buy their Easter requirements .

This day is the single busiest day of the year.This would severely impact on our sales and credibility with the public; it would make us the only food retail precinct not to be available for our customers on that evening."

Franz Knoll

President , Central Market Traders Association
Ph +61 408817126
franzknoll@barossafinefoods.com.au

Market Watch #8 Published Advertiser 6.4.11

Easter preparation is in full swing and many traditions are on show at the ACM. An international range of chocolate eggs, mice and bilbies is available. Then there are hot-cross buns made by local and interstate bakers, bunches of flowering Easter daisies and fresh chestnuts. Easter is also the time for lamb on the spit, tsoureki (Greek Easter bread), colomba (Italian Easter bread, see Special), barszcz biały or żur (white borsch from Poland), baccala (salt cod) and seafood.

Fruit and Veg

She’s all apples this week. New season Fuji are in at $2.99kg. Little Johnnies are the perfect size for baking and Pink Ladys are on the way. Bananas are getting tough to get and prices range between $6.99 and $14 kg. Tasmanian beans have the crunch $3.99kg, pumpkin $1.99kg and perfect cauliflower $4.50 each. Avocados are four for $3, asparagus $2.50 bunch. Ribier grapes are becoming popular $5.99 kg and Santa Rosa plums are still in at $3.99kg. Overcast weather is playing havoc with strawberries, slowing the ripening and raising the price for premium quality.

Meat and Poultry

Cold weather signals time for slow roasting. Best cuts are shoulder lamb $11.99kg, South East SA beef rump $9kg and Vegas Stall 62 certified organic chickens $14.99. Barossa Fine Foods now has its Easter-only, Canadian maple and cinnamon-cured and smoked bacon rashers for $6 pack.



Special

Colomba di Pasqua, ‘Easter Dove’, the Italian Easter version of panettone, is shaped like a dove. The sweetened dough contains candied peel and is topped with pearl sugar and almonds. Lucia’s Fine Foods. From $28. Buona Pasqua!