New Kid In Town

There’s a new kid in town…
(New Kid In Town-The Eagles)

We are happy to say that our newest vendors are ready to greet the market with their first offerings!! While we eagerly await their produce, and herbs, we are excited for their first project to hit the market!!

First, a few words from their director, and then, you…ordering!!

A.B. Graham Ohio Hi-Point FFA Greenhouse and Nursery Management and Animal and Plant Science classes are working together to produce numerous herbs and vegetables from our school greenhouse. The hands on experience in the greenhouse allows students to expand their knowledge in proper care and maintenance for different kinds of produce. Our greenhouse is located in St. Paris, Ohio at Graham High School. Thank you for the support for the agriculture youth in your local community.

Our Animal and Plant Science class raised chickens in order to deepen their knowledge of animal husbandry. Students cared for the chickens for 7 weeks and used humane practices. The meat from the chickens is now available for purchase in a limited quantity.

Exciting times for our market!!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

New Kid In Town

There’s a new kid in town…
(New Kid In Town-The Eagles)

We are happy to say that our newest vendors are ready to greet the market with their first offerings!! While we eagerly await their produce, and herbs, we are excited for their first project to hit the market!!

First, a few words from their director, and then, you…ordering!!

A.B. Graham Ohio Hi-Point FFA Greenhouse and Nursery Management and Animal and Plant Science classes are working together to produce numerous herbs and vegetables from our school greenhouse. The hands on experience in the greenhouse allows students to expand their knowledge in proper care and maintenance for different kinds of produce. Our greenhouse is located in St. Paris, Ohio at Graham High School. Thank you for the support for the agriculture youth in your local community.

Our Animal and Plant Science class raised chickens in order to deepen their knowledge of animal husbandry. Students cared for the chickens for 7 weeks and used humane practices. The meat from the chickens is now available for purchase in a limited quantity.

Exciting times for our market!!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Hello, Again!

Short and sweet, tonight, as your market manager is tired, and heading to some much needed rest…

I am opening the market, again, for the week. You will see your favorite growers, coming and going in the next month or so. They are working on product, we are all getting ready for the growing season, some are waiting on sun filled days for green house growth, others are waiting on Mother Nature. We are looking forward to the arrival of the dairy producer, and we are looking forward to days of sun, warmth, and produce…

It will all come back…just be patient with us, and order what we do have…

We will love you, forever…

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Closing Time

You have a half hour to get your orders in!!

We’ll leave the light on for you…

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Tuesday!

Hello, little local market of love customers!!

Today is Tuesday, and this is your wake up call!! The market will be closing, this evening, at 10pm!! Don’t forget to get those orders in…

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Easy Like Sunday Morning

Ooh that’s why I’m easy
I’m easy like Sunday morning
That’s why I’m easy
I’m easy like Sunday morning!
(Easy-Commodores)

Did someone say to cue up my junior high slow dance music from the 1970s? Okay…it’s a perfect way to spend a lazy Sunday morning. Just listening to the Pop 40 tunes, remembering, laughing at the long forgotten dance dates, the bad fashion, (and, you know as much as I am your vintage go-to girl, there was some BAD fashion), the awkward moments of not being asked to dance, being the snack table girl, or being asked to dance but not from the crush of the week? Yes…that’s what I am dishin’ up, this morning.

But, easy Sunday mornings, to me, are crucial, to give yourself some down time, recharge time, permission to let things all slide, for a bit, or until noon, when you begin the panic that it really is Sunday, you can’t take it easy, all the live long day, and you need to get a plan of action started, pronto!

Let that plan of action involve this market, your shopping, and our smiles, fun, nutrition, amazing products, and ease of ordering/picking up!!

Our market continues to shine, and in the next few months, we will see the addition of new products from our local dairy producers, the seasonal produce growers will return, and we will all be happy, and dancing in the streets.

This week, put a little thought into the fact that Valentine’s Day will be approaching. Are you going to be making a sweetheart kind of dinner, do you need sweets for your sweet, love for your pets, gifts for the people you love the most? We seriously have it all!!

Make your love for this month of love, shine through from the love of this market!!

Ideas…spices for a Spice Up Your Love Life kind of theme! Sweets for the Sweet! You Light Up My Life…from a selection of our candles! You Are The Honey Of My Eye…from our honey vendors!! Scenting You All My Love…from our selection of soaps or essential oils!! Meat Me Under The Stars…either gift someone with a few choice selection of our local meat selections, OR plan to cook for your love. I Knead Your Love…bread! What’s more seductive than a freshly baked loaf of bread? You Are Berry Special!! Jams, jellies, and frozen berries!! You Are So Egg-cellent!! Turn someone on with local eggs!! Lettuce Me Turn You On…with a selection of local greens and lettuces!! Bark For My Love…pet treats!!

You get my drift…start your own love filled theme of ordering, this week…your sweetie will love you for it! And, a sweetie doesn’t even have to be your love interest…I mean, really, how many Valentine’s did I spend with no sweetie pie? Watching flowers being delivered to everyone but moi? For years, my pals and I just celebrated the amusement of no loves!! So, see, celebrate the love of friendship…

After all…love makes the world go round, it makes us think back to the world’s sappiest love songs, bringing it all back to this easy Sunday morning theme…

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Happy Thursday!

Once again, we open the market for another fun filled food odyssey!!

Start your own explosion of local food adventures, right here, at this little local market of love!

Let the ordering begin!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Take The Long Way Home

Does it feel that your life’s become a catastrophe?
Oh, it has to be for you to grow , boy.
When you look through the years and see what you could
have been oh, what you might have been,
If you’d had more time…
(Take The Long Way Home-Supertramp)

The long way home…I’m not quite sure where I am going with this because, tonight, it has so many different levels of meaning for me.

As we all know, I grew up in the west end of my hometown. I lived in a little capsule of suburbia houses mixed in with big, old, rambling houses. Both of which I lived. The west end kids were a close, scrappy bunch, who banded together while building forever ties, and these are the ties that run deep in my heart, forever.

There did come a time in my west end life, that would force me to venture in other directions, take new friends, keep the old friends, and make new paths.

This was called high school for me. Back then, the west end, the east end, and the middle end?, all went to the same high school. Freshman year found me taking on a new life, new adventures, new friends. While the west end taught me how important my friendships with the boys were, high school brought me into my first real friendships with girls.

Thankfully, I met up and began a lifetime friendship with a group of girls who all hailed from both the east end, and the middle end. I was the only west ender. We began to carve our places in the hierarchy of high school, we crushed over boys, we grooved the same activities, we partied, some of us cheered, some of us were in band, and some were on student council. We were the girls of 1982, making our mark in high school, not knowing we would become life long soul sisters.

Over the next, um, well, oh…you know, a number of years, we all watched as we departed off to colleges, as we each took off for far ends of the United States. We watched marriages, kids, divorces, deaths, finding ourselves, losing ourselves, sending our own kids off to colleges, marriages of them, and as things always go, we all found our way back to our group.

But, as age goes, as time goes, it has become our norm, to begin comforting each other, as we watch the passing of our parents. When did we grow up? When did we watch our parents age? How do we deserve this love that each of us, unconditionally gives us, in this most amazing group?

Tonight found me at the side of one of our soul sisters. Her father has passed away, and most of the high school gang was on hand, from out of town.

I looked around, I comforted, and hugged, and smiled, and had tears, and then I departed. The funeral home was on the side of town where my high school coming of age happened, so, after I left, I took the long way home, and drove around old, familiar roads, thinking, remembering, and feeling so lucky to have built these amazing friendships.

The long way home,the paths we travel in life, the people, places, and things that are on that road that takes us through life, only to wind us around, right back where we started.

I talk about how much I value my growing up, my friendships, the paths I chose in life, and the people who love me, who shaped me, and who encouraged me. This is why I feel so strongly about this little market, this little community, this little bit of love, that we are able to bring to you, each week.

We all have had journeys, we all have gone that long way home…that is why you are all so important to us. Together, for these past years, we have all just been traveling’ on that long way home, with the one hope that we are that light, that shines you on your way.

Get your orders in, tonight…we are here for you until 10pm. Think about the love, think about the light, and think about this journey of local products, nutrition, and pride that we bring to you.

Make this market your little stop on your own long way home…

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Pizza!!

Today, in my Super Bowl installment, let’s talk about pizza!! How easy, how yum, how creative can one food genre be?? So many ways to make a pizza, and so many people who love it!!

Have a variety of pizzas, have a pizza party where everyone makes their own, get creative or stay traditional!!

Today, I am including a creative pizza recipe from Charlene, of Swisher Hill Herbs! She got this recipe from Rachel Ray, and is sharing it with the market.

While you are reading this recipe, or even coming up with your own recipe, think about how many pizza ingredients you can get from this market!! Including frozen pizza dough in packages, or in pre-formed frozen crusts!

Think about the meats, garlic, dried herbs, greens, etc…you can get a large amount of products, right here, to start your own pizza fun!!

Go ahead…get your orders in, and think pizza!! It’s good for parties, a fun dinner at home, or whenever you need to feed your creativity in the kitchen!

That’s Amore!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Thai Chicken Pizza
? 1 pizza dough, any brand
? 1/2 cup duck sauce or plum sauce ( look for this in the International aisle in your
grocery)
? 1/2 teaspoon crushed SHH red pepper flakes.
? 1 package (2 cups) shredded provolone or monterey jack cheese
? 1/2 thinly sliced Red or Green Bell Pepper
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? 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
? 2 tablespoons (low sodium) soy sauce
? 1 rounded tablespoonful peanut butter
? 2 teaspoons hot sauce
? 1 Tablespoon SHH Sweet Heat Thai Seasoning Blend
? 1/2 pound chicken breasts, cut into thin strips
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? 2 tablespoons honey
? 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar or cider vinegar
? 1/4 seedless cucumber, peeled and cut into matchsticks
? 4 scallions, chopped
? 1 cup bean sprouts
? ½ cup fresh cilantro leaves, chopped
1.Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.

2.Drain bean sprouts. In a medium size bowl mix, honey, wine or vinegar, add cucumber,
scallions and sprouts. Turn to coat evenly. Set aside to marinate.
3.In a bowl combine vegetable oil, soy sauce, peanut butter, hot sauce and SHH Sweet Heat
seasoning. (Use the microwave to loosen up peanut butter if it is too cold to blend into sauce, 10
seconds’ ought to do it.) Add chicken and coat evenly with mixture. Let stand while you prepare
pizza to bake
Form pizza crust on pizza pan or cookie sheet. Top with duck or plum sauce – spread it around
like you would pizza sauce. Sprinkle the pizza with some crushed red pepper flakes then top with
cheese and peppers. Bake until golden and bubbly, 15 to 17 minutes.
While pizza is baking, preheat a grill pan over medium-high heat, add chicken mixture, grill
chicken cutlets 2 to 3 minutes on each side, until firm. Remove from heat.
Top the hot, cooked pizza with chicken, drain cucumbers mixture and scatter over the pizza.
Sprinkle Fresh cilantro on top, cut into 8 wedges and serve
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Happy Monday!!

Monday, Monday…

Have you grooved our market, yet? Do you have plans to make your Super Bowl viewing groovy? Do you plan to eat well, dine well, and make your life easy?

No matter if it’s for a party, a get together, dinner for one, dinner for two, or dinner for a full house, we’ve got it all to make it happen for you!!

Give us a look, give us a try, return for the umpteenth time…we don’t care, we just want your Monday kind of love…

We will be closing the market, tomorrow night, at 10pm. Make your list, and begin shopping…

Make it a Super week, all around…

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam