Juliet's Challah

Living in Madison on sabbatical is proving a delight so far! One of the main perks is great neighbors.

Speaking of sabbatical, here is a recipe for Challa, a traditional bread, eaten on the sabbath and Jewish holidays. Except Passover. Our neighbor and friend, the multi-talented and all-around-awesome Juliet Page, shared her own recipe with market day. 

Madison, WI Farmers' Market

After a long hiatus, market day is back online!

As of August 2011, we are in Madison, Wisconsin for a sabbatical year.  A full  sabbatical year: one of the major benefits of my work as university professor.  And we are spending it, no less, in a state whose motto is inspired by a culinary tradition. Life is good.

One of our first stops in town [map here] was the Farmers' Market on Capitol Square in downtown Madison. 

A Cook's Tour: Eating on the Mekong

I am away for a short conference in Segovia, Spain; so here's a guest appearance on market day! Anthony Bourdain discovers new tastes at Cái Răng floating market, on the Mekong river in Vietnam [map here].

source/youtube link: http://youtu.be/9rC05bmuHrs



Market day at Peschiera del Garda, Italy

Monday is market day at Peschiera, a lovely town by Lago di Garda in Northern Italy [map here]. We spent a fabulous week or so in northern Italy on August of 2009, mostly in the Trentino-Alto Adige, Lombardy, and Veneto regions, visiting Trento, Verona, Venezia, Bolzano, Parma, Reggio Emilia, and Mantova. Italia, que bellissima.

Carmel Market, Tel Aviv / שוק הכרמל

Olive oil, tahini and smoked fish

Tel Aviv's largest open-air market on a Friday morning. 

The market branches from Carmel St [map here] to the neighboring streets.  It operates officially as a market since 1920. Its original landowners were well to do Russian Jews who purchased the lots in 1913 as an investment. In the aftermath of October 1917 Russian revolution they fled to...

Seafood pasta in creamy rosé vodka sauce

:Ingredients:

• 200gr fresh shrimps (~20)
• 200gr salmon fillet
• 1 onion, carrot, celery stalk
• Salt, pepper, nutmeg
• 20gr butter
• 3 tablsp heavy cream
• 2 tablsp tomato paste
• 3/4 cup peas
• A shot of vodka (28cc) 

Potato and broccoli pie

:Ingredients:

• 2 broccoli stalks
• 2 red-skinned potatoes, such as Désirée 
• 1 garlic clove
• 250gr soft cheese (5%, farmer's)
• 20gr butter
• 3 tablesp oatmeal
• 2 tablesp whole wheat flour
• 2 tablesp wheat germ 

Stuffed red peppers and zucchini

:Ingredients:

• 15 small peppers
• 12 small zucchini
• 2 carrots, peeled
• 500gr/1-lb ground beef
• 1 white onion
• 1 celery stalk

Basque markets

In the summer of 2010 the IAMCR held a conference at Braga, Portugal. Afterwards we headed on to the lovely Northern coast of Spain: Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, and the Basque country. Here are a few photos from our journeys through typical markets. Click on the image to see a larger picture, or on the Bilbao webpage for more photos from La Ribera Merkatua in Bilbao.