Published on Aug 10, 2020
When you visit our public markets, of course, you’ll find a wide variety of tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce and carrots, but you’ll also discover a panoply of products you don’t see every day. Here, we’re offering you only nine of them just to pique your curiosity!
Because their juicer and less fibrous than mature ginger, baby ginger is easier to cook than its big brother. It can be marinated, candied, added to salads or sandwiches. It can also be used in soups, vinaigrette, smoothies, cocktails … it can truly be prepared in all kinds of ways! Producers harvest baby ginger in late August or early September.
Where to find it: Marché Locavore in Racine and Magog’s public market.
They’ll certainly add some cheer to your platter of crudités and arouse everyone’s curiosity! Two producers in the region grow purple peppers: Les Vallons Maraîchers, in Compton, and Artisan Maraîcher in Barnston-Ouest.
Where to find them: Marché de la Gare de Sherbrooke
Pink and yellow, now these are two really unusual colours for mushrooms! The company that grows them! The Fundus Fungus mushroom farm, and its owner Paul Roberts (also chef at the Manoir Hovey restaurant), offer you some recipes for how to prepare them on their website. Sounds promising!
Where to find it: Compton’s evening market
Are you wondering what this is? They’re eatable insects, also called simply known as mealworms! With their high protein content, dehydrated mealworms can be added to a smoothie, a salad, an omelette or cookies. The ones you’ll find at the Melbourne Market are produced by Élevage Vermeil, the first organic insect grower in Quebec.
Where to find them: The Marché champêtre de Melbourne
To produce fir tree honey, the producer, Jérémie Postel will travel all across the Sutton area looking for young balsam fir shoots full of sap that he picks by hand and macerates them for several months in honey he gets from a local beekeeper. The fusion of these two elements offers an amazing and delicious result.
Where to find it: Frelighsburg’s Public Market
Spiced, aged for two years with cheddar, honey and garlic, yack sausages, a big long-haired bovid, comes in different flavours. The YakitiYack farm, in Bolton-Est offers us with these unique products.
Where to find it: Magog’s public market
The Ferme Écologique Coop d’Ulverton offers a goat cheese made with raw milk and rubbed with sea buckthorn, a small acid tasting orange berry. The Sea buckthorn used for making this product comes from the Jardins Merridor, an Ulverton company. A doubly local must-try local cheese!
Where to find it: The Marché champêtre de Melbourne
What does a pineapple tomato look like? It’s sort of like a very big yellow tomato slightly marbled with red with a flesh resembling that of a sliced pineapple. It’s excellent added to a salad or sliced and served with a drizzle of vinaigrette.
Where to find it: Compton’s evening market
Available from mid-July until early August, black raspberries from Cookshire are more like blackberries than red raspberries. They, however, have a very unique flavour and aroma. Good to know, they contain twice as many anti-oxidants than most fruits and vegetables.
Where to find them: The Sawyerville Villager’s Market
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