From The PFM Recipe Archives: Spring Edition!

Happy Vernal Equinox!

Over years, we have accumulated seasonal recipes from chefs, staff, volunteers, board members and vendors in our Portland Farmers Market blog.

Join us on a trip down recipe memory lane spotlighting Spring produce available at the farmers markets now. (We have also included some seasonal recipes from FOTM (friends of the market).

Hope to see you and yours at PSU Farmers Market, open year round on Saturdays!

Salads

• Carrot Salad with Za’atar-Yogurt Dressing & Crisp Beet Salad with Preserved Lemon
• English Pea And White Bean Salad
• Radish, Mâche & Arugula Salad with Nettle-Cashew Cream
• Radish Salad

Main

• Nettle Pasta with Chive Morel Cream Sauce
• Spinach and Warm Asparagus Salad with Shaved Egg and Croutons
• Wild Mushroom Gorditas with Crema Verde

Sauces, Pickles & Spreads

• Springtime Fava Bean Spread
• Broccoli Rabe Pesto
• Sweet and Sour Braised Radishes
• Pickled Asparagus & Fiddleheads

Sweet Things

• Nettle and Olive Oil Flan
• Rhubarb Simple Syrup

And here are some Spring recipes from FOTM:

PNW CSA

• Nettles Pesto
• Spring Raab Breakfast – 3 Ways
• Warm Potato Salad with Arugula

Cook First PDX

They have numerous mouthwatering recipes highlighting Spring produce on their website.  Here are some highlights:

• Mushroom and Nettles Breakfast Tacos
• Rhubarb Shrub
• Sorrel and Cress Pesto with Sauteed Cardoon & Rapini and Pasta

Jim Dixon, Wellspent Market

• Nettle Artichoke Dip
• The Joy of Rhubarb
• Red Fife Olive Cake with Rhubarb

Heather Arndt Anderson, OPB’s Superabundant Newsletter

• Green borscht
• Sablefish with sauce vin blanc