Driftless Organics
This week's featured farmers-market stall
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The source: Soldiers Grove, Wis.
Wares: Because it's winter, Driftless Organics currently has potatoes in blue, red, sweet, and German Butterball varieties; red, yellow, and cippolini onions; shallots; parsnips; garlic; and sunflower oil.
Best deal: Roots and tubers are pretty much always a good deal, but right now, 5 pounds of delicious local potatoes cost $7.
Weirdest item: Sunflower oil, pressed and bottled from the seeds of the farm's sunflower fields. Use like other oils for salads, stir frying, or baking.
Serving suggestion: Driftless Organics began life as Rainbow Potatoes, growing, as the name suggests, a full spectrum of colorful potatoes. Do not fear the multicolored potato, say co-owners Josh and Noah Engel. Nothing says potato salad with pizzazz (or perhaps Swedish pride) like one made with blue- and yellow-fleshed potatoes, or pile of blue mashed potatoes.
Find it at: Dane County Winter Farmers' Market, Saturdays, 8 a.m.-12 p.m. Madison Senior Center through April 11.
Wares: Because it's winter, Driftless Organics currently has potatoes in blue, red, sweet, and German Butterball varieties; red, yellow, and cippolini onions; shallots; parsnips; garlic; and sunflower oil.
Best deal: Roots and tubers are pretty much always a good deal, but right now, 5 pounds of delicious local potatoes cost $7.
Weirdest item: Sunflower oil, pressed and bottled from the seeds of the farm's sunflower fields. Use like other oils for salads, stir frying, or baking.
Serving suggestion: Driftless Organics began life as Rainbow Potatoes, growing, as the name suggests, a full spectrum of colorful potatoes. Do not fear the multicolored potato, say co-owners Josh and Noah Engel. Nothing says potato salad with pizzazz (or perhaps Swedish pride) like one made with blue- and yellow-fleshed potatoes, or pile of blue mashed potatoes.
Find it at: Dane County Winter Farmers' Market, Saturdays, 8 a.m.-12 p.m. Madison Senior Center through April 11.
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