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*Please check with your local farmers market for current Covid -19 restrictions and protocols. It’s one of our favourite times of year, when the South Shore Farmers Markets start to open! That time of year when fresh, local produce, bread, honey, preserves and more start making their way to our kitchens and we couldn’t be …
We are so fortunate here on the South Shore to have farmers markets in many of our towns and communities. For a lot of people on the South Shore it has become part of their weekly routine to stop at the local market, chat with the growers and vendors and come home with their baskets …
We’re continuing along with our South Shore Farmers Markets series, after profiling Lunenburg and Bridgewater, we are venturing down to Queens County and the lovely Privateer Farmers Market in Liverpool. The day I stopped in to take some photos and have a visit, was actually during Privateer Days, so things were bustling and made for a …
There’s just something about a Farmers Market held on the Main Street of a town. Community gathering and chatting over coffee and breakfast, enjoying live music and picking up their locally produced produce and goods. Welcome to the Bridgewater Farmers Market, which operates every Saturday from June to October on King Street in Bridgewater, at …
We’ve been in a real cold snap recently, and this week was particularly harsh, with snow and freezing rain. I know a lot of people who like to travel down south during this time of year, and often begin a countdown to when they are feeling the heat of the sun and sand between their …
What says “back to school” more than apples? It’s September and apple season is just getting underway here in Nova Scotia with some local Gravensteins making their first appearance at our local farm markets. This is the perfect time to try a new apple recipe or two. Trust me, anytime you combine apples and cinnamon, someone will come in and say “what smells so good?!” Our favourite this time of year is Cinnamon Apple Bread.
I’ve made this Apple Cinnamon Bread twice this week already! It’s a great after school snack, and declared by my daughter’s best friends as one of the “best things ever!” 😉 I told her I would share the recipe so she could try to make it herself sometime. Quick to assemble, basic staple ingredients…a fun project to let the kids tackle sometime.
Here’s what you need:
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
2/3 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 cup milk
1 large apple, peeled and finely chopped
Check out Melissa at The Happier Homemaker for the recipe.
The air is starting to cool a bit, we’re grabbing sweaters when we head outside, this Cinnamon Apple Bread goes perfectly with this change in the seasons. September..apples…and bread…sounds good to me.
While I was at Bob and the Boys Farm Market this week, I picked up some beautiful blueberries and lemons. I just love the taste of lemon zest when it’s added to a blueberries in a recipe…so fresh…and…zesty. 😉 So what could be better than the two combined…in a cake…that you can eat for breakfast! …
I feel so lucky to live where I do. Seriously. Lucky. One of the best parts of living here in Lunenburg County is the abundance of Farm Markets. We have several weekly farm markets, in Bridgewater, Lunenburg and Liverpool, but we also have many seasonal markets like Bob and The Boys Farm Market. Bob and the Boys …