{"id":56,"date":"2010-07-11T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2010-07-11T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T15:34:00","slug":"yumfest-at-edmontons-farmers-market-and-a-visit-to-breadland-bakery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/yumfest-at-edmontons-farmers-market-and-a-visit-to-breadland-bakery\/","title":{"rendered":"Yumfest at Edmonton&#8217;s Farmers Market and a visit to Breadland Bakery."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week a friend and I paid a visit to Breadland Bakery, in Oliver Square. Every time I&#8217;ve tried to go there (all two times) it&#8217;s been closed. I&#8217;ve missed them by minutes. So it was nice to finally go in there, it&#8217;s such a nice place inside. They have a wide variety of vegan bread and buns as well as gluten free baking. I tried the wheat free foccacia and a vegan chocolate chip cookie. The consensus was that both items were fabulous. The gluten free foccacia was tasty, moist and flavourful, and lacked a &#8220;gluten-free&#8221; aftertaste. The Chocolate Chip Cookie was crumbly and chewy, but broke in half before I could grab a picture of it in all it&#8217;s glory. This was the best cookie I&#8217;ve had in a long time.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/4783286710\/\" title=\"breadland bakery vegan cookie by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"breadland bakery vegan cookie\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4139\/4783286710_e9f2b046af.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday morning was another cloudy rainy early morning at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-market.ca\/\">Edmonton City Center Farmer&#8217;s Market<\/a>. Lot&#8217;s of great stuff as usual, but I went with a mission. I wanted to pick up a few products from <a href=\"http:\/\/limegreens.com\/\">LimeGreens <\/a>since she<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/livelimegreens\"> tweeted<\/a> about the availability&nbsp;of truffles and macaroons on Friday (isn&#8217;t technology wonderful?) I was actually surprised at the turn out at the market, but Edmontonians take their farmers marketing seriously, so despite the weather, lot&#8217;s of people were out shopping and taking advantage of all the fresh new produce that has arrived.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/4780768635\/\" title=\"P1090565 by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"P1090565\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4093\/4780768635_b17bd9f6b3.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I wandered around for a bit looking at what was&nbsp;available. I had to go back to <a href=\"http:\/\/natures-sense.com\/\">Olga&#8217;s Nature&#8217;s Sense<\/a> and get some coffee infused soap, and another mint chocolate soap bar since I sent the last one to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theppk.com\/\">PPK<\/a>er in the USA.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/4780768759\/\" title=\"P1090576 by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"P1090576\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4142\/4780768759_82ef3121db.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Copious&nbsp;amounts of fresh veggies this week, I&#8217;m really looking forward to the weeks to come because I know it&#8217;s only going to get better. I picked up a beautiful purple&nbsp;kohlrabi, a bunch of carrots and some lovage from Sundog Organics, which upon returning home turned into my breakfast.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/4783359174\/\" title=\"veggies from farmers market by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"veggies from farmers market\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4137\/4783359174_02c0ae1def.jpg\" width=\"367\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The LimeGreen&#8217;s tent was well stocked and I picked up a couple of bags of vanilla&nbsp;macaroons&nbsp;and a variety of truffles. The&nbsp;macaroons&nbsp;were delicious and popular with both friends and family. It&#8217;s so exciting to see innovative raw vegan products. There was also a new flavour of kale chips this week, and I hope they appear every week. The sour cream and onion (&amp; still vegan) kale chips were fantastic, the flavour was perfect and I liked them a whole bunch more than the cheesy kale chips.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/4780768695\/\" title=\"P1090574 by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"P1090574\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4099\/4780768695_493e487d7a.jpg\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I asked around to find out more information about some of the things I thought had potential to be vegan at the Farmer&#8217;s Market.&nbsp;The soft fresh pretzel people let me know that their pretzels contain both butter and eggs.&nbsp;Ukrainian Baking (that is also located at the St.Albert Farmer&#8217;s Market) has various vegan breads&nbsp;available&nbsp;(my favourite is the onion loaf) but their sweet items and dinner buns have margarine (with dairy) in them. I keep meaning to ask about the locally produced Alberta wine, but that will have to wait untill another weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week a friend and I paid a visit to Breadland Bakery, in Oliver Square. Every time I&#8217;ve tried to go there (all two times) it&#8217;s been closed. I&#8217;ve missed them by minutes. So it was nice to finally go in there, it&#8217;s such a nice place inside. 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