Review: Not Much Farmer's Market Here!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 29, 2012
The Farmer's Market in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, must be VERY different than any Farmer's Market I have ever seen anywhere in New England, where the markets are full of high end veggies, beautiful fresh greens, wild mushrooms, local cheese, honey & meat, local jams, jellies & pickles and of course fruit in season and locally made crafts.  Thus I was shocked to see so many recipes that called for cake mixes, Cool Whip (isn't Minnesota a dairy state too?) and ramen noodles.One recipe was particularly revolting:  a Red Beet Cake that not only called for beets, but also instant chocolate pudding and Cool Whip.  A Spring Vegetable Frittata contained only vegetables that can be found at the Farmer's Market in either Vermont or Minnesota in late July, August and September.Favorite Farmers Market Recipesis not completely terrible.  There are a few rather nice recipes for unusual pickles and the Maple Pecan Waffles sound good.  You will have to do some mighty careful hunting for them though, because the entire functional Table of Contents appears numerous times, at the beginning of every division.  Really, don't authors check this stuff?