The Farmer's Markets - The Rocks, Sydney

Today, the sun was packing some serious heat so going out into the hot air was not on the top of my list but for markets selling fresh produce I would venture out there. The Farmer's Markets at The Rocks is not very big but it is a welcome addition to the existing weekend stalls that already frequent here. This market will now be on every Friday and Saturday so go take a look as there are heaps of fresh fruit, veges, organic pastas, meat and flowers!

The market bike?
We started at the George St end and did a loop around the stalls and as always I snapped away happily.

Eumundi Smokehouse
This stall also sells fresh sausages of all sorts of wonderful combinations of flavours. We test-tried the smoked Chorizo and Kasana and ended up buying some of the Kasana which has a small kick to it.

Lots of wonderfully smoked meats hanging out for display making me want to buy some and them there and then.

Pasta Emilia
The word 'organic' on any produce always sucks me in. This stall has the a beautiful truffle cream which goes well with the gnocchi and pumpkin ravioli that we test-tasted. They also had a very popular pesto sauce that was selling so well that they only had 2 of the larger sized containers left (well 1 after we visited this stall hee hee).

Sooo much creamy goodness mmmmm.

This little stall sold some fresh bagels in either poppyseed, plain or mixed grain flavours.

Flowers are always fun things to take photographs of ^^! So I played around with some colour accenting as well.

Pretty in pink
Mellow in yellow

Fresh fruit and veges. Look at all those strawberries!

The next stall had 'Unusual' potatoes and clear descriptions of each of these types. We were intrigued by the 'Sapphire' potatoes which are purple in colour. I know there are purple sweet potatoes but purple potatoe potatoes is also interesting.

Lots of different olive oils and balsamic vinegars.
Some of these have very interesting flavours and I should ahve tried them but alas I did not.. maybe next week hee hee.

Yuri's fresh fruit and veges stall. Good to see this familiar face here :P

Since the sun was getting a bit intense, Brasserie Bread could not display these in the display box and were selling at discount. So we ended up buying a Belgium chocolate croissant, a raspberry pastry, a almond croissant and a butter croissant.

The name of this stall says it all haha. The smoked ocean trout was absolutely divine on small pieces of pieces of crisp bread and when combined with the wasabi cream... it just melts into a wonderful creamy explosion of flavours in your mouth.

Mushrooms are just wonderful when pan-fried with butter or in a stir fry. I especially like the King Brown variety as they have a nice meaty texture to them.

Again we meet our good friends from the Good Food Grower's Market at Pyrmont selling the deliciously rich and creamy New Jersey milk.

After we have perused the stalls we found out there was another market at North Sydney today so I will need to find out about that one since it was apparantly much larger with lots of food. But this Farmer's Market was still worth the trip and I will most definitely be coming back to stock up on more yummy goodies.

The Rocks Farmer's Market
Friday 10am-3pm
Saturday 9am - 3pm
Jack Mundey Place, The Rocks
(Intersection of George St and Argyle St)

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