FARMERS MARKET REPORT: WEEK OF JAN. 24, 2010
Local Truffles: both white and black, roughly the size of walnuts and sold by the ounce are available at the farmers market via Clearwater Farms. The white truffles have an intense fragrance and an mild flavor of butter, fresh-roasted hazelnuts, and dried morels with a hint of garlic. with a rather short shelf-life. The black truffles are pungent; the flavor is a strange mix of pineapple, mushrooms and chocolate. These truffles are sniffed out from the forest ground by trained dogs that find the richest mature truffles that release a musky aphrodesial scent. Imagine, fresh domestic truffles harvested from Douglas Fir woodlands! A rare treasure, indeed…