Southside Farmers Market, Canberra
Spending a weekend in Canberra? Add this farmers market to your list. The Southside Farmers Market has about 60 stalls every Sunday morning, set within the grounds of Canberra College. It's a good-sized market, large enough to happily browse for an hour or two, but small enough to maintain a community feel.
Cherries from Drive-In Orchards in Young
We stopped by on a recent mini-break to Canberra and swooped on a bounty of cherries grown in Young. There's a terrific range of produce, artisan products and cooked foods ready-to-eat. We found that stallholders were super friendly and patient too.
Organic fruit stall and juices by The Apple Shed in Tumut
Braided garlic by Gumly Garlic from Wagga Wagga
We couldn't resist a garland of this Australian garlic grown in Wagga Wagga, and spruiked by our new best mate, Brian.
Flathead
Furry friends - I was feeling just as sleepy!
Gyoza Guy dumpling stall
Savoury cannoli by Cannoli Brothers
Baked goods, hot foods and snacks are interweaved throughout the market. Savoury cannoli sounds genius.
Sfogliatelle by Cannoli Brothers
Wood-smoked fetta cheese by Backa
It wasn't until I got home that I realised Backa is actually based in Queensland, but I'm still happy with my haul of wood-smoked fetta, prosciutto and a massive chilli salami aptly named The Godfather.
Breads and bagels by Bread Nerds
Ecuadorian chicken tamale $10 by Mokambo Caffe
Hot foods included freshly made crepes, gozleme, gyoza and pies but I only had eyes for the Ecuadorian stall selling tamale and pupusas.
Adding chilli sauce to the chicken tamale
My chicken tamale was a piping hot parcel, ladled over with optional chilli sauce.
Ecuadorian pupusa
The pupusa are available in variations of cheese, beans, cheese and beans, or cheese and spinach.
Lunch: chicken tamale and a cheese and fried bean pupusa
Lunch, ok it was breakfast, was an Ecuadorian feast of chicken tamale and a cheese and fried pupusa - shared of course.
Vanilla and wildflower donuts by Bombolini Doughnuts
And dessert had to be a Bombolini donut. Bombolini is probably one of the most popular stalls, with their donuts regularly selling out before the market closes.
Flavours include burnt butter toffee; white chocolate and raspberry; strawberries and cream; and dark chocolate and hazelnut but our favourite had to be the vanilla and wildflower donut. It's the bomb-olini! (groan)
Southside Farmers Market
Canberra College Woden Campus
40 Launceston Street, Phillip
Sundays 8am-11.30am
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Labels: Canberra and ACT, Farmers market
posted by Helen (Grab Your Fork) on 2/11/2018 01:40:00 am
4 Comments:
At 2/13/2018 3:00 am, Lee Tran Lam said…
Helen, you had me at Bread Nerds and Smoked Fetta!
At 2/19/2018 11:07 am, Bianca@forfoodssake said…
Some great finds there Helen. My Nonna would definitely approve of that Sfogliatelle!
At 2/27/2018 5:39 pm, Sarah said…
Lol “bomb-olini”
At 3/20/2018 7:08 pm, irene said…
I can't believe I miss this market last week in Canberra!
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