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Suzanne Santos: What’s in Your Fridge Friday?
You might know Suzanne Santos as the woman at the downtown farmers’ market with the fruit on her hat. Or maybe you met her once and she told you about how the organization she works for, the Sustainable Food Center, has been putting them on for five and a half years. Or maybe she pointed you in the direction of the farmer who had the last few tomatoes of the season.
Either way, if you’re in Austin and you’ve made any attempt to eat locally, you’ve probably crossed paths with Suzanne. When she’s not working behind the scenes at the SFC, whose programs benefits tens of thousands of people of all income levels in Central Texas, she’s working up a sweat side-by-side with the dozens of farmers and vendors who sell at the market at Fourth and Guadalupe streets downtown every Saturday morning.
Suzanne also recently took the plunge into food blogging in what she has aptly named The Dirt.
But she’s not only the market director, she’s also a customer, filling her fridge with fresh fruits and vegetables, homemade cheese and sustainably raised meat. Everything but the oil, she says.
Now if she can just figure out how to get olives to grow in Central Texas.
Small Gala apples from Bat Creek Farm (now out for the season-apples came, and went, quickly), watermelon from Reese Farm (Bar W Farm still has some Ice Box Sugarbabies as of 9/20), a small lovely mix of peppers, squash and eggplant from numerous farms (I like to make caponata right now), a smidgen of Remember When Dairy whole milk (it’s Friday, I’m going to get some more on Saturday), some of the same dairy’s buttermilk
There’s some ground Longhorn beef from Rasco Farm bought at the Wednesday market, and Watson Farm’s Blackberry Jelly (I also carry Harvest Time Farmstand’s chipotle raspberry too). A jar of homemade pesto, made from local garlic, basil, parmesan cheese and pecans from the market.
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