Remember when Alice goes down the rabbit-hole in Wonderland and comes upon "a little bottle" on a table, "and tied round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words 'DRINK ME' beautifully printed in large letters"?
The wise girl makes sure it isn't poison first, but then does venture to drink from the bottle and discovers the contents had "a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffy, and hot buttered toast."
While you may not come upon such an all-encompassing potion at the Bellevue Farmers Market, you certainly will find plenty of tasty beverages, including new vendors Mochila, who make drinkable yogurt.
Available in plain, coffee, mango, and guanabana flavors, this smooth and not-to-sweet yogurt is perfect for breakfast on the go. I've been adding raw oats and sliced almonds to mine and dishing it up, in addition to pushing it on my 18-year-old daughter, who is always running out the door and skipping breakfast. (Sidenote: kudos on going with the Spanish name "guanabana," instead of the marketing-dud English name of "soursop fruit.")
You say soursop, I say guanabana
But there's more. Last week was a hot one, and my Market-sherpa younger daughter opted for an apple slushy from Martin Family Orchards.
Thanks for the visual, Foodspotting!
But she just as easily could have had another shave ice from La Panaderia or a kombucha from our two kombucharias (if there were such a word).
Adults will know the Market offers wine and cider as well. Finnriver is the vendor with bottles almost too beautiful to open:
and though Finnriver "grows over twenty varieties of traditional and heirloom apples in [their] organic orchard," if you've popped by their table you know they offer plenty of other cider flavors besides apple. The blueberry wine I bought there makes a lovely addition to desserts or as an after-supper liqueur.
We've also got Bunnell Family Cellar of Yakima with their award-winning wines and Melody Lynne Vineyard of Yakima River Valley, both bringing some of the Eastern Washington sunshine to our side of the mountains.
So hit the Market this week and pick up a little "Drink Me" for your stroll around, and another bottle for later.
