This past Tuesday Sarah and I ventured out to St Jacobs once again to experience this Mennonite town and its wonderful farmers market!
First things first we had to have lunch...and yes at first we went with the boring choices of a slice of American style pizza, and dumplings....but then Sarah saw a pogo sign and had to have one! She comes back with two plates, one is clearly a pogo and the other....A PIG TAIL! She saw it on the menu and had to have it and for only $3.00 how could she say no?!?!The picture right below is Sarah extracting all the meat from our delicious pig tail, and it was wonderful, very fatty but the meat was tender, a lot like ribs!
After we had stuffed our guts with probably more food then they could handle we started our adventure around the market. There were so many vendors.Outside mostly fresh, local produce and home decor items. Inside...the good stuff, meat and cheese vendors lined every wall! With a few Sweets tables thrown in here in there! We took home some awesome Beef Kebab's and Texas style cut pork ribs for dinner!
These amazing flowers are actually made out of chocolate!!! so beautiful!
I was even able to find a gift for my mom! The population in St Jacobs is heavily German decent so I was able to find my moms favorite cheese, Limburger. In Toronto its really hard to find so it was awesome to find a market that has a lot in stock!
Up stairs they have eccentric clothing vendors, home decor and jewelry shops!
This market caries anything food wise that you could possibly want! From goose fat, to whole pieces of cured meats, to maple sugar candy and everything in between! And bacon......lots of bacon!
We chatted with one of the maple syrup vendors for quite sometime, he was explaining his maps to us! Every push pin represents a person that has visited/bought from his booth from all over the world! The top map is just Europe, and the bottom one is the globe! Its pretty interesting to see how people from all over the world come here and buy our liquid gold!
Just as we were about to head home we stumbled upon a booth called the Fruit Cellar. They have anything you could possibly want pickled, preserved and candied. One jar in particular caught Sarah's eye, pickled baby corn! Me I left with some fudge!
Home sweet home and we settled down to some awesome margaritas and our St Jacobs dinner! awesome day and worth the second trip to see it in action!
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