Northside Produce Market April 4 Highlights

We love it when Northside Produce Market falls on the Easter long weekend….

as there’s more time to spend at the market, delight in market Easter treats and enjoy preparing and sharing your market bounty with family and friends.

Autumn brings colourful cauliflowers to the market and have you tried the Orange caulis at the Grima Farm Fresh Produce stall? They occur naturally and their colour comes from having at least 25 times more beta-carotene than their white counterparts. Sam Grima told me that “the seeds are hard to find, difficult to germinate and a bit hit and miss when it comes to growing them”. Thank you Sam and brother Steve for trying to grow less known produce, so we can experience and enjoy them.

Joshua at Wembley’s Chocolates aka Will Wonka, as I’ve nicknamed him, is busy making his Easter Egg Pods. Chocolate doesn’t come from chickens, Josh tells us and he is using chocolate moulds in the shape of Cacao pods, the fruit that gives us chocolate. Each pod is crafted from bean to bar chocolate, made from carefully sourced cacao and they come in 54% Milk Chocolate and 70% Dark Sydney Chocolate.

Making sweets was a therapy for Rose Mattar and after being asked to make 430 bonbonnieres filled with nougat for a wedding, Rose turned her therapy into a small business – Nuts for Nougat. Rose now sells out of her home-made nougat, at her market stalls in Bathurst and Orange and we’re loving how sweetly it’s packaged for Easter gifts at this market.

There can never be too many versions of Hot Cross Buns and Northside has some of the best in town. From Sonoma’s Not Cross Buns, award winners from Hearthe with native fruit and spices to Nonie’s glistening, gluten free gloriousness and Paddy the Baker’s classic HCB and a GF version too.

Whether it be seafood to cook on the bbq for a casual get together or a baked ham to serve up at an Easter dinner over this long weekend, we’ve got you covered. Then there is all the farm, fresh produce, cheese, wine and so much more…

A reminder to mums, dads and kids, you need to be at our Info stall no later than 11.30am, to pick up the clue sheet for the FREE Kids Treasure Hunt. 

Lisa MacDonald

Northside Produce Market Coordinator