Find Flemish Desem Bread at Ardovino's Farmers Market

Robert Ardovino says that visitors to the Ardovino's Desert Crossing Farmers Market will find many new things tomorrow: peaches, five different types of squash, watermelons, corn, and plums. Customers can also purchase grass fed beef and free-range chicken. To top it off, green chili will be roasted!

At the Coffee Stream you can get fresh squeezed carrot/apple, grapefruit and orange juices. I always like their market fresh burritos; but there is also garden grown carrot zucchini muffins as well as bagels with organic tomatoes, cream cheese, red onion or lox.

You will also be able to find Flemish Desem Bread baked by Bread of Life, a small family bakery run by Anne Landry. Anne tells me:

"Our favorite bread is a Flemish Desem and it takes 2 days to make. None of our breads use white sugar or white flour. In fact, some of our unmatched artisan breads such as Desem use no sweeteners at all. The Flemish Desem bread is our family favorite containing only the "desem" or "desem baby" starter, made from organic Kamut and pure water along with spelt, sometimes wheat, purified water and Celtic sea salt. A complex process of feeding the desem "baby" produces a beautiful crusty topped bread with unmatched flavor and nutrition. "

Bread of Life uses only freshly ground wheat, spelt, Kamut. They also use local raw honey and garden fresh Italian parsley, basil, onions and other herbs.

They make a long list of other breads: multigrain, honey wheat, Italian herb bread, cinnamon raisin bread, Hawaiian Coconut bread, focaccia bread and more.

Anne can be contacted at nokingbutjesus@sbcglobal.net.

If you have never been to Ardovino's Desert Crossing or their Saturday Farmers Market, here is an easy map with directions. The Farmers Market runs every Saturday from 7:30 until noon now through mid-October. The restaurant hours are Wednesday - Saturday 5 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Saturday lunch from 11 until 3 p.m. and Sunday 3 to 9 p.m. The Mecca Lounge is open late for cocktails.