City Market Farmers and Vendors

Free Union Produce & Gourmet Edibles – A sustainable one-woman operation since 2000. Owner, Diane LaSauce. Rave reviews by patrons who name products as “The Best Scones”, “ The Best Granola”, “The Best Key Lime Pie on the Planet”, Rustic “21″-The best bread in Charlottesville”. Products are available at the Charlottesville City Market and by special order year round. Seasonal fare includes: a variety of pestos, jams, chutneys, heirloom flowers, and WOW-zer! Catnip. Ingredients grown by FUPGE or sourced locally whenever possible. Mission: Organic growing practices and humane treatment of animals. Ingredients carefully researched to provide highest quality available. Inspected VDACS kitchen.

Beginning in October, treat yourself to my Parisian Hot Chocolate with Handmade Marshmallows! This is not a mix! Bring your own mug!

I’m a home-baker in Charlottesville. People can’t help fall in love with our Asian style breads, so drop by our booth and try some sample!

We have:

Anpan

Melon-pan

Roll-pan

Shoku-pan

Anpan is our first product we had. It’s a yeast bread with sweet red bean paste filling. Sweet bean paste is popular in east Asia as a desert ingredients. Some American people say it looks like chocolate and tastes like apple butter. Talking little bit about history, it’s first created by retired Samurai 130 years ago.

Melon-pan is new in our lines. It’s a yeast bread covered by crispy sweet shell. It’s very popular for Japanese kids. Its name “melon” comes from its appearance; hard cracked skin looks like cantaloupe.

Roll-pan is a plain yeast roll without any filling, so you can consider as a dinner roll. Cut it into half, sandwich with ham, boiled egg and lettuce, with little mayo… makes a great lunch.

Shoku-pan is a loaf of sandwich bread. I use square molds imported from Japan.  You can slice it into any thickness. My favorite is a 1/2-3/4 inch thick and toast until both side gets to gold brown. Crispy outside and soft inside makes  a great breakfast. You can also slice it thinner to make sandwich.