Fresh, homemade pizza is a wonderful thing. If you are going for grilled pizza, try grilling the veggies a little bit beforehand. Also, you don't even need the pizza stone for a successful grilled pizza. Just form the dough, lay it on the grill over low fire and cover for 60-90 seconds until brown on the bottom. Remove from grill, add toppings to the browned side and return pizza to grill. Cover and cook for another 90 seconds or so until the crust is golden.

And what better beverage to wash it down with than refreshing Dancing Buffalo Cidre? OOPS! It was supposed to be available at the Elmwood-Bidwell Market, but the market administrator (from Amherst, by the way) turned down the locally produced product (made in Buffalo, by the way). So much for the market's touted goals of marketing locally produced products and sustaining the local economy! Are politics getting in the way here again?

There's NO competition at the market to keep prices in check; one breadmaker (who obviously grows his own wheat), one flower grower, one bee keeper, one fantastic pasta peddler (who obviously grows his own semolina), one veggie burger grower, etc. You're better off shopping at Guercio's where the same products are available at competitive prices.

Sounds great, but... why are you cleaning out your veggies on Sunday night if your original premise was that you visit the market and half of your veggies are still in the fridge from the last week? You will still be unloading the new ones on top of the old ones. Clean out night should be the night BEFORE you go to the market, right?

Quote from Lauras: "We also restrict the market to agricultural products and close relatives." It's good to see that nepotism is alive and well outside of city government, too.