Jan Power's Farmers Markets

At 6.15am on Saturday, we were rugged up and ready for our first visit to Jan Power's Farmers Markets, at The Powerhouse, New Farm. It was nine degrees Celsius outside, so there were lots of scarves, beanies, coats and gloves around, especially among the stallholders. Hate to imagine what time they had to get out of bed!

First impressions: need to come back! Too much to see and check out for one visit! Lots and lots of stalls, heaps of good fresh produce, and a few non-food stalls (bags, jewellery, clothing, homewares) that were really lovely and broke up the pattern. Hot coffee, German sausages and pastries available for breakfast (I had a bretzel: mmm) and the most beautiful flowers for sale as well. See the carnations and jonquils I bought here.
Georgina's Cupcakes, The Cupcake Parlour and Sol Breads all had stalls there, as did the Cut-Price Deli at Greenslopes (my previous review). I bought some tasty marinated mushrooms.
Saw the Olympus haloumi guy: that is definitely the best haloumi brand available in town. Firm, not over salted, excellent flavour. He was frying up little cheese cubes for us all to try.
Someone else tried to offer us steaming hot chocolate... very hard to resist on such a cold morning!



Excellent strawberries, cheap herbs, wonderful eggs and mushrooms, fresh seafood and meat... totally too much to see and sample for one visit.
The strawberry guy had an old Chevrolet truck that he used to truck in his strawberries.
Got some nice avocadoes, but they were still a bit hard. Will wait for them to ripen before spreading them on multigrain toast, and sprinkling with lemon juice.
(My favourite fabric Doc Martens have a tiny ten-year-old stain on one toe: it's from an overloaded slice of avocado toast dripping onto my shoe one frosty winter morning. Every time I see that stain, it reminds me of that tasty breakfast).



Lots of gorgeous citrus fruits around, too. Can see why this market is hailed as one of Brisbane's best...
Can't wait for my return visit!