On the wagon

Market Wagon is an online farmer’s market serving various regions around the country.

I have milk in my fridge right now in a returnable glass bottle — and it’s non-homogenized, meaning that the cream rises to the top. If I want the normal milk-to-cream ratio, I will have to shake it up before using it.

In the Instant Pot, I put some farm-made andouille sausage — uncooked, not the smoked-sausage type that I normally buy at the supermarket — cooking with some rice. I browned the sausage in the casings, then added the rice and water and let the sausage cook through along with the rice. I cannot speak to the authenticity of the andouille, but it tastes delicious.

I also have a flask of hot-but-tasty garlic hot sauce, with searing notes of habanero.

This stuff was an experimental order from Market Wagon, an online farmer’s market which delivers specialty products to your door. The company operates in a number of states, but in each of its individual markets, you’re ordering only local products from your area. Market Wagon’s Nashville market area includes Bedford County.

Specialty food is always a little pricey. As much as we badmouth the big food corporations (and they often deserve it), they have economies of scale and science which allow them to produce food at an…