A Hoboken Donut, Mutz, and Gravy Make Dinner

After a tasting tour through the Community Garden, courtesy of Patch writer Lori Sender, I longed for more of those Jersey tomatoes. South Orange's Farmers Market has them by the hundreds, from heirloom to tiny cherries, so that was a natural place to shop. And shop I did, leaving the market with a Jersey-fresh dinner for five.

Along with a "Hoboken donut" of bread, I bought pasta sauce --"gravy," the seller corrected me --  made and jarred in Hoboken, and chicken sausage, which dressed up and dignified plain old noodles. The salad course meant green-veined heirloom tomatoes, basil, and fresh "mutz." For dessert, I served lush cantaloupes so ripe that they hardly needed to be sliced. And then, since summer is waning and you only go 'round once, I made vanilla ice cream with a pint of blueberries still sweating their juices after a day in the sun. 

It was good eating, all from the Farmers Market. 

The Farmers Market is open Wednesdays from 2:00 until 7:00 pm in the Sloan Street parking lot.