New vendor at the PSU Portland Farmers Market for 2013: Nightlight Farms, an urban microgreens farm at 39th and E. Burnside in Portland. By the time I got there around 11 or so, he was already out of little baggies of the pea shoots so he cut them fresh for me! I also got a bag of the spicy sprouts… really they were all good. I could snack these just out of the bag.

I used those microgreens to make me feel a little bit healthier about the Chicken Liver Bourbon Mousse (with chicken liver, bacon, apples, mushroom, garlic, onion, butter, mascarpone, spices and salt) from Chop (also from the same visit to opening day of the Portland Farmers Market at PSU) that I was eating generously smeared on a sliced baguette… Yeah, healthy because I was also eating greens as I ate that whole mousse by myself over a couple days.

I also used their microgreens- pea shoots and broccoli sprouts- to top a gouda mac and cheese… coming in a future post!