Visiting the ‘Boerenmarkt’(Farmers Market) in Jordaan has been on my list for some time already, and finally I went there yesterday! The open air farmer’s market on Noordermarkt is only open once a week, every Saturday until 4PM.
Compared to the Lindengracht market located a block away that I visited precisely a year ago, the Boerenmarkt sells, not only fresh farm produce, but gourmet products of organic nature, from jams and jellies of any kind, juices, bread and pastries, all sorts of cheeses, oils, ready to eat food, herbs and spices, hand-made pasta, and many more.
So after our Anne Frank Huis visit, Bru and I had coffee in one of the many gezellig cafes in Jordaan, afterwards, we checked out Boerenmarkt on the Noordermarkt where the Nooderkerk (church) is located. We lunched on kibbeling and haring while sitting on the canal steps of Prinsengracht, only realizing later that we became photography subjects for tourists on boat cruises passing by the canal, haha.
The market is nice. I have been to better markets in France, Italy and Spain, but yeah, we all know that no one can beat the markets down south (or exotic markets in other countries), so in my opinion, the Boerenmarkt in Jordaan, Amsterdam is good enough—much better than other markets I have been to in the Netherlands. I wish though that there were more farmers or gourmet fanatics showcasing their gastronomic finds.
We finished the day with some drinks over girly chat at a bruin café. I brought home a piece of scamorza (rook kaas or smoked cheese), a product from Puglia, Italy often times used as a substitute for mozzarella and some eucalyptus leaves for the living room. It was a nice Saturday, even with the wind storm, which was not as bad as last Friday.
Let me give you a market tour of Boerenmarkt through my fotos below:
In any market in Europe, more importantly in the Netherlands, cheese is always the main theme. My friend, Bru with the cheeses, haha.
Fresh produce from the farm, even as far as Spanje (Spain) for the chili peppers.
Some gourmet food: salsa paste, jam and jellies and juices and honey and more; dried jackfruit, then there’s Dutch style dried and cured sausages (not my favourite, I only bow down to Italian dried sausages); olive oil from Sicily; herbs and spices; and some granolas and canoli as well.
Pasta, mozzarella di buffala and yummy oysters. I was so tempted to buy/eat the oysters, with lemon.
Aren’t they, the bread and pastries, so pretty? Oh the bread, I want them now dipped in olive oil and balsamic vinegar (not so much a pastry-anything with lots of sugar fan).
At the Boerenmarkt in Noordermarkt, Jordaan – Amsterdam. You can see how windy it was yesterday, and today as well.
Travel Period: February 2011