Nutrition educators from the University of Massachusetts Extension Nutrition Education Program in Fall River offered their fifth cooking demonstration at the Downtown Farmers' Market on August 11, 2011 with a summer vegetable fried rice dish prepared with produce from the Canuel Farm in Somerset. Nutrition educators Lindsey Magan and Jessica Wilcox visited the Canuel Farm earlier in the week to select the produce for this week's demonstration. "This dish combines the flavors of fresh tomatoes, corn and broccoli with the flavor of ginger and garlic to create a very flavorful dish," reported UMass nutrition educator Lindsey Megan. Visits to farms and the cooking demonstrations are filmed each week and aired on Fall River Government Channel on cable television. Click here for the video of the demonstration. Click here for the recipe. Click here. here, here and here for photos from other farmers' market cooking demonstrations by the UMass Extension nutrition educators. For more information, contact Pat Bebo at 508-675-7315.

(Top row, left) Fabien Canuel, co-owner of the Canuel Farm in Somerset, MA, sells his produce at the Downtown Farmers' Market on Old Second Street near Government Center. (Top row, center and right) University of Massachusetts Extension nutrition educators Lindsey Magan, Jessica Wilcox and Lauren O'Flynn demonstrate how to prepare the dish at a table a few feet away from where the vegetables are sold. (Middle row) Ingredients for the dish include sesame seed, soy sauce, garlic, broccoli, ginger, tomatoes, corn, an egg, cooking oil and minute rice. (Bottom row) Walter Kauffman, Jason Mello and his brother, Charlie, and Debbie Cross all stop by to sample the dish and pick up a recipe.