This Week's Food (10/10/10)

Orders due by 11 am saturday. It's great to have this fall weather now. Hurry up fall greens! I want a salad again :-)

Enjoy a Cup of Bliss Coffee from Wooded Bliss
All coffee is fair trade, organic, and shade grown. Coffee is roasted per order.
Order 1/4 lb, 1/2 lb or a full pound. Prices are $2.50, $5.00 and $10.
Let us know whether you would like whole bean or ground.
Packaged in a reusable jar. Please return the jar.

From Locust Grove Farm:
*fresh goat milk @ $8/gallon, $4/half gallon, and $2/quart
*goat milk cheddar cheese @ $6/lb
*cow milk colby cheese @ $4/lb
*goat hot pepper and garlic cheese @ $6.75/lb
*goat blue cheese @ $8/lb

From the Swaruy Dairy:
*fresh cow milk @ $4/gallon, $2/half gallon, $1/quart
*butter @ $5/lb block
*buttermilk @ $1/quart

From Next Step Produce:
The following are all certified organic

*** Order # of pieces you want - even if the charge is by the pound.

* asian persimmons @ $6/lb (small size) -- Known as "the apple of the orient"! Persimmons are bright orange in color and gooey sweet on the inside. We grow many different varieties ranging in size from a small apple to a really large apple. Just quarter them and eat them up, or make fabulous pies or cakes with their yummy flesh.

* grape kiwis @ $5/ half pint -- grape kiwis are a small grape-size kiwi hardy to our region. They look just like fuzzy kiwis on the inside, just smaller and not fuzzy on the outside - so you just pop them in your mouth. They are also wrinkled when ripe, not smooth and beautiful. Flavor is more important than beauty! Packed with vitamin C and delicious.

* acorn squash @ $2.50/lb -- Dry nutty-flavored flesh. Great just cut in half, greased and baked cut-side down. Then complement with just plain olive oil or butter, or get fancy with a vinaigrette of garlic/ ginger/ ume plum paste or vinegar/ sweetener. Also great for stuffing.

* butternut squash @ $2/lb
* sunshine squash @ $2.00/lb
* red hybrid tomatoes @ $3.6/lb
* yellow/orange heirloom tomatoes @ $4.6/lb
* pink/purple heirloom tomatoes @ $4.6/lb
* red plum tomatoes @ $3.20/lb
* yellow plum tomatoes @ $3.20/lb
* red cherry tomatoes @ $4/pint
* yellow cherry tomatoes @ $4/pint
* green peppers @ $2.40/lb
* red bell peppers @6/lb
* yellow bell peppers @ $6/lb
* red corno di toro frying peppers @ $6.80/lb
* asian eggplant @ $3.60/lb
* italian eggplant @ $3/lb
* arugula @ $3/bag - finally, the first of our fall greens! So refreshing to have. Arugula is a favorite mustard green - very flavorful with just the right heat. Great in salads with walnuts

* sweet potato greens @ $3/bunch
* french breakfast radishes @ $2.50/bunch -- the long slender kind which is red at the top half and white at the bottom half

* regular onions @ $3/lb
* garlic bulb @ $8.50/lb (typical bulb costs $1-$1.50)

*** Order these things by the pound or fraction thereof:

* sunchokes @ $5/lb -- edible tuber, member of the sunflower family. sweet, nut-like flavor with crisp texture resembling water chestnut

* fresh ginger @ $15/lb -- fresh ginger means it is not mature (our growing season is not long enough for that). Therefore it is not-at-all stringy and has no skin to peel off. It is the tender juicy ginger used in making sushi ginger. Absolutely spectacular!

From It's Only Natural Farm:
* free range, organically fed medium eggs @ $2.50/dz

Please remember that between nature and labor, sometimes not everything on the list is actually harvested according to plan.