Chilly nights, sunlit days; its soup weather! As we settle into Fall remember that the store has seating, a warm place to gather and a refrigerator & freezer full of dishes we can heat for you. We’re local and support local farms so it’s a good thing. Meet the Barn Show artists tonight over wine and cheese sampling 5-6pm.
The Leaf Peepers got a good show this week. Outside the fallen leaves pooled up at the front door but the trees still held on to some blaze. The kids outside jumping through the piles made it all quintessential.
But inside this last week-end we all were enraptured with Jordon Tirrell-Wysocki’s moving renditions of Celtic music on his fiddle and mandolin. Tears were seen and many people came out just for him including a couple from Austin, Texas. Dudley came to see his student and when he was escorted to a seat of honor, the Texas couple said, “Is this a Hallmark movie?! The town, the people, its incredible…we keep looking for the cameras”. See some of his music on our Facebook page and we sell his CDs for him.
And, again, we live here. Aren’t we lucky.
We have a couple new staff members now. Larry comes to work when his best friend Emily is here. Meet him through Halloween. And Emma, the Pro barcode scannerette, is here by special appearance, we hope many week-ends to come.
Cooking tip
My chef friend Kay told me years ago that if you roasted your vegetables first before turning them into soup it tasted so much better. It’s true! It doubles down on the flavor letting the heat of the roasting oven concentrate the vegetable flavors reducing the water content so your soup is deeply flavorful without the need for added flavor concentrates.
Last week end I tried this trick to make a vegetable mash to go with our Robie Farm pot roast. I roasted potatoes and carrots tossed with a little olive oil, kosher salt, fresh ground pepper and granulated garlic. When they were soft and browned THEN I mashed them with butter and whole milk. All I can say is that we ate in silence, each of us spooning the creamy savory-sweet comfort into our mouths. Who needs dessert?
DID YOU KNOW?….
…that the store always has onions, garlic, roasting potatoes (Yukon Gold) and carrots? We also always have some sort of greens and broccoli on hand too. We like to cook and want to help you do the same.
Click here to see our prepared food specials for next week. And don’t forget that we are doing pizza live every Wednesday night. Call ahead to pick a time for pick up or eat here, 4-7pm.
Calling all pumpkin carvers!
The store is sponsoring a pumpkin carving contest as part of the town’s Halloween festivities. Follow the rules and bring one to us on Friday October 25 any time during store hours and we will judge it the following day. Awards ceremony at 5:00pm Saturday October 26. Everyone wins something but a grand prize will be awarded too.
The back story: when our daughter was 3 years old we decided to have a family gathering around the harvest season and carve pumpkins as an excuse for another artistic outlet. What ensued was crazy fun as judges were bribed and the pumpkins became outrageous. 20 years later when we moved the Canterbury we kept the tradition going and invited all our neighbors and friends. The tradition eventually moved to town center but petered out at some point. This year we are reviving it using some of the kids who carved from years past–now adults–to do the judging! We hope you will be part of this!
We hope you have a great week,
Jane and Dave
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