Welcome to Week 25

Half Share Members: Is This Your Pickup Week?

ODD Week Share Members (your previous pick up was September 14th): See you tomorrow.
EVEN Week Share Members (your previous pick up was the 21st): See you NEXT week.

Invoices For Overages

Yes, we meant to send everyone with a balance a bill. This year we are billing once per quarter to clear the books, or monthly if your balance is over $30. Please write out your check and bring it along to drop off with your pickup. You may pay cash if your balance is under $20 and you have exact change. Thanks!

BYOB = BRING YOUR OWN BAG!

Bring your Fair Shares bags, please. When we run out of paper bags, you will be making multiple trips to your car if you don't bring something to put your food in!

 

Extras Available

Email your order by noon to orders@fairshares.org, and please include your pickup group in your email. If your name/email is not the one we have on the check-in sheet, please include that too. Remember that fresh produce is not tradable. Some items may be in short supply, so please leave an alternative choice if you plan to make an even trade.

NOTE: we're out of ground lamb and ground turkey!

Chestnuts: $2.95/.5 lb. Yay! Rejoice! Sara's favorite food is back in season! Carefully score an "x" in the flat side with a knife or good kitchen shears (did we mention "carefully"), and roast in the toaster oven at about 400F for about 20 minutes. The cut skin will curl back a little, and the white flesh will turn yellow. Pluck one out, toss it from hand to hand until you can give it a squeeze to crack the peel in both directions of the "x" you cut in it, and pop it in your mouth to check for doneness. It should be firm, but not crunchy. Remove from the oven when done and wait just until cool enough to handle before peeling. Once they cool, the skin inside the peel will re-adhere to the flesh making it difficult to peel. Eat them up or add to a recipe. They are so good in pasta with greens and mushrooms and maybe sausage all sauteed together. Yay!

From Fowl To Fabulous

- Houston's Homegrown Turkeys: Paul Houston has 10-12 pound turkeys available now! Time to practice for Thanksgiving. There's nothing like a smoked turkey on the barby, MmmmMmm! $4.50/lb.

Thrilled to the Grill
Now that the weather has become more tolerable, get on out there and stoke up the coals! American Grassfed Beef makes awesome dry-aged steaks:
Sirloin: $9.50/8oz.
NY Strip or Ribeye: $13/8oz. or 2/$25
Filet Mignon: $11/6 oz. or $15/8 oz. Wrap it in bacon--it's like Christmas!
Flank or Skirt Steak: $9.50/lb. (Skirt steak is flank steak's not-as-cute sister. They range in size from slightly under 1lb. to 1.5 lbs.) Marinate in equal parts soy sauce and cooking wine. Grill to mid-rare. Dee-lish! Great as an appetizer on Crostini, or in a fajitas.
Ground Beef ($6/lb.) and Ground Lamb ($9.10/lb.) mixed together make the most awesome burger--just add a little garlic and hot pepper--zing-a-ling!
Brisket: $5.70/lb. Averaging about 2.5-3+ lb. Smoke 'em if you got 'em.

Happy Pigs = Tasty Pork!
Pork-Onion Patties: $5.75/lb. These are really tasty and satisfying burgers, four to a package, averaging just over a pound. (Priced per pkg.)
Sausages-a-plenty: We have a variety of Geisert ($5.50) and Hinkebein ($6.50) link sausages and brats available.
Bacon: $5.99/lb. Priced as marked. Did someone say BST (Bacon Shoot Tomato)? Oh yeah.
Braunschweiger (aka liverwurst): $5.50/1 lb. package in a bright yellow wrapper! We'll be switching to half pound packages in the near future.

Chicken Stock bags: $2.50/lb. in 2-3 pound bags. See exciting info below!
Salume Beddu Mostarda: $7.50. So good on crackers with cheese or with meat. Yum!
Salume Beddu Fig Tapenade: $9.00. A combination of kalamata olives and figs to send you over the moon. Great with chevre. Mmm hmm.

  Butter!  $5.00/.5 lb. Holy cow, that's expensive! Yes, she held out on us for months and then raised the price 50¢ per piece. And no, I didn't hesitate when she said it, because we all know it's worth it. It's a cheap addiction and you know it, and I'd bet that cow really is holy. We'll be getting more each week, so no need to horad it!

Apples: $2.80/6. Red and golden delicious--3 each.
Schwartz Apple cider: $4.50/.5 gallon. The beginning of the cool season makes me happy because I know it means hot cider (with rum and a cinnamon stick for me)!
Oraganic Blue Heron Apple Cider: $5.50/.5 gallon. A more complex, heartier cider. Just as delicious heated and served with rum...
Snow Leopard Melon: $2.00. It tastes like cucumber! But really, who cares if it tastes good? It's like a bottle of wine you buy for the label, or the name...like Snow Leopard. Rahr.

Cucumbers: $2/lb. These are super crunchy little pickling type cukes.
Summer Squash: $2.25/lb. Not sure what varieties we'll have extra right now, maybe zephyr, maybe patty pan, maybe yellow.
Winter Squash: $1.50/lb. Butternut, Acorn, maybe Spaghetti, and Pie pumpkins!

Missouri Pecans: $4.25/.5 lb. or $8.45/lb. Sweet little things. Great for desserts, salads or as an addition to your roasted eggplant dish (don't forget the cheese!). The next order that's coming in is costing more, so the price will be going up to $4.65/.5 lb. shortly. Get 'em cheap while you can!
Potatoes: $3.50/2 lb. bag of red, white or Yukon golds. or give 'em the Fingerlings: $3.25/1 lb. bag
Sweet Potatoes! $3.50/2lb. bag.

Edamame: $4/lb. You need more! They freeze well.
Garlic: $1.65/share (depends on the head size). Bellew Creek large head of garlic: $1.10 ea.
Onions: $2/lb. Red, white and yellow. Almost patriotic.
Mushrooms: $7.00. We ordered extra so all you who missed your mushrooms can fill your pockets.