Soups, Sandwiches, and Salads...OH MY!

Just Local Food is proud to announce a new endeavor with Alchemy Family Farm!

Owner/Chef, Bradley 'Dean' Parent has done it again. Adding to his repertoire of ready to eat tapenades (aegean), spreads (hummus, mushroom herb, smoked salmon), and cold salads (apple-beet, curried yam & walnut); look forward to Soups, Sandwiches, and Green Salads.

The initial menu looks fantastic and will be delivered this afternoon. Lots of local and organic ingredients and compostable/biodegradable containers. The menu will rotate, so stop in often to see what's new.

Sandwiches
"Il Rustica"(dairy)-A vegetarian selection featuring roasted eggplant, roasted red bell pepper gorgonzola cheese, sliced red onion, pepperoncini, and kalamata olive. Served with a caramelized onion aioli on baguette bread.
$6.99

Greek Chicken (meat/dairy)-House roasted Coon Creek Family Farm organic chicken is served with feta cheese, sliced tomato, red onion, kalamata olive tapenade, and cucumber. Served on ciabatta bread.
$7.49

Salads
Tex-Mex Salad (meat/dairy) - A mix of black beans, tri color peppers, corn, pico de gallo salsa, ancho chili roasted Coon Creek Family Farm organic chicken, and pepper jack cheese. Served on a bed of organic romaine lettuce with a smoked tomato vinaigrette.
$7.49

Asian Noodle Salad (vegan)- A selection of organic lettuces topped with udon noodles, orange sections, toasted almonds, celery, snow peas, and scallions. Served with a hoisin vinaigrette.
$6.99

Soups
Tomato-Basil Bisque (dairy)
$7.99

North African Lentil (vegan)
$7.99

New Mexican style Posole (meat)
$8.99

produce

Here's the quick buzz in produce:

Citrus season is still on with great cara cara (red navel) oranges, plenty of firm kumquots, bright blood oranges and a variety of tangerines. Check out the honey tangerines later this weekend. Also from down south we've got some great looking zucchini and bright delicious rainbow chard. A variety of local Blackberry hills potatoes are still available in bulk. Still a good supply of pears and apples. Plenty of garnet and jewel yams, nice and firm. Special purchase of scallions and cilantro. Nice looking red and green bell peppers, prices way down from last month. A new box of lemons is in and our last two local Harmony Valley soup mixes of the season are on the shelf (other local roots still available - try!). All items listed are certified organic.

And Seed Savers Exchange just notified me that our heirloom seeds should be in next week. That's over 100 varieties of heirloom and organic seeds that will be in store soon! Local potting soil, compost and other early gardening supplies will come as well!

New Products

New in Packaged grocery:

Amish Naturals egg noodles
Erewhon Gluten Free Brown Rice Cereal
Organic India Tulsi Pomegranate tea
Garbanzo bean flour (dedicated to the "bean lady")
Strawberry Kefir, Vanilla Kefir, Plain Kefir
Environkidz crispy rice berry bars
Triple berry cereal bars
Cute little tins of baking powder
K-toos gluten free sandwich cookies (making a reappearance)
Lundberg organic cinnamon toast rice cakes (also making a reappearance)
Late July cheese sandwich crackers in a box  (we also carry the snack size bags)

In the freezer:
Palermo's "hearth italia" organic pizzas made in Wisconsin

From the Malt Beverage department:
Two varieties from Northwoods Brewpub from right here in Eau Claire:
-Lil' Bandit Brown Ale (silver metal winner at the Great American Beer Festival)
-Floppin' Crappie English Mild Ale

Will have more Furthermore beers in again by next week:
-Makeweight (only three cases!)
-Proper
-Three Feet Deep
(-possibly Fatty Boombalaty)

Three new ones from Viking:
-Mørketid (The Norwegian name for midwinter polar darkness), a German Schwartz beer
(black beer) - seasonal
-Invader Doppel Bock - seasonal
-Mjød, a Honey Brackett; the 1st brewed in the US. It is like a Mead - a honey wine
with malt.  available in 22oz. bottles

Try some Beer Thursday the 26th

Bummer!
Canceled due to inclement weather.
Will be rescheduled soon.

If you are under the age of 21, please disregard this message!

Jessie, the beer ambassador from Tyranena Brewery in Lake Mills Wisconsin will be at Just Local Food Thursday February 26 from 4 to 6pm. Have a taste, learn about the brewery and the varieties they offer, and take home some discounted bottles.

Bread and Coffee Reviews

Say,

Some amazing bread we sell was highlighted in last week's Leader Telegram.

Take a peek at Audrey Fessler's and Jeff Vahlbusch's Diners' Notebook!

And hey - the fresh coffee at Just Local was featured in the Spectator this week. Take a peek:

Coffee crawl - Showcase

nuts!

Can you believe how widespread this salmonella contaminated peanut butter recall is? CRAZY!

We've been staying on top of it at the store. As you can imagine, we've been mostly unaffected by the recall. Our peanut butters come from our fellow worker-owned cooperative, East Wind in Missouri (read their recall statement). Pictured right is an East Wind community member "tubbing" some nut butter. Their full line of peanut butter is totally safe and unaffected by the recall. We also have a few jars of Kettle peanut butter, also unaffected.

We have some peanut butter sandwich crackers from Late July, they source their peanuts here and have safe product.

In fact, the only product we've had to pull is the Nutz over Chooclate Luna Bar. Please contact Clif directly if you have one of these products dated 28OCT08 to 31DEC09 at home. See their recall webpage, read the company statement and letter from their owners.

Valentine’s Day is this weekend!

Valentine’s Day is coming up soon. Why go out when you can have a romantic dinner at home? We’ve got (almost) all the goods for a memorable evening. How about a couple of steaks, oven-roasted potatoes, and some beautiful broccoli or a micro-green salad with blue cheese, walnuts, and oranges? Add some tunes in the background, two candles and a nice bottle of red wine, and you’ve got a groovy evening started. Maybe a roast chicken or Cornish game hen, rice pilaf, squash and a white wine is more your style.

Or have some good friends over for a beer tasting, salad, tortellini with tomato sauce, and an assortment of Ben & Jerry’s, and just make fun of the whole V-day. We’ve got you covered…