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Want to receive baskets of vegetables and fruits fall, winter and spring? Benefits of Becoming a Member:- Enjoy local and seasonal fruits and veggies all year round
- Fresh, high quality, home-grown flavor
- Bi-weekly fall, winter and spring deliveries to convenient drop off locations near you
- Your choice of the size bag for your needs: mini, basic and full sizes. Add on fruit, roots, and greens
- Access our on-line web store for many more essential items
- Cancel when you are out of town
- Supplement your own garden, you grow greens: we have roots and fruits!
- Lower your carbon footprint. Save gas, we deliver to you
- Support local growers, producers and makers.
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News From Outer Aisle
Highlights for the third week of September
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What You'll Find at the Markets this week
The tomatoes just seem to keep coming! We'll have tons of heirlooms this week, so if your gardens are winding down and you are hankering for a good tomato, we have 'em. Specials on heirlooms when you buy over 3 lbs, this week only.  Do you love tomato sauce in the winter? Fancy making up a batch and freezing or canning it for that special homemade spagetti sauce. Here's your chance...we'll have canning tomatoes on special for the next few weeks. One case (18#) tomatoes $18 will put up 3-5 zip lock gallons of sauce or 10 quart jars of tomatoes. Despite the cool weather, Indira from Tyson Hill Farms keeps offering up those great peaches. The end must be coming soon, so eat them up while they are here. This week we'll have the sweetest of all the peaches, Arctic Snow white peach and it's cousin the Arctic Snow Nectarine. You'll also find Black Monukka grapes and more of those gorgeous green Thompson grapes. Stop
by one of the Farmers Markets this week! And don't forget our Indoor
Farmers Market Thursdays, noon to 6pm and Saturdays, 10 to 4pm at Outer
Aisle in Douglas Flat!
LAST WEEK Arnold
Farmers Market, Sunday 10 am to 1:30pm at the Cedar
Center, Arnold (behind Tallahans Cafe). Val Du Vino Farmers Market on Friday evenings, 4 - dusk, Murphys. Can't make it to our store or farmers markets and want to get in on all these great items weekly, then join in on our CSA deliveries |
RECIPES of the Week!
SAUCE ROUGE
(both recipes excerpted from The Vegetarian Table by Georgeanne Brennan)
Serve with summer vegetable dishes of all kinds, pasta and rice.
1 large sweet red pepper
2 tomatoes
2 cloves garlic, unpeeled
2 tsp chopped blanched almonds
1/4 cup olive oil
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper
Preheat a broiler, or prepare a grill. Place the red pepper, tomatoes, and garlic cloves on a shallow pan and broil, turning once, until charred, 3 to 4 minutes on each side. Alternatively, place them on a grill rack and grill, turning once until charred, 3 to 4 minutes on each side. Remove from the oven or grill rack and slip the pepper and the garlic into a plastic bag, seal it closed, and let stand for a few minutes to sweat and cool. Using your fingertips, peel away the skins from the pepper, then remove the stem, seeds and ribs. Remove and discard the skins from the garlic. Peel off the skin and core the tomatoes.
In a blender or in a food processor fitted with the metal blade, combine the garlic cloves, almonds, and olive oil. Puree until smooth. Add the sweet pepper, tomatoes, salt, and black pepper and again puree until smooth. Use immediately or transfer to a bowl or jar with a tight-fitting lid and store in the refrigerator. It will keep for 3 to 4 days.
Use the famous Camalay tomatoes for this recipe!
PROVENCAL TOMATOES
8 medium-sized tomatoes, halved crosswise
3 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 cup fine dried bread crumbs
2 tsp salt
1/4 cup herbes de Provence
1/4 cup olive oil
Preheat a broiler. Place the tomatoes cut side up on a baking sheet. Sprinkle the garlic, bread crumbs, salt and herbes de Provence evenly over the tomatoes. Then drizzle a little of the olive oil over the top of each. Place the baking sheet under the broiler and broil until the tomatoes have softened and the topping has browned slightly, 4 or 5 minutes. Serve hot or at room temperature.
Come check out our INDOOR FARMERS MARKET .... a cool place
to get your weekly needs. Every Thursday, noon to 6pm, all summer long!
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Vegetable Profile: The Camalay Tomatoes
Our neighbors, the Vogliotti's introduced the Camalay tomato to Calaveras County back in the early 1900's. Without knowing it they created a legacy that is still alive today. Saving seed year after year by selecting the best tomatoes to save seed from, gradually acclimatized the original tomato to our climate and ultimately created an heirloom.
We have grown this tomato for 20 years and it out performs other open-pollinated varieties for it's productivity. As mid September rolls around, the Camalay graces our tables as the tomato of choice. We are not sure if it's the cooler evening temps or the unique way that flavor and peak production combine, but the unique smell is heavenly, making this one of our favorites. There's no doubt in our minds that the Vogliotti family would have been proud of the heritage that they left behind, as were their customers 60 years ago, eager to peel and slice their way through the September harvest year after year.
The site of the old ranch house 1999
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What's Up In The Garden
Fall Vegetable seedlings are available on a weekly basis at our store only. We'll have a broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, chard and lettuce available at $1 per plant or $5 per 6 pack. Time to plant seeds...we'll have these available at our Store as well as essential gardening supplies, cover crops and much more.
GARDENING WORKSHOP:
Mo ving into Fall
Saturday 18th September. 9am to noon. Cost is $15 individual and $20 family/friends. By clicking on the link you can register and pay online. Register Here or pay on the day. Prepare for the fall with season extension, introduction to cover crops, plantings in succession and just general knowledge. Bring your questions and have them answered by Eric.
Announcing farm tours every Saturday. Sorry no farm tour this weekend. Eric will be leading a guided tour of the farm from 10:30 to 11:30. No sign up required. Meet at Outer Aisle, Douglas Flat and walk five minutes to our farm. Eric's tours encompass cooking and nutrition, gardening and growing, history and botany, techniques and trade secrets!!
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 Outer Aisle FOODS & GOODS "Essentials for the 21st Century".
Our mission is to facilitate a speedy transition to a sustainable
economy by offering the essential tools, ingredients and knowledge to
prepare us for the 21st century.
Behind the scenes of Outer Aisle is Taylor
Mountain Gardens. Located just around the corner on Main Street in
Douglas Flat, our nearly two acre "beyond organic" farm produces a large
variety of seasonal vegetables including these seasonal highlights:
summer heirloom tomatoes, fall cauliflower, winter carrots and spring
potatoes to name just a few!
OuterAisle FOODS operates a year round CSA (Community
Supported Agriculture) program. We distribute the highest
quality, local, seasonal and regional produce and products to members
all over Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties. We only purchase product from
farms and producers who are committed to ecologically sustainable
practices and go beyond the National "Organic" standards.
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