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Want to receive baskets of vegetables and fruits this summer. Weekly deliveries to Tuolumne County.Benefits of Becoming a Member:- Enjoy local and seasonal fruits and veggies all year round
- Fresh, high quality, home-grown flavor
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- Supplement your own garden, you grow greens: we have roots and fruits!
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News From Outer Aisle
Welcome the last newsletter of July, 2011
New hours and new days: 11 am to 7pm Thursdays and Fridays
11 am to 4pm Tuesdays and Saturdays. Upcoming Events: Check out the July events at Outer Aisle.... Friday, July 29, 3 to 7pm: Gourmet Garlic Galore. Do you remember the Garlic Harvest Festival we put on for four years at our old far  m in the early 2000's? We had a tasting of all the varieties we grew (20 one year), fresh, sauteed and baked. Garlic is an amazing crop - not only for it's flavor in cooking but for how it's propagated and grown. Garlic is a clone (like potatoes), a clove planted produces a bulb harvested. Today as generations of ancestors did for over 4000 years planted the cloves of the previous crop. Many of the varietals today can be traced back to villages in Russia, Italy, Afganistan. We bring you a touch of the good old days.... Come and sample the many varieties we grow, learn about the differences, history and medicinal properties. Summer CSA Sign-ups (weekly or bi-weekly): Can't make it to the store, live too far away or just busy living life, we can accomm odate you. Our weekly summer deliveries, beginning July 7th service many locations in Tuolumne and Calaveras County. Log into the sign-up wizard for more details of drop off locations, bag sizes and prices.
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Vegetable & Fruit Highlights VEGETABLE HIGHLIGHTS: You read that right! We are pleased to announce we are the first in Calaveras County (unconfirmed as of yet) to have the earliest ripe tomatoes! The first heirlooms: Cherokee Purple - gorgeous purple with green shoulders and truly fruity flavor. Early Girl Tomatoes are abundant this week along with Sungold Cherry Tomatoes. Bi-colored corn, Yellow and Red Watermelon, Green Beans and Lemon cucumbers are a new addition. Plenty of squash, red onions, eggplant, purple peppers, basil (all four kinds in abundance), potatoes (Yukon Gold and Desiree). FRUIT HIGHLIGHTS: From the orchards of Tyson Hill Farm, Waterford we have the finest fruit! Indira writes: "When you bite into a Mariposa plum, you will find succulent red-flesh that is sweet and juicy. This heart-shaped heirloom plum is larger than most other plum varieties with a small pit, providing more flesh. The maroon speckles over light green skin clearly identify the Mariposa reminds some of Japanese pottery glazes. It's lovely in fruit salads, used in sweet green salads, even atop a cool summer dessert. It's our most popular plum, fresh and dried, and makes a beautiful and flavorful jam (Mariposa-raspberry, even more yum!). Long attributed to Luther Burbank, Slow Food now claims the Mariposa plum originated in Pasadena, California, where it was a chance seedling that was selected by Jennie Benedict Thompson in 1923. The late Merced plum farmer Andrew Noda planted this and other of his favorite plum varieties on our farm over the many years of friendship and quiet Sunday suppers together.
The favorite yellow nectarine of the yellow nectarine lovers in our family has for years been Flavortop. Like many of the older nectarine varieties, it has a speckled undercoat. Lovely fresh and dried, I baked a delicious, and beautiful, nectarine/blackberry pie for lunch today. Well, it didn't make it to lunch; we all seemed to need elevensies - Joanna Sweet is a fairly new sweet, f irm yellow freestone peach, but some of your have long loved her mother, O'Henry. Developed in Modesto by the Zaiger family. Giant Babcock is a sweet, juicy white fleshed white peach, red streaks radiating out through from the stone. It's less fragile and disease-prone than the original Babcock (yes, we still have one tree)." BULK OFFERINGS: Take advantage of bulk offerings at Outer Aisle. During the peak summer months we'll have oversupplies of a variety of fruits and vegetables. If you can, freeze, dehydrate or getting ready for a party. This week: Basil for pesto making (see recipe below); and pickling cucumbers. |
RECIPES:
GREEK/MEDITERREAN SALAD
This recipe suits those hot evenings when tomatoes are ripe and cucumbers are cool. Wedges of tomato and cucumber Slices of Onion Italian Parsley Lemon Basil (or any other kind) Halved or whole cherry tomatoes Sliced Peppers A light vinegrette of olive oil, balsalmic vinegar and garlic sprinkled over salad. Toss & serve
PESTO 2 bunches sweet basil (use leaves only) 2- 3 TSP olive oil 1/4 tsp salt lemon juice 1 clove garlic 1/2 cup of walnuts or pine nuts 1/4 cup of Parmesan cheese Put basil leaves into cuisinart, drizzle in enough oil to grind to a fine paste, add lemon juice, salt and minced garlic, grated cheese and nuts. |
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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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