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SUMMER HOURS: | THURSDAY & FRIDAY:
11 to 7 pm
TUESDAYS & SATURDAYS:
11 - 4pm
NEW EXTENDED HOURS: TUESDAYS 11 - 6pm starting October 2nd
NEW FALL HOURS: Beginning November 1st - TUES, THURS, FRIDAYS 11 - 6PM; Saturdays 11 - 4pm.
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Want to receive baskets of vegetables and fruits this summer. Weekly or bi-weekly deliveries to Tuolumne, Calaveras and Alpine Counties.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
Welcome to the second September newsletter of 2011
Announcing New Extended Hours on Tuesdays 11- 6pm starting 2nd October. We'll be streamlining our closing hours in early November to 6pm getting ready for the darker days coming up.
We won the giant tomato contest!! We know you have been waiting with baited breath to find out if we won the World's Pure Food Fair's Giant Tomato contest.  The best price/prize we've ever got for one tomato - $500!
Unfortunately we didn't take a picture, but found this in our archives of another giant tomato we grew a few year's back that weighed over 3 pounds. The winning tomato - a Kelloggs' Breakfast (2.87lbs) is a West Virginia heirloom. Having wondered ourselves where the "breakfast" part comes in, Eric is quick to reply when folks ask "why that name" that Mr. Kellogg knew better than to eat cornflakes for breakfast!
The Great Potato Harvest of 2011
Last year, over 85 people came out to help us harvest potatoes, enjoy a bountiful dinner, live music, a day with friends, and the establishment of a community institution with a yield of over 8,000 pounds of potatoes.
This year, we're in a new location (see below), but it promises to be just as much fun, and just as valuable for the community. Maybe even moreso!
The only cost is your volunteer labor and community spirit.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
19740 Peaceful Valley Road, Sonora, CA
When: From 9am until all the taters are plucked from the Earth.
Where: Dambacher Family Farms; 19740 Peceful Valley Road, behind Tamarron Trailer Park. Turn off Mono Way at the Sonora Subaru dealership. Watch for signs and balloons marking the way and park in designated lots. This interactive map may be of help.
What to bring: hat, chair, gloves, snack
Provided for you: water (bring your own water bottle) and evening meal
Questions? please call 532-8777- Pat Dambacher
SUN OVEN SPECIAL
There isn't a day that goes by that we don't use our sun oven to cook a chicken or heat up leftovers for lunch. When it's too hot to use your inside oven, you can still make all those delicious dishes in your solar oven. We are running a special on Sun Oven's till end of September: Normally $285 - order one for $250. The oven is a quality US made product from Sun Ovens International: it folds up like a suitcase, has an elevator leg at the back to adjust for sun angle, thermometer and DVD with instructions and recipes. LAST CHANCE: Tomatoes for canning and freezing available now. 2nds (overripe not mushy) $1.25/lb. Early Girls on special (small almost perfect) $1.95/lb. Order now!! We are pleased to help promote a unique opportunity in our region. For several years now a collection of excellent and interesting DVD's on sustainable subjects have been building and available from Calaveras County libraries. This year's focus has been on Food & Farming. Michael Pollan's, A Botany of Desire; The True Cost of Food; Homegrown Revolution; to name just a few.
ANNOUNCING: Fall/Winter Sign-ups (weekly or bi-weekly): We are beginning fall/winter sign-ups for weekly or bi-weekly veggie/fruit boxes to all Tuolumne, Alpine and Calaveras locations. Sign-up anytime with deliveries beginning October 6th. Please know that you can sign up whenever you want and put yourself on vacation.
We are looking to expand to Valley Springs and San Andreas. Let us know if you are interested - we need 5 families to make a go of these new locations.
Click here to view and/or sign up anytime starting October 6th SIGN UP FOR 2011/2012 SEASON
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Vegetable & Fruit Highlights VEGETABLE HIGHLIGHTS:
We love this time of year where there are major overlaps of delicious summer and fall crops. Beginning this week we'll have:
Four different kinds of Sweet Potatoes from AV Thomas in Livingston, Butternut Squash and Spaghetti Squash from Coke Farms, San Juan Ba utista and Potatoes from us and the Dambacher Family Farms (see harvest details above).
We also picked up a few items from the coast for this week to add more variety into the summer mix: artichokes, mushrooms, leeks, parsnips, cabbage, carrots and cauliflower.
Shaping up to be a great eating week! Oh, and we just heard that salmon will be arriving in our store on Friday!!
VEGETABLE SPECIALS: Bell Peppers are appearing in yellow and chocolate (yes you read right!) these days. The sweetest are the chocolate, then red, then yellow, purple and green. FRUIT HIGHLIGHTS: From the orchards of Tyson Hill Farm, Waterford. The fruit selection is changing - a few more weeks of peaches left in the season. The season of table grapes has arrived. The Tysons have at least 8 varieties they offer us: White Concord, Fantasy, Flames, Thompson Seedless, Champagne and more. Strawberries from Coke this week. Asian Pears and apples, nectarines, plums and white peaches. |
RECIPES: KALE SALAD
This recipe if from the Esalen Cookbook and well worth every bite.
½ cup Bragg Liquid Aminos or tamari soy sauce1/3 cup lemon juice ½ cup extra-virgin olive oil or flax seed oil ½ medium-size red onion ¼ cup sunflower seeds - toasted
½ cup sesame seeds - toasted
¼ cup pumpkin seeds - toasted
1 bunch kale - finely ribboned ½ cup sunflower sprouts - optional
1 avocado, cut into ½ inch cubes (optional)1 ripe bell pepper, sliced in thin strips Massage the lemon juice and oil into the kale, it'll turn a dark green. Toss with the remainder ingredients and serve.
Fettuccine with Sauteed Peppers and Parsley (from Deborah Madison's Vegetarian Everyday Calendar)
4 large bell peppers
3 TBS olive Oil
salt and freshly ground pepper
1 lb Fettuccine
2/3 cup chopped parsley
Grated Parmesan
Start by heating a large pot of water for the pasta. Meanwhile, cut the peppers into strips about as wide as the fettuccine. Heat the oil in a large skillet over high heat, then add the peppers; give a stir, let them sit for a few minutes, and stir again. Continue cooking in this fashion for about 10 minutes. The peppers should caramelize here and there along the edges, soften, and yield their juices but not lose their skins. They'll smell very sweet. Season with salt and pepper, add a ladle of the pasta water, and turn the heat to low.
Add salt to the boiling water and cook the pasta until al dente. Scoop it out and add it to the peppers. Raise the heat and toss the pasta and peppers with the parley. Serve with Parmesan grated over all, if desired.
(For a luscious variation, toss 1 pound rigatoni or other sturdy pasta shape in place of the fettuccine with 1/2 cup Garlic or Saffron Mayonnaise (2 large pinches of saffron, ground in a mortar and mixed with 1 TBS of boiling water, then stirred into homemade mayonnaise), then add the peppers).
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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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