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Kitchen Hours

Lunch
Wednesdays - Sundays
11-3pm
 
Dinner
Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday
5-8:30pm (8pm Sundays)

Pub 
Thursdays: Happy Hours
$1 off all beers
 
Fridays - Sundays
5pm-closing

Grocery Hours
Wed - Sat: 11-6pm
Sundays: 11-4pm

Farmers' & Artisans' Market
Thursdays: 4pm - dusk


164 Highway 4
Murphys, CA 95247
209-728-1164

mailing address:
PO Box 2052
Murphys, CA 95247
 
Partner of the Month:

 

Murphys Suites

Murphys Suites has been one of our favorite partners since we moved in last November. Not only are they the newest hotel accommodations in Murphys but they are also solid and kind members of our Calaveras
Community. When owner, Dennis Lee of Lee-Way Construction and Development Company, built Murphys Suites and the building that is now
Outer Aisle's new home (since Nov. 2013), he had a vision of 2 locally-owned collaborative businesses working together to cater to tourists and locals alike for a comfortable night's stay at Murphys Suites and some good food a short walk across our shared parking lot.
We are proud to be partners with Dennis and his local, family-owed and operated business by sharing this vision and have already enjoyed partnering with the hotel on several of the packages, they sell online including the Twisted Folk Concert Series Package. These packages invite hotel guests to experience, explore, and patronize many local businesses and tourist attractions in Calaveras all of which
strengthen our local economy.

Have folks coming in from out of town and no room to put them? Book them in at Murphys Suites w/a package deal.  It's an easy and fun way to show them around and ensure they'll be comfortable and well fed.
We're even working on a room service option with them, which means your guests could get Outer Aisle food in bed!

Murphys Suites also has a great conference room that seats 80 people that is available for us to use to serve up or delicious, wholesome food for parties and special events so please call us to inquire for your next special event!

We are grateful to have a partner across the parking lot that shares our commitment to keeping the local economy strong and championing other local businesses so that Murphys can continue to thrive for
locals and be a retreat spot for folks looking for some mountain medicine. Thanks Murphys Suites!

Connect with them on facebook here and check out their website here. 


Links to Folks We Love:

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2014 CSA BOX DELIVERIES CSA  
Do you want to enjoy fresh seasonal produce and knowledge of where it comes from? Do you and your friends live outside our current distribution and would love to have Outer Aisle come closer to you? Contact Kaedence to see about starting deliveries in your area!

Weekly or bi-weekly deliveries to:
  • Tuolumne County
  • Calaveras County
  • Alpine County  
Benefits of Becoming a CSA 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  
  • Vacation 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.
 
Recipe of the Week
  

We harvested 160 lbs of green beans this week!

 

Green Beans with Bacon Vinaigrette 

 

plus: how to trim 2lbs of green beans in a couple of minutes!

 

See it all here

 

Tip of the Week
  

Cheyenne shares how to store and keep your produce fresh without use of plastic:

Read about it here

 

What do you think?
We'd love your feedback!  What do you think of our website, this newsletter, or our social media pages? Tell us what you think; we'd love your thoughts as we move into making our website the resource we want it to be, and build the newsletter as your connection to the community each week.

 
Greetings    !

FRENCH FILLET & LOCAL MUSICIANS

All three are performing this week! 

 

French Fillet Beans are some of the tenderest varieties we know and grow. Long and slender with a sweet green bean flavor that is great raw or steamed. We harvested an abundant 160 lbs on Tuesday and hoping you are going to come by to get some. See our recipe with them here.

 

Outer Aisle Welcomes Jill Warren!

And, also performing for the first time at Outer Aisle, we welcome local talented musician: Jill Warren. Join us in welcoming Jill to OA at this Thursday night's Farmers & Artisans Market. She's playing at 6pm, shop for some great produce and enjoy food on our lovely outdoor patio. Happy Hour beers @ $4.  

Hot Dark is the third in the performing trio! Put on your dancing shoes for the Saturday night late show beginning at 9:30.... Hot Dark plays their irresistible danceable rhythms. See it here.

 

 

Hey, are you using the navigation menu to the left? Click any of those links and it will shoot you directly to that part of the newsletter. Try it out! 

 

 

We love heirlooms!

 

 

 

Upcoming Events

 

Every Thursday(4pm-dusk)

Farmers' & Artisans' Market
It's market season at Outer Aisle. And a fun time to get out in the evening, meet new and old friends, have a bite to eat, pick up some fresh veggies and other goodies.

Fancy a henna tattoo, or sample delicious cheeses! We'll see you down here. We are excited to hear the talents of this week's musician in action, join us on the patio in the coolness of the evening.

 

Happy Hour -- $1 off beer
Salad Bar & menu favorites available 4-8pm 
  
Music at the Market 6-8pm:
June 26th: Jill Warren
July 3rd: Richard Sholer & Keith Evans

Tell us you'll be there and invite friends on facebook  here.

 
 
 
Fancy a trip to Groveland? 
We highly recommend this spot for atmosphere and music. We are serving up our Outer Aisle taco plates -- coconut black beans, rice and garden salsa at the super fun.
We're delighted to be serving beyond organic cuisine throughout the summer at this awesome concert series in Groveland.  Click here for summer concert schedule and tickets. We look forward to eating well and making merry with ya!

June 29th: The Duhks with The Trespassers


 
Garden tours revisited - check out this offering: 
 
Saturdays, July 19th, Aug 23rd,  
Sept 13th, Oct 11th),  
5:30-7pm
WINE, APPS & SHOWCASE GARDEN TOURS
Join Eric & Christine for a fun and educational tour of our beautiful garden --- You'll enjoy a three course pairing of seasonal foods, prepared by our expert chefs, and featuring local wines. Experience a diversity of award winning heirloom varietals and observe techniques developed over our twenty years of growing food. Our productive garden supplies our farm market, restaurant and weekly food delivery and is a showcase in biodiversity. 
RSVP: 209-728-1164  |  $48 per person
Includes tour, wine, apps, & gratuity  
Featuring a local winery every time.

Interested in a group Agritour (including an extensive farm tour and custom Farm To Table Dinner) for your family, large party or organization?  Contact Christine: 


Saturday, June 28th (9:30pm* - 12:30am)
Music at Outer Aisle
*dinner service ends at 8pm

This band will have you rocking and rolling in no time. Grab your dancin' shoes kids, the local wonder band, The Hot Dark, is back at Outer Aisle!   


Cover charge at the Door (first come first serve): $8 per person, $12 for two. Support local talent: all proceeds to the musicians. 

Connect with the Band on Facebook 

Share the event with friends here 

(Rick's last show with us before he sets sail: July 5th. More bands to come!)

 

 

Friday, July 4th (9:30pm - 12:30am)

Party Night (4th of July)

 

Mountain Motion will present an unforgettable evening of comedy juggling as well as their entrancing
 
kaleidoscopic glow juggling show, Illuminate, in celebration of Independence Day. Mountain Motion is your local trio of internationally acclaimed juggling talent. Join us for this unique public performance!

Learn more about them:

August 9th & September 20th
Farm to Table Under the Stars 
First course: apps in the garden

Don't miss it! We have two dates for us to come together and enjoy this bounty. 

 

Call us 209/728-1164 and make a reservation today. More details to come. RSVP your seat now by calling us!

 

$100 per person  

(wine & gratuity not included) 

 

Tell your friends you're going on facebook: click here 

 

 
This Week's Menu:
 
Delicious farm fresh ingredients grace the plates in this week's lunch and dinner menu's.

LOOK for our new dinner menu featuring these highlights:

Caprese Heirloom Salad
with shishito & corn

Seared Scallops in a sherry cream sauce with a Truffle Basil Risotto

Exclusive seasonal cut:
Taylor Farm Ribeye Steak
Smashed Red potatoes
& Garden veggies

Grilled Vegetable Platter
(vegetarian's delight) 

 

 

At the market this Week: 

Once I found out that the first freestone peach was on it's way I asked Indira from Tyson Hill Farm to give you, the reader, her favorite peach pie recipe and a little snippet of how things are going during this water short year, and this is what she wrote:

"We have just begun harvesting our first freestone peach of the year, the deliciously juicy Flavorcrest.  (Freestone fruit come away from the pit or stone and are often juicier and more delicate than clingstones, which cling to the pit.  Most early and late season peaches are clings).
 My late husband, Sam Tyson, loved fresh fruit pies, and our family continues to enjoy them as our weekly dessert.  We savor the flavor of the good fruit so only add a bit of sweet spice:  cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, mace or cardamon to compliment the peach.  I also like to add a cup of berries to peach pie: blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries are all good companions.

On Saturday a customer showed me a picture of an apricot pie he'd made from our fruit. For the top crust he rolled out the pie dough into a rectangle, sprinkled it with some cinnamon sugar and rolled it up like a cinnamon roll.  After a quick chill to firm up the roll, he sliced it thinly and placed the discs on the fruit filling in the pie pan to form the most stunning top crust!

The dry, warm winter was challenging for us. All of the tree and vine crops we grow depend on a period of chill induced dormancy in the winter to set fruit.  We do not have an irrigation well, depending on winter rains and irrigation water from the Tuolumne River.  With very little from either source this year our fruit may be smaller in size. However, some people find the flavors to be more concentrated."
  
FRUIT from Tyson Hill: 
White Nectarines, Flavorcrest peaches, Snowbrite white peaches, Santa Rosa plums, Owen T plums and Tilton/Patterson apricots.

From the Farm: New red potatoes with their waxy creaminess; sweet red onions, yellow zephyr squash, italian squash and round yellow starbursts, salad greens, chard, kale, cilantro, parsley, cherry tomatoes, green beans, shishito peppers, cucumbers.

FROM WITHIN 150 MILES: Tomatoes, melons, corn, fennel, beets, watermelon, cabbage, celery, mushrooms, peppers, avocado, cauliflower, lemons, limes, celery, ginger, strawberries. 
 

 

Community Supported Agriculture:
Summer's abundance is only days away and the boxes are getting fuller and fuller.... 
 

Here's what one of our customer's told us this week:

"I'm a super busy, working, single woman and LOVE fresh food but end up only getting to the grocery or farmers markets once a month.  Your service has brought back fresh eating into my world and I am so thankful."  
JoLynn

She gets a delivery on a regular basis - would you like to get one too?
For questions contact our CSA & Grocery Manger, Kaedence: outeraisle@gmail.com

 
Community Support Request!

Our "Fill Our Sails" Campaign is the sustenance we need to grow into the community center we work towards.

 

With that in mind, we are looking for a washer and dryer!  Do you have a working washer and dryer gathering dust?  We are in need of the machines to wash our linens at the restaurant and keep the re-use cycle spinning. We are branching our our catering opportunities and aim to keep our Marygold Fabricating napkins for years to come. 

 

We are also looking for:

  • icechests
  • platters
  • catering wares
  • donations of any kind

Email Christine at outeraislefoods@gmail.com if you have any leads. Thank you all for your support!

 
Outer Aisle FARMERS KITCHEN, MARKET & PUB. "growing food, feeding community". 

Behind the scenes of Outer Aisle is Taylor Farms. Located on Main Street, 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! 

Outer Aisle also 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.
COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE 

We invite you to be a member of our CSA. Community Supported Agriculture is more than a statement of support it's an amazing way to connect your palate with seasonal eating on a regular basis.
 
Where the food comes from?

People ask us all the time is our produce "organic" and while we are tempted to just say yes and let the organic definition tell the story we don't. We are not certified "organic" and to use the word as a casual expression would get us into trouble. We believe that our practice of stewardship goes beyond what is required under the "organic" label. We are committed to caring for the soil and the micro-organisms that so skillfully maintain fertility so that plants can thrive. And above all, we have a direct connection with our customers and invite you to come out to the fields on one of our farm tours. (Starting in May every 2nd and 4th Saturday.)

Thank you to those pioneering farmers who worked for years, at first alone and then together, to stand firm in ensuring the adoption of strict regulations for what was to become a multi-billion dollar industry. Over the years since "organic" moved to a national standard some of those regs have been "watered" down to allow the larger industrial farms to get a piece of the dollar pie.

We love it that the farmers who were the originators of organic are the predominant producers of the food that we eat, we sell and we cook. 

Those pioneering farmers are still doing what they have always done: adhering to their own high standards of organic and going beyond what is required. Full Belly Farm, Terra Firma, Coke Farms are three of the original pioneers that supply us with produce at times when our garden is not producing. They are advocates of a sustainable approach and even though they are certified organic their practices are what nurtures community: soil and people! 

Those pioneers are inspiring the younger generation and we are proud also to complement our produce with those from up and coming organic farms like Tomatero in Watsonville.


Enjoy seasonal produce and the insurance that what you eat comes from farms that practice diversity, stewardship and are pioneers of good health.