Thanks again to Brenda Forsyth and Joanna for their delicious lamb samples last week. There are lamb steaks in the freezer (the olive oil marinade looks a little odd when frozen, but trust me, if you cook it slowly it will be just as good as Brenda's!) Look for that yummy lamb dizi soup too. I'll post Brenda's recipe along with Ian's amazing parsnip soup recipes on the website as soon as Emma teaches me how.
Also in the meat/soup department, Sean has naturally-raised turkey carcasses available for soup - meaty backs but legs, wings and breasts removed.
At Around the Sound, we want to provide customers with good value in high quality food while supporting local sustainable agriculture and building community. Is that too much to ask?
I hope we can keep the conversation open and learn more about the food we're eating and the people who produce it.
For example, Noreen is coming tomorrow with carrots freshly dug from her garden near Ayton. She's been gardening longer than I've been alive, and she knows that carrots build sugar through the winter and these are soooo sweet and carroty! She's also bringing garlic, and so are the Cowans from Allenford, but the Ontario garlic won't be around much longer and it will be July before we see the new crop so stock up.
We try to carry Ontario produce - greenhouse and storage - as much as we can. Watch for boston lettuce and basil this week! Dehydration keeps local products available too, and we have dried apples and garlic (watch for mushrooms soon!) plus instructions are available for a solar dehydrator. I know we're all so ready for the asparagus and leeks, but let's keep working together for local cold storage and freezers for those months between harvests.
A few reminders for the next few weeks:
We'll be open regular hours next Thursday and Saturday - closed Good Friday. I'll take orders for Forsyth's lamb for Easter - pick up Thursday or Saturday.
Tickets are on sale at Around the Sound for The Nylons in concert at the Collingwood Music Festival on Saturday, May 16 in support of the Georgian Bay Earth Days Celebrations (ask me more about their work).
Special guest, Elizabeth May, will join the Nylons for an evening of song and dialogue celebrating planet earth.
Around the Sound is open Thursday and Friday 10 until 7 and Saturday 10 until 4 at 972 1st Avenue West.
aroundthesoundfood.com
519-416-3663
See you there!
Anne