Next Tuesday, June 23rd, Around the Sound will be welcoming visitors from the prestigious George Brown College Culinary Program. They have graciously included us in their tour of the region which will include Keady Market, GrassRoots Organics, Rocky Raccoon Cafe and Soundview Orchards. To celebrate the occasion, I'm inviting all of you to come to Around the Sound from 2 until 5 that day to enjoy 10% off everything (left!) in the store. Bring a friend!
More celebrations - last night we tasted one of the first loaves of bread from Kelsey's new oven, and I know we all enjoy many more.
As always, there are new products at Around the Sound. Ingrid at Beaver River Oils has provided us with some of her Omega-rich cold-pressed flax oil. You'll find it in the cooler and you can enjoy it in smoothies or salad dressings - anything where it's not heated.
Sara's Incredible Edibles near Clarksburg has added some new meals to our freezer. Individual seafood pies and chicken shepherd's pies, as well as two flavours of full-size quiche are in there with Sara's lasagnas.
My young assistant David went to Meaford and talked John and Bogusia into giving us ten bags of their famous hand made perogies. Lucky for David, one of the bags burst and he got to take them home for dinner. Made with real butter, cheese and caramelized onions, these are the best perogies I have ever eaten. Can you imagine them with fried onions, Sean's bacon and our PineHedge sour cream? mmmmmmmm
Asparagus is still growing at Forget Me Not Farms, and Mary Ann is still baking, so we have more of her delicious asparagus bread this week.
Watch for more greens and herbs from Twin Creeks and Hemstock Mill this week. And if you want to grow your own, Wally has planted up some of his GrowUp planters with six different herbs, ready for your patio or yard.
Robin has been true to his word and there are fourteen different chutneys on the shelf - all made just north of Toronto and used at the Rocky Raccoon Cafe. From garlic paste and Jamaican hot chili to tamarind and date, they can be used to season meat or vegetables for a curry, mixed with yogurt to make a great sauce for potato pancakes, or as a condiment for Robin's samosas for a quick snack.
And ask for a rhubarb-tini at Rocky Raccoon - it's made with Trudy's rhubarb punch - product of Chatsworth!
Someone asked why my delicious HardBite potato chips had to come all the way from British Columbia. My answer? If someone wants to take that kind of care and make this quality of product in Grey-Bruce, I'd be honoured to sell it in my store. And the same goes for the Que Pasa corn chips, made from organic, non-GMO corn by a co-operative in BC that I sell with four different varieties of local salsa. We have the ingredients here - let's make our own and then make bio-diesel out of the used vegetable oil!
Around the Sound Local Food Market is open Thursday and Friday from 10 until 7 and Saturday 10 until 4 (and Tuesday June 23rd - just this once - for a special sale from 2 until 5), at 972 1st Avenue West, just one block north of the library.
aroundthesoundfood.com is the place to find us online.
Our latest "video moment" with Shalom Deer Farm www.youtube.com/aroundthesoundfood.
519-370-2333
See you there!
Anne