Saturday, June 21, 2014

Order before Monday at 8pm for Bailey's Local Foods pickup on THURSDAY June 26th

KW's year-round online farmers market

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There is no checkout button.
If you do not intend to order, please ensure that your shopping cart is empty.

Items that you have placed in your shopping cart will be ordered on your behalf MONDAY June 23rd at 8pm

for pickup on THURSDAY June 26th at First United Church, Waterloo
(next order we will go back to Tuesday deadline and Friday pickup)

Lettuce and Strawberries!

We finally have local organic strawberries for you! You can buy them by the pint or by the litre (1 litre = approximately 2 pints) and we have flats of 12 pints or of 6 litres available.

This is the best time of year for salad! Lettuce leaves are crisp and won't be as plentiful in the heat of summer. If you need a salad idea, check out Jon's recipe on our blog, We have lots of lettuce including a new type to us called mini romaine. It will hold up to a nice creamy dressing. Maryrose had it last night with a home made vinaigrette. Delish!

Look for:

Asparagus. The season is about to end. Enjoy it now from Barrie's Asparagus!
Rhubarb is still available to go in a pie with strawberries!
Jonas Brubacher and Nith Valley are offering the first of the garlic scapes! These tender shoots are great fried
We have Collard Greens from Garden Party, Arugula from Bowman's Oragnic Produce and Mild Asian Greens from Nith Valley among all the amazing greens!
Mushrooms! We have so many varieties avaialable, both organic and conventional
Prepared food including soups and curries from Green Table Foods and Sauces, pickles and toppings from Taco Farm (don't forget their tortillas and chips!), Empanadas and burritos from Taste and Colour
The new feature from Soup Surreal is Creamy Broccoli Cheddar.
Cracked Coconut Butter is in the 'pantry' section
Seedlings and Plants available too!

Pork sausage from Top Market Meats, Buttercrunch Lettuce from Elvina Bauman, Floralane grape tomatos, garlic chives and creamy dressing (Crema La Vaquita from Local Dairy and Wine Vinegar), Salt and pepper.

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Thursday, June 19, 2014

Salad Season - Simple Vinaigrette on Bacon & Radish Salad.

My goal these days is to eat as much salad as possible. That’s mostly because our backyard garden is bursting with lettuce, kale, spinach, and more! It’s also because I want to stock up on the leafy goodness before the weather gets too hot and they start turning bitter. Ultimately though it’s mainly because I love salads and never seem to get sick of the endless possibilities and combinations!

Rather than dump store-bought salad dressings on these wonderful local greens, I find it better to create a spontaneous salad dressing for each unique salad. The easiest way to make a salad dressing is to start with oil and vinegar (both of which can be local too!). Then I follow with some garlic or herbs, a bit of mustard, honey, sometimes a bit of mayonnaise or yogurt to help make it more creamy, and finally some salt and pepper. Here’s what a typical dressing recipe looks like:

· ¼ local oil (sunflower, soy, canola, etc.)

· 2-3 tbsp. apple cider vinegar (preferably raw)

· 1 clove garlic, minced

· 1 tbsp. homemade mustard

· 1-2 tsp. honey

· 1 tbsp. yogurt

· salt and pepper

If the salad features lots of heavier greens like kale and mature spinach I like to add some bacon to the mix (there are some health arguments in favour of this*). My favourite way to do this is to fry 1 or 2 pieces of bacon, chopped up, and then toss the greens in the pan after turning off the heat. The greens don’t need to cook, they just get quickly coated with the delicious bacon grease and then thrown in to the salad and everything gets tossed together with a bit of cider vinegar.

Recently I took the bacon idea a bit further and fried pieces of stale sourdough bread and thin slices of fresh radishes in the bacon grease. This salad turned out awesome. The end result was a salad featuring fresh lettuce, a bit of kale, croutons and radishes. A nice addition would have been some crumbled goat cheese but alas, I didn’t have any!

Another great addition to salads is fruit. When adding fruit—dried or fresh—I usually leave out the sweetener in the dressing because I don’t want the salad to taste too sweet. Now that strawberry season is here I’m excited for all the new possibilities! How about you, care to share any favourite salad additions, or family recipe tips?

*http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/news/20040727/fat-helps-vegetables-go-down

http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/QAA401137/Is-Lard-Healthy.html

http://nourishedkitchen.com/green-beans-bacon-shallots/

Monday, June 16, 2014

Bailey's ordering for THURSDAY June 26th is OPEN + Wednesday Market in Kitchener!

Click https://100milesystems.com/baileyslocalfoods.ca/login.php to log-in and order.

Items that you have placed in your shopping cart will be ordered on your behalf MONDAY June 23rd at 8pm for pickup on THURSDAY June 26th at First United Church, Waterloo
There is no checkout button. If you do not intend to order, please ensure that your shopping cart is empty.
Here are our Upcoming dates:
**Thursday, June 26 (Thursday pickup before the long weekend)
Friday, July 4
Friday, July 11
Friday, July 18
Friday, July 25
Friday, August 8
Friday, August 15
Friday, August 22

A message from Rachael:

Thursday Pickup?!
Yup. You read that right. We're changing it up and running our next market on Thursday June 26th so that you can pick up great local food and then head camping or to the cottage for the long weekend. We can't wait to see you with strawberries.

Wednesday market in Kitchener at Entertaining Elements - June 18th 12-6pm
Need fresh fruit and veggies this week? Bailey's Local Foods is hosting our first Downtown Kitchener Market @ Entertaining Elements Wednesday, June 18th, 12 to 6 pm. Featuring local organic veggies, hot house tomatoes, Monforte cheeses, eggs, Ambrosia Pastry Co. and a sampling of specialty pantry items. We'd love to see you there! There is no pre=-ordering for this market. Come and shop spontaneously!

On our order form this week:

We're hoping to get even more local strawberries this week and waiting to hear from our farmers, so check back if you don;t see them yet!
Kevin at Snyder Heritage Farms is fully stocked in GMO Free turkey breasts, thighs and drumsticks too! Have you tried his Turkey Sausages? He has natural, garlic, and maple smoked sausages as well as cranberry maple breakfast sausages. We'll have to wait until July for more chicken.
We have recently added dairy from Hewitt's Dairy Goat Milk Products and Harmony Organic Dairy that we know you will love!
Mi's Seoul Kitchen now has new local cucumber kimchi available in the 'prepared' section
Rhubarb and Asparagus from Barrie's Asparagus - it's a short season!
Asparagus from Stevanus Farm
Garden Party has so much to offer including seedling and grab bags!
Spring onions and green garlic as well as Bok Choi from Brenda Knechtel
SOMA Juces and cleanses
2Go Energy Bars and Energy Truffles
New untreated, raw, organic honey. We have limited amount, but will get more if it is popular. Check out http://www.honey4myhoney.com/ to find out more about the premium raw honey that is now available. "This honey is personally processed in small batches by professional beekeeper Alexandre Obnovlennyi. It is produced only from wild plant nectar and this organic honey is free from artificial sugars and is not heated or pasteurized. Alexandre, a bee keeper for over 30 years, engages in sound traditional beekeeping practices to preserve the nutritional and medicinal properties of the honey"
Apple Creek Farms has lots of frozen sauce and cider made from their excellent organic apples. There is still lots of canned sauce, apple butter and honey.
Tofu from Ontario Natural is changing to one pound packages! The price has changed accordingly but it's still a great deal and super tasty! (If we get smaller packages, you'll get two)
Sheep milk is available in 1 and 4 L jugs from Harrington Lane Farms now. It's pasteurized, but not homogonized so the cream will rise to the top!

Email troubles?
Some Bailey's members are not getting our emails. I'm not getting our emails. I don't know why but we are looking into it.
There seems to be a problem with Gmail and their filtering in particular (If you have Google connections who might be able to help us - please let me know!).
If you have friends that are Bailey's members that have mentioned that they are missing reminders and pickups please let them know that we are working on fixing this (and making changes to comply with new anti-spam legislation at the same time). Please forward this email to them as I have a workaround:

Go to our blog at http://baileyslocalfoods.blogspot.ca/ (check out the awesome recipes and photos there also!)
Enter your email address in the box at the left under "Follow by email"
Click "Submit"

Looking forward to a lovely week!
Maryrose and Rachael
Bailey's Local Foods
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KW's Online Farmers Market

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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Ordering ends TODAY (Tuesday June 10th) at 8:00 pm for FRIDAY pickup! **Order for 2 weeks!

Click https://100milesystems.com/baileyslocalfoods.ca/login.php to log-in and order.

Items that you have placed in your shopping cart will be ordered on your behalf TUESDAY June 10th at 8pm for pickup on FRIDAY June 13th at First United Church, Waterloo *Order enough for 2 weeks less a day!*
There is no checkout button. If you do not intend to order, please ensure that your shopping cart is empty.
Here are our Upcoming dates:
Friday, June 13
**Thursday, June 26 (Thursday pickup before the long weekend)
Friday, July 4
Friday, July 11
Friday, July 18
Friday, July 25
Friday, August 8
Friday, August 15
Friday, August 22

A message from Rachael:

Rain, Rain, come this way!
Our farmers are asking you to rain dance again. Wednesday is looking hopeful for a good soak. Enjoy this wonderful sun otherwise!

Celebrate Fathers Day
Ambrosia Patsry Co. has some great treats for dad (or anyone!). They have Double Chocolate Marshmallows available this week, and you know it's amazing chocolate. I bet a Liege Waffle would be a great treat too! We're very proud that they now have a retail location and are open Saturday mornings to serve you amazing pastries and coffee too! They are at 150 Roger Street in Waterloo on Saturdays from 10am to 3pm!

Great local food we will bring to you:

The first of the local Strawberries. We have a very limited amount coming from Romagnoli Frms in Beamsville. Hurry and get yours before they sell out!
Kevin at Snyder Heritage Farms is fully stocked in GMO Free turkey breasts, thighs and drumsticks too! Have you tried his Turkey Sausages? He has natural, garlic, and maple smoked sausages as well as cranberry maple breakfast sausages. We'll have to wait until July for more chicken.
We have recently added dairy from Hewitt's Dairy Goat Milk Products and Harmony Organic Dairy that we know you will love!
Mi's Seoul Kitchen now has new local cucumber kimchi available in the 'prepared' section
Rhubarb and Asparagus from Barrie's Asparagus - it's a short season!
Asparagus from Stevanus Farm
Garden Party has so much to offer including seedling and grab bags!
Spring onions and green garlic as well as Bok Choi from Brenda Knechtel
SOMA Juces and cleanses
2Go Energy Bars and Energy Truffles
New untreated, raw, organic honey. We have limited amount, but will get more if it is popular. Check out http://www.honey4myhoney.com/ to find out more about the premium raw honey that is now available. "This honey is personally processed in small batches by professional beekeeper Alexandre Obnovlennyi. It is produced only from wild plant nectar and this organic honey is free from artificial sugars and is not heated or pasteurized. Alexandre, a bee keeper for over 30 years, engages in sound traditional beekeeping practices to preserve the nutritional and medicinal properties of the honey"
Apple Creek Farms has lots of frozen sauce and cider made from their excellent organic apples. There is still lots of canned sauce, apple butter and honey.
Tofu from Ontario Natural is changing to one pound packages! The price has changed accordingly but it's still a great deal and super tasty! (If we get smaller packages, you'll get two)
Sheep milk is available in 1 and 4 L jugs from Harrington Lane Farms now. It's pasteurized, but not homogonized so the cream will rise to the top!

Go to our blog at http://baileyslocalfoods.blogspot.ca/ (check out the awesome recipes and photos there also!)
Enter your email address in the box at the left under "Follow by email"
Click "Submit"

Celebrate local every day!!
Maryrose and Rachael
Bailey's Local Foods
baileyslocalfoods.ca
KW's Online Farmers Market

Twitter

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Even More Asparagus

You’ve already eaten a lot of asparagus, but you don’t want to stop

Since asparagus is still in season, and still super delicious you might need another idea of something else to do with it. Why not put it on pizza? Strangely the first place I ever had asparagus on a pizza was in Honduras. I don’t think asparagus is grown there so I’m not sure what inspired La Albahaca (“The Basil,” my favourite pizzeria in Tegucigalpa) to put canned asparagus on a pizza but I always ordered it, both because it was tasty and I never ate asparagus there otherwise. So now I put asparagus on my pizza whenever I have it. It works with frozen asparagus but is best with fresh asparagus (isn’t that true of all vegetables?).

Asparagus Pizza, with Potatoes and Mushrooms

Ingredients:

· ½ lb (250g) mushrooms, sliced

· 1-2 tbsp. butter

· 1 tbsp. maple syrup

· 1 small potato, sliced in ¼ inch rounds

· 4-5 asparagus spears, chopped

· ½ - ¾ cup grated mozzarella cheese

· ½ - ¾ cup pizza sauce (we just use leftover spaghetti sauce)

· pizza dough

Preheat the oven to 400^◦F. Heat a pan over medium-high heat and fry the sliced mushrooms with the butter and maple syrup until they are greatly reduced in size and nicely caramelized, about 15-20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Meanwhile place the potato slices on a lightly oiled baking sheet and roast for 10 minutes, then flip and roast another 10 minutes and remove. Steam or boil the asparagus for 3-4 minutes.

Increase the oven heat to 500^◦F. Stretch the pizza dough, top with sauce and cheese, then follow with the roasted potatoes and caramelized mushrooms, and finally the asparagus. Bake the pizza until the crust is golden and the cheese is bubbling. Allow to cool slightly before slicing.

Need another asparagus pizza idea, try this one that we made last year and also featured rhubarb!

Jon Spee is a Bailey’s member who can be a bit obsessive about local food. To make sure he doesn’t talk about it too much he writes about it instead at The Local Kitchener.

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

So Much Asparagus

So you bought a ton of asparagus, now what?

Asparagus season is a great time of year. Partly because asparagus is the first real vegetable of spring, but also because it’s just such a tasty vegetable. If you’re anything like me you might find yourself buying it multiple times in a week while it’s in season because of the fear that it will soon be gone. However, if you just end up cooking it and throwing a little butter on it every night you might be missing out on some other delicious opportunities. And what if you don’t save any of it for later in the year? You don’t want to end up eating asparagus from Chile… or maybe you do, but I don’t. So be sure to freeze some of it.

Have it with eggs

One of our family’s favourite things to do with asparagus is making it the main course of our meal by pairing it up with some eggs. A fancy way to do this is to make an asparagus and mushroom quiche. A simpler variation of the quiche is to make a frittata. But the simplest method is to cook up some asparagus then top it with some fried eggs! It’s easy, it’s tasty, and makes a grain light main dish.

Asparagus with Fried Eggs and Parmesan

Serves 4

Ingredients:

· ½ - 1 lb asparagus, washed (and ends snapped off if tough)

· 4-6 eggs

· 1-2 tbsp. butter (or olive oil)

· salt and pepper

· grated parmesan cheese

Heat a pan over medium heat with about a half inch of water in it. Add the asparagus, cover and cook for about 5 minutes. Pour off the water, add the butter (or a bit of olive oil), a dash of salt and pepper and fry for a couple minutes, then remove from heat.

While the asparagus is cooking fry up the eggs without breaking the yolks. Cover the eggs to help them cook since you won’t be flipping them.

Serve the asparagus topped with the eggs and sprinkle with the grated parmesan cheese (or other hard cheese) and a bit more freshly ground pepper. Accompany the meal with some nice crusty bread and a simple Caesar salad, it’s like eating spring!

Simple Spring Greens Caesar Salad

Ingredients:

· Assorted spring greens (lettuce, spinach, chard, beet greens, dandelion greens, pea shoots, etc.)

· ¼ cup olive oil (or local oil)

· 2 tbsp. cider vinegar

· 2 tbsp. mayonnaise

· 1 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce

· 1-2 cloves garlic, minced (or 1 tsp. garlic powder)

· salt and pepper

· grated parmesan cheese

Rinse and dry the greens, then chop them coarsely. Make the dressing by adding all the ingredients to a small jar and shaking. Toss the greens and dressing, top with parmesan and serve.

Tons of Asparagus Variation: If you have so much asparagus you don’t know what to do with it cook up a bit more by blanching it (cook it in boiling water for 4-5 minutes, then cool it in ice water) and add it to the Caesar!

Sunday, June 1, 2014

Bailey's ordering for FRIDAY June 13th is OPEN!

Click https://100milesystems.com/baileyslocalfoods.ca/login.php to log-in and order.

Items that you have placed in your shopping cart will be ordered on your behalf TUESDAY June 10th at 8pm for pickup on FRIDAY June 13th at First United Church, Waterloo *Order enough for 2 weeks!*
There is no checkout button. If you do not intend to order, please ensure that your shopping cart is empty.
Here are our Upcoming dates:
Friday, June 13
Friday, June 20 (only if strawberries are ready)
**Thursday, June 26 (Thursday)
Friday, July 4

A message from Rachael:

Welcome June!
It's such a lovely time of year when the gardens look amazing, the weather is really nice and there are lots of fresh foods to eat! We're excited to see more greens

Email troubles?
Some Bailey's members are not getting our emails. I'm not getting our emails. I don't know why but we are looking into it.
There seems to be a problem with Gmail and their filtering in particular (If you have Google connections who might be able to help us - please let me know!).
If you have friends that are Bailey's members that have mentioned that they are missing reminders and pickups please let them know that we are working on fixing this (and making changes to comply with new anti-spam legislation at the same time). Please forward this email to them as I have a workaround:

Go to our blog at http://baileyslocalfoods.blogspot.ca/ (check out the awesome recipes and photos there also!)
Enter your email address in the box at the left under "Follow by email"
Click "Submit"

Spring taste sensations:

Rhubarb and Asparagus from Barrie's Asparagus
Asparagus from Stevanus Farm
Spring onions and green garlic as well as Bok Choi from Brenda Knechtel
SOMA Juces and cleanses
2Go Energy Bars and Energy Truffles
New untreated, raw, organic honey. We have limited amount, but will get more if it is popular. Check out http://www.honey4myhoney.com/ to find out more about the premium raw honey that is now available. "This honey is personally processed in small batches by professional beekeeper Alexandre Obnovlennyi. It is produced only from wild plant nectar and this organic honey is free from artificial sugars and is not heated or pasteurized. Alexandre, a bee keeper for over 30 years, engages in sound traditional beekeeping practices to preserve the nutritional and medicinal properties of the honey"
Apple Creek Farms has lots of frozen sauce and cider made from their excellent organic apples. There is still lots of canned sauce, apple butter and honey.
Tofu from Ontario Natural is changing to one pound packages! The price has changed accordingly but it's still a great deal and super tasty! (If we get smaller packages, you'll get two)
Sheep milk is available in 1 and 4 L jugs from Harrington Lane Farms now. It's pasteurized, but not homogonized so the cream will rise to the top!

We need some help!
As you may know we have been supporting Welcome Home Refugee Housing Community with your help for a few years now. We accept donations from you (add a donation to your order by adding the "$5 donation" item from the 'other' section) as well as donating all table fees we collect from vendors at our pickups and sending food that is extra at the end of a pickup day to the refugees. The problem is, we're exhausted at the end of a pickup day and would LOVE if we had a few volunteers to come at 7:30 and bring a box or two to Welcome Home (which is near the Kitchener Market). If you are interested, please respond to this email!

Enjoy this day!
Maryrose and Rachael
Bailey's Local Foods
baileyslocalfoods.ca
KW's Online Farmers Market

Twitter

Saturday, June 21, 2014

Order before Monday at 8pm for Bailey's Local Foods pickup on THURSDAY June 26th

KW's year-round online farmers market

Check out this recipe on our blog

Thursday, June 19, 2014

Salad Season - Simple Vinaigrette on Bacon & Radish Salad.

Monday, June 16, 2014

Bailey's ordering for THURSDAY June 26th is OPEN + Wednesday Market in Kitchener!

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Ordering ends TODAY (Tuesday June 10th) at 8:00 pm for FRIDAY pickup! **Order for 2 weeks!

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Even More Asparagus

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

So Much Asparagus

Sunday, June 1, 2014

Bailey's ordering for FRIDAY June 13th is OPEN!

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