Baileys Local Food Buying Club - Pickup Reminder

If you put in an order this month it will be ready for you to pick up on Monday, January 18th from 3:30 until 7:00PM in Hilliard Hall at the First United Church at 16 William Street West in Waterloo. You can check your order by logging in at http://baileyslocalfoods.ca/ordering. If you checked trhe prepackaing option your order will be packed and ready for 5pm. Items that require refrigeration will not be pre-packed for health reasons.

I want to thank all our members for supporting local farmers and producers in 2009 and into 2010. If you have suggestions on what you want to buy this year, please let us know. It's seed ordering and planning season. I'm also quite surprised that we have 14 new members this month (January!) Welcome!!! Thank you to all those who have helped to 'market' Bailey's Local Foods.

Thank you for your generosity. We will be donating $220 to a local food based charity on your behalf. The House of Friendship and the Food Bank are both worthy causes we are considering donating to. Now I need to call them!

Items not available and things to look for on the Spontaneous Table:

• Grimo Hickory Nuts (are very tasty) and are in 1.5 lb bags to reflects the true cost. There will be extra nuts on the Spontaneous Table
• There will be extra 4 lb bags of unwashed carrots on the Spontaneous Table from Fertile Ground.
• Paul Bowman only has about 12 butternut squash available. Look for Delicata and Sweet Dumpling squash on the Spontaneous Table
• Soiled Reputation is sold out of Savoy cabbage, Large leeks, fingerling potatoes, and salad greens (I know... I'm sad about this too!). Baby carrots will be substituted with regular carrots.
  

Check out our website for another new recipe from Dinah. The recipe for Turkey Cutlets with Rosemary and Shallots sounded pretty yummy to me!

Self Checkout Reminder
We continue to offer a SELF CHECK-OUT option to those of you who are paying by cheque! We hope that this will help speed up the check out process for some of you who want to work out your total yourself. We started with self check-out in 2008 and now we are returning to our roots.
We choose to trust our members. You know that if we lose money due to missing items or math mistakes, we won't survive. We will still have the regular check-out option for those of you who prefer it. If you notice an error (ours or yours), please let us know.

Pre-Packed Orders
If you indicated that you would like your items pre-packed when you ordered they will be ready after 5pm. Please ask a volunteer to get your order. Items requiring refrigeration will be added when you arrive.

Please enter through the white kitchen door off Caroline Street.
You will find a pickup slip with your name on it listing the items that you ordered this week. Pick up all your items (including those in the coolers, fridges and freezer), check out our Spontaneous Table then head to our checkout area.

We will have extra items for you to purchase on our Spontaneous Table in front of the blue cupboards just in case you forgot anything. Anyone can purchase items from the Spontaneous Table. You don't even have to be a Member!

There will be room to socialize and mingle. Expect your pick-up to take awhile. If you need help collecting your order, please ask!

In out checkout area, please help us and our volunteers by having items available to view for the checkout process. Please be patient as this area will likely be quite busy.

We accept payment in cash or cheque (made out to Bailey's Local Foods). The total from your shopping cart is always approximate. We will try to ensure that you only pay for the items available this week as local food can sometimes be unpredictable and items that are priced by the pound are approximate on the order form.

When writing cheques, please ensure that the date is correct (it's 2009!) and that the numbers you write (digits and words) match. Also, if you make your cheque out to anything other than "Bailey's Local Foods" the bank won't cash it. We need you to sign it too! Please help us to avoid these costly errors.

You need to bring your own bags to carry your items home. We have boxes, but do not have plastic bags. A limited number of cloth bags will be available for sale.

If possible, consider walking, biking or bringing a wagon to pick up your order. If you are driving, please park in the Waterloo Town Square Public Parking Lot. You can access the Waterloo Town Square Parking Lot by Caroline Street, Alexandra Avenue, Willis Way or King Street by the LCBO. We have been asked not to park in the church parking lot.

**Please don't forget to pick up your order! At approximately 6:30PM, if you have not picked up your order, we will call the number you provided (when you registered) with a friendly reminder. At 7:00PM we will pack up your order and add the $15 packing fee to your order total. If you have not picked up your order by 7:30PM (or when we finish cleaning up) your order will be donated - and you still get the pleasure of paying for it. We need to receive payment for this week's order before you can order for the following week.

If you are not happy with what you receive, all claims for missing/damaged items must be made at the pick-up site before 7:00PM that same day. After 7:00PM all sales are final.

Thank you,
Rachael and Nina
Bailey's Local Foods
www.baileyslocalfoods.ca 

P.S. We can use your fruit baskets and boxes as well as jars from preserves again if you return them.

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Ordering for January 18 ends Tuesday at 8:00 PM

This is your reminder that you should place your order before Tuesday at 8:00PM to get great local food on January 18.

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I'm sick. My kids are talking about how our food smells, and I can't smell a thing. The rest of the family has already gotten through the same cold/flu/whatever earlier in the week, so I'm sure it won't be long until I'm better. Until then I'll keep my roll of nose wipes handy.

Grainharvest Breadhouse Inc.
I talked to Roland from Grainharvest before the new year and last week I received their product info and now we have Grainharvest items on our website. You can order bagels, croissants, butter tarts and many, many breads and buns - organic options too! Some of their items are not available on Mondays, so if we're missing one of your favourites that may be why. Also, we aren't offering the frozen items like pizza dough and pie shells due to lack of freezer space, but they may be available in the future. If you try their products let us know what you think!

Halloumi - Why should I buy that?
To make your own Saganaki! Years ago, Andrew and I used to order Saganaki with friends at the Huether for the taste and for the added show of it. Last weekend my three year old got to watch the big fire as Andrew made Saganaki and flambéed the cheese with some Ouzo we had on hand. You can serve it without the fire, but it made the food extra fun. Look for all the Local Dairy Products cheeses and other dairy items (like yogurt and crème fraiche). We loved their mozzarella on pizza last night. It almost tastes like butter!

New Recipe on baileyslocalfoods.ca!
Thanks to Dinah, one of our members, the Kale recipe is off the website and recipe on website will be changing more often. Check out baileyslocalfoods.ca for a tourtière recipe that you can make yourself! Beth also sent us a website featuring root vegetable recipes at http://www.seasonalchef.com/roots.htm that I'm happy to pass on to you.

Soiled Salad
Antony of Soiled Reputation emailed to say that he would have some salad greens for us this month! I thought that I would have to email to tell you they were on the order form, but it looks like you already noticed (there is only one bag left!) We will actually have Gourmet Mix instead of Bistro (until there is more light). Antony says that the prices on his leafy items have gone up a bit as minimum wage increases in 2010 as they are the most labour intensive crop. This is his first price increase on greens since 2000!

Grimo Nuts
If you are interested in getting any Black Walnuts or Hickory Nuts from Niagara please order them this month! We have had an offer to pick them up, so they will be coming for the 18th if we have a few more orders. This will likely be the last chance for Black Walnuts and Hickory Nuts. There are still Heartnuts available too. They are liks walnuts, but prettier and easier (in my opinion) to open. In the fall we have Grimo's Chestnuts and Persian Walnuts to look forward to again.

Items to look for:

• Mapleton's yogurt almost sold out! Make sure you have enough for a month!
  
• Italian Broad Beans from Paul in the 'Dried Beans' section
• Peach fruit spread from Orchard Hill Produce (tasty with leftover gluten free shortbread from Christmas)
  

Take care,
Rachael
Bailey's Local Foods
baileyslocalfoods.ca

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Bailey's Buying Club - Ordering is now open for January 18, 2010

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A message from Rachael
Happy New Year! I hope that you enjoyed some holidays and are ready for 2010! I just got back from my Aunt's house in Simcoe where we finished yet another holiday meal.

After attending the Waterloo Region Food Summit in November and later talking with a friend who works at House of Friendship I realize how many people are not so lucky to be able to choose and afford local foods. Food banks and other agencies were hit really hard with requests this holiday season. It's been bugging me for a while and in addition to sending extra food to worthy causes at the end of our pickup day I'd like to offer another way to help others. I've added a $5 donation button that we can all use to give food to others. 100% will go to a food related charity that is local. A soup kitchen, the House of Friendship, the Waterloo Region Food Bank, whatever. If you would like to suggest a way to put these donations to use we welcome your suggestions.

Nina's suggestion was to use the money to buy beans and peanut butter from local farmers to donate to the Waterloo Region Food Bank. Both items are in high demand and we can support local farmers and eaters at the same time!

If you look in the 'other' category you will find a new $5 donation button. I will send updates as this project takes shape.

Thanks for your help!
Rachael

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Hello Local Eaters,
I was standing at the kitchen sink today looking out the window at a backyard full of snow with my hands in a sink of dirty carrots and thinking of Angie. Angie Koch is the farmer of Fertile Ground CSA who sold us the bags of unwashed carrots in December. I was thinking of her out in her fields with her spaghetti strap tank top, low slung denim cut-offs and strong brown hands planting the carrots in long rows in the fertile earth near Schneider Bush. Thank you Ang, for working for less than minimum wage to follow your dream of starting a farm and growing us carrots. I was also thinking of you and wondering if any of you were washing carrots too. When I dumped the carrots into the sink the aroma of CARROTS and EARTH filled the kitchen. I don't know if I've smelled that in my kitchen before when there was snow in the ground. A sensual delight. And then I stood there rubbing each carrot - giving it a little massage - crunching on a small sweet one and thinking of Angie and you.
The carrots were the vegetable part of our pizza supper this New Years Day. I tried a new recipe for a thin crust pizza dough that turned out delicious with pesto, cheddar, onions and hamburger. Add sparkling apple cider from near Simcoe and two grandparents and it felt like a party.

I asked Angie how she harvested and stored these carrots. Here's her description:
The carrots you got in December were harvested the last week of October. They were a mix of Nelson & Berlicummer seeds. The ground was quite wet (hence them being so dirty). We loosen the carrots with a digging fork, then pull them by hand & clip the greens off.

We leave the dirt on and pack them into bins of damp wood shavings because it helps moderate the moisture level so the carrots don't get rubbery. We then put the bins in cold storage (either my brother's basement or the cooler at the farm with a space heater set to keep the temperature above freezing). This year was a bit of a challenge since November was so warm. We ended up harvesting some more carrots late November to replace some of the earlier ones that had already started sprouting in storage.

Turkey Drama
How did your holiday feasts turn out? I heard that the goose at Nath's feast turned out wonderful. Properly greasy, she said. At the last minute Paul offered me a pasture-raised turkey. I happily accepted even though he said it was 30lbs and I have never prepared a turkey that large. Well, it was actually FORTY pounds! The same size as my four year old daughter. My mother-in-law offered to prepare it and baked it in a huge electric roaster. After about 4 hours she realized that the breasts were not baking fast enough because they were sticking up our of the roaster (only covered by aluminum foil because the lid could not fit). So she cut off the ENORMOUS breasts, put those in a pan and baked them separately. At dinner, she reassembled the pieces back into the original shape and my father-in-law was barely able to carry it to the table. It tasted wonderful and would've been a happy ending if my father-in-law had not decided to put it on the porch to cool. So, yes, the dogs enjoyed a turkey feast. When we realized what was going on, we rescued a still-large turkey carcass, rinsed it and boiled it for soup. Still a happy ending. I have two jugs of turkey broth in my freezer waiting to become squash soup or vegetable barley soup.

Speaking of turkey, Matthew used the ground turkey in lasagna yesterday along with frozen swiss chard and more. It was wonderful. I love that we can order turkey breasts, legs, etc now!

Soiled Reputation
Antony of Soiled Reputation is one of the few farmers around here who keeps farming all year long. He now has a funky website where you can go read more about him - and see his paintings. Turns out he's an artist too! www.soiledreputation.com
He thinks he'll have more of his gourmet salad mix for us in Feb or March. To tide you over until then, we've added "living" salad greens from Slegers near Stratford http://www.slegersgreens.com/products.html

Later Tomater
We'll have to wait a couple months for more of those yummy grape tomatoes from Floralane. They pulled up the old plants in December and the new ones should be ready in March. At our grand opening in June Stuart said how long the tomato plants get. I think he said 30 meters! Each! If you're curious how they grow, you can stop in at their farm just north of Elmira. They are on the Buy Local! Buy Fresh! map.

Creme, Crema, and Creamy Cheeses
A highlight of our December 21st pick up for me (besides the smooth and organized system!) was meeting Amarjit (he goes by Singh) and tasting his creams and cheeses. At one point toward the end of the evening I had a hot tamale in my hand and Singh was insisting on dribbling Crema la Vaquita on it each time I was about to take a bite. He assured me that the fat in cream is good for me. It tasted so good!! A few days later I served Supremo Nachos at a family gathering with Crema la Vaquita on the side (along with guacamole and salsa). Imagine McKechnie tortilla chips with the following toppings: Hillbilly Small Red Mexican Beans, black olives, green onions from Paul, grape tomatoes from Stuart, and old cheddar from Millbank - all melted into gooey goodness. We devoured two cookies sheets of nachos like a pack of wolves. I think we'll have to make Supremo Nachos more often. I haven't tried the Queso Blanco yet or the Paneer. Maybe they'll inspire a couple meals this week as we shift back to regular life.

Green Onions Not Pretty But Oh So Fresh
I heard from a member that the green onions were ugly. I should've explained ahead of time how wonderful they are despite the outer slimeyness. Paul planted green onions out in the field in late August. By the end of September he realized that they were not going to mature before the season ended. So he dug up the row tractor bucket by tractor bucket and gently placed the chunks of soil and green onions into his hoop house (unheated greenhouse). Inside they were protected and slightly warmer so they were able to mature and then stand there waiting to be harvested. By Dec 21 they had been frozen a few times despite being inside and so the outer layer had been damaged. Paul left the outer layer on to protect the next layer from drying out with the assumption that we'd remove the outer layer before using it.

Foods to Look for This Month:

• If you're looking for shallots, they're in the onion section
• This may be your last chance to order local squash (frozen will still be available)
• Frozen squash puree for easy soups and "pumpkin" pies
• Beef or Beef/Pork Patties sale by Traditional Foods
• Hunks of high quality meat to throw in the crockpot for easy meals
• Beans for "beans and rice" with Crema la Vaquita - and tortilla chips
• Grainharvest will be supplying us with their high-quality baked goods (coming soon!). They use local soft wheat flour and spelt flour while the hard wheat flour comes from Western Canada.
• Organic local popcorn now here
  
• Tart cherry juice (concentrated!) http://www.cherrylane.net/productsa.php

Foods in Jars for 2010?
Edna and Melinda of Country Flavour are asking us what new preserves we'd like them to make this year. Are there foods in jars you love that you wish would be made with local foods? They have quite an impressive selection already, the only things I can think of are minced garlic (super handy!) or hot sauces.

One-sided Paper for Us?
We try to save trees by using one-sided paper for printing the pick up slips. Do you have nice neat stacks of paper without staples that you want to see used? The lovely stacks I had have dwindled. If you do have lots, please drop it off at my house or bring it to the next pick up.

Have a Farm Dream?
Angie Koch is facilitating a FarmStart course for people who have a farm dream:

Exploring Your New Farm Dream Course
Thinking about starting your own farm business? Want to learn more about the opportunities and realities of farming? Exploring Your New Farm Dream: Is Starting an Agricultural Business Right for You? is a course designed to help aspiring farmers learn what it takes to start and manage a commercial agricultural business. If you're interested in considering a future in farming this course will help you weigh your options and decide whether a farm business is the right path for you. Angie Koch of Fertile Ground CSA will be facilitating the Kitchener course which includes 4 evening sessions and 1 day of farm tours.Kitchener - The Working Centre (58 Queen St. South)
Evening sessions (6:30pm â€" 9:30pm): Wednesdays, Feb 10, Feb 17, Mar 3, Mar 10
Farm tour (full day): Saturday, Feb 20

For more information and to apply visit http://www.farmstart.ca/exploring-the-new-farm-dream If you have questions contact Gayl at gayl@farmstart.ca or (519) 836-7046 x105 or talk to Angie 519-569-8690 or info@fertilegroundcsa.com

By eating local foods you are making farm dreams possible. I see a KW with urban farm plots in nooks and corners of the city. I see bicyclists going by with rakes and hoes sticking out of their trailers. I see fresh produce stands at City Hall, church parking lots, in the parks and along bike paths. I see greenhouses using waste heat from the building next door and warming a winter crop of grape tomatoes - on your street.

Thank you for choosing a resilient local food system and helping to make it a reality,
Nina
Bailey's Local Foods
www.baileyslocalfoods.ca
P.S. We can use your fruit baskets and jars from preserves again if you return them.
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Baileys Local Food Buying Club - Pickup Reminder

If you put in an order this month it will be ready for you to pick up on Monday, December 21st from 3:30 until 7:00PM in Hilliard Hall at the First United Church at 16 William Street West in Waterloo. You can check your order by logging in at http://baileyslocalfoods.ca/ordering. If you checked trhe prepackaing option your order will be packed and ready for 5pm. Items that require refrigeration will not be pre-packed for health reasons.

I'm sending this a bit late, but I'm looking forward to seeing everyone who ordered today between 3:30 and 7pm today.

Food the Really Schmecks winners!
I'd like to congratulate Terri P and Cheryl M who each won a copy of Food that Really Schmecks by Edna Staebler. Thank you again to Clare Hitchens and the Wilfrid Laurier University Press for this kind donation.

Last week it seemed that every phone call was one from a supplier who had run out of stock or couldn't grow due to the weather. Luckily this list hasn't changed since last week!

 Items not available:

• Lena's beets, rutabaga, stevia and acorn squash are sold out until next fall.
  
• Kingwood is unable to supply baby spinach or salad greens
  
• Beefsteak tomatoes from Floralane (there will be extra grape tomatoes on the spontaneous table)
  
• Black walnuts and hickory nuts from Grimo's Nuts
• Savoury, parsley and mini sweet peppers from Pfenning's
  
• Soiled Reputation does not have red beets, turnips, romanesco cauliflower, or kale

One of the things that we do have in stock that I forgot to put on the order form is Cranberry Apple Sparkling Cider. It will be on the Spontaneous Table if you need some bubbly for your holiday table!


Self Checkout Reminder
We continue to offer a SELF CHECK-OUT option to those of you who are paying by cheque! We hope that this will help speed up the check out process for some of you who want to work out your total yourself. We did all self check-out last year and now we are returning to our roots.
We choose to trust our members. You know that if we lose money due to missing items or math mistakes, we won't survive. We will still have the regular check-out option for those of you who prefer it. If you notice an error (ours or yours), please let us know.

Pre-Packed Orders
If you indicated that you would like your items pre-packed when you ordered they will be ready after 5pm. Please ask a volunteer to get your order. Items requiring refrigeration will be added when you arrive.

Please enter through the white kitchen door off Caroline Street.
You will find a pickup slip with your name on it listing the items that you ordered this week. Pick up all your items (including those in the fridges and freezer), check out our Spontaneous Table then head to our checkout area.

We will have extra items for you to purchase on our Spontaneous Table in front of the blue cupboards just in case you forgot anything. Anyone can purchase items from the Spontaneous Table. You don't even have to be a Member!

There will be room to socialize and mingle. Expect your pick-up to take awhile. If you need help collecting your order, please ask!

In out checkout area, please help us and our volunteers by having items available to view for the checkout process. Please be patient as this area will likely be quite busy.

We accept payment in cash or cheque (made out to Bailey's Local Foods). The total from your shopping cart is always approximate. We will try to ensure that you only pay for the items available this week as local food can sometimes be unpredictable and items that are priced by the pound are approximate on the order form.

When writing cheques, please ensure that the date is correct (it's 2009!) and that the numbers you write (digits and words) match. Also, if you make your cheque out to anything other than "Bailey's Local Foods" the bank won't cash it. We need you to sign it too! Please help us to avoid these costly errors.

You need to bring your own bags to carry your items home. We have boxes, but do not have plastic bags. A limited number of cloth bags will be available for sale.

If possible, consider walking, biking or bringing a wagon to pick up your order. If you are driving, please Park in the Waterloo Town Square Public Parking Lot. You can access the Waterloo Town Square Parking Lot by Caroline Street, Alexandra Avenue, Willis Way or King Street by the LCBO. We have been asked not to park in the church parking lot.

**Please don't forget to pick up your order! At approximately 6:30PM, if you have not picked up your order, we will call the number you provided (when you registered) with a friendly reminder. At 7:00PM we will pack up your order and add the $15 packing fee to your order total.If you have not picked up your order by 7:30PM (or when we finish cleaning up) your order will be donated - and you still get the pleasure of paying for it. We need to receive payment for this week's order before you can order for the following week.

If you are not happy with what you receive, all claims for missing/damaged items must be made at the pick-up site before 7:00PM that same day. After 7:00PM all sales are final.

Thank you,
Rachael and Nina
Bailey's Local Foods
www.baileyslocalfoods.ca 

P.S. We can use your fruit baskets and boxes as well as jars from preserves again if you return them.

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Oops! Pickup is December 21

This is your reminder that you should place your order before Tuesday at 8:00PM.

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Items that you have placed in your shopping cart will be ordered on your behalf on Tuesday at 8:00PM. There is no checkout button. If you do not intend to order, please ensure that your shopping cart is empty.

Dear Members,

I was in a rush this morning when I sent the email. I typed the wrong date!

I was reminded by Meg that the pickup day is Monday, December 21 (not the 22nd as I wrote in the subject of my last email). Thanks Meg!

Thanks also to Kevin of Snyder Heritage Farms who just sent an email telling me that he has 30 lb of Ground Turkey Meat available. It is in the poultry section of our order form if you would like to order it for pickup on the 21st! It is 1/3 breast meat and 2/3 thigh meat all ground up.

Rachael
Bailey's Local Foods
baileyslocalfoods.ca

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Ordering for December 21 ends Tuesday at 8:00 PM

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Items that you have placed in your shopping cart will be ordered on your behalf on Tuesday at 8:00PM. There is no checkout button. If you do not intend to order, please ensure that your shopping cart is empty.

Items to look for:

• Mapleton's yogurt almost sold out! Make sure you have enough for a month!
  
• Gift Baskets for that special someone. You can see an example online at http://baileyslocalfoods.ca/GiftBaskets.php. The items that you receive will be in a peck basket and wrapped in cellophane.

 Items not available:

• Lena's beets, rutabega, stevia and acorn squash are sold out until next fall. Rutabega and beets are available from other suppliers. If you would like some please change your order.
  
• There will be only 7 bags of salad mix from Kingwood Farms available. We will notify you by email if your order cannot be filled. Those who ordered first will have their orders filled.
  

Are you able to volunteer?
We are looking for volunteers to help us keep Bailey's running well. If you are interested, we are now accepting applications for more volunteer help. Please email us and Josie, one of our volunteer coordinators will be in touch with you.


About 80% of every dollar you spend at Bailey's Local Foods goes to the farmers and producers who grow and make the amazing food. We thank you for your support.


Rachael
Bailey's Local Foods
baileyslocalfoods.ca

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Bailey's Updates for the December 21 order

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How are you enjoying this snow?

Yesterday was the perfect day for building a snowman. And the kids and I did. We used a carrot for her nose and while trying to decide what to use for other decorations we found our bag of heartnut shells (they are so pretty that I keep them). They were perfect for eyes, mouth and buttons. I found an old scarf and trimmed some branches for the arms and the kids declared that CarrotCake the snow girl was done! I hear that today's snow is better suited for snow angels. I'm staying inside in the warm, I think.

Lost Mittens
I needed to dig out my warm mitts yesterday as mine got wet rather quickly while shovelling. This reminded me of the pair of mittens that were left at the November pickup. If you lost a pair of knit mittens please let me know so that I can get them back to you.

Spiced Carrot Soup
Last night I rushed out the door to take my daughter to ballet and suggested that spicy carrot soup might be nice for dinner. While I was gone, Andrew fried us some onion, then added carrots and potatoes just covered them with water to cook, added ginger, red curry paste and coconut milk, salt and sugar and  pureed it all. The result was super yummy. I'd share theexact recipe, but there isn't one. Andrew's suggested garnish was salted peanuts from Kernal, thought the garlic ones would have been great too.

Pre Packing Orders
There have been quite a few emails about the missing pre packing option on our order from. In November we had about 30 pre packed orders requested. With only a few people to help packing, we did not fill all the pre packed orders in time (before 5pm). I'm about to put it back on with a maximum of 20 and will change the pricing to $5 for orders over $200; $10 for orders $100-$200 and $15 for orders less than $100.

I also want to take this opportunity to remind you that we are only able to pre pack the fresh and non-perishable items on your order. Due to health regulations we can not pre pack items that need refrigeration. This includes meat, cheese, yogurt and most prepared foods. You can ask for help in collecting these items when you arrive, or you can collect them yourself and when you go through the checkout we will check through your order to ensure that you got everything. If you choose to do self checkout please do make sure that you got all the items that you ordered.

Out of Stock
Lena called to say that she only had Rosemary and Frozen Butternut Squash (now in the 'vegetables' section) still available. If you ordered:

• Beets Red bag - 2 lb - you can change your order and buy them from Miriam and Mervin Gingerich
• Herbs Stevia bunch - not available! too cold!
• Rutabaga Big rutabaga you can change your order and buy them from Edward W. and Selema Martin
• Acorn Squash you can change your order and buy them from Miriam and Mervin Gingeric

Mapleton's Yogurt
I know that there is a new yogurt on the order from this month from Local Dairy, but before we knew we would be able to offer it to you we pre-ordered what we thought was enough Mapleton's Organic yogurt for you this month based on your orders from last month. I'd like to sell it all to you instead of having it go to waste so I'm offering a sale on a few varieties and the maximums are online too so that you can see what we still need to sell. This is a concern only when we are running the Buying Club monthly based on the lead time needed to milk the cows and make the yogurt. Next month we'll order less and indicate the maximums on the order form. I hope that you can help me by making sure we sell out of Mapleton's Yogurt this month!

Food that Really Schmecks
Clare Hitchens has generously offered to donate a couple copies of Food that Really Schmecks for our members. If you want to win a copy please go to the 'other' section of our order form and check the *Draw Entry box. We'll pick randomly from those who have selected that item and give the books out at the December 21 pickup. Here is some info about Clare and why she has decided to share these books with you!

Wilfrid Laurier University Press has been publishing books since 1974 and often publishing books since 1974 and often publishes books of local interest. When we were working on Edna Staebler's Diaries (Must Write) we were lucky enough to acquire the rights to her first local cookbook, Food That Really Schmecks, first published in 1968 and long out of print. Staebler was a journalist and writer who moved in with a Mennonite family to research the book. As with all the people in her life, they soon became fast and life-long friends. Our agreement with Edna was that we could reprint the cookbook, as long as we agreed to keep it in print. The spirit of Bailey's Local Food Club reminds me of the community that Edna became part of as she wrote the cookbook, and since I spent hours reading it when I was a child, as much for her humorous anecdotes as for her simple but delicious local recipes, I thought it an appropriate contribution.
Clare Hitchens, WLU Press Publicist, Bailey's Local Food Club Member

Bone Broth
Marg Steele, who sells us lamb through Traditional Foods was wondering why our customers weren't buying more of the 'bone in' lamb. I asked her why we should and she wrote the following email to share with you:

If you are looking to get more from your grocery dollar, I encourage you to buy cuts of meat with the bone in. Use the bones to make bone broth for your soups, stews and gravies. You can also braise your vegetables in broth and cook rice with broth.

There are numerous health benefits to using bone broth. As the bones cook in the water, minerals and other nutrients leach out of the bones and into the water, especially if the water has been made a bit acidic by adding apple cider vinegar. Homemade broth is rich in calcium, magnesium, phosphorus and other trace minerals. These minerals are now more easily absorbed by the body.

Making broth is very easy. Begin with bones, some pieces of meat and vegetables, cold water and a splash apple cider vinegar. Heat the broth slowly and once it begins to boil, turn it down to a simmer. If scum rises to the surface skim it off with a spoon. Scum usually appears as it is boiling. Let the broth simmer all day, especially for chicken, turkey or beef or lamb bones. The longer it simmers the more flavour and gelatin are extracted from the bones and vegetables. Gelatin helps to support the connective tissue in your body and helps your hair and fingernails to grow. Broth should be strained after cooking. Chill the broth to remove the fat if you so desire. Stock will keep for several days in the fridge or may be frozen in plastic containers or ice cube trays. It may have a jelly-like consistency which is just fine. Now it is ready to add to any recipe that calls for broth or you can add it to the cooking water of your vegetables and rice!

For more information on the health benefits of bone broth or for specific recipes google 'bone broths' and enjoy!

Marg Steele
Steele Wool Farm

Organic Apple Sauce!
Pete of Apple Creek Farms has made some apple sauce from his organically grown apples (they are transitional this year and next year will be fully certified!) and is offering it to you in 1 L jars or in cases (it's like getting 2 jars free!). You'll find it in the ''preserves' section with some other yummies.

I never understood why Nina's emails were so long. Now I'm guilty of the same! I hope that you're still awake and reading.

See you on the 21st!
Rachael
Bailey's Local Foods
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