Dinner on the Deck
Friday, September 26, 2008,
Back by popular demand....TAMALE NIGHT!! Come early to get your favorite tamale! We'll have both meat and vegetarian options, one being the new Three Cheese Blue Corn featuring our Traders Point Creamery Spicy Fromage. Enjoy this yummy meal with sides of Corn and Avocado salad, Mexican rice, Pico de Gallo, Tomatillo salsa, sour cream and Blue Corn Tortilla chips.
All meals come with a choice of Lemonade, Iced Tea, or Milk
Adults: $15.00 Chidren: $6.50
We have a wide variety of delicious Organic Wines and Beers available. Visit our Bar outside the Farm Store to choose something to enjoy with your Dinner!
Rain or Shine! If it rains, dinner will be served inside The Loft.
Also, get ready because next week will be serving a delicious Friday Night Thai Dinner!
OKTOBERFEST!!!
Tickets are now available online on our main webpage for our Second Annual Octoberfest, on October 26, 2008 from 12 to 6 pm. You may also purchase tickets at Traders Point Creamery. Tickets in advance are $8 and tickets at the Gate are $10. Children under 10 years of age are free!
Don't miss out on the most exciting event of the year! All Proceeds Benefit Traders Point Rural Historic Districts. Help us Protect over 7,000 acres of remaining greenspace in Traders Point and Surrounding Areas.
For more information visit our website at www.traderspointcreamery.com
The Farmers Market!
Fall is the time for making savory soups, and we have all the ingredients you need here at the Green Market at Trader’s Point Creamery! Stop by Seven Springs or Skillington Farms for wonderful pasture-raised chicken and by Phelps Family Farm, The Swiss Connection, or Zen Sheep farm for beef and lamb to make lovely meat stocks to start your soups. Head on over to Redwine Farm, Seldom Seen, and Life Farm for fresh veggies to add to those stocks, or to make vegetarian stock. Add some milk from Trader’s Point Creamery, baked goods from Harvest Café or Valentine Hill, butter from Country Mouse City Mouse and you have yourself the fixings for a great Fall meal! We’ll see you on Friday!
There isn't enough room to describe every vendor or every product at the Green Market. So, here's who is planning to be here this Friday, September 26:
• Bluffwood Creek Honey-liquid honey, bee pollen, honey sticks and candy, lip balm, and salves
• Country Mouse City Mouse-condiments, dips and dressings made from generational recipes
• Countryside Orchard–variety of apples, from sweet to tart
• Farming For Life-raw, lacto-fermented foods and beverages
• Flower Child Aromatherapy-handmade soaps, sachets, teas, incense, and perfumes
• Harvest Cafe Coffee Company-freshly brewed coffee and ice mochas, a variety of freshly roasted coffee beans or freshly ground beans
• Harvest Lodge Catering-a variety of tamales, sweets, soups, salsas, and granola
• Life Farm-Certified Organic produce
• Murphy Farms- fresh chicken eggs
• New Day Meadery-a variety of handcrafted honey wines, from dry to sweet
• Peace Leaf Tea-custom green tea blends and tea accessories
• Pet Lover’s Organic Pet Bakery–peanut butter and apple dog biscuits
• Phelps Family Farm-a variety of meats and sausages as well as eggs
• Redwine Farm- fresh produce, hot pepper vinegars and oils, beef, and eggs
• Seldom Seen Farm-a wide variety of fresh produce and fresh flower bouquets
• Seven Springs Farm-beef, chicken (whole and parts), eggs, and popcorn
• The Swiss Connection-unique cheeses, meats and ice cream plus a variety of pet products
• Trader’s Point Creamery-organic, grassfed, creamline dairy products: milk, yogurts, cheeses and ice cream
• Valentine Hill-a variety of homemade breads, including a new wheat-free Spelt bread; baked goods and both wheat and spelt pasta
• Zen Sheep Farm-Certified Organic lamb and garlic
The Green Market runs from 4-8pm every Friday night, Rain or Shine, from now through October. Please be prepared as most of the vendors accept only cash and check for payment.
Loft Restaurant
Lunch at the Farm...Tuesday thru Saturday, 11-3pm
We are proud to have added Tuesdays to the days that we are open for Lunch on The Farm!
This weeks burger special comes with Traders Point Creamery Spicy Fromage, Bacon, Traders Point Creamery Fleur de la Terre, Garlic Aoli, and Red Onion. It is Delicious!
The soup of the week is Chickpea and Garlic. It is made with Onions, Carrots, Celery, Cumin, Chickpeas, Garlic and Lemon. Yum!
Traders Point Creamery Book Favorite
If you want a Enjoyable, Interesting and Informative book, pick up Michael Pollans "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals." This book discusses the evolution of food and how it effects our lives. Simple choices, such as "what should we eat for dinner tonight" that can affect our lives, our childrens lives, and the earth.
Pollan tracks each of the food chains that sustain us—industrial, organic or alternative food, and food we feed ourselves—from the source to a final meal, and in the process develops a definitive account of the American way of eating. His compelling narrative takes us from Iowa cornfields to food-science labs, from feedlots and fast-food restaurants to organic farms and hunting grounds, always emphasizing our dynamic coevolutionary relationship with the handful of plant and animal species we are dependent on.
This book has been nominated by Traders Point Creamery because we feel that it carries on our mission statement--- To nourish the land that nourishes us all. It suggests not only to eat Organic, but to really think and learn about what you are putting into your body as well as your childrens. We at Traders Point Creamery hope you feel safe and healthy putting our 100% Organic products into your body, knowing that it comes with like-minded people as well as a clean environment.
We hope you enjoy this book as well as carry on its message!
Autumn Quotes and Fast Facts
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. - Stanley Horowitz
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Americans use 4 million plastic bottles every hour!-Yet only 1 bottle out of 4 is recycled AND it takes plastic bottles 700 years to decompose!!
Reduce, Reuse, Recyle...For now and for the FUTURE!
What's new on the Farm
The farm is very happy to announce our new Farm Manager, Jason Hobson. Jason has a great deal of experience in dairy farming and we are certain he will continue to carry on Traders Point Creamery's mission of sustainability with his strong leadership skills and expertise.
As always, the farm is extremely busy. Getting ready for winter, as well as calf season, makes the time fly by! Just in the past month we have had 24 Calves born. Not only is this great for the farm, but its also an extra incentive for you to visit the farm for a tour, lunch, or an ice cream treat. The farm is also on its last hay bailing cycle, so we will have enough food for the cows to eat during the cold winter.
We would like to say so-long to our English intern, Ollie. So-Long OLLIE! (We know you will miss bailing hay!)
Recipe of the Week
Butternut Soup with Cumin
3 tablespoons olive oil
3 medium onions, peeled and sliced (3 cups)
3 pounds butternut squash, peeled and cut into 2-inch cubes (8 cups)
2 teaspoons salt
Freshly ground black pepper
1 teaspoon ground cumin
3 sprigs of fresh thyme
3 cups chicken broth, vegetable broth, or a commercial broth or bouillon cubes
Croutons
In a 6-quart heavy-bottomed soup pot, heat the oil over medium heat and stir in the onions. Cover, reduce the heat, and braise for 15 minutes, checking that the onions don't burn.
Add the squash to the onions. Sprinkle with salt, pepper, cumin, and thyme; cover the pot. Braise for another 15 minutes, checking once in a while that the vegetables do not burn.
Add the broth, bring to a boil, cover, reduce the heat, and simmer for 30 minutes or until the squash is tender.
Purée the soup in a blender or food processor in batches or use an immersion blender. Reheat the soup; taste for salt, and add more cumin to taste. Serve boiling hot with croutons.
