More For This Week

As promised, there will be more new items from The Grain Maker at Local Roots this week:


When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade, right? So when a couple of garlic-herb baguettes didn't sell last week, I decided to turn them into herbed bread crumbs, with a little added garlic powder, dried oregano, and dried basil to punch up the flavor a little. These would be perfect for dredging slices of eggplant or zucchini -- or even chicken breasts -- for making these dishes alla parmigiana, or you could use them to top casseroles or vegetable side dishes.

My offerings in the bakery case this week will include two new items:

--hazelnut shortbread: wedges of buttery, half-whole wheat shortbread studded with tasty local hazelnuts and sweetened with Gortner's Maple Syrup
--spinach-feta rolls: take the usual artisan bread dough and wrap it around a savory filling of sauteed local spinach (from Adonai Acres), homegrown green onions, and tangy goat-milk feta cheese from Lucky Penny Creamery -- then bake to golden brown perfection; these will be available starting Friday at lunch

As always, let me know if you like what's new!