Delaware Local Food Exchange's newsletter.

Delaware Local Food Exchange is a store within a store:  it's open 3 days a week, out of a health food store in Elsmere / Prices Corner (it's the first shopping center on the left if you're heading into Elsmere coming from Prices Corner).  See the hours at the very bottom of this newsletter.  I have not managed to check it out yet, but I really want to go today after reading this.  There's just something about fresh food in the summertime:

By: Delaware Local Food Exchange

‎"You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces--just good food from ...fresh ingredients"--Julia Child

More summer fruits have arrived! Two bushels of peaches, big beautiful blackberries and loads of big, juicy blueberries are in this week. We'll have the first garlic of the year along with green peppers and red cabbage. I have some baby bok choy coming along with sweet corn, green beans, cucumbers, yellow squash, zucchini, red, white and yellow onions, green cabbage, beets. We'll have blue potatoes for the first time along with yukon golds,baby reds and more of the Beauregard sweets. There will be plenty of hearty greens, salad greens, arugula, and the ever popular butterhead lettuce as well. Fresh herbs this week include basil, thai basil, thyme, mint, lemonbalm, dill, tarragon, chives, citrus, kafir lime and bay leaves. Certified organic Portobello mushrooms are back, too (we miss you Erika and David).


The Leraysville cheese will be restocked this week with all the favorites including the fabulous 5X cheddar, garlic cheddar, jalapeno cheddar, cheese curds, and for the first time udder delight....the non-smokey version of smokey delight. I also have in Oak View Organics blueberry jam made with this seasons organic blueberries and sweetened with agave nectar...yum!

Grass fed meats will be in abundance this week with ground turkey and pork chops in the fridge and keilbasa sausage, lamb loin chops, t-bone and sirloin steaks in the freezer.

Big Sky bread and granola are in and if the stars are aligned my order of Menta Stracciatella
(Mint Chocolate Chip), Cappuccino, and Thai Coconut Gelato will be in from Capogiro Gelato in Philly http://www.capogirogelato.com/​main.html. The mint is local, the espresso roasted locally, and the milk in all the gelato is from grass fed Lancaster County cows...cool!

For these and all of your local organic & grass fed staples come by the Exchange this week :)

In case you missed the news about the food preservation basics class coming up here is the link http://ag.udel.edu/extension/n​cc/Food%20Preservation%20Basic​s%20101%20flyer%202011.pdf.

We are here Thursdays 1-6, Fridays 1-7 and Saturdays 10-5. We are cash, check and kid friendly. Don't forget your bags (including small produce bags) and bottles but if you do...we've got you covered.

peace out,
Karen