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In my opinion, we are entering the best time of the year here in Alberta. The days are warm, the evenings are cool, and the harvest is in full swing. We are closed this Friday through Labour Day so we can enjoy one last weekend of summer.

I went out to the Flavours of the Foothills harvest festival on Saturday and had a great time. Flavours is Kayben Farms, Chinook Honey, and Canadian Rocky Mountain Ranch. I am familiar with Chinook and Kayben, but I had not been to the CRM Ranch. The ranch is located just West of Red Deer Lake Packers and has farm gate sales of bison, elk, and caribou along with supplying the RMR restaurants. Each farm had demos, tours, and samples and it was a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon. Chinook was offering Melissa’s Gold, a new sweeter mead, and look for a pumpkin festival at Kayben near Thanksgiving. They tell me they’ll have an air cannon ready for the event!

I’m off to San Francisco for Slow Food Nation this weekend so look to my blog for reports on that. Here is the menu for this week:

Monday - Chicken Fried Steak

Hoven Farms organic beef cutlet with our fried chicken coating served with pan gravy and Taber corn grits $14

Tuesday - Italian Meatballs

Broek Pork Acres Berkshire pork meatballs in tomato sauce with Lund’s Organic spinach and pasta $13

Wednesday - Vegetable Tagine

cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, peas, tomatoes, and chick peas simmered with moroccan spices served with cous cous $13

Thursday - Roast Chicken

Sunworks Farm roast chicken served with picnic potato salad and our special BBQ dipping sauce. Take some extra for the weekend!

$40 whole $26 half $15 quarter

Friday - Closed For The Long Weekend

the last long weekend of summer – enjoy!

This Week’s Soup – Sausage and White Bean $7

This Week’s Stew – Beef Chili $8

Something Sweet – Peach Upside Down Cake $4

Forage Hours this week Monday to Thursday 2PM to 7PM

ph (403)269-6551 - 3508 19^th Street SW

 

We’re into the prime season for local products. The markets are bursting at the seams with so many great things it’s hard to eat them all. We’re going to give it a good try this week though.

First things first though… we are currently hiring cooks for full time positions in our catering kitchen. The labour market is tough so if you know of someone who might be interested please send them our way. Send resumes to info@foragefoods.com.

This week we are adding a vegetable pack that will include cauliflower, broccoli, and baby carrots from Innisfail Growers. We’re going to cut them into florets and prepare them to be eaten fresh or steamed a little for a vegetable side.

On Thursdays and Fridays we are adding beautiful bouquets of flowers from Eagle Creek Farm for $15. John Mills is one of the Terra Madre Youth delegates for Southern Alberta and he operates a corn maze, U-pick flowers, and is also about to harvest fresh garlic that we’ll be using at Forage. The flowers are very fresh and last a long time with a little care.

We are also featuring some of the vegetables from our gardens on this week’s menu. We have kale on Tuesday’s special and we are going to have purslane in the salad with the vegetable pot pie on Wednesday. Also on the menu this week is peach cobbler and we’ve even brought in some of Vital Green Organic Heavy Cream for those who want to take it over the edge!

Here is the menu for this week:

Monday - Warm Chicken Caesar Salad

lemon and garlic Sunworks Farm chicken with Lund’s Organic lettuces, croutons, parmesan and creamy caesar dressing $12

Tuesday - Smoked Sausage And Vegetables

Broek Pork Acres ham sausage with Upper Green Farm new potatoes, Lund’s chard, and kale from our garden $13

Wednesday - Market Vegetable Pot Pie

new potatoes, baby carrots, beans, peas, and whatever else we can find at the market in a light dill cream sauce with butter puff dough crust served with green salad $13

Thursday - Spanish Chicken Salad

Sunworks Farm chicken, roasted peppers, tomatoes, green olives, and potatoes tossed with smoked paprika and lemon vinaigrette on Lund’s Organic lettuce $13

Friday - BBQ Beef Short Ribs

slow roasted Hoven Farms beef short ribs in a tangy BBQ sauce served with red pepper roasted potatoes $14

This Week’s Salad – Gull Valley Greek Salad $5

This Week’s Stew – Beef Chili $8

Something Sweet – Peach Cobbler $4

Forage Hours Monday to Friday 2PM to 7PM

3508 19^th Street SW - Phone (403)269-6551

Well we are all back from our time off and ready to get back in to the swing of things. Thanks to everyone for allowing us to take the time off and understanding how important it is to us. Sue went to Victoria, Jaclyn to the Oregon coast, Wade to Seattle, Paul to Ontario and Ohio and Lynn to Vancouver so it’s going to take us a few days to catch up.

Wade brought back some of the Holmquist Orchards Dry Roast Ennis Hazelnuts and we are offering a limited supply of them at $4 for 4 oz. Also, it seems like we haven’t done the roast Sunworks Farm chickens for a month and that’s because it has been a month! This Friday the roast chickens are back and we will continue with offering them every other Friday. If you want to reserve a chicken just send an email or giving us a call. Hope to see you this week.

Here’s the menu for this week:

Monday - Chicken Chorizo Stew

Sunworks Farm chicken chorizo, tomatoes, peppers, white beans $13

Tuesday - Bison Meatloaf

Buffalo Horn Ranch bison meatloaf with BBQ glaze served with herb roasted potatoes $13

Wednesday - Vegetable Curry

cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, and chick peas in a tomato curry sauce with basmati rice $12

Thursday - Saskatoon Berry Chicken Salad

Sunworks Farm chicken, wild rice, candied pecans, spinach, field lettuces, saskatoon berry vinaigrette $13

Friday - Roast Chicken

Sunworks Farm roast chicken served with picnic potato salad and our special BBQ dipping sauce $38 whole $25 half $14 quarter

This Week’s Salad – Italian Pasta Salad $4

This Week’s Soup – Seafood Chowder $9

Something Sweet – Mom’s Chocolate Cake $4

Forage Hours Monday to Friday 2PM to 7PM

3508 – 19^th Street SW - (403)269-6551