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Amaranth Bakery

By now you probably know that we’ve started carrying gluten-free breads from Amaranth Bakery. I was at a food photography meeting the other night and got a couple questions about the bakery and the breads, so I’m gonna give a couple answers.

Where is it? Amaranth is a local bakery located in Lancaster. Their products are carried by a range of vendors, from farmer’s markets to Whole Foods, but I strongly encourage you to get them at Green Aisle. That’s a completely unbiased opinion. No pressure.

What flours do they use? Amaranth uses a gluten-free blend, made up of brown rice flour, millet flour, amaranth flour, tapioca starch, coconut flour, and arrowroot.

What does Green Aisle carry? We have hot dog buns (4 pack), flatbreads (4 pack), rosemary-sea salt dinner rolls (6 pack), a four seed loaf, and a cinnamon raisin loaf.

Four Seed Loaf

What else does Amaranth make? They make several other flavors of dinner rolls, as well as sandwich rolls. They have other breads like a maple oat loaf and cheddar herb bread, as well as cookies, cupcakes, brownies, and muffins. Amaranth can also make a birthday cake for that special gluten-free person in your life.

Cheddar Herb Bread

So stop on by, gluten-free friends! We’ve got something for everybody here.

Esther

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IN STOCK: Bennett Compost

 

Our dude Tim Bennett, who’s helped us virtually eliminate our waste with his convenient residential and commercial composting services, now has the fruits (or dirts) or his labor for retail sale. Just in time for all you urban gardeners, we’ve got nutrient-rich Bennett Compost stocked in both $5 gallon bags and $10 (plus $1 deposit) buckets you can return to us full of cardboard, apple cores, pine needles and other compostable goodies Tim will convert into more compost. Poetically cyclical, no? And just in time for Spring.

 

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This Just In: Remedy Teas

 

We just got a warming re-up from the Remedy Tea sisters, Kristin and Courtney. Their uptown tea parlor may be on hiatus, but we’ve stocked their loose-leaf wares since we opened. Currently, we have six blends in stock, including two cold-weather black teas: the vanilla-scented Earl Grey de la Creme (top) veined with blue mallow flowers and Apple Crisp (bottom) with an oatmeal bouquet of dried apples, raisins and almonds. Get them now, before the snow.

 

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This Just In: Talula’s Table

 

Photo: Gil Ortale

 

Just last week we started carrying some goods from Kennett Square grocery and cafe, Talula’s Table. Owner Aimee Olexy is the answer to the lush, locally smoked salmon we’ve been searching for. (That’s it in the shot above, courtesy of canele man and Olexy’s Headhouse neighbor, Gil Ortale.) We’ve got them in third-pound packs for $15, and are also testing Talula’s fully cooked fiery chorizo ($12) and curried lamb sausages ($15).

 

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Thanksgiving Turkey Pre-Orders

 

Barb Shelley

 

You eat local and organic in your everyday life. Why should a holiday be any different? But finding sustainably and humanely raised turkeys is not as simple as finding, say, a sustainably grown apple. At Green Aisle, we’re making it easy on you this year by sourcing beautiful birds from Mountain View Poultry in Walnutport, PA. That’s the farmer, Barb Shelley, above, at her stand at Headhouse Square. We currently carry Barb’s amazing chicken and turkey sausages and wanted to keep our Thanksgiving turkey pre-orders in the Green Aisle family, so to speak. Here are the deets: Barb’s turkeys are available from 15 to 30 pounds, for $4.99 per pound. (For transparency’s sake, Green Aisle’s cost is $3.99 per pound, so we’re only marking these blue-ribbons up a buck.) They’ll arrive at Green Aisle on Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, at noon and must be picked up before we close at 8 pm. Stop by the store to place your order; we’ll take down all your info and a 50% deposit (remember we’re cash only) and you can relax knowing that your turkey is taken care of. No supermarket hassle. No last-minute scramble. No mystery about who raised your turkey and how. Do try to let us know if you’re interested ASAP, as we’ve only reserved a few dozen birds with Barb. In the case, the early bird definitely get the, um, bird.

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This Just In: Eclat Chocolate Bars

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from the famed Eclat chocolaterie in West Chester, PA / $7.50 each

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Recapping Last Night’s Better Butter Tasting

In case you missed it, our girl Marina at Better Butter wrote up a nice little recap of our last night’s tasting session.

…yet these shoppers make it a priority to buy the best and local. Walking into Green Aisle and starting a conversation with “Did the bacon come?” followed with “Just moved into the new apartment I told you about” is par for the course. To those living in South Philly, you are lucky!

And we’re luck to have Better Butter in our line-up of local goodies. Pick up a jar today!

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This Just In: August 5, 2010

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NEW: Fulton Dairy Cheeses

he cut this cheese

Meet Mark Fulton. He and his family pasture-raise Holstein and Jersey cows on their 60-year old farm outside Shippensburg. Mark’s the cheesemonger of the group, employing Vermont training to transform the herd’s fresh milk into butter-yellow—it’s the grass!—European-style cheeses like ricotta, mozzarella, parmesan, asiago and gouda.

yellow, gov'na!

We just landed a small shipment of the latter two varieties, and we think you’ll find them easy to love. The gouda is mild and melts easily, making it ideal for omelets and burgers. The asiago is sharper, saltier, great for grating on pasta and pizza. / $8 for half a pound

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NEW: Better Butter

mighty butter!

Today we welcome Better Butter to our shelves. These sexy, spreadable nut butters are made right here in two-one-five, are totally vegan and come in two flavors: a Nutella-ish nutty chocolate chip and honey banana made with honey from our friends at Two Gander Farm. Stop by tomorrow from 5 to 8; butter babe Marina will be here spooning samples of this dope new addition. / $6.50 a jar

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