Food and Meat Co-op Blog

When I traveled through Greece many years ago, I fell in love with chicken, beef, and lamb gyros.  I think we ate them everyday.  They were sold just about everywhere for a small price.  The pita bread was what really made me fall in love with them, if I'm being honest.  There was something about the warm, fluffy pita (not the pocket kind) that had a soft interior and a slight crisp on the outside from being gently fried in a pan.  Just thinking about it makes my mouth water.   When my family went gluten-free many years ago, I had...

Happy New Year to our amazing community!  2021 was an incredible experience for our team, our farmers and for our community.  Despite some of the difficulties with food in 2021 due to shortages, droughts and rising prices all around us , it was a year of massive growth and blessing for every person involved in any step of this process within our tight community.  We started in May of 2020, when food was hard to get due to the broken supply chain. Since then, we have used every month as a learning opportunity and ability to improve and grow. We...

We have wanted to make whoopie pies for a long time.  They are such a fun treat that we knew we had to get to work to recreate them for a delicious, allergen friendly option.  The perfect amount of chocolate and the marshmallow fluff to fill them with is magical.  The flavor of the marshmallow fluff can be anything you want it to be and you can roll these in anything your heart can dream up.  When we set out to make these, they were instantly a hit!  They will go quickly, consider yourself forewarned.  When you make these, we would love...

Watch this amazing recipe  come together using one of the mixes from Rustic Scoop that we have in our gluten free sampler box!     Stuffing Recipe allergen friendly, vegan option, and gluten free by: Rustic Scoop™   Ingredients  12 Cups Rustic Scoop™ Sandwich Bread, cubed ¾ Cup Butter of choice2 Cups Yellow onion chopped and diced 1 ½ Cups Celery chopped 3 Garlic cloves minced 2 Tablespoons Fresh sage chopped 2 Tablespoons Fresh parsley chopped 2 Tablespoons Fresh Rosemary chopped2 Tablespoons Fresh thyme chopped1 ½ teaspoons Salt1 ½ teaspoons Onion powder2 ½ Cups Chicken or vegetable stock  For Preparing Ahead:  Cut 12 cups of bread into cubes. ...

Rustic Scoop™ is a new baking mix manufacturer that uses clean ingredients that are gluten free, top 9 allergen free (except coconut palm sugar), and refined sugar free. The mixes are easy to make and are delicious.     We are a family that lives with multiple food allergies, celiac disease, and other health-related food restrictions. Between all five of us, there are so many things that we can’t eat that it’s almost easier to just tell people what we CAN eat. What we realized is that most things were very possible in the kitchen, even with the long list of...