Turkey Time!: The Beet, Weaver Street's E-Newsletter

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Turkey Time!
Whether it's wow, yikes, hooray or OMG, the holidays are coming! Weaver Street Market has an amazing array of goodies to make your Thanksgiving table a delight to family and friends and easy for you. You may choose to purchase a fresh, all-natural turkey or duck to roast at home or a delicious boneless, smoked all-natural ham. For those shoppers seeking a little help in cooking their Thanksgiving turkey at home, we are offering turkey-roasting kits. These kits include cheese cloth, a basting marinade, and instructions. The kit sells for $5.99 and provides everything that you need to get a turkey into your pan and into your oven. (We also have aluminum turkey pans for sale if you need one of those.) More

Hillsborough Halloween
Table Food Drive
SV Walk for Animal Protection

Vote for the Board!
Board Enews

RSVVP Day
Wild Herb Sunday
Classifieds Due
CHICLE Cultural Event
Time Change!

November Wine Tasting

Weekly Produce Specials
Weekly Meat Specials

Recipe: Spaghetti with Local Grass-fed Ground Beef
Irish Soda Bread is back!



Turkey Time! continued
For those shoppers seeking the convenience of an already-cooked Thanksgiving Turkey, we are offering pre-roasted turkeys from Plainville Farms. These are the same Thanksgiving turkeys that we are selling in our meat department—antibiotic free, no animal byproducts and all natural ingredients. They are roasted for us by Plainville Farms, quick-chilled, and packed in plastic bags. We tasted one in early October and our tasters thought it was a delicious turkey. Offering pre-roasted turkeys from Plainville Farms is a change from last year, when we offered turkeys that we roasted ourselves in Weaver Street's kitchen. We evaluated both options, and decided that the pre-roasted Plainville turkeys provide both a better value and easier handling. This year we are selling a medium-sized roasted turkey (14-16 pounds before cooking, 10-12 pound after) for $17 less than last year. Last year we packaged roasted turkeys in an aluminum roasting pan wrapped in aluminum foil. We received complaints that the aluminum pans were flimsy and the aluminum foil prone to ripping, making it difficult to get it the turkey home in good shape. This year the turkeys will be packed in plastic bags and boxed. To reheat the turkey you simply remove it from the bag and reheat it in your own roasting pan. We also have aluminum turkey pans for sale if you need one of those. The Plainville Farms pre-roasted Turkeys can be bought individually at $3.49 per pound or as part of a complete Thanksgiving meal with fresh sides, trimmings, and rolls from our kitchen and bakery. As always we have a spectacular selection of sides, pies, and tarts to round out your dinner or party plans. Place your order early to ensure your special day.
View, download and print a Thanksgiving reservation form here.

Weekly Produce Specials - THESE SALES ARE EFFECTIVE Tuesday, October 28 through Monday, November 3.


	Organic, Autumn-blushed Bartlett Pears	$1.29 lb	super low price
	Organic, Honey Crisp Apples	3 lb. bags $5.99 each	get 'em while they last!
	New item! Organic Bagged Avocados	4 ct. bag $3.99 each

Weekly Meat & Seafood Specials

	Locally produced Lump Crab Cakes	3/$10.00	Luther Lewis & Son
	Trident Panko-breaded Tilapia	12 oz. pkg. $4.99 each	From our freezer save $1.00
	Murray's Boneless Chicken Breasts	$5.99 lb	All Natural save $1.49 lb
	Local, Grass-fed Beef Sale!	Save 10% off	our regular low prices.
Read more about other Weaver Street Market Specials.


Recipe: Spaghetti with Local Grass-fed Ground Beef

authentic Sicilian spaghetti from one of our co-op owners. INGREDIENTS: • small piece (amount proportional to carrots) of celery root-diced • 2 raw carrots-diced • 1/2 of big onion-diced • 2 cloves of garlic • 5 Tbsp of Olive Oil • 1 lb of grass-fed ground beef (Local grass-fed beef sale this week! Grass-fed ground beef, sale: $4.49/lb, save 10%, reg. price: $4.99/lb.) • about 1 cup white wine • 1 can of crushed tomatoes or pasta sauce • favorite pasta noodle DIRECTIONS: 1. Dice all above vegetables in small cubes and fry on a medium heat with Olive Oil. Add salt and pepper and when onion becomes translucent add 1 lb or a bit more of grass-fed ground beef. 2. Add more pepper and salt to taste and mix well. Once meat has browned, add a little white wine, just enough to almost cover all the ingredients. Add bay leaf. 3. Mix, and after about 15 minutes, when you can't smell the alcohol from cooking the wine, add the crushed tomatoes or pasta sauce and mix everything well. (You can also add some tomato juice for more taste.) The sauce should cook on a low heat for at least half an hour, but the longer, the better (up to 2-3 hours). 4. Remove bay leaf, add cooked pasta to the finished sauce, mix well and sprinkle with Parmesan or Pecorino-Romano cheese. Serves 4.

Irish Soda bread is back!

Our Bread Bakers will be making the famous Weaver Street Irish Soda Bread for a limited time starting this week: October 29th through November 8th. Good thing, too, because it's too long between one St. Patrick's Day and the next to wait for this bread. Now, before we fall headlong into the Holidays, you can re-live those early Spring days of March Madness.

Hillsborough Halloween

Friday, October 31
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Outside the Hillsborough Store

Thrill to the storytelling magic of Saundra Kelley and seasonal, live music from Tim Stambaugh & Friends. Enjoy refreshments on us and come trick-or-treat our store!

View more Weaver Street Market events here.

Table Food Drive

Weaver Street partners with Blue & White for food collection
Saturday, November 15
10AM to 3PM in Carrboro
The staff of Blue & White, a monthly magazine based on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, will be at Weaver Street Market's Carrboro store to collect food for a service project. Blue & White will be collecting food for TABLE, a local nonprofit that provides food for Chapel Hill-Carrboro elementary school age children at risk for hunger during weekends and when free school breakfasts and lunches are unavailable.

The Blue & White staff members will tell customers what foods TABLE will accept and ask customers to pick up an item and drop it off on their way out of the store.

Food Items Needed

Canned Tuna or Chicken
Microwave Popcorn
Peanut Butter
Pudding Cups
Chicken Vegetable Soup
Raisins or Trail Mix
Canned Beef Stew
Packaged Snacks
Pop Tarts
Low Fat Granola Bars
Fresh bread
Fresh Apples
Canned Corn, Green Beans, or Carrots
Canned Spaghetti with Meatballs
Canned Ravioli
Animal Crackers / Graham Crackers
Canned Fruit or Non-Perishable Fruit Cups
Non-Refrigerated Chocolate Milk Boxes
Noodle Dishes (mac & cheese; ramen noodles)
Juice Boxes (preferably 100% juice, multi-pack)

SV Walk for Animal Protection

Saturday, November 1, 2008
Festivities at 9 am
Walk at 12 pm
Bring your dog to Southern Village for a day of fun and help raise funds and awareness for local animal organizations! There will be contests to enter, raffles to win, demos to watch, and faces to be painted! Come prepared to walk 2 miles with your dog, rain or shine!



Vote for the Board of Directors!

The Board election is your chance to participate in your co-op by voting for the Board of Directors. Consumer Owners! Look for Candidate Statements and Ballots in the 2008 Annual Report which was mailed to you on October 1, 2008. If you did not receive an Annual Report in the mail, additional copies including ballots are available at all Weaver Street Market locations. You may also view a pdf of the annual report. Follow the link below. How to vote: Deposit your ballot in the Ballot Box located near the check-out at any Weaver Street Market location beginning Monday, October 6, 2008. Or Mail your ballot to: Weaver Street Market, P.O. Box 266, Carrboro, NC 27510
View the 2008 Annual Report here.

Board Enews

Weaver Street Market's Board of Directors now publishes a monthly email newsletter featuring current board news, including notification of newly posted minutes, highlights of hot topics and board discussions, forthcoming agenda items that you can share your views on, and board-related volunteer opportunities.
Sign up for the Board e-newsletter here.



RSVVP Day

RSVVP Day Tuesday, November 11 Triangle Restaurants will donate 10% of their proceeds that day to help fight hunger in our community. Weaver Street Market has been a participant in RSVVP since its inception twenty years ago when restaurants, newspapers, TV, and radio came together to help the emergency food providers of North Carolina. RSVVP is a play on the acronym RSVP, where the VV stands for 10 (V is 5 in the Roman numeral system). Restaurants donate 10% of their gross proceeds and the media donate advertising time to get the word out. As Weaver Street Market has expanded over the years, so has our commitment to RSVVP. Weaver Street Market in Southern Village, in Hillsborough and Panzanella are also contributors to RSVVP. Our contribution goes directly to the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service. The Inter-Faith Council for Social Service is an amazing organization that started way back in the sixties before there were many government organizations helping people who needed food, shelter, and social services. Their list of services includes the Community Kitchen that serves around 80,000 meals a year, the Community House and HomeStart that provide beds and social service counseling for the homeless, Health Clinics, Hispanic Outreach, and more. Please join Weaver Street Market and Panzanella in supporting such a great local organization by eating out on Tuesday, November 11!
Learn more about RSVVP here.

Wild Herb Sunday

Sunday Field Day - Wild Medicinal & Edible Herbs Sunday November 9, 1 pm - 5 pm This class will meet and travel to places in and within 20 minutes of Hillsborough to learn about local wild herbs. Cost $30 each, prepay by money order or cash, due by the Wednesday before class. Send to Will Endres, PO Box 27, Prospect Hill, NC 27314. Will Endres is a local Hillsborough resident who is recognized nationally as an expert and pioneer in the healing properties of herbs. He also has developed a line of herbal tinctures and dry herbs, many of which he sells at local farmers' markets and natural foods stores. Will can be reached at 919.732.9785.

Classifieds Due

Sunday, November 2, 9:00 pm at our Carrboro Store Classified ads for our December print newsletter dated: December 3 - January 6, are due at our Carrboro Store by 9:00 pm on Sunday, November 2. The cost is $10/month for owners and $15/month for non-owners. Please limit your ad to 50 words or fewer. Weaver Street Market reserves the right to edit ads for length.
View the current list of classified ads here.

CHICLE Cultural Event

Working in the Congo for Doctors without Borders Talk by Anna Freeman Sunday November 9, 2008 at CHICLE, 5:00 pm Free and open to the public Anna Freeman recently spent six months working with Medecins Sans Frontieres in Rutshuru, a town in the North Kivu provence of Eastern DRC. The MSF mission was to run a large hospital with a surgical program, a cholera treatment center, and a mobile clinic to serve the population in Rutshuru and the surrounding towns. The people that they served were often victims of violence, sexual violence, preventable diseases, and had been displaced because of fighting in their villages. Freeman will talk about her experience working with an international NGO, working and living in the Congo, learning about and treating the diseases and injuries seen in a third world country in the middle of war, working in a francophone country, and how this all has affected her as she return to the US. Anna will show slides from her work and stay, as well as information about the work of this organization. 101 E Weaver St., 3rd floor, Suite G-1, Carrboro, NC 27510 Ph. 919/933-0398, Fx. 919/933-1142, email.
Learn more about CHICLE here.

Time Changes

Spring forward or you'll be late! Fall back or you'll be early! That old adage and the government tell us that it's time to turn our clocks back this Saturday night, November 1.


November Wine & Food Tasting

Wines of Spain November 17, 2008 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm Join us for a tasting tour of the tradition and passion of Spain s wonderful wine regions. Spain has the most land under vine in the world and yet is only third in production. Its arid climate and often drought conditions are the cause of extremely low average yields. From the cool Atlantic region of Galicia to the warmer mediterranean climate in the south, Spain s wine producing areas are extremely diverse, offering deep rich, alcoholic reds to light minerally whites to its famous fortified wine, sherry. Spain has much to offer wine lovers and novices alike. We welcome Kerry Smith, certified wine educator from the Society of Wine educators and Tryon Distributors. Join us Monday, November 17 for a tasting tour of this intriguing wine-producing country. Plenty of delicious food will be prepared by Panzanella Restaurant s kitchen. The cost of this event is $45 per person. Space is limited, so reserve early. Please pay in advance and pick up a ticket for this event at either Panzanella or the customer service desk at Weaver Street Market in Carrboro. PANZANELLA WINE & FOOD TASTING EVENT INFORMATION Our wine & food tasting events are from 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm. Please arrive at 7pm. Our tastings are set up family style, meaning we have several tables set up to seat 8 to 10 people. There is no reserved seating unless you are with a party of 6 or more, and then you'll need to let us know in advance. Family-style also refers to food service; all food is brought out in large platters that are passed around, each portion is a tasting portion, or small plate size. There are six courses served, one is usually a dessert course and there is wine served at each one. Wine servings are 1 1/2 oz with each course. We have a guest speaker at every event that educates and guides the tasting from start to finish. We try to accommodate dietary restrictions, but advance notice is needed. Please inform the person you are buying the ticket from, or email Panzanella, and inform them of your restrictions or allergies. If you need to cancel, please do so with 24 hours notice.
Visit Panzanella's website to view all menus (lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch).
Sign up for Panzanella's Enewsletter here.