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Thanksgiving Dessert Goodies! A turkey dinner is marvelous, but not complete without a tasty dessert! Our pastry bakers have a delicious selection of pies and tarts to wow your guests this Thanksgiving. Choose a Double Crust Apple Pie, Bourbon Pecan Pie, Pumpkin Pie, Sweet Potato Pie and new this year, Cherry Pie. Yum! Is this a vegan Thanksgiving? Try these vegan desserts: Vegan Pumpkin Pie, Vegan Pecan-Maple Pie, or Vegan Apple Pie. Okay, you want to make a pie using your grandmother's recipe...we've got that covered, too! We can supply you with a great tasting, handmade, all-butter pie crust. You supply the rest! Pie not your style? Try a scrumptious tart! We have Cranberry Walnut Tart or Pear Almond Tart. More |
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| Farmers' Markets CHICLE Cultural Event Empowerment Event Wild Herb Sunday |
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| Sparkling Wine Tasting New Menu Holiday Hours |
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| Weekly Produce Specials Weekly Meat Specials |
Thanksgiving Order Time! Turkey Tasting! The Right Stuff(ing) Recipe |
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| Weekly Produce Specials - THESE SALES ARE EFFECTIVE Tuesday, November 18 through Tuesday, December 2. |
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| Organic, Washington Pink Lady Apples |
3 lb. bags 2/$8.00 |
New crop! |
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| Organic, USA Celery | 2/$4.00 |
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| Locally grown, Organic Sweet Potatoes | from Pine Knot Farm $1.00 lb |
Hurdle Mills, NC super low price |
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Niman Ranch Sirloin Tip Roast |
USDA Choice $4.49 lb |
All Natural save $1.00 lb. |
| Plainville Farms Whole Turkeys | $2.49 lb |
All Natural |
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| North Carolina Jumbo Peeled Shrimp | $9.99 lb |
super low price |
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| Thanksgiving Order Time! | |
 Place your special order by Monday, November 24 at 9:00 pm! 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.) 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. 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. |
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| Turkey Tasting! | |
 Weaver Street Market is giving you a sneak preview of Thanksgiving by having a Plainville Turkey Tasting today! Tuesday, November 18, 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm in Hillsborough Stop by and have a taste of our all natural Thanksgiving turkeys. Then place your order! View, download and print a Thanksgiving reservation form here. |
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| The Right Stuff(ing) Recipe | |
 The Right Stuff (or Dressing for Success)When it comes to second helpings at Thanksgiving, the stuffing, along with extra gravy, is at the top of the list. Surprising, since the ingredients are common enough: bread, onions, celery, perhaps some apples and/or sausage, seasonings and broth. What is it about this stuff? Here is my theory. Good stuffing is both savory and a little sweet; moist and succulent (from the butter or sausage or mushrooms); salty and herbaceous; chewy and soft; lean and rich all at the same time. It softens the cranberry and bolsters the turkey or tofu with some real texture and complex flavor. What an accomplishment. But you have to start out with the right bread and there are two perfect candidates among the Weaver Street bread line-up: Rustic Bread and Yeasted Cornbread. Buy them a few days in advance, since fresh bread will turn soggy and won't absorb as much flavor. Carve off the bottom crust and most of the thicker top and side crust. Then cut the bread into thick slices (you have purchased unsliced bread, right?), brush with olive oil, or butter if you prefer, and broil it briefly on both sides to add some color and crisp. Finally, and this is the critical part, after it cools, tear the bread into irregular wads, bites, and fat crumbs. You can do all this a day ahead, and have the base for the best side dish on the table. And remember two things: 1) amounts of everything are flexible, as long as you use plenty of butter/oil, onions, celery and herbs and 2) if you're lucky enough to have any leftovers, dressing is great reheated or as the base for a casserole. A Basic Recipe for Stuffing To serve 8 to 12 You will need roughly 2 Big Rustics or 1 loaf of Yeasted Cornbread, prepared as described above. Use a large heavy pot, and melt 1/2 pound of butter (1 cup) or an equivalent amount of butter & olive oil. Slowly cook 3 cups chopped onion until very soft; stir often and don't rush this process. Then add 2 cups chopped celery, a full bunch of chopped flat-leaf parsley, and about a 1/2 cup of chopped fresh herbs, especially sage or thyme. Season generously with salt and fresh ground pepper, stir regularly, and cook for another 5-10 minutes. Turn out into a large mixing bowl and add the pieces of torn bread, then mix well. Add 3/4 to 1 1/2 cups chicken, turkey or vegetable broth to moisten, using the smaller amount if you will be stuffing a bird, more if you will bake the dish separately in the oven (which you would do at 350 deg for about 45 minutes, first 3/4 covered, last uncovered). This is the foundation, to which you probably will want to add some character-building elements that reflect your heritage or dietary preferences. These could include chopped lightly sautéed apples, dried fruit plumped in warm water (apricots, prunes, currants), toasted pecans, roasted chestnuts, cooked sausage, giblets or marinated tempeh, sautéed mushrooms, fennel, wilted fall greens, roasted corn, chili peppers, or hoisin sauce. |
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| Homebound Delivery for Thanksgiving |
 Home Delivery Schedule ChangeBecause of the holiday, our Home Delivery service for disabled and homebound owners for the week of Thanksgiving is changing its schedule. Rather than our usual delivery on Wednesdays, we ask that you please call in with your order on Tuesday, November 25th during our normal 9-10 am hours. |
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| SV Holiday 5K |
 Sunday, December 14, 20082:00 pm Market Street, Southern Village 12:00 - 1:40 pm: Late registration and packet pick-up at the Village Green, across from the Lumina Theater 2:00 pm - 5K start 3:00 pm - 1-Mile Family Fun Run/Walk start 3:30 pm - Awards ceremony Walkers are encouraged to attend. Both races start and finish by the Weaver Street Market in Southern Village. |
| Learn more about the SV 5K here. |
| Carrboro Film Fest |
 Sunday, November 23rd from 2-7 pmat the Carrboro Century Center The local festival usually attracts more than 80 filmmakers from all walks of life. The committee, composed of filmmakers, teachers and many other creative minds, views each submission and uses a scientific formula to rate and select the top 20 films. Weaver Street Market is one of the sponsors of the Carrboro Film Festival. |
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Tomorrow, November 196:30-9:30 pm Food House in Hillsborough Owners of Weaver Street Market are always welcome to attend meetings of the Board, and are also welcome to make their thoughts known on issues in the open session at the beginning of the meeting. 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. |
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 Want local goodies for your Thanksgiving table? Many of our local Farmers' Markets are still going strong, and a few have special Thanksgiving hours on Tuesday, November 25. Visit one of these markets to stock up for the holiday:Carrboro Farmers' Market 301 West Main Street in Carrboro Now open Saturdays 9 am to 12 noon with a special Thanksgiving market on Tuesday, November 25, from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm Hillsborough Farmers' Market At the Suntrust Parking Lot at 128 N. Churton Street Open Saturdays, 8 am to 12 noon, through November Orange County Farmers' Market At the Public Market House in Hillsborough Open Saturdays, 8 am to 12 noon through Thanksgiving with a special Thanksgiving market on Tuesday, November 25, from 3 to 6 PM The Farmers of Orange's South Estes Farmers' Market 201 S. Estes Drive in the University Mall parking lot outside A Southern Season Open Saturdays, 8 am to 12 noon, through November 22 Special Thanksgiving Market - Tuesday, November 25 - 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm Winter Market Hours - beginning Saturday, December 6 - Saturday, March 21, 9:00 am - noon. The Farmers of Orange Durham Farmers' Market In the Pavilion at Durham Central Park on Foster Street Open Saturdays, 8 am to 12 noon thru Thanksgiving Fearrington Farmers' Market On the grassy lot beside the Fitch Creations Administration building in Fearrington Village Open Tuesdays at 4 pm thru Thanksgiving |
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 Postville: When Cultures Collide, English, U.S., 2001Film and discussion November 23, 2008, 5:00-6:30 This charming program looks at what happened when 300 Hasidic Jews descended in Postville, a town in Iowa with a population of 1500, where the pigs out numbered the humans by 3:1. The Hasidic Jews then employed Mexican immigrants as workers in their kosher meat processing plant, increasing the population of Postville by another 400. Witnessing the reaction of the townspeople ranges from a comical to a sobering experience. The producers used Postville as prism through which to understand ethnic, cultural and religious conflicts in towns across America that are faced with increasingly heterogeneous populations. Chapel Hill Institute for Cultural and Language Education 101 E Weaver St. 3rd floor, Suite G-1 Carrboro, NC 27510 Ph. 919/933-0398, Fx. 919/933-1142 |
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| Empowerment Event | |||
 Build-A-Home FundraiserWednesday, December 3 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm Carolina Inn 211 Pittsboro Street, Chapel Hill Lee Pavao and Lillian Lee invite you to EmPOWERment, Inc.'s fifth annual Build-A-Home Fundraiser, Wednesday, December 3 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Carolina Inn, 211 Pittsboro Street, Chapel Hill. Music will be provided by UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp and Director of Recruitment and Multicultural Programs Terri Houston. Please join us for hors d'oeuvres, auctions, and the opportunity to support EmPOWERment's mission of home ownership, economic development and community organizing. Tickets $25 in advance (call 967-8779) or at the door. |
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 Sunday Field Day - Wild Medicinal & Edible HerbsSunday December 7, 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. |
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 Glass Recycling—Do it Right!
It's hard for avid recyclers to throw anything in the trash—especially when the item seems so close to a recyclable, like a fluorescent bulb or ceramic dish. But adding the incorrect items to recycling bins can hurt the process, ruin good recyclables, and lose money for the county. The presence of ceramics or the mercury-bearing fluorescent bulbs in the recycling cart can contaminate loads of up to fifteen tons of clear glass bottles and jars. Then the County loses the $27 per ton value (about $400 per load) and must pay additional disposal fees. If ceramics are undetected until the load arrives at the processor in Raleigh, the whole load is pronounced worthless—a big waste economically and energetically. So as tempting as it may be to try to recycle them, ceramic dishes and broken light bulbs must go in the trash. |
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| Help buy a Tractor! | |||
 PLANT@Breeze FarmThe Next Generation of Farmers - People Learning Agriculture Now for Tomorrow Needs a tractor! PLANT@Breeze Farm is an incubator program aimed at developing new farmers. Classes for new farmers run in January and February, teaching students sustainable farming while also building a business plan and a crop plan. Graduating students can implement their plans on land provided for by Breeze or on their own land. This program is a crucial step in creating a sustainable agricultural chain from the current generation of farmers to the next generation. Col. William H. Breeze and his family donated the Breeze Farm property located in Northern Orange County, to NC State's College of Agriculture and Life sciences. A team of experts from the Orange County Cooperative Extension, the Orange County Economic Development Commission, the Center for Environmental Farming Systems, NC State University, NC A&T University, University Field Laboratories and the Agricultural Research Service designed and implemented the program earlier this year. With a number of local farmers expected to retire, it is very important to have a program like PLANT@Breeze helping a new generation learn the skills necessary to sustain our local food system. Local food production is a way of ensuring community self-reliance. Right now, the PLANT@Breeze program desperately needs a tractor. Can you help Weaver Street Market raise $5,000 by January 1 to help buy a tractor for the next generation of farmers? Tractors are used year round for soil prep, soil tillage, mulch application, seeding of cover crops, disking, bush hogging, drilling post holes and more. The Tractor Fund will be a part of our Hope for the Holidays fundraising where part of your purchase of selected Hope for the Holiday items goes toward the purchase of the tractor. Most of the Hope for the Holiday items will go on sale on December 3, however Peacestachios and African Market Baskets will appear sooner. |
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