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Celebrate Louisiana Cuisine! Today is Mardi Gras! What are we doing here instead of down in New Orleans celebrating? Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday, is the day before Ash Wednesday when for Catholics, lent begins. Somewhere in the depths of the past, Mardi Gras was the last day for indulging and celebrating before the stringent abstinence of lent. Now, Mardi Gras is celebrated in and around New Orleans with parades, parties, and balls. Since we are not in New Orleans today, Weaver Street Market has two authentic Louisiana recipes guaranteed to bring the flavor of New Orleans to your house for dinner. The first recipe is Red Beans and Rice, traditionaly eaten on Mondays since it is a relatively cheap meal to make after you've spent your paycheck on drinking and partying all weekend. More |
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Tastings: WSM's Sausage Every Day Low Price items & CAP Specials Recipes: Red Bean & Rice and Shrimp á la Creole |
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 Red Bean & Ricefrom Jaye Kreller of Tony Hall and Associates. Jaye grew up in Westwego on the west bank of the Mississippi across from New Orleans. She was a childhood friend of WSM manager James Watts and is the partner of WSM employee, Cat Moleski Ingredients: 1 lb Red Kidney Beans 2 sm or 1 med onion chopped finely 1/8 cup pickled Jalapeno peppers chopped 1/8 cup of juice from the pickled Jalapeno pepper jar 1 tbsp of Louisiana hot sauce 1/4 cup Worstercestershire sauce 1 tbsp salt 1/2 lb hot or smoked sausage (optional) Local pork sausage is on sale this week! Soak beans over night in a crock-pot with water to cover by one inch. After the beans have soaked, remove 1 cup of beans and put in a blender with 1/2 cup water. Blend into a paste. Return to crock-pot and turn on to high. Add all remaining ingredients except the sausage and cook for six hours. One hour before serving, add sausage. The second recipe is Shrimp á la Creole, an elegant and warming dish perfect for these chilly nights! Fresh shrimp is on sale this week! from Windy Willer, WSM's Training and Development Manager. Windy has worked at Weaver Street Market for over ten years and grew up in Opelausas, Louisiana. Ingredients: 2 tbsp olive oil 2 medium onions chopped 1 chopped bell pepper 1 minced jalapeño 1 bunch of chopped parsley (some reserved for garnish) 1/2 cup dry white wine 4 cups chopped canned tomatoes (fire roasted are great) 1 tbsp minced garlic 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce 1 cup tomato sauce salt to taste 1/2 tsp crushed dried mint Tabasco 2 pounds raw peeled shrimp In a large high-walled skillet, heat the oil on medium-high heat. Sauté the onions, peppers, and most of the parsley until the onions are clear. Add the rest of the ingredients except the shrimp and heat to a boil. Lower the heat, cover and simmer until the tomatoes fall apart: about an hour. Add the shrimp and continue to simmer, stirring occasionally for 30 minutes. Serve over fluffy cooked white rice and garnish with reserved chopped parsley. |
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| Weekly Produce Specials - THESE SALES ARE EFFECTIVE Tuesday, February 24 through Monday, March 2. |
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| California Minneola Tangelos |
$1.29 lb |
Now in season! |
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| Organic Italian Kiwi Fruit | $1.59 lb |
super low price |
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| Florida Seedless Red Grapefruit | 5 lb. bags 2/$6.99 |
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Plainville Farms Ground Dark Turkey |
1 lb. pkg $3.99 each |
All Natural save 50¢ each |
| Local Pasture-raised Pork Italian sausage | $5.49 lb |
Hot or Mild save 70¢ lb |
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| Local, Wild-caught Jumbo Peeled Shrimp | $8.99 lb |
North Carolina save $2.00 lb |
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| Trident Ultimate Fish Sticks |
12 oz. pkg $4.99 each |
save $1.00! |
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| On sale - European Butter! | |||
 What's the difference between European butter and other butters?European butter has a higher butterfat content giving it a yummy, rich flavor. Great for baking! On Sale - $2.49 lb block, regularly $3.29. |
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| Tastings: WSM's Sausage | |||
 Yum! WSM Fresh-made Italian Sausage paired with Asiago Cheese!Friday, February 27, 4:00-6:30 pm in Southern Village Saturday, February 28, 11:00-1:30 pm in Carrboro Saturday, February 28, 3:00-5:30 pm in Hillsborough |
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| Every Day Low Price | |||
 To help you with your budget, Weaver Street Market has added many items to a selection of Every Day Low Price values.To see the list of these items, please click here. Look for these items throughout the store. Local and delicious! Maple View Farms Milk Products are Every Day Low Prices at Weaver Street Market. |
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 Look for the monthly CAP Flyer!Milton's Crackers - Whole Wheat & Multigrain on sale - $2.99, 10oz, regularly $3.69 by Emily Buehler, Contributing Writer We all have our favorites brands. Sometimes the preference is based on the actual food in question (yogurt: thick or thin?) and sometimes it is based on ethical considerations (the Fair Trade chocolate bar, or the one that donates profits to endangered animals?) But sometimes, picking the Garden Burger over the Boca Burger is just a matter of habit. Recently, though, I've been paying more attention to a new criteria: what's on sale? And I've begun to discover new brands that are just as good as the ones I've been buying. Last weekend, I discovered Milton's Crackers. I'm a fan of the "squishy" kind of cracker. Now I know technically there are not squishy crackers — all crackers are crunchy. But there are thin crackers like Nut Thins and stone ground wafers (all crunch), and then there are double-wide crackers that have harder outside layers and a soft (a.k.a. squishy) center. I've always bought Kashi or Late July. But last Sunday, I was late to work and needed a snack that I could eat easily while working. I sped into Weaver Street Market in Hillsborough and headed straight to the Grab 'N' Go case. When I chose Guacamole, I then needed to get something to scoop it with, and I'm not really a corn chip fan, so I headed for the crackers. Since Milton's was on sale, I grabbed a box. And voila, I found a new favorite. Milton's Crackers in Whole Wheat and Multigrain flavors are on sale through February, so give them a try! |
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| Open Mic in Hillsborough | |||
 Hillsborough store Acoustic Open-MicEvery Thursday 6:30-8:30 Here's your update from the wilds of Northern Orange County... we were trying to get Garrison Keillor to narrate this, but he had a prior commitment. Audience: The Lounge is cosy and the crowd is nice... a lot like your house, but with live music. Our casa is your casa. Don't be a stranger! We've had a thrilling diversity of artists so far and are very excited about the treats we have in store for you in the next few weeks. Musicians: Come early! Come often! Don't think your distinct style is not for us... we're very polite and respectful and we want to include all of you in our big Lilac hug. Perhaps most persuasively for all you musician-types: There is beer in the store... you can buy it and drink it while you play. It's a win-win proposition. Also, while we're on the subject, the Lilac Lounge needs your help: Donations of old floor lamps or rugs for the beautification of the space are welcomed. Eclectic decor is our bag, so don't be afraid of clashing. Contact Pete at the Hillsborough store: 919 245 5050. Lilac Lounge at Weaver Street Market, Hillsborough every Thursday night 6:30-8:30 Our esteemed guests in the Lounge for the next few weeks: February 26th: Charles Pettee (Dextrous master of the strings, now beesting-free for six months) March 5th: Doctor Oakroot (The good Doctor brings his medicine-show blues and homemade guitars) March 12th: Red Rover (Tim and Susan Wells, Orange County's Tammy and George without the domestic turmoil) March 19th: The Whompers (Stormingly loud harmonica and fiddle assault with a brash take on the traditional) March 26th: Mark Cool ("Pie" album launch from Durham-based songwriter Mr. Cool) |
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| Community Dinner | |||
 The Twelfth Annual Community DinnerSunday, March 1, 2009 at 1 PM McDougle School Cafetorium 900 Old Fayetteville Rd. in Carrboro The Community Dinner is a community building event, crossing economic, racial, religious and ethnic barriers and presenting a wealth of wonderful, culturally diverse food and entertainment. Because there is limited seating for this event, tickets are only available in advance, so be sure to get your tickets before we sell out. |
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 Twitter? What's a Twitter?Join the now over 400 people who are following Weaver Street Market on Twitter! If you're not familiar with Twitter, come give it a try. Twitter is a social networking and micro blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Look for event announcements, sales, specials, food and wine tastings, and other interesting things going on in the store, plus links to information about what's going on in the world of fair, local, and organic food. We're still learning what kinds of things you might be most interested in reading, so if you have a suggestion, send us a message and let us know! |
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| New Classified Fee | |||
 Cost of a classified ad in the Weaver Street Market monthly newsletter is going up.The new rate will be $15/month for owners and $20/month for non-owners. Please limit your ad to 50 words or fewer. The next deadline for April Newsletter dated April 1 - April 28 is Sunday, March 8, by 9 pm. |
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| Celebrity Dairy Open Barn | |||
 March 7 and 8Last open barn for the spring 12 - 5 pm Celebrity Dairy will be selling food, beverages, eggs, and of course goat cheese. Brit will be out in the barn to give folks a tour of their own Goat Hilton. There should be lots of little goats to love. |
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 Microlending in Central America, Andrea WuerthSunday March 8, 2008 - 5:00 pm CHICLE 101 E Weaver St. Suite G-1, 3rd floor over Weaver Street Market Carrboro 919-933-0398 Free and open to the public Andrea Wuerth, a political scientist who most recently was director of the microfinance program at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. will be speaking about the development approach known as microfinance. This is the provision of financial services (credit, savings, insurance, remittance services, etc.) to the working poor, which has spread throughout Latin America, and a broad range of programs now exists in most countries. She will discuss the development of the microfinance sector in Latin America in general and share her experiences organizing university student trips to study microfinance in Honduras and Peru. She hopes a lively discussion will follow! North Carolina may be increasingly involved in microfinancing, thanks to the recent visit by Mohammed Yunis, founder of the Nobel Prize winning Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. "North Carolina popped up on Grameen's radar because of the tremendous support from state organizations — more so than from any other state." |
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 Pittsboro General StoreTuesday, March 3, 6-9 pm Come out for an evening of fun, environmental fellowship, and great burritos at the Pittsboro General Store from 6-9pm on Tuesday March 3rd- all to benefit the Orange-Chatham Sierra Club Group and Chatham Citizens for Effective Communities, an organization that guards the environment by monitoring residential and commercial development. Festivities will include a short play by Fearrington Village's Carl Granath, and music will be provided by the "Off the Road" band with their original mix of blues, bluegrass, jugband music, and rock and roll. Local auctioneer Pam Smith will conduct a live auction of handcrafted jewelry, hand-blown wine glasses, garden consultations, gift certificates from local restaurants, and more! All ticket-holders will be eligible for one of two Grand Prizes, if you are there to win: a night's stay at a local Bed & Breakfast. Tickets are $12 in advance or $15 at the door. |
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 11th Annual Orange County Agricultural Summitby Emily Buehler, Contributing Writer The 11th Annual Orange County Agricultural Summit was held February 9th in Hillsborough. A crowd of farmers, interested public, and elected officials gathered to hear presentations on farm-related topics, as well as updates on ongoing projects. The event ended with a locally grown lunch of pork barbeque and beef meatloaf, sweet potatoes, collards, hush puppies, salad, and apple cobbler with Maple View ice cream. And the county's recycling department kept the event waste-free! Many common themes emerged as the speakers presented information on the different aspects of agriculture: Orange County has a great local food system, and many plans in the works will strengthen it further. Agriculture, in addition to being a large source of income in our state, is a steady source. And there are many creative ways for farmers to improve their farms and make extra money. |
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 Win a Year of Annie's and Help Adopt a Village School! For every entry into the Annie's Free Year Sweepstakes, Annie's will donate 20¢ towards the adoption of 20 village schools through Sustainable Harvest International, an organization that provides families with the training and tools to move towards sustainable farming. Enter to win one of 20 Grand Prizes — an entire year of Annie's! Each Grand Prize Winner will receive a free year of Annie's products, which consists of 6 cases (72 boxes) each of: • Annie's Organic Macaroni & Cheese • Annie's Cereal • 7oz Cheddar Bunnies • 7oz Bunny Grahams • Annie's Organic Fruit Snacks |
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