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Cheese, Cheese Cakes & Microbrews
11/12/2009 12:37pm
There's lots to report on this week. Here's the lineup:
Market Cheese
We'll be attending two farmers' markets this Saturday--Urbana's "Holiday Market" which is held inside Lincoln Square Village from 8AM-1PM and Chicago's Green City Market at the Peggy Notebart Nature Museum (Cannon Drive), also from 8AM to 1PM.
We'll have the following cheeses for you to enjoy:
Fresh chevre--now is the time to start stocking up on the fresh chevre--remember, you can freeze it.
Little Bloom on the Prairie
Roxanne
Moonglo
Kaskaskia--our second batch of this raw sheep milk grating style cheese is ready, just in time for garnishing your cold weather soups, stews and pasta dishes.
NOTE: We will be attending Bloomington's Thanksgiving Market on Saturday, November 21st, along with Urbana and Green City Market, so stay tuned to our offerings for those holiday markets next week.
Chevre Cheesecakes
By popular request, we are offering a limited number of 9" chevre cheesecakes for you to pre-order for pickup on Saturday, November 21st at one of three farmers' markets: Urbana, Bloomington (Thanksgiving Market inside the Colliseum in Downtown Bloomington) and Green City Market.
The cost for a 9" chevre cheesecake is $30. These cakes are made simply (and with love) with fresh chevre, local pastured eggs, Kilgus Farmstead cream, organic sugar and a graham cracker crust. We are also offering two fruit sauces to accompany the cakes: a Prairie Fruits Farm blackberry-black currant and lemon balm sauce and an Illinois blueberry-pecan conserve--both are $5/half pint jar.
We only have about 15 jars of the blackberry sauce, so that will go to the first 15 people who request it.
To pre-order a cheesecake with or without fruit sauce, please send me an email with your name, number of cakes, number and type of fruit sauce jars, phone number and location where you will pick up your order. Since these cakes will be baked to order from scratch in our little farm kitchen, you must send me your order by MONDAY, November 16th, 5PM. You can pay either with cash or check when you pick up your order. Orders not picked up by 12noon will be sold to market shoppers at large.
Winter Beer and Cheese Fete set for Saturday December 12th, 7-10PM
We have decided to hold one more feast at Prairie Fruits Farm to celebrate the end of a very good season. For this special occasion, we're partnering with Champaign's FIRST local brewery, The Blind Pig. We will serve four of their beers (some brewed just for this event) along with our cheeses and local food tapas. The cost per person (includes all the beer and food you can consume) is a bargain at $40/person. You can make reservations for the fete through our website, under "Dinners on the Farm" Then, click on "Buy Dinners." For more information about the Blind Pig, check out their website:
http://www.blindpigco.com/index.html
Market Cheese
We'll be attending two farmers' markets this Saturday--Urbana's "Holiday Market" which is held inside Lincoln Square Village from 8AM-1PM and Chicago's Green City Market at the Peggy Notebart Nature Museum (Cannon Drive), also from 8AM to 1PM.
We'll have the following cheeses for you to enjoy:
Fresh chevre--now is the time to start stocking up on the fresh chevre--remember, you can freeze it.
Little Bloom on the Prairie
Roxanne
Moonglo
Kaskaskia--our second batch of this raw sheep milk grating style cheese is ready, just in time for garnishing your cold weather soups, stews and pasta dishes.
NOTE: We will be attending Bloomington's Thanksgiving Market on Saturday, November 21st, along with Urbana and Green City Market, so stay tuned to our offerings for those holiday markets next week.
Chevre Cheesecakes
By popular request, we are offering a limited number of 9" chevre cheesecakes for you to pre-order for pickup on Saturday, November 21st at one of three farmers' markets: Urbana, Bloomington (Thanksgiving Market inside the Colliseum in Downtown Bloomington) and Green City Market.
The cost for a 9" chevre cheesecake is $30. These cakes are made simply (and with love) with fresh chevre, local pastured eggs, Kilgus Farmstead cream, organic sugar and a graham cracker crust. We are also offering two fruit sauces to accompany the cakes: a Prairie Fruits Farm blackberry-black currant and lemon balm sauce and an Illinois blueberry-pecan conserve--both are $5/half pint jar.
We only have about 15 jars of the blackberry sauce, so that will go to the first 15 people who request it.
To pre-order a cheesecake with or without fruit sauce, please send me an email with your name, number of cakes, number and type of fruit sauce jars, phone number and location where you will pick up your order. Since these cakes will be baked to order from scratch in our little farm kitchen, you must send me your order by MONDAY, November 16th, 5PM. You can pay either with cash or check when you pick up your order. Orders not picked up by 12noon will be sold to market shoppers at large.
Winter Beer and Cheese Fete set for Saturday December 12th, 7-10PM
We have decided to hold one more feast at Prairie Fruits Farm to celebrate the end of a very good season. For this special occasion, we're partnering with Champaign's FIRST local brewery, The Blind Pig. We will serve four of their beers (some brewed just for this event) along with our cheeses and local food tapas. The cost per person (includes all the beer and food you can consume) is a bargain at $40/person. You can make reservations for the fete through our website, under "Dinners on the Farm" Then, click on "Buy Dinners." For more information about the Blind Pig, check out their website:
http://www.blindpigco.com/index.html
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