Thursday Specials

tuna salad or tuna melt

pulled bbq pork with coleslaw

gazpacho

Saturday Specials

Grand Marnier French Toast Casserole

Spinach Salad with pecans, dried cranberries and blue sesame dressing.

And Tuna Salad - stuffed in ciabatta sub roll or as a Tuna Melt on health bread.

Friday: hello move-in weekend!

Welcome back! We've missed you and it's been a long, hot summer. School starting means fall is right around the corner......

Today's specials include a Spinach Salad with pecans, dried cranberries and blue sesame dressing.

And it is BLT season so fresh local tomatoes, farmer's bacon, romaine lettuce and mayo on sourdough toast.

There are also a few Pizza Panino with pepperoni, three cheeses, onions, green peppers and spicy red sauce grilled on a ciabatta subroll and Cubans with pork loin, ham, pickles, mustard and mozzarella.

Wednesday Specials and an unapologetic plug

Today we have several specials. The Asian inspired Eggplant Tomato Salad is greens lightly dressed with a sesame soy dressing, fresh yellow tomatoes, itty-bitty-teeny-weeny eggplants marinated in a variation of Korean barbecue, sweet white peppers, scallions and toasted sesame seeds. All the veggies (except the salad greens) from the fine folks at One Straw Farm.

The Spicy Pizza Panini is pepperoni, green peppers and onions, three cheeses and a spicy red sauce grilled on a ciabatta sub roll.

Finally, a Four Cheese Grilled Cheese Sandwich on Hearty Rye.

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Apropos to nothing, just wanted to show off my latest "find". Home Depot makes a shop vac that snaps onto a five gallon bucket! I think my Annapolis Paint Shop Vac is trés sexy and since Brother No. One gave me the bucket, it only cost $19.99. It works like a charm, is easy to carry around and even hooks up to my miter saw for a low-budget dust collection system.

If you are driving "down the ocean" on Route 50 make a right turn at Dover Road then a sharp right onto East Dover Street to find an extraordinary, locally owned paint and decorating store in Easton, Maryland. Buy some of their high quality unfinished furniture and he might just throw in a bucket for you too.

Tuesday Specials

We made a fresh basil sun-dried tomato pesto and are using it two ways:

Tuscan Turkey Panino
on a toasted ciabatta sub roll we add locally foret fed bacon and garden tomatoes along with our pesto

the Round House
pesto, sprouts, cucumber slices, red onion, mesclun, provolone on a toasted bagel

Friday Specials

Curried Parmesan Tuna Salad

Ham & Swiss with Honey Dijon

Rainbow Chard and Japanese Eggplant Tart in an herb crust

Wednesday Specials and my weekly snark

Tuscan Turkey Club - basil-sundried tomato cream cheese, swiss cheese, turkey, farmers' bacon, lettuce and tomato on toasted chiabatta.

Rowhouse Panini - sun-dried tomato basil cream cheese, sprouts, cucumbers, red onions, greens and swiss cheese served on our health toast.

Swiss Chard and Japanese Eggplant Quiche compliments of One Straw Farm.

Speaking of OSF, here's this weeks CSA "believe it or not" pics. At the height of a great growing season Cromwell Valley CSA has.....






















For a full share:
1 lb green beans
3 individual jalapeno peppers (about 1 1/2 inches long)
1 individual yellow hot pepper
2 individual golden zucchini
3 individual summer squash
1/2 pound lamb's quarter

You may remember in the spring and early summer when CVCSA pulled immature radishes. Well, the summer squash were left on the vine much too long. They are so huge as to be useless - nothing but string and seed. The quarts and quarts of tender golfball size patti pan we got from One Straw Farm early in the season made great bread and butter pickle. The weeds, dinner plate size patti pan and zucchini as large as my forearm we left on the Cromwell Valley CSA farm.

One Straw Farm (full share is pick eight portions) had pints of jalapeno peppers and a beautiful selection of bell peppers - white, purple, yellow, orange and green. As well as watermelon, cantaloupe, new potatoes, zucchini, japanese eggplant, dark purple and white eggplant, rainbow chard, sweet potato greens, red onions, purple onions, red banana peppers, and other stuff I'm sure to have forgotten.

::sigh::

Saturday Specials

Southwestern Strata Breakfast casserole of black beans, onions, green peppers and habenero jack cheese.

Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins, Blueberry Muffins, White Chocolate Apricot Scones, and Cranberry Walnut Scones

Spicy Jack (or Jeremy) Panino - turkey (hummus for the veggie version), habenero jack cheese, grilled red onions, and zebra sauce.

Friday Specials

Spicy Jack (or Jeremy) Panino turkey (hummus for the veggie version), habenero jack cheese, grilled red onions, and zebra sauce.

the Greenhouse Panino
guacamole, hummus, sprouts, cucumber, havarti on multi-grain toast

Turkey Guac Panino
turkey, guacamole, tomato, and havarti

Panzanella
an italian style tomato bread salad, tomatoes from the garden make this a summer treat

This week's csa report. From One Straw Farm pick-up at Kennilworth Farmers' Market (Tuesday 3:30 - 6:30 pm) any eight portions from a great selection!



















































.....and from Cromwell Valley CSA. There was also a pound of lamb's quarter available that I didn't pick up.

Thursday Specials

the Greenhouse Panino
guacamole, hummus, sprouts, cucumber, havarti on multi-grain toast

Turkey Guac Panino
turkey, guacamole, tomato, and havarti

Panzanella
an italian style tomato bread salad, tomatoes from the garden make this a summer treat

Sinful Saturday Specials

Jelly Donut French Toast

Bad A** Breakfast Burrito (veggie or beef) with egg, black beans, onions, green peppers, habanero jack cheese and fresh salsa verde

Friday Specials

Deviled Ham and Cheese Panini with homemade summer squash bread and butter pickles. The deviled ham spread is made with salt-cured country ham and, much like prosciutto, is intense and salty.

Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato Sandwich

Beef and Black Bean Chili

Thursday Specials

Avacado and Tomato Sandwich

Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato Sandwich

Panzanella (Italian bread salad) with fresh organic tomatoes from One Straw Farm.

Beef and Black Bean Chili

Wednesday Specials

Hello from Plank Road! I'm down in south western Virginia visiting friends and family. Made Mom Wild Rice Porridge for breakfast and now I'm heading the the City Market downtown Roanoke.

San Pedro Panini - avocado, provolone, grilled onions, roasted red peppers, and cilantro lime mayo on a grilled ciabatta sub roll.

Panzanella (Italian bread salad) with fresh organic tomatoes from One Straw Farm.

Beef and Black Bean Chili

Monday Specials

Roast Pork Loin Wrap
with chipotle cherry chutney and pecan buttermilk coleslaw

the San Pedro Panino
avocado, provolone, grilled onions, roasted red peppers, and cilantro lime mayo