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Did you know there are 27 days until Christmas? If you are like us and love sharing time with family and friends over good food and drink then we have a few solutions to make this holiday season happy, healthy and good tasting.

A Gift For You & Someone Special
When a gift certificate of $50.00 or more is purchased you can choose any gourmet-to-go prepared food item in the store to take home as our gift to you. Food creates warm and lasting memories. We bet you can still remember the awakening of your taste buds upon discovering soft, stinky cheeses! Pay that memory forward to a co-worker, friend or family member with a Forager’s gift certificate.

Christmas Gobble and Quack!
Orders are now being taken for Christmas Turkeys as well as Muscovy Ducks. Both are from Field Gate organics and, of course, locally sourced.
The Christmas turkey is always anticipated by family members and Field Gate’s are exceptional. Tasting feedback from Forager turkey customers at Thanksgiving were most favourable. Most importantly organic turkeys are steroid free that results in a tender and tasty bird.
Or, surprise your Christmas guests with a Muscovy Duck. Muscovy duck has a unique taste: it is lean, meaty, tender and flavorful. A 4 lb. Muscovy has the highest yield of any duck available and 50 percent more breast meat than other ducks. Muscovy breast meat is 99 percent lean and the skin of the ducks has 50% less fat than the Moulard or Peking varieties. Did you know that Muscovy ducks have less fat and less calories per pound than turkey?

Fresh and New at The Store

Our friends in Sebringville at Soiled Reputation have urged us this week to buy two new root vegetables; Jerusalem Artichokes (aka sunchokes) as well as Watermelon Radishes.
We are really excited about the Watermelon Radishes. They are larger in size then regular radishes and white. But once you cut them laterally the spectacular colours will appear, just like a watermelon. We recommend them raw in your salad with vinegar based dressing. In fact, vinegar will make the colours even more vibrant.
Jerusalem Artichokes look like a cross between potatoes and ginger, they are known as an accompaniment and/or a substitute for potatoes. You can mash, puree, scallop or roast, treat them like you would a potato! There are lots of recipes online full of why these tubers are so healthy for you.

Truckstop Tomato Soup
Just spittin’ distance from the Saskatchewan border is the small town of Havre, Montana where you will find a restaurant called 4B’s that has the best truckstop tomato soup. We “discovered” the gem while on a ski road trip. With a bit of work and luck, ourForager Chef believes he has matched the taste to the original and will be on shelves by the end of next week.

Roquefort L’Oignon Quiche
This quiche will fill you with the thoughts and tastes of France. The mixture of the caramelized onions and Benedictine Blue cheese accompanied with a crisp pastry will send you running for the Beaujolais Nouveau!

Salad Alert!!
Due to the constant overcast skies, our in-demand bistro greens inventory will be inconsistent at best until the New Year. The green houses in Sebringville need some sunlight to grow these gentle salad greens. So fingers crossed that we get a good streak of sunshine.

Keep Foraging,

Sam, Sara & Bill