Date: September 1st 2010

FridayMornings@SELMA invites you to pull up a chair and share your vision for the future of food.

Scott MacInnis is back and is teaming up this time with chef Thad from Logan and it looks like they play well together:

• Oaxacan braised pork & egg - Pork shoulder braised in a red mole served with crunchy corn tortillas, fried egg and lime sour cream. (Optional topping is chef Thad's hot sauce, for the adventurus eater)
• Wild mushroom omelet & tomato salad - A classic French style omelet topped with wild mushrooms and cream fresh, served along side a tomato and cucumber salad tossed with a ponzu dressing and micro greens.

Don't forget our fruit seasonal regular breakfast choices: Waffles with peaches or early fall raspberries, and Lisa’s peach bread pudding (only a couple of weeks of fresh Michigan peaches left kids).

Lot’s o’ news, with some really fun things to do:

So, there was this little thing on Michigan Radio last Thursday that seems to have been the main reason we served 155 breakfasts last week.  Needless to say, Scott and Thad are gunning to take back the crown.  But if you are like me, you might want to head out of town for this (hopefully short-lived) “Art Fair experience” of Selma Café present.  Or at least come early.  They were lined up down the driveway by about 8am last week.  But hey, nobody went away hungry, … or without a smile!

I need some help!  There are a few new juicy developments, that we will be sharing many details with you in the “oh so near future”.  But needless to say, I need to delegate a few of the tasks I am fumbling along with, to concentrate the brain waves.  Please let me know if you can make a little time to help with some office-y tasks.

Here it is:

The 3rd Annual HomeGrown Festival
Saturday, September 11, 2010, 6:00-11:00pm
Ann Arbor Farmers' Market, 315 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI

Come on down and help us raise a ruckus in the historic Ann Arbor Farmers' Market pavilion for this year's HomeGrown Festival! We're celebrating our very own food, farms and community with great eats and cool beverages, live music and fun for the whole family all night!  Entry to Festival is FREE, and food and drink are available to purchase.
A dozen chefs are working with nearby farms to create affordable tasting portions of the best of our region's harvest. We'll have dozens of local libations (beer, wine, mead and hard cider) for grown-ups to enjoy. Project Grow will be back with their astounding heirloom tomato tasting - over 50 varieties to try!  Lots of kids' activities (mural arts, music-making), a huge silent auction, a "Know Your Farmer" farmstand, artisan vendors, and a fantastic lineup of music for shaking your tailfeathers. Come hungry and stay all night!
Please go here to volunteer.  Help is needed before or at the Festival

Growing Hope would like you to know:

• They have a job for you!   VISTA and other positions are posted and soon to be posted.  Some positions have deadlines upcoming, so don’t delay!
• Hope's Harvest (Sunday Sept. 19^th) tickets are available-- get yours today if you want to support the work of Growing Hope in a delicious way!  Featuring local chefs, local food & drinks, an amazing silent auction-- all enjoyed while strolling the organization's urban farm-under-development in Ypsilanti.

Be sure to check out the Real Time Farms page on Selma Café to get all the latest on our upcoming menu and where the food comes from.

Yo volunteers!!  --  One more hoop scheduled for the summer series

We are building hoops with breakfast proceeds this August and September.  We will be building hoops for:

·        Done!!  Can you believe it: 68 adult volunteers , (not to mention about 2 dozen kids, one of which is Aidon, who at 7 is one of our best workers!) came out to help with this build and we got plastic pulled in record time.) Jennifer Kangas of Capella Farm on Scio Church Rd.  A standard 30x96 midwall.  Oh, and was t hat volunteer appreciation party ever grand.  Thanks again to all who made it happen and brought the love in thick.

·        September 25^th - Shannon Brines (Brines Farm) in Dexter – the sign up sheet is now open.

Oh, have I mentioned that our swag is in?  Lisa “L’il Teapot” Gottlieb and Susan “Aces and a Jack kicker” Cybulski came up with a great little logo.  You best be sportin’ if you want to be hip in Tree Town.  Shirts, bags, aprons and stickers so far.

And please consider attending our upcoming fundraiser: Sunday September 26^th form 5 – 8pm.  We will be launching the Farmer Fund (a way for folks in the community to be able to co-lend on all of our hoop-building projects) at this fundraiser event at Grange Kitchen and Bar.  You can register here. (sure would love to see a few of your names start to trickle in!)     $50 – < /span>Brandon’s finest finger food and Michigan bubbly.

And finally…

So what the heck is this FM@SELMA thing anyway?

FridayMornings@SELMA is your local-foods breakfast salon.  The suggested donation for breakfast is $12 - $15.  All proceeds go to the farmers and producers of your food and our small farms-small farmers initiative.  FM@SELMA is here for you every week 6:30 to 10:00 am - 722 Soule - check out: Repasts, Present and Future for more information.  Early arrival is suggested for those on the go (we are often wait-listed around 8:30).  FM@SELMA is all-volunteer.  We need your help to sustain this local-foods breakfast salon.  Read Lisa’s Repasts blog to get all the dish.  Please reply to this email or click here to let us know what you are thinking, and how you would like to participate.