Please remember to park legally and with consideration
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Come on over to Selma Cafe & support the local food shed
This week we have the awesome trio
Heather Anne Leavitt, Claudia Kimble & Rachel Brandell
& they are celebrating some good news:
Sweet Heather Anne Cakes is moving!
Their bakery will be moving to 920 N. Main in Ann Arbor in April.
For updates about the move, special promotions,
and ways you can show your support through kickstarter, e-mail them at info@sweetheatheranne.com to become a part of their mailing list.
is another great way to stay connected.
and here is this week's menu:
Winter Vegetable Strata with Mushrooms,
Goat Cheese and Tomato Ragu
served with a side of sausage or bacon, and hoop salad mix
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Sauteed Greens with Bacon and Sweet Potatoes,
served with an Over-Easy Egg and a Buttermilk Biscuit.
~PLUS~
a slice of lemon sour cream cake with damson plum jam,
lemon curd, and vanilla buttercream
and...Weekly House Specials:
Peach Bread Pudding with Bacon
Waffles with Fruit and Bacon
Tacos Sancho with Chorizo
Vegan Granola with Fruit,
& Soy, Rice or Cow's Milk
(bacon optional)
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now for the news....
Bona Sera has been kicking the idea around about becoming a legitimate business while keeping their adventurous and mysterious acts of underground dining alive. Underground dinners will continue several times a year while starting an "above ground" food service business. This will include a weekly cafe and catering at first. Expansion to a full time business is the hope for the future. Please join Bad Fairy and Wonder Woman this Saturday 2/4 from 11-4pm in Ypsilanti at the Mix Marketplace on the corner of Washington and Michigan (200 West Michigan). They will have a selection of salads, soup and our famous Porchetta Banh Mi all for $6.00 and under! You can also enjoy the cafe, entertainment, free Wi Fi and shopping with the creative vendors of the Mix Marketplace! Bona Sera plans to participate weekly serving Saturday lunches at the Mix Marketplace...spread the word!
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This Saturday at 2pm, Real Good Food is presenting Kitchen Tips and Tricks, including advice from some of Ann Arbor's best chefs and food proprietors at the Ann Arbor ReSkilling Festival @ Rudolph Steiner High School.
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Bending Sickle Community Farm is still accepting shares for its Spring Heritage Meat CSA! Bending Sickle Community Farm sustainably raises heritage breed of livestock for its twice yearly meat CSA. Spring shares begin in February and run until June. Shares include Pork, Duck, Chicken, Goat, and Lamb. For more information and to sign up for a share visit Bending Sickle Community Farm.
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ANN ARBOR RESKILLING FESTIVAL
February 4, 2012, 10am-4pm - Workshop registration at 9:30am
Rudolf Steiner High School, 2230 Pontiac Trail Rd, Ann Arbor
www.a2reskilling.com<http://www.a2reskilling.com/>
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This event is about learning skills for resilient, low-energy living. This year’s festival will feature over 35 workshops on topics such as food preservation, beekeeping, meditation, gardening, creating a net-zero home, and much more! Festival entrance is free and open to the public, and nearly every workshop is free of cost. Can you help volunteer? We need helpers for the registration desk, parking coordination, and clean-up. The ReSkilling Festival on February 4th will be a vibrant day of skill sharing, food, and conversation. More information (including volunteer sign-up) can be found at a2reskilling.com<http://a2reskilling.com/>.
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CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS! As the new year rolls in, Selma Cafe is looking to expand our volunteer base. In addition to volunteer positions open on Thursday evenings and Friday mornings, we are looking for a few volunteers to occasionally help facilitate Thursday evening prep, and to facilitate post-breakfast clean-up from 10-noon. Please email
lisa@selmacafe.org and let's talk!
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Selma Cafe's own Jeff McCabe has launched a Facebook page for his manufacturing business
Nifty Hoops, and he'd be pleased if you take a look
HERE.
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Lisa Gottlieb of Selma Cafe (um, yes me) is happy and excited to announce her (um, my) new venture:
Sweet Sukha Yoga Consulting:
bringing the ancient tradition of yoga into your modern world. Please take a look at my brief blog post
HERE for information about private lessons and consulting to help those who want all the benefits of yoga with one-on-one support. Complimentary phone consultation to see how Lisa (um, I) can introduce you to yoga, or help you improve your practice.
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Tammy's Tastings is offering her fancy chocolates and other treats forValentine's Day. Chocolate flavors include chocolate covered cherry nougat (with Michigan cherries!), and truffles with ginger, chai and yuzu fillings. Plus raspberry marshmallows and caramels. Check it out at www.tammystastings.com/shop.
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A new kind of "staple foods" CSA is starting for Fall 2012-Winter 2013! A share costs $300 and includes the following crops: wheat berries (60 lbs), rye berries (24 lbs), oat groats (24 lbs), dried corn (12 lbs), onions (30 lbs), potatoes (30 lbs), carrots (30 lbs) and popcorn (12 lbs). The food will be organically grown by a collective of Amish farmers located in Homer, Michigan (about 65 miles southwest of Ann Arbor). This CSA is for people wishing to secure staple foods in bulk amounts who will be doing some of their own storage. A single share is aimed at supplying a household of 2-4 people over the 6-9 months of the harvest/storage season. The share will be divided into four deliveries during Fall 2012 - Winter 2013.Pickup will be at the Ann Arbor Farmers’ Market, the Ypsilanti Farmers’ Market or a northwest Ann Arbor home. To join a list of potentially interested members, please contact Shana Milkie at 734-332-1106 or smilkie@mich.com or see the Local Harvest listing at http://www.localharvest.org/stone-stoup-grains-and-roots-csa-M49390
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Cocktail Class: Pink Drinks That Don't Suck - Pink doesn't have to mean sweet, or insipid, or "just for girls." We'll explore a wide range of drinks that share only their color in common, with flavors
ranging far and wide and appealing to a wide variety of tastes - even those of "manly men." Monday, February 13, 7:30 pm. Class by Tammy's Tastings (http://www.tammystastings.com/) at The Ravens Club. Email tammylc@tammystastings.com to reserve your space. $35 gets you a hands-on workshop with lots of tasting opportunities!
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Why Not Pie is a virtual bakery (established under the Cottage Food Act in 2011) that makes freshly baked pies on demand and delivers them in the Ann Arbor area. A weekly email message announces the Pie of the Week with suggested ordering times (special orders are also welcome with a 48 hour notice!) If you want to order apie, you simply do so by return email. Arrangements are made for delivery of a fresh homemade pie to your workplace or home in Ann Arbor, usually on Friday. It's simple and delicious and handy for dinners and celebrations! If you want to try Why Not Pie, send your email address to janice@whynotpie.com and she'll add you to the weekly email list to keep you up to date on offerings with no obligation to order.
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Sunseed Farm is offering winter fresh vegetable CSA shares. Shares include over thirty different kinds of fresh vegetables grown right here in Ann Arbor, and are designed to feed a family of four, or two hungry vegetable lovers. You can get good local produce all through the winter and contribute to building a healthy farm ecosystem. Weekly distributions are Thursday evenings at Sunseed and Friday mornings at Selma. To find out more about CSA and about Sunseed, visitwww.farmsunseed.com, email sunseed@farmsunseed.com or call 734-224-4228.
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Are you a farmer looking for land to work? We have land and are looking to partner with a farmer (or pair)! Located 10 minutes from downtown Ann Arbor, we have 20 acres with 5 or so available for CSA, market garden or other specialty growing. We are looking for just the right folks to partner with to create something really special that works for all of us. Possible rental housing available across or down the street as well. Please contact Laura Shope at 734-646-6374or Laura@ecoLaura.com. We look forward to exploring the possibilities!
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Preserving Traditions has some sweet events coming up. Check out their calendar HERE.
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How about some Yelp help? Take a minute if you are so inclined, and review Selma Cafe on Yelp HERE please. Thanks!
If you have news you want to share, please pass it along to lisa@selmacafe.org by Wednesday at noon for inclusion in the current week's email reminder. A short blurb with hyperlinks already attached works best!
And finally…
What is this Selma Cafe anyway? Selma Cafe is your local-foods breakfast salon. The suggested donation for breakfast is $12 - $15 per person. All proceeds, except for $150 a week towards household costs and wear and tear, are used to source our breakfast ingredients from the farmers and producers of your food, and to our hoop house building activities. Selma Cafe is here for you every Friday morning from 6:30 to 10:00 am - 722 Soule Blvd. Early arrival is suggested for those on the go (we generally have a wait list after 8 am). Selma Cafe is an all-volunteer operation, and receives 501c3 status through partnership with FSEP. We need your help to sustain this local-foods breakfast salon. Read Lisa’s blog to get the dish on our latest doings. Please reply to this email to let us know what you are thinking, and how you would like to participate in our local food adventure.
See you soon in our kitchen, ~ Lisa
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