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From Chef Lesley Stiles: Shitake Pate This is an amazing dip for vegetables as well as some nice toasted croutons or crackers. 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 cup chopped onion 2 cloves garlic, chopped 1/2 pound of shitake mushrooms, chopped 1 tablespoon soy sauce 1 teaspoon fresh thyme and savory, chopped 1/4 teaspoon fresh ground nutmeg Kosher salt and pepper to taste 1/2 pound chevre 1/2 pound cream cheese Sautee the onion and garlic in olive oil. When onion starts to soften, add the mushrooms and cook over low heat about 5 minutes. Add the soy sauce, thyme, savory and nutmeg. Sautee for a minute longer. Put mushroom mixture into a food processor and add the cheeses. Process until smooth. Season with salt and pepper. Printer-friendly version
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Neu: The 25th season for CCCFM is coming to a close with much success. Planning for the New Year is in rapid, steady motion. It is very exciting to turn the page to begin the next 25 years! Special Thanks to each of the farmers and vendors... they are the market! Thank you to the dedicated customers, who are the reason why the farmers want to come, they depend on you. Last but not least... Thank you to the Site Managers, who are the glue that oversee these markets each week. This weekend we are so lucky to celebrate the completion of our 10th year at the beautiful Orinda Farmers' Market with the Arriba Carmen Mariachi Band who will be joined by members of Mariachi Alma De America. The Arriba Carmen Mariachi Band has history in Orinda... the orignial band leader lived in Orinda for 55 years and composed and sang the Orinda song when Orinda was incorporated into a city. She mastered popular American Broadway music and entertained worldwide. Carmen passed in 2004. It's very special! Many thanks to Raphael for making this happen! Chefs, Lesley Stiles and Daniel Clayton and Carl Drosky are the cooking "Tag Teams" this weekend! Come taste and learn how to make some new dishes for the holidays. The Orinda Chamber of Commerce is kicking off SHOP ORINDA by giving away free bags at the market this Sat. Nov. 17th. It's been a pleasure to bring this community service to the cities that host our markets. Come and enjoy the musical fiesta and stock up for Thanksgiving! Farewell Joey the Coyote! Martinez Market Manager Joey McNaugthon is moving on and will be sorely missed as he continues his education. His contributions to CCCFM were many... a talented artist, a fun writing contributor to the Lettuce Leaf and especially as the site manager. The two artistic items that he drew for CCCFM were the "Carrot" for our bookmarks and the "Cow" that is the illustration for our Walnut Creek Farmers' Market Mooving Campaign. Joey's enthusiasm in being an advocate of the Slow Food movement-philosophy by practicing hands-on farming/gardening will be a hard act to flow! We wish him the best! Speaking of the Walnut Creek Farmers' Market MOOVING Campaign. (Download the flyer - pdf format). 
Our partnerships with the City and John Muir Health are going full spead ahead. Market Education will be taken to a new level. It's very exciting. Stay tuned. Many Thanks to the City of Walnut Creek for including a mention of the market's move in the city wide newsletter the Nutshell. The Walnut Creek market is not missing a beat... check out the Artists/crafters this season! Stunning new items! The market will remain in the present location by the library till December 23. Mark your Calendars! Help us get the word out. Sign a friend up to receive the Lettuce Leaf. Jessie Neu can be reached at gm@cccfm.org |
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This has been a great season and I'm sad to see it end. Looking back over the year, I feel like our new location really helped us to grow our little Market. This season we were able to bring you several new vendors who have all become Market favorites. Holding
Ranch, Periscope Cellars, M.J. Kettle Corn, Luscious Charm
Bakery, Spenger's Bistro Blends, and Terra Soaps all joined our Market this season. The Orinda City Council kept a table at the Market every week, answering your questions and bringing you information that is important to your community. We love being close neighbors to the Library and Community Center. During special events like the Book Faire and Holiday Boutique shoppers were able to do it all from one parking space. In many ways, I think our new location helped breathe new life into our little Market. The future looks bright in our new home. 
I was just looking at the calendar, only 6 markets left in our current location. I am somewhat sad. Just as I started to feel sad, I remembered how much work there was to do to get the new location ready for January 6th and just in case you have not been paying attention, the new
location is on North Locust st. between Giamona and Lacassie and that is behind Walnut Creek Honda. The new location promises many new things. More community related things, a wider variety of vendors, and our new partner in health John
Muir Health Foundation. Look for exciting things coming from that partnership.
Oh yes, we still are privileged to be partaking in the beauty and bounty of summer/fall produce. Peppers continue putting on kaleidoscopic color shows in all shades of the rainbow and squashes are weighing down tables along with strawberries
and tomatoes. Robin from Smith Farms says at least one more week while Pete
Medina says a month more of the berries and then he goes into hothouse mode for the first time on the farm and will be supplying berries for even longer. We shall see how that plays out in texture and flavor. 
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