It’s been a whirlwind of a week as we distributed our summer issue. Today we’ll complete our first round of drop offs and you’ll now be able to pick up a copy at over 200 locations across the region!
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Lisa - Publisher & Editor
MOVERS & SHAKERS: LGBTQ+ Owned Businesses
🌈 Happy Pride Month! While we’re always down to wear rainbows, we know that to support our LGBTQ+ community we must do more than display flags and don pins. We must champion their businesses, purchase their products and show up.
We’ve compiled a list of LGBTQ+ owned businesses in our region. Please make a point of supporting these businesses and celebrating their place in our community. This is by no means a complete list and we encourage you to seek out more businesses within your area 🌈.
Mariebette Cafè & Bakery - Cville
Baker No Bakery - Cville
Cocoa & Spice - Cville
Montifalco Vineyard - Ruckersville
Crafteria: Handmade Foods & Goods - Roanoke
Coyote Hole Craft Beverages - Mineral
Wolfbane Productions - Appomattox
Umma’s - Cville
Plenty Cville - Cville
Oasis Fine Art & Craft - Harrisonburg
Redwood & Co. - Staunton
Fae Cottage Flower Farm - Roanoke
EVENTS
Have an event you’d like us to share? Email: info@edibleblueridge.com
TONIGHT: Queers Amongst The Stars - Cider From Mars (Staunton)
6.10 231 Fest - Keswick
6.10 New River Native Plant Sale - Blacksburg
6.14 White Wine Blending Workshop - Eastwood Winery (Cville)
6.23 Veritas Winery Supper Series - Afton
6.25 Yard Bull Meats Sausage Masking Class - Roanoke
6.26 Microgreens Farmer Meetup - online
MORE TO CHEW ON
Can AI create recipes? Eater weighs in
☕ Rooibus has been all the rage amongst tea drinkers for decades. Now, the indigenous Khoisan farmers who cultivate it are finally being compensated. - NPR
The 2023 James Beard Awards took place on Monday, here’s the full list of winners 🥇 - NYT
WHAT WE’RE COOKING: Mushroom Tart
This week, we’re sharing a Mushroom Tart recipe from our friends at the Floyd Farmers Market.
Ingredients:
1 sheet of puff pastry, thawed
2 cups of locally grown mushrooms, sliced
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 small onion, finely chopped
2 cloves of garlic, minced
1/2 cup Gruyère cheese, grated
Fresh thyme leaves, for garnish
Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions:
Preheat your oven to 400°F (200°C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a large skillet, heat the olive oil over medium heat. Add the chopped onion and minced garlic, and sauté until the onion becomes translucent, about 3-4 minutes.
Add the sliced mushrooms to the skillet and cook until they have softened and any liquid has evaporated, about 5-6 minutes. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out the puff pastry sheet to approximately 1/4 inch thickness. Cut the pastry into small squares or circles, depending on your preference.
Place the pastry squares or circles onto the prepared baking sheet. Spoon a generous amount of the mushroom mixture onto each pastry piece, leaving a small border around the edges.
Sprinkle grated Gruyère cheese over the mushroom filling. Garnish each tart with a few fresh thyme leaves.
Bake in the preheated oven for 15-18 minutes, or until the pastry turns golden brown and puffed up.
Remove from the oven and let the tarts cool slightly before serving. These mushroom tarts are delicious both warm and at room temperature.
POEM OF THE WEEK
Summer
By Chen Chen
You are the ice cream sandwich connoisseur of your generation.
Blessed are your floral shorteralls, your deeply pink fanny pack with travel-size lint roller just in case.
Level of splendiferous in your outfit: 200.
Types of invisible pain stemming from adolescent disasters in classrooms, locker rooms, & quite often Toyota Camrys: at least 10,000.
You are not a jigglypuff, not yet a wigglytuff.
Reporters & fathers call your generation “the worst.”
Which really means “queer kids who could go online & learn that queer doesn’t have to mean disaster.”
Or dead.
Instead, queer means, splendiferously, you.
& you means someone who knows that common flavors for ice cream sandwiches in Singapore include red bean, yam, & honeydew.
Your powers are great, are growing.
One day you will create an online personality quiz that also freshens the breath.
The next day you will tell your father, You were wrong to say that I had to change.
To make me promise I would. To make me promise.
& promise.
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