Food Co-op November

For more information about the food co-op, visit www.foodco-op.net. Orders for the Saturday, December 19th pick-up are due on Friday December 4th.

Harvest share $14 (Shown below)

• 1 loaf Stoneground artisan wheat bread
• 16 oz. rice

• 7 oranges
• 8 pears
• 6 apples (Utah-grown)
• 1 broccoli
• 3 red bell peppers
• 4 tomatoes
• 1 8oz. mushrooms
• 1 5lb. bag russet potatoes
• 1 bunch asparagus

Standard share $23

• 1 lb. lean ground beef (85/15)
• 2 lbs. chicken drumsticks
• 2 lbs. beef chuck roast
• 1 lb. diced pork cubes

• 1 loaf Stoneground artisan wheat bread
• 16 oz. rice

• 6 oranges
• 5 pears
• 4 apples (Utah-grown)
• 1 broccoli
• 3 red bell peppers
• 4 tomatoes
• 1 8oz. mushrooms
• 1 5lb. bag russet potatoes

Half share $14

• 1 lb. lean ground beef (85/15)
• 2 lbs. chicken drumsticks

• 1 loaf Stoneground artisan wheat bread
• 16 oz. rice

• 5 oranges
• 5 pears
• 4 apples (Utah grown)
• 1 broccoli
• 2 red bell peppers
• 4 tomatoes
• 1 8oz. mushrooms

In other news, we've recently enjoyed sweet and sour meatballs.And tapioca pudding.

Author/Illustrator 11: Jan Brett: Outstanding Animal Art

Beautiful pictures in beautiful surroundings. Jan Brett travels the world, ensuring that her locations, creations, animals and people are accurate in her books. She has written and illustrated a couple of dozen books along with illustrating another half dozen or so other books. Her books range from retold tales such as Beauty and the Beast and On Noah's Ark along with other imaginative books such as Fritz and the Beautiful Horses along with Hedgie's Surprise and Daisy Comes Home. She bought chicks to enable her to accurately draw chickens for Hedgie's Surprise and they now own five beautiful hens that love to pose for Jan. Ms.Brett has been drawing horses since she was little and Fritz was based upon a real pony who had fluffy fur and was named John.

Ms.Brett grew up in Massachusetts during the 50's and 60's. "From cave paintings to Norwegian sleighs, to Japanese gardens, I study the traditions of the many countries I visit and use them as a starting point for my children's books." Her book about Noah's ark has about 400 animals in it! She prefers illustrating over writing and her husband often does the keyboarding for her stories after she has written out the story. For more on Jan Brett, visit her website at: www.janbrett.com

Author/Illustrator 10: Marc Brown and his Aardvark

I certainly would have never guessed that an eight-year old aardvark could become a PBS star on the show Arthur and that his fame would lead to the stardom of his rabbit friend Buster in Postcards from Buster. It all started with the writing and drawings of Marc Brown.

Marc Brown started the stories by telling them to his son. Mr. Brown had grown up listening to stories in Erie, Pennsylvania from his Grandmother Thora. He was born in 1946 and started writing after attempts at being a truck driver (he got lost) and a short order cook and a tv art director.

An interesting note is that all his books (except his first book, Arthur's Nose) contain the names of his children (Tolon, Tucker and Eliza) tucked into the artwork along with other people and place names that he hides in the pages. He stumbled on this idea on a day when his sons were fighting in his studio. He hid their names in the illustration and it took them an hour to find their names-and thus the tradition was born. For a wonderful interview with Marc Brown, visit this site: http://www.hipark.austin.isd.tenet.edu/grade2/pappert/marc_brown_interview.htm

Thank you Mr.Brown for so many wonderful books and some wonderful tv shows! (I have to add that I really like that Arthur's dad is a professional caterer and the recipes that Mr.Brown concocts for him to make are truly interesting.) For more information about Marc Brown visit the official site at: http://marcbrownstudios.com/

Author/Illustrator 9: Sandra Boynton with wit

JUST PLAIN FUNNY!
















































For more info on Sandra Boynton, visit her website at: http://www.sandraboynton.com

Author 8: Brenda Haugen celebrates Halloween

Brenda Haugen has written dozens of books for Compass Point Books-many of which are biographies. She has a few books written in the series "Holidays and Celebrations" of which Halloween is one of the titles. The book focuses on the origins of Halloween in Ireland and England and mentions some traditions such as that of Christians going house to house for pieces of soul cakes and they would in turn promise to say prayers for the families that fed them. She mentions that bonfires were lit to scare away bad spirits and they did make lanterns out of carved vegetables. We will celebrate Halloween in a couple of days!

To find more books by Brenda Haugen visit compass point books.

October Food co-op

Half share for $14: 1 lb. lean ground beef, 4 4oz. cubed steaks, 1 loaf wheat bread, 16 oz. lentils, 2 avocados, 5 Golden Delicious apples (Utah-grown), 5 pears, 4 bananas, 1 head cabbage, 2 lbs. carrots, 1 eggplant

Farmer's Market Share: Assorted winter squash, onions, potatoes and basil. This is the last of the Farmer's Market share for the season. It's nice to buy local and nice that it's organic. We love squash so this assortment will be enjoyed in the winter months to come.

We could have also gotten a standard or harvest share.

Standard Share for $23:
2 lb. boneless, center-cut pork loin roast, 2 lb. split chicken breast (boneless, skinless), 1 lb. lean ground beef, 4 4oz. cubed steaks, 1 loaf wheat bread, 16 oz. lentils, 2 avocados, 6 Golden Delicious apples (Utah-grown), 6 pears, 5 bananas, 1 head cabbage, 2 lbs. carrots, 1 eggplant, 3 lbs. yellow onions (Utah-grown)

Harvest Share for $14:
1 loaf wheat bread, 16 oz. lentils, 4 avocados, 10 Golden Delicious apples(Utah-grown), 9 pears, 8 bananas, 1 head cabbage, 2 lbs. carrots, 2 eggplants, 3 lbs. yellow onions (Utah-grown), 2 spaghetti squash (Utah-grown)

For more information visit the foodco-op site. The order for November is due Friday, Nov. 6 with food pick-up on Saturday, November 21st.

Author 7: Jeff Brumbeau writing about quilts

These two are among our favorites! We check these books out of the library over and over again. First is The Quiltmaker's Gift followed by The Quiltmaker's Journey which is a prequel. Fabulous illustrations, beautiful stories-what's not to appreciate, learn from, and love?
In the first book we meet a selfish king who wants a quilt-but he's asked to earn the quilt despite his attempts to just take a quilt.

The quiltmaker wasn't always the woman making quilts on the mountain. Once she was a girl with everything living in a sheltered town that did not know poverty or want in anyway other than the unhappiness that she felt of having everything and not helping those less fortunate. She leaves the town through a hidden passageway out to the world beyond. When she returns to the town she tells them of her discoveries at which they scoff and she chooses to leave. But, she must leave with nothing except her clothes she is wearing and her mother's ring. She wants to help but finds she can't help some people because she does not know how. At last she finds a mother and child sleeping out in the cold and she knows what she can do. Thus starts her work of making quilts.

Author Jeff Brumbeau and the illustrator Gail de Marcken have a website at http://www.quiltmakersgift.com At their site you can find more books about quilting along with stories inspired by the books.