Menu for Sunday, March 5th, 2023 Rillito Park Farmers Market

Dear Green Heart Friends,

Yes, last Sunday the parking was easy!  But that's because of the rain and cold! Brrrrr!  Keep your fingers crossed that the prediction for this Sunday holds: sunny, w/a high of 72 .  In the meantime, I guess we'll have SNOW tonight .

Both a customer and Ted caught the story about erythritol, which you can read here:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/27/health/zero-calorie-sweetener-heart-attack-stroke-wellness/index.html

At present, we are not using it in any of our recipes.  I have never liked it, and it was the main reason that I did not want to use Lily's chocolate chips, stevia-sweetened.  Because when I read the label (at New Life on Speedway, years ago, with Paula, the assistant manager), I saw the erythritol.  We both crinkled our noses and said no, thank you.

Years after that, several customers requested monkfruit, and brought me a small bag to see.  Again, I looked at the label and saw erythritol.  But, as that was what they requested, that's what I used in their custom batch.  (Odile, who worked the booth with me at Rillito, said she could eat the straight monkfruit, but not when it was blended with erythritol.  Straight monkfruit is expensive, but for herself, she was only buying a small amount, on occasion.) And, of course, while Connie worked with me, she used it because she was making keto cookies.  But no more.

Our Calzone:

This photo is not perfectly accurate; this was the spinach chorizo I used to make for the U of A.  PLEASE note the description on the menu:  "Italian".

This week, a regular customer wrote:

I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed the mushroom ragout. Of course, the black bean soup is always very good!  I had meant to mention that I really liked the salad nicoise a couple of weeks ago. That ranch dressing was wonderful!  

It’s amazing how you come up with such a variety of delicious and healthy dishes.

Kathy

And that is exactly what we are striving for, week after week :-). 

Thank you in advance for your order.  Please email your orders by Thursday evening.

WARMLY, and in health,

Alaine

Green Heart Bakery

520-954-2409

 

Green Heart Menu for March 5th, 2023

Market hours:  8:30 am – 12:30 pm

Horse racing season is on, so the earlier you come, the better the parking is.  (You’ll be happiest by 10.) Be sure to tell any parking attendant who stops you, that you are a farmers market customer; your parking is free.

(Please have your order in by Thursday evening.)

 

Mulligatawny Soup

A thick hearty soup of organic red lentils & organic

garnet yams, with roasted organic garbanzos.

Seasoned with fresh ginger & garlic & Indian spices.

(GF, SF, oil-free, no onions) $7.50

Frozen: Southwest Black Bean $7;  Split Pea $7

 

Calzone

Our house made sausage (pinto beans, oat flour &

seasonings) in a mixture with potatoes, onions, red

bell in a light tomato sauce, baked in an organic whole wheat crust. (soy-free, very small amount of oil in crust) $13.00

 

Spinach & Mushroom Quiche

Organic spinach and mushrooms, nutritional yeast, onion, in an organic tofu-based filling, topped w/Violife cheez, in a whole-grain spelt crust. With our potato salad on the side!

( filling is oil-free; crust is low oil) $13.00 for 1/6 of 9” pie and potato salad

Whole 9” quiche $32; with potato salad $38

 

Gluten-free option: GF crust, OR no crust (for grain- free)$13/slice w/potato salad. Whole 9” GF Crust Quiche $35; with potato salad $40.

Soy-free option:  filling made with a base of chickpea flour & plant milk.   6 ½“ round quiche $13; with potato salad $17

Sandwiches

Curried ChickUn Salad: 3 grain tempeh in a dressing of mayo and mango chutney, mixed with celery, carrots, raisins, walnuts & roasted cashews. 8 oz container, or on Dave’s Killer Bread. $10.00 (filling is soy-free)

Roasted Veggie Pesto Panini: roasted eggplant, zucchini, yellow squash, red bells, in our oil-free pesto sauce, on Dave’s bread. $10. (SF)

Also available:  just the vegetables in our oil-free pesto

Seitan Reuben:  house made seitan corned “beef”, sauerkraut, our house made cashew cheez, with our Russian dressing, on organic sprouted rye. $11

 

Healthy Desserts

Peanut Butter-Cream Cheez filled Chocolate Cupcakes (GF, no added oil) $4.50

Apple Spice layer Cake w/Maple Frosting: Fresh apple, raisins, walnuts with cinnamon, allspice & cloves. (GF, no added oil) $7

Organic Fresh Berry Tart:  oat flour crust, vanilla filling, glazed organic berries (GF, no nuts) $7.50

Organic Apple & Cherry Hand Pie in organic sprouted spelt crust (SF, nut-free) $7.50

Raw Truffles:  :  Almond Overjoy (almonds, coconut, dates, cacao)  (raw, GF, soy-free, oil-free)  $2.50/each or 3/$6

Alaine’s Rainforest Cake– a loaf made of organic: Brazil nuts, dates,  apricots, pineapple, raisins, craisins, fresh orange zest, agave and brown rice flour. The dried fruit is unsulfured.

By the slice $4.50; the 1 lb. loaf $25, or 2 lb loaf $45

Breakfast

Cranberry Orange Walnut Scone: oat & teff flours, maple glaze (GF, SF) $4.50

Blue Corn Mesquite WAFFLES: 2 waffles, 4” x 4”, wrapped, and ready for you to reheat in your toaster. These are hearty and very filling. (GF, SF, no added fat) $6

Chocolate Zucchini Breakfast Muffin: These also contain oat bran. Half as sweet as our brownies; half the amount of cacao. (GF, nut-free, oil-free) $4.50

SAVORY Muffin:  Organic oat flour, chickpea flour, NO SWEETENER, sundried tomatoes, Italian herbs, pumpkin seeds (GF, SF, no added oil, no nuts) $4.50

Oatmeal Raisin Spice Muffin:  (GF, SF, no added oil) $4.50

Chocolate Glazed (baked) Donut (GF, SF, oil-free, no nuts) 4.50

Banana Walnut 10 oz Loaf, (GF, SF, no added oil) 7.50

Carrot  Bread  Loaf 10 oz. (GF, no added oil) 7.50

Fresh Pear Streusel Coffee Cake (GF, SF, no added oil.   $5/slice

Cookies & Bars

*Samoa Cookies* dipped in chocolate; healthy version of the Girl Scout cookies 3 small cookies in container (SF, GF, no nuts) $4.50

Meyer Lemon Bars:  set in an organic whole-grain oat flour crust, sweetened with organic birch (diabetic-friendly & low calorie). (GF, no added fat) $5

Magic Bars:  on top of an almond flour crust, layers of chopped dates, pecans, coconut set in coconut milk, and topped with chocolate chips.  (GF, SF, no added fat) $5.

Oatmeal Applesauce w/Chocolate Chip (SF, GF, no added fat, no nuts) 4.50

Chocolate Chip Pecan (SF, GF) 4.50

Molasses Ginger (GF, no nuts) 4.50

Apricot Date  Breakfast Bars w/Chocolate Chips (GF, SF, oil-free, date-sweetened, no nuts) $5.00

Organic Chocolate Brownies: a big cake brownie  (GF, oil-free) 4.50

Thank you in advance for your order. 

Alaine

520-954-2409