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Greene Plate Dinner Special

October 6, 2017 Farmtotable, Food, Local

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The city that never sleeps often doesn’t have time to make dinner. We love a home cooked meal, but we understand the need for dinner on-the-go. Which is why our Greene Plate Special is designed to be convenient without sacrificing quality. Each week, we prepare a different meal made to save your time without compromising nutrition and quality. Unlike your average takeout dinner, there’s no mystery to our ingredient sourcing. These meals are an artful collaboration between different departments of our store. We take grass-fed, locally sourced meats from our Butcher Counter and farm-fresh seasonal produce and combine them with the talent of our Fort Greene Kitchen masters. This brings you the freshest and easiest dinner possible!

In addition to peace of mind, our Greene Plate special is always deliciously creative. You’ll find inventive, restaurant quality meals like Honey Mustard Glazed Salmon with fragrant jasmine rice, summer vegetable stir fry, and crispy shallot, or this week’s special, Roasted Goffle Road Farms Chicken with garlic and fall herb marinade accompanied by farro and fall vegetable pilaf, sauteed green beans with toasted almonds, and preserved lemon vinaigrette. A seasonal summer special featured Black Bean Croquetas with corn, sweet potato and chilis, accompanied by summer vegetable hash, hardy greens, toasted pepitas, cotija, and salsa verde. That’s just three examples of many more to come!

This special is available every week at your fingertips in our chilled grab n’ go case, which is perfect for picking up after work and enjoying in the comfort of your own dining room. We also serve the Greene Plate hot and ready to go from 5pm-8pm every night. See our Prepared Foods page or follow us on Instagram to see what each week’s special is!

Supporting Local Farms… from Afar!

April 7, 2015 Farmtotable, Food, Grocery, heirloom, Local, Uncategorized

With Earth Day around the corner, we have been taking stock of our environmental impact. The most basic way to make sure our carbon footprint stays low is to support local farms businesses whenever possible. But in order to provide pantry staples year round, we sometimes need to go outside of that 250 mile radius. Let’s look at two staples, rice and beans, and consider how companies we source from can keep us committed to supporting small and sustainable farms!

We carry many varieties of Rancho Gordo beans. While they travel from California to get to us, the company’s commitment to growing heirloom beans and working with local growers is without comparison.

Heirloom varieties are important for preserving genetic diversity and they also remind us that our food doesn’t have to look uniform! The Rancho Gordo-Xoxoc Project creates a market for small farms in Mexico to grow heirloom beans indigenous to their areas. These beans also taste amazing! You’ll find a creaminess and earthiness in each bag that is impossible to replicate out of a can.

Lotus Foods brings us rice from afar in order to support small and family farms in areas of the world where rice as a commodity crop leads to overproduction and damages local environments and economies.

By providing market incentives for small sustainable farms in these regions, Lotus Foods creates a system that encourages environmentally friendly growing practices. The heirloom varieties of rice that we carry come from Indonesia and China. Volcano Rice has a dark color that reflects the high concentration of minerals such as magnesium and zinc, found in the volcanic soils where it grows. Forbidden Rice comes from a farm that uses a System of Rice Intensification that reduces water use while boosting production.

So try out an heirloom bean or two, marvel at their colorful complexity, enjoy a bowl of Volcanic Rice and stay tuned for more info on our sustainable buying practices. It’s not always easy being green, but we’re getting there one bite at a time!

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Got a lot on your plate?
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