Shrimp, Hummus, Melons & Muscadines Are Back, Plus New Seafood, Meat Restock, Fresh Pasta & More!
What We Have and What’s Expected for the Week of August 26th
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We’ve got much more produce to start the week this week!
Personal circumstances aligned and we were able to receive a big produce order on a rare Monday, even though we’re closed, versus Tuesday.
More cantaloupes and sugar baby watermelons came in! Plus beautiful muscadine grapes. And there’s also red or yellow beefsteak tomatoes, yellow squash and zucchini, beautiful peppers, Japanese eggplant, butternut or delicata squash, turnips and orange or purple sweet potatoes. There’s a variety of gourmet mushrooms from Screaming Oaks, too, with more expected on Thursday.
Note, we generally prioritize growers that strive for biodynamic and organic growing practices even if they do not pursue USDA organic certification, but this time of year the offerings can be limited. Compostella Farm, Cicada Calling Farm and River Queen Greens are all on their summer breaks and if not just getting back and beginning to seed for fall crops.
So the tomatoes, yellow squash, zucchini and muscadine grapes are all from Big Charlie’s Produce Farm in Mobile, Ala., a conventional farm.
Generally I find smaller scale farms, even if conventional, do use as minimal pest control as possible from a time, labor and cost perspective. Long story short, we will always be transparent about the growing methods of the products we offer, but in this case we feel like variety is better than not much produce at all!
Nur's Kitchen finished their renovations, so we have our beloved hummus back in stock after a few weeks without it. There’s mostly the large sizes of the dressed options available and then we will restock again on Wednesday.
We also restocked from Anna Marie Seafood last week, so we have all sizes of shrimp, as well as some new fish options.
And we did a big freezer restock of beef, pork and chicken, including tons of ground beef, ribeye, short ribs, osso bucco shanks and eye of round roasts, plus bone-in and boneless chops, tenderloin, Italian sausage, Boston butt roasts, whole chickens, leg quarters and more!
Finally, Cockeyed Farms delivered more of their goodies last week, so elderberry juice and their honey in glass jars are back.
There's also Southern Maids goat dairy products, biscuits to bake at home, granola, jams and jellies, pickles and ferments, kombucha, rice, grits, fresh pasta, stone-milled flour, coffee, herbal teas, seasonings, salts, maple syrup and more.
Feliciana’s Best dairy is set to be delivered around midday on Tuesday as usual.
We are getting better and better at utilizing all the features of Local Line 2.0, so now in addition to the sale items populating in their own category, we also added some tags to help highlight certain products.
So after the whole list of different product categories, you can also filter by tag categories including: New, On Sale, Recently Restocked and Staff Favorites. Make sure to check those out!
Store & Hub Schedule/Hours
Normal schedule this week with half of our regular biweekly hubs:
Lakeview on Tuesday, 4-5 pm at the Bird’s Nest Cafe, 6508 Spanish Fort Blvd. Home deliveries in 70005, 70119, 70122 and 70124 beforehand. Deadline to order is noon on Tuesday.
Uptown on Wednesday, 4-5 pm at the New Orleans Jewish Community Center, 5342 St. Charles Ave. Home deliveries in 70112, 70113, 70115, 70118, 70125 and 70130 beforehand. Deadline to order noon on Wednesday.
Bywater moved on Thursday, 5-6 pm at Parleaux Beer Lab, 634 Lesseps St. Home deliveries in 70116 and 70117 beforehand. Deadline to order is noon on Thursday.
Home deliveries around the Warehouse District, Lower Garden District, Uptown, Broadmoor, Carrollton, Riverbend, Old Metairie and Old Jefferson (70001, 70112, 70113, 70115, 70118, 70121, 70125 and 70130) in lieu of our Carrollton Hub on Saturday. Deadline to order is 4 pm on Friday.
Here's the full list breakdown of all our grocery categories:
Donations for Mutual Aid: The top of the storefront includes our mutual aid shares. Right now you can contribute $5 for egg, meat or produce shares and we’ll tally them up and drop off meat and produce to New Orleans Community Fridge locations around the city.
Pastured Eggs: We have some regular size eggs from our flocks available to start the week and will have a lot more pullet eggs on sale coming in, too. Depending on how wholesale orders shake out, we’ll supplement with eggs from the Little Brown Egg Farm or Two Dog Farms, too.
Pastured Dairy: We are starting the week stocked up on goat milk, creole cream cheese, yogurt, brined, crumbled or whipped feta, avocado goat cheese spread and two types of marinated feta. Then, we expect our usual delivery of Feliciana’s Best whole milk, heavy cream, half & half, chocolate milk and creole cream cheese on Tuesday by midday.
Bread & Pasta: We’ve got frozen brioche hamburger buns and plenty of frozen honey oat loaves as well as croutons, crostini and frozen pizza dough. There’s also a few shapes of Il Supremo pasta — both fresh and frozen. There’s two savory types of frozen biscuits to bake at home left. We also expect more fresh bread and buns from Bellegarde on Wednesday and Friday mornings.
Local Produce: Asian pears, muscadine grapes, cantaloupe, sugar baby watermelons and frozen blueberries in the fruit realm, plus red or yellow beefsteak tomatoes, chestnut, lion’s mane, oyster, shiitake and shimofuri mushrooms, Italian or Japanese eggplant, bullhorn, green bell and Lesya peppers, hakurei turnips, butternut, delicata and yellow summer squashes, zucchini and orange or purple sweet potatoes.
Plant-Based Protein: Three types of tempeh, plus plain or black mushroom tofu.
Forest-Raised Pork: Bacon, tenderloin, pork stir fry strips, bone-in or boneless chops, Boston butt or picnic shoulder roasts, jowl, stew meat, smoked hocks, plain ground pork, bratwurst, Cajun links, Andouille, breakfast links or bulk sausage, chorizo, Italian links or bulk sausage and ears, bones, trotters, heart, kidney, liver, tongue, tail, lard for rendering and skin pieces (great for cracklins!).
Grassfed Beef: Big restock of ground beef! Plus we’ve still got top sirloin or Teres Major steaks on sale. We also have hamburger and slider patties, filet, ribeyes, NY Strips, shish kebab pieces/steak bites, chuck eye, picanha, bavette, flank, skirt, Denver and flat iron steaks, plus tri tip, chuck roasts, eye of round roasts, London broil or tenderized round steaks, stew meat, short ribs and riblets/Flanken short ribs, osso bucco shanks, cheeks, tongue, liver, kidney, bones and fat for rendering.
Wild-Foraged Goat: Goat legs, shoulders, shanks, stew meat/kebab pieces and ribs are on sale, plus there’s neck roasts and bones, too. We will be bringing some goats in to the butcher in September to restock ground goat and chops especially.
Pastured Poultry: Whole chickens, leg quarters, feet, backs and necks at the moment. It’s still going to be a few more weeks before we can restock breasts and wings from Mahaffey’s first fall batch of chickens.
Gulf Seafood: New Jolthead Porgy filets, along with Grouper on the Half Shell! Plus we restocked red snapper and grouper filets and collars, plus have some sheepshead, smoked amber jack and soft-shell crabs. And all three sizes of shrimp!
Coffee & Tea: Plenty of cold brew, chai concentrate and simple syrups from Church Alley, as well as well ground coffee and beans from Flamjeaux and new and favorite herbal teas from Family Fungi.
Dips & Condiments: Nur’s Kitchen is back! So there’s traditional and dressed hummus options and more coming on Wednesday, possibly including pesto and baba ganoush. And we also have delicious Koji based hot sauces from Crescent City Cultures.
Pantry: Plenty of popcorn! Plus glazed pecans, pecan butter, pecan meal and pecan oil from Guidry’s, all flavors of granola, dried mushrooms from Family Fungi, two kinds of mushroom seasoning, black garlic salts, chili oil from VEGGI Coop, hot sauce, chili crisp and sambal from Southern Chili Lab, Texas olive oil and balsamic vinegar and Georgia’s Vinaigrette from Church Alley.
Sweets: Wisconsin Maple syrup, plus more honey in either squeeze bottles or glass jars. And there's Blueberry Infused honey and creamed honey, too, with a restock of honey in glass jars and elderberry infused honey coming on Tuesday.
Rice, Grains & Stone Ground Corn Products: Lots of rice, grits, cornmeal and whole grain and clay pea options from Two Brooks Rice and Marsh Hen Mill, plus stone-milled flours from Barton Springs Mill.
Ferments: Plenty of veggie ferments -- several types of kimchi, kraut and other fermented veggies from Gingberbooch, VEGGI Coop and Resurrection Gardens. And more kombucha, too, but probiotic lemonade and limeade is out for now.
Preserves: We have a good supply of Josey's Goods’ pickles, fruit jams and jellies and pepper jellies. Hoping to restock some things that just came back in season like pickled okra and green beans and fig preserves in the next couple of weeks.
Herbal Remedies: A few elderberry syrup options from Cockeyed Farms and AndiLynn's and Family Fungi. And there's several varieties of South of Eden's herbal tinctures, plus Lion's Mane, Reishi or Turkey Tail mushroom tinctures and the Remedy Tincture, combining several kinds of mushroom extractions in one.
Merch: Canvas bags and insulated totes, t-shirts, hats, mugs and greeting cards.
