BN Week 17: Bacon, blueberries and...nachos?!

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August 23, 2024

Hello from Together Farm!!

It's Bacon & Blueberry Week!! 🥓🔵

And, I know you think it can't get any better but we will ALSO have NACHOS and beer-battered onion rings for a limited time!

The nachos will feature MASA chips - made with organic corn and fried in beef tallow!

Burger of the Week: BB's B-B-Blue's

Farm-made Blueberry ketchup
Bacon
Blue Cheese
Basil Aioli
Baby arugula
Brioche bun, toasted with Butter
Brilliant.

Note that the "ketchup" does not contain any tomato ketchup. :)

This was the blueberry ketchup burger from a few years ago, this year's, we hope, will be EVEN BETTER! The Better BB's B-B-Blue's Burger, if you will.
(and, shoutout to the immortal Mister Fluffypants!)

Farm Store Sales

Allllll our different bacons are 20% off! Plus, all the blueberry things are on sale!!

Yes, the sale includes our bacon-onion jam too, as featured on the Good Fat burger! 🥑

Reminder that it's BLT season and that we also have lots of sugar-free bacons if you ever do no sugar challenges or have found a way to live that lifestyle (hats off to you my friend if you have 💪), NOW is the time to stock-up! 🥓

Thursday, August 22

Save 20% on the Burger of the Week

Trivia at 7pm: Disney! 🐭

Sounds like a lot of people want to come to this one (though people tell me stuff all the time so 🤷‍♀️) so I'd suggest coming early to save the best spot!

Want some warm-up questions:

Which Disney princess is the only one based on a real person?
Out of all the Disney films, one main character speaks the least. Which one is it?

Remember: if you dress up you get FREE Bar Bucks!!

Friday, August 23

Steph's Birthday! Help me celebrate turning 64!! (don't I look great for 64?!) 🎉🎉🎉

LIVE MUSIC from Josh White, 6-9pm

Josh White is an American singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and music producer born and raised in Louisiana but now calls Duluth, MN home. His range of music spans from Garth Brooks to, Kenny Wayne Shepard to Alice in Chains and Nirvana. As a solo artist with the ability to sing songs from a variety of genres; he performs the music that the audience in front of him wants to hear.

Bring your requests! Josh will have a QR code on each table for you to "phone it in"!!

Saturday, August 24

LIVE MUSIC from joe g, 5:30-8:30pm

joe g is a singer/songwriter from Marshfield, WI who combines Americana, folk, and pop musical styling with raw, personal lyrics that he hopes resonates with a broad audience. His originals focus on everything from love to pain, joy to sadness. You can expect to hear everything from his own originals to Johnny Cash, Amos Lee, Tom Petty, Elvis, Taylor Swift, Radiohead, Tom Petty, Marvin Gaye to Chris Stapleton.

Whether you’re singing along, or just chillin', joe g’s performance is a not-to-be-missed night of music! (and the weather is going to be awesome too!!)

Hopefully I long ago dispelled the notion of any perfection going on over here and so yes, I am aware that the music does not match the theme of the the week. Usually, we have blue's musicians this weekend but whoopsie daisy! That ball fell on the ground. Maybe next year we'll do it correctly again. So in a perfect world, that's what I would've done, but hey, I'm getting close to 70 now so cut me some slack. (Maybe don't hold your breath for future perfection. 😁)

Sunday, August 25

Family Day! Buy one get one FREE kids meals all day

Updates & Reminders

Cup coozies are back in stock!! 🥤

Only 6 more official Burger Night weekends after this one.

Labor Day weekend we will NOT be open on Monday, we'll follow our regular hours.

Steph's Surprise Sale 🥳

You know what my absolute favorite cut of meat is of all the meats we carry?

Chicken Gizzards!!!

Ohmygosh, I just love them so much. They are basically little cartilidge-y chunks of protein and are just the absolute perfect snack.

This is the gizzards-to-go picture I sent my friend yesterday, trying to convince her to ride with me to do Menomonie deliveries. I still ended up going alone....?? Wasn't planning on sharing this with you all but this sale surprised even me!! (getting old has its perks!)

Why are gizzards so amazing?

Well, besides being super easy to cook (I just boil them) and then prepare (I just salt them, sometimes with a spicy salt to really shake things up), they are also:

super high in protein, about 44g/cup (same as chicken breast)
but better than chicken breasts if you're looking to lose weight
- gizzards are lower in calories than breasts
- gizzards are lower in fat than breasts
- but gizzards have the same amount of protein, plus so much more (they are an organ meat superfood!):
Vit B12
Niacin
Riboflavin
Iron
Phosphorus
Zinc
Glucosamine
Chondroitin

I would love gizzards even if they weren't amazingly good for you and so crazy easy but I've always loved eating all the cartilage off every piece of meat, so if you like that too and haven't yet discovered these organ-based one-step PROTEIN BALLS! Now's the time!! (You'll never screw around with making a peanut butter protein ball mess again.)

If you don't like chewy stuff I can't help you yet because I haven't made it past the boil-n-eat stage yet, but I promise there are ways: pickling perhaps? They can also be diced up and tossed in a soup or a stew. Got recipes? I'd love to see them!

Just another underappreciated "rock"star of an organ that can't wait to meat you.

And thus concludes my surprise birthday ode to gizzards. ❤

Hope to see you on the farm soon!!

Your farmer & friend (looking to someday take it to the next level of friendship where I try to bribe you with organ meats),

Stephanie Schneider

Off the Hook Fish Sale is LIVE! 🐟

Our 1st Annual Off the Hook Fish Sale is LIVE and it really is Off the Hook!! ⚓It was exactly one year ago today that we announced a new partnership with Bering Bounty and let you know we had finally found some of the best food on the planet: Wild Alaskan fish.plus it's Lentplus a few of us just realized that we've been through 2 false springs already meaning real spring is pert near here and it's time to hurry up and lose some of that winter weight by eating clean high-protein and low fat (halibut).(Although a few others have decided this is the year the sweaters-in-summer fashion look sticks and we're eating all the Sablefish we want.)plus it's time to start getting really serious about Burger Night again so my ability to manage and run big sales like this will end 3/31 and then we'll all be waiting a long while before any more big sales come up. So: Anniversary + Lent + Weight Loss (or Maintenance 😂) + Burger Night is coming (56 days!) = OFF THE HOOK FISH SALE!! We will definitely plan on doing this every March but one thing with the state of Alaska is they are very strict with their quotas in order to ensure sustainability so we never know how much fish Captain Mark will be able to reel in - some of these cuts may not always be available but we are super stoked that right now they all are!!Salmon Lovers Bundle - savings of 27% plus a BONUS 5% + FREE item if you're a subscriber! Includes: King, Sockeye, Coho + Pink Salmon all wild-caught and never-farmed from Alaska's Bering Sea.We have a lot of new people here so we'll do a quick re-introduction.Because I'm constantly keeping an eye out for the best products I can find for you guys I serendipitously stumbled upon Bering Bounty last winter and was soooo excited! I had been looking for a source of good Alaskan fish FOR YEARS but it was either crazy expensive, mostly unavailable or a logistical nightmare. But the coolest thing is that Captain Mark is a Wisconsin-ite with his own small fishing operation (so a ma & pa, like us!).He harvests wild salmon, halibut, and other fish in Alaska’s Bering Sea, which are immediately processed, vacuum-sealed and flash-frozen there and then brought back to his home state so we can all enjoy some of the world's best and cleanest protein!We are his most northern location so we drive to southern WI every other month or so to do our own re-stocking for you guys. Captain Mark & his pet Octopus (not really) battling Alaska's Bering Sea "the cradle of storms" to bring us the healthiest, cleanest and tastiest protein in the world! 🌎(and yes, even better than our 100% grassfed/finished organically raised beef since the best beef still can't beat the Omegas and other nutrients in Salmon and Sablefish.)What's included in the sale In an effort to live up to the name, we have some pretty off the hook deals ranging from a minimum of 10% off to almost 40% off! 😲 Subscribers (free to join, easy to leave) will even get a BONUS 5% off plus a FREE item for life so really it's 15 to nearly 45% off!! No pressure, I often don't make the best decisions with my (+ Andy's 😉) money so I get it (note those percentages listed above 😂) but if you like good fish at all, NOW is the BEST time to stock up and save! Available raw fish portions from Bering Bounty: King Salmon portionsSockeye Salmon portionsCoho Salmon portionsPink Salmon portionsCod portionsHalibut portionsSablefish portions Like with the beef sale we think the star of the show is going to be the Sampler Bundle and we have 3 sizes to choose from: 1 of each fish (7 portions)2 of each fish4 of each fish: ships for free/reduced, the largest savings of all the deals at 38% off (before subscription savings are added) ✨In addition to the Sampler Bundles we also have the Salmon Lovers Bundle pictured above and a White Fish Lovers bundle which includes: 4 Cod2 Sablefish2 HalibutSave 30%!We even have a Buy 3, Get 1 FREE option for: CodCohoSablefishKing Salmon CaviarMix and Match all your different favorites to get free/reduced shipping and stock your freezer! Not only do we have Bering Bounty to bring us the best raw fish, but I also found Alaska Smokehouse so we also have a source of smoked fish!And, guess what? Smoked fish doesn't need refrigeration or special shipping so we even have a few bundles and a lot of products that can be shipped anywhere!! Right now we only ship our frozen meats throughout the Midwest but smoked & tinned fish doesn't need any special shipping so we even have a few non-perishable bundles, spices, cookbooks and pet treats in our Off the Hook Fish Sale that can be shipped anywhere!For more info on how to do a work-around if our online store tells you we can't deliver to you, see this article. Sorry for the extra step, it's the best our software can offer at the moment and once it's set up, it's super easy! But, wait. There's more! In addition to the raw fish and smoked fish we included a few more products in our Off the Hook Fish Sale: ButterSalt SeasoningsCookbooksDog & Cat Treats Obviously butter, salt and seasonings need to be included, what fun is fish without those??We are so happy to have also partnered with Nordic Creamery and we LOVE their butters. We just added their Pepper Butter (won the Gold last year 🥇) to our line-up, we'll see how it performs compared to our current best-seller, their Garlic Butter (won the silver last year 🥈). May as well try them all while they are on sale! Salt & seasonings....I mean salt is my favorite so we'll always have fun options there but check out some of our seasonings and sauces if you are ready to experiment and have some fun with all your fish! Scared that you are going to screw it up because you don't really know how to cook fish? 😬We've got cookbooks! And, as usual, we'll include some of our free recipe cards too or check out the fish-specific page on our website for cooking tips (Captain Mark prefers to cook straight from the freezer!) or our Recipe Page. We aren't the only ones that love fish - dogs and cats do too! 😺So we included some fun fishy treats for dogs & cats too, starting at just $2.70 - there's no reason to leave out our best friends! 🐶 We even have fishy-treats for our 4-legged friends!! (Lots more to choose from in the farm store if you can come visit!)I hope you’re as excited about our 1st Annual Off the Hook Fish Sale as I am!If you have any hesitation or questions, simply hit reply and ask away!Your farmer & a-fish-ionado friend, Stephanie Schneider