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Indulge Local: Fabrique Délices

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Fabrique Délices is a traditional French charcuterie company in Hayward, California that has been preparing time-honored classics alongside innovative new products for over 30 years. With an extensive product line that includes blood sausage, duck confit and country pâtés, Fabrique Délices produces over 3,000 pounds a day. They only use equipment to grind and mix ingredients and then everything is made by hand! As a fantastic centerpiece for charcuterie plates, Fabrique Délices artisanal pâtés and mousses are a perfect way ..read more

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Specialties

Tips for Boiling Eggs

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While the options for coloring and decorating eggs are endless, you always need to start with the same canvas: a hardboiled egg.

Here are a few tips to make sure your eggs come out perfect each time, whether you’re getting ready to decorate them for Easter or just have a craving for some egg salad:

Use room temperature eggs (out of refrigeration for 1 hour). Use eggs that are a week old. Using a non-reactive pot prevents yolks from turning color. Boiling an egg starting ..read more
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St Paddy’s Day Beer Pick

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Thinking of stocking your fridge with Guinness? Yes, yes, Guinness is a great choice for St. Paddy’s and no St. Paddy’s should be without a Guinness. HOWEVER, this year, it’s time to try something new, Strike Colossus Red Ale. This award winning best seller is fashioned after an Irish Red. A malt-forward ale, it has a touch of roasted character from a small addition of roasted grains.

Strike Brewing Company is located right in our backyard—San Jose, California. Treat yourself to a fresh, locally ..read more

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Butcher, Uncategorized

Indulge Local: Roberts Shamrock Brand Corned Meats

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Made in San Francisco since 1910, Roberts Corned Meats is the oldest corned beef company in San Francisco! Savor the flavor of a great St. Paddy’s Day tradition: table tender mild cured corned beef brisket. Their corned beef is truly a cut above the rest in taste and in tenderness. The Dixon family’s Great Great Grandfather George Henry Roberts came to San Francisco from New Zealand and brought his corned beef expertise with him. George’s family had owned a corned ..read more

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Introducing Ruby Tango Mandarin Oranges

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Ruby Tangos are a hybrid of a Clemenules Mandarin and a Blood Orange. Inside this sweet seedless, easy-to-peel fruit is a beautiful vibrant red citrus.  They’re slightly larger than common mandarins varieties and are EXTREMELY juicy.

This specialty citrus variety is grown on local family farms in California. These farms practice respectable and responsible farming to minimize their impact on the environment.

Find Ruby Tangos at your local Mollie Stone’s! Available from now until April.

Enjoy.

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Produce, Specialties

Vegan Banana Nut Muffins

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Don’t know what to do with your overripe bananas? Well wait a minute, don’t toss them! They’re the best kind of bananas for baking banana nut muffins. These are so simple, you might even be able to bake some in the morning before work! Ingredients Makes 1 dozen muffins

3 ½ extra ripe bananas ¼ cup Earth Balance vegetable margarine 1 cup organic cane sugar ½ cup soy or almond milk 2 cups all-purpose flour ¾ teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 cup chopped walnuts

Directions 25 minutes

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Indulge Local: Raymond’s Sourdough Bread

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Raymond’s family business began in 1978, when his parents bought a small delicatessen in San Mateo, California. They named it Nick’s Deli. With the little experience his older brother Nick had from summer delicatessen jobs – and the love and respect their parents taught them; they learned to offer an excellent meal at a very fair price, and to treat their customers as part of our family.

Their family all worked hard to get the business off the ground. They went around to ..read more

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Introducing belicious Whole Food Blends: At the Intersection of a Healthy, Mobile Lifestyle

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Do you have a love/hate relationship with your blender?  Do you ever wish you could just grab your favorite concoction out of the fridge and take it with you, without the hassle of making it yourself?  Well, with belicious whole food blends, now you can!

Belicious founder and CEO, Heidi Huntsman, felt exactly that way.  Tired of constantly stocking fresh fruit and veggies, combined with the hassle of having to clean the blender “while it’s fresh”, she decided to do something ..read more

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Celebrating 30 Years: A Letter To Our Customers

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We are proudly celebrating our 30th anniversary as a family owned local business.

We started the company in 1986 as a natural foods store and named it after my mother, Mollie, who worked in grocery her entire life. Her passion for the industry inspired me to start my own market 30 years ago.

Our goal was to bring local and organic food to our community and to make a difference in people’s lives through food. As time went ..read more

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Indulge Local: Bob’s Red Mill

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Bob’s passion for health & belief in taking care of one another shows in the quality of one of the largest lines of organic, whole grain foods in the country.

Bob’s Red Mill believes in the power of whole grains & manufactures their products using time-honored techniques, like grinding whole grains at cool temperatures with a traditional stone mill. Unlike high-speed steel rollers, their stone mills ensure the most nutritious parts of the whole grain remain, so they can pack ..read more

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