Author: Tim Bratton

Produce, Recipes

Twice Baked Potatoes with Hatch Chiles and California Avocados

Original recipe by California Avocado Commission

Ingredients: Makes 4 servings

4 large potatoes, baked 2 ripe, Fresh California Avocados, seeded and peeled 1 cup nonfat Greek yogurt 1 Hatch Chile, roasted, seeded, peeled and chopped 1 teaspoon salt 1/4 cup minced chives 1/2 cup shredded Cheddar cheese Hatch Chile powder to taste

Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Deli

Introducing our New Grilled Cheeses, Mollie Melts

You know what goes great with a foggy chilly San Francisco day—a Mollie Melt. Who doesn’t love an oozing tasty grilled cheese sandwich?

Our Executive Chef experimented to find the very best Mollie Melt flavor combos and then grilled these sandwiches to perfection. They’re now available at all Mollie Stone’s Markets locations except Sausalito.

Have one of these masterpieces for your next meal: 

Kids, Uncategorized

Back to School Essentials for Packing Lunches

Summer is winding down and the kids are headed back to school. Make sure you’re sending your kids back to school packed with healthy lunches and snacks. We’ve got a few items in stock that’ll help make that happen:

1. PackIt Freezable Lunch Bags

You’ll never need ice packs for lunch bags again. These PackIt lunch bags have built-in freezable gel. Put the entire bag in your freezer overnight. By morning the bag will be ready to chill like a fridge and ..read more

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Hatch Chile Guacamole Eggs Benedict

Ingredients: Makes 4 servings

(Melissa’s Guacamole) 2 ripe, Fresh California Avocado, seeded, peeled and diced 1 lime, juiced 1 Roma Tomato, ends trimmed: diced 1 clove peeled garlic, minced 1 shallot, minced 1 teaspoon Melissa’s Hot Hatch Chile Powder As needed salt and pepper

(California Avocado Commission Eggs Benedict) 2 teaspoon vinegar 8 large eggs 8 whole wheat English muffins, split 1 cup crumbled queso fresco As needed minced cilantro, for garnish

Specialties, Uncategorized

New Local Products Worth a Try

Winner of a gold medal at the Sonoma County Harvest Fair, this healthy granola was created by 3 friends and is produced in Sebastopol, CA.  It is wheat free, dairy free, and salt free, all natural and delicious.

Made from her grandmother’s recipe, San Rafael resident Kara Romanik has made some amazing pies.  Available as a whole pie or “pocket size”, they are free of preservatives.  Therefore, the pies are sold frozen and are delicious hot out of the oven.  Flavors of ..read more

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Win a Buster Posey Jersey from BODYARMOR Sports Drinks

Summer is in full swing, the kids are out of school and the weather is heating up – and that means it’s time to think about hydration for your young athletes! BODYARMOR is a premium sports drink with potassium-packed electrolytes, coconut water and vitamins with natural flavors and sweeteners.

BODYARMOR is the drink of choice for many of the top professional athletes in the country as well, including Buster Posey – so give BODYARMOR sports drink a try this summer!  Text ..read more

Specialties

Why is Using Bones in Your Soup Important?

When we were kids and my grandmother was making soup, she would take meat or chicken bones and boil them for hours with favorite vegetables.  The house smelled great on those Friday afternoons when Grandma was brewing her chicken soup for our Friday night dinners with family.  No one even thought of getting a box of manufactured broth from the store, well, couldn’t, in fact.

Whenever someone was sick in our family, chicken soup was the cure.  Tradition tells us that ..read more

Butcher, Uncategorized

Candied Bacon

  Surprise Dad with some homemade Bacon Candy for Father’s Day! We’ve been seeing Candied Bacon literally everywhere! It’s all the rage! One of our employees stumbled across this Bourbon Candied Bacon recipe by The Proof that she really likes and just had to share with the rest of the world. It seriously looks AMAZING. You can serve it at brunch with some waffle and eggs, or if you’re feeling like living dangerously, we’d even eat it on it’s own.

Butcher, Uncategorized

Introducing Man Cave Meats

Man Cave Craft Meats started in the Minneapolis Farmers Market peddling a few styles of brats and burgers. Inspired by craft beer, they became the pioneers for the craft meat movement. They tested hundreds of recipes to find the perfect combination of unique flavors in the products you can find in our stores today.

More of a Double IPA than light brown water, Man Cave Craft Meats has become the “craft beer of the meat department.” A heavy emphasis is placed ..read more

Specialties, Uncategorized

Indulge Local: Columbus Foods

“Columbus Foods is proud to say that we have been a part of Mollie Stones since the day they opened 30 years ago.  As a local company it is especially meaningful when a company such as theirs that prides itself on “the best of the best” continues to support the Columbus Brand as a part of their product offerings.

Thank you Mollie Stones and continued success for many years to come.”

-Jim Bauman, Business Director

Columbus has been committed to crafting great-tasting salami ..read more