Category: Food and Recipes

We’re wrapping it up!

Well, just one more week until the end of the Monroe Farmers Market for Food Jules. Since, after school enrichment cooking programs will be starting in just a couple of weeks, next Friday will be our last day at the market. So, stop over today or next week for our grand finale!

Today, our specials include Chicken Empanadas and Spinach and Cheese Empanadas. We’ll also have Blueberry Lemon Muffins and Coffee Cake Muffins as well as our famous Banana Blueberry Bread and Lemon Yogurt Bread. Also, as our special little sweet treat, we are introducing the Chocolate Zucchini Fudge Cookie!!! These are soooo chocolately and so good for you!

chocolate cookie

And as always, we have our Organic Jams, Hot Fudge Sauce and Granola! Stop hope to you see later today. Enjoy the beautiful day today.

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Little bites of sweetness!

Mmmmmm these little Granola Bites are so yummy and a quick, easy snack idea for kids and adults. They are rich of healthy, all natural ingredients too from oats to flax seed and wheat germ with a little sweet treat, chocolate chips. Your kids will want to take them to school every day!

We’re still going strong at the Monroe Farmers Market and what a beautiful day for the market. Today’s feature presentations are Blueberry Muffins and Chocolate Banana Muffins, as well as Maple Oatmeal Scones, Banana Blueberry Bread, Zucchini Coconut Bread and Chocolate Cheesecake Cupcakes.

We’ll also have our beloved Empanadas and today’s include a vegetarian option with our Spinach and Cheese Empanadas, as well as our classic, Turkey Empanadas. Hope to see you all there!

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August 31st Specials

On Friday, August 31st, Food Jules will be at the Monroe Farmers Market with our famous savory and sweet treats.

We’ll have our most popular Chicken and Turkey Empanadas, as well as our Banana Blueberry Bread, Zucchini Bread, Maple Oatmeal Scones, Blueberry Crumb Muffins, Pumpkin Muffins and Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Hope to see you there!

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Friday, August 24th

We’re back from a short vacation at the Jersey Shore. Boy, was it so nice to just soak in the sun and hear the ocean waves at the beach. I really think I was born to live at the beach and do nothing else, well except cook and drink wine!

Tomorrow, we’ll be at the Monroe Farmers Market on the town green from 3-6pm offering all of our delicious jams, hot fudge sauce, granola and baked goodies. Here’s a list of what we’ll have tomorrow….

For our Sweet Goodies… we’ll have Apple Pie Crumb Muffins, Blueberry Lemon Muffins, Cranberry Orange Scones, Banana Blueberry Bread, Lemon Yogurt Bread, Zucchini Bread and Chocolate Fudge Cookies.

For our Savory… we’ll have our most popular Chicken Empanadas, Turkey Empanadas and Arancini di Riso (Risotto Balls). If you want these, be sure to get there early as we usually sell out within the first 1/2 hour.

Chicken Empanadas

Hope to see you there!

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Featuring the Apple Pie Crumb Muffin

One of our most popular and favorite muffins, the Apple Pie Crumb, is being featured in this week’s issue of the online town newsletter, Eye on Monroe. This muffin is so soft and moist with a sweet, crunchy streusel topping, no wonder it’s our best seller with kids and adults!

The key ingredient to this muffin is our Food Jules Organic Apple Pie Jam which gives it its sweetness and “apple pie” flavors of cinnamon, brown sugar and nutmeg. This Apple Pie Jam is also one of my most popular jams. People are always so pleasantly surprised at how much it really DOES taste like Apple Pie, hence its name. If you haven’t tried it or any of our Organic Jams, stop by the Monroe Farmers Market, every Friday from 3-6pm, to pick up your own jar and taste it for yourself!

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It’s a Strawberry Party!

I have to say that my all time favorite fruit is the Strawberry. It is so sweet and delicious and when it’s in season, it just melts in your mouth. We have been eating strawberries like they are going out of style!

When it comes to strawberries, we buy organic as much as possible. They are one of the top 10 foods that are sprayed with tons of pesticides but to be honest, they just taste better too! Seriously, the kids and I conducted a taste test between the conventional strawberry and the organic strawberry and time and time again, the organic strawberry won for the most sweet, delicious flavor. So it’s not only better for you but it actually does taste sweeter too!

Well, since we’ve had pounds and pounds of them in our fridge each week, we experimented with a couple different crisp/crumbles.. I just love the combination of sweet fruit and a sweet, crumble topping. We’ve made both STRAWBERRY RHUBARB CRISP and a STRAWBERRY AND PEACH CRUMBLE. They were both so amazing that we incorporated these delicious recipes into our cooking classes and the kids LOVED them. I mean what’s not to love, they are super yummy.

You might be wondering, as we were, what is the difference between a crisp, a crumble and a cobbler? Well, to put it in simple terms, a crisp and crumble are pretty much the same thing, a flour and sugar streusel topping. However, a cobbler includes pie dough so it’s a closer cousin to a type of pie. That’s basically it in a nutshell.

Anyway, our classes this summer are all about eating local, in season produce to take advantage of the bountiful amount of vegetables and fruits that are growing in our local gardens right now and enjoy the wonderful flavor of it all, as well as support our local farmers.

So, go to your local farmers market, pick up some gorgeous strawberries and make these sweet, delicious crumbles and serve them with a heaping scoop of cold, vanilla ice cream and you will be sure to thank me as you take each and every single bite! Enjoy!

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