The frost this morning was so thick it looked like it had snowed lightly over the fields and trees. It was almost 40 degrees and humid at an early bird hour of 5 a m when we woke to load the van for our first turkey delivery of the season. The Thursday trip this week in divided in half so luckily we were able to practice on a smaller load. There is another trip on Saturday.  The extra freezer space we need to manage four groups of boxes from Stonewood Farm is substantial.

Creamed Sweet Potatoes w/ Roasted Figs

- (at least) 4 medium to large Sweet Potatoes/ yams
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 2 tbsp. butter
- 6 to 8 oz. of fresh Black Mission figs (approximately 8 figs)

Pear Ginger Oatmeal muffins

3/4 cup white flour
3/4 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup oatmeal
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
2 eggs
1/2 cup or a little more applesauce
6 medium pears chopped
candied ginger to taste

preheat oven to 350 degrees

combine dry ingredients in one bowl. Combine egg, applesauce and oil in large bowl and add dry ingredients, then chopped pears and ginger.
bake until lightly browned on top, about 15-20 min.

Unfortunately, Lewis Waite had an issue with the turkey orders. Please see their message below for instructions on confirming that your order was correctly processed:

IF YOU HAVE PLACED A HOLIDAY TURKEY ORDER BEFORE OCT 14TH, you can use the PLACE AN ORDER menu choice as usual to place a new order for the additional items you want. If you already have an order for additional items, use the menu choice SEE MY EXISTING ORDERS to add other items as usual until your order deadline. Your orders are intact and were not changed.