Garden of Life LLC is voluntarily withdrawing a limited quantity of its Raw Meal Organic Shake & Meal chocolate, original, vanilla and vanilla chai because they have the potential to contain Salmonella Virchow. Though Garden of Life routinely performs pathogen testing on every finished good lot to ensure safety and no product has ever tested positive for the presence of Salmonella, the company felt it was in the public’s best interest to take this voluntary action. Between Sept. 1, 2015 and Jan. 30, 2016, Seward Co-op may have sold nine raw meal products with lot numbers affected by this recall at both the Franklin and Friendship stores. If you purchased any of the products below at Seward Co-op during that time period, please return them to either the Franklin or Friendship store customer service desk for a full refund. The products that remain on the shelf are lot numbers unaffected by the recall.

RAW Organic Meal Chocolate (32-35 oz.) retail $57.99
UPC:0065801011593 Lot Numbers: 47198800, 47225900, 47249200, 47226000, 47226100

RAW Organic Meal Chocolate (16-17.4 oz.) retail $26.99
UPC:0065801011695 Lot Numbers:47226200, 47226201, 47247800

RAW Organic Meal (2-3 oz.) retail $5.49
UPC:0065801011553 Lot Number:47214800

RAW Organic Meal (32-35 oz.) retail $57.99
UPC:0065801011414 Lot Numbers: 47214600, 47236000, 47248901, 47246500

RAW Organic Meal (16-17.4 oz.) retail $26.99
UPC:0065801011696 Lot Number:47225800

RAW Organic Meal Vanilla (2-3 oz.) retail $5.49
UPC:0065801011612 Lot Number:47248000

RAW Organic Meal Vanilla (32-35 oz.) retail $57.99
UPC:0065801011602 Lot Numbers:47216100, 47225500, 47198601, 47225600, 47253900, 47216200, 47225601

AW Organic Meal Vanilla (16-17.4 oz.) retail $26.99
UPC:0065801011693 Lot Numbers:47226400, 47257401

Questions may be directed to Garden of Life at 1-866-465-0051, Monday-Friday between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. EST.

Wondering what to get your favorite foodie? Seward Community Co-op offers gift cards that may be purchased and used at any of our three locations–Co-op Creamery Café, Franklin, or Friendship Store. Gifts cards can be purchased over the phone from our stores, and in-person at the Café.

If you would like the gift card mailed to you or the recipient, please call either of our stores and ask for Customer Service. The phone number to the Franklin store is 612.338.2465 or 612.230.5595 for Friendship store. All we need is, the desired amount on the gift card and the debit or credit card to which to charge the purchase in order to process payment. The card can then either be mailed to you or the recipient, or picked up at the store that was called.

Our Co-op Creamery Café offers in-person gift card sales. If you wish to purchase a Seward Co-op gift card at the café, please speak to someone at the register or to your server.

It may not feel like spring yet, but that doesn’t matter to L.T.D Farm ducks and geese.

Our friends at L.T.D. reported a week ago that, in defiance of the Upper Midwest polar vortex, their ducks were laying. Last year, L.T.D.’s ducks laid much later, so we presumed here at the big green co-op that we wouldn’t see their duck or goose eggs till the Seward CSA Fair or so.

“We were so excited that they started laying early this year,” Khaiti French said told us when she made the delivery today.

Khaiti brought a quick, first shot of duck and goose eggs today, and, for now, the only place you can get them is Seward Co-op — as fresh as you can get, short of living on LTD Farm.

If you’ve never cooked with duck or goose eggs before, you should give it a whirl. These eggs are thicker, heavier in consistency and are much richer. You’ll have to adjust your recipe or proportions if you want to switch out hen eggs for duck/goose eggs because their bigger, too ( a goose egg is roughly the size of your fist). Also, be prepared to use some muscle cracking these eggs, as the shells are much thicker.

Recipe: Hole-in-the-Wall Breakfast

This one’s great for kids who might need a little wooing when it comes to trying ducks eggs, which are richer and heavier than the hen eggs they’re used to.

Ingredients:

1 duck egg

1 slice of bread

2 strips bacon or 2 Seward Maple Sausages

Butter for the pan

salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

– Fry the sausages/bacon as usual

– With a drinking glass, cut out a hole in the slice of bread

– Place a pan on medium-low heat. Put in the butter (or butter the bread, both sides). Let your kid eat the bread circle. Place the bread-slice in the pan when the butter is melted and crack the duck egg into the hole you made with the glass. When the duck looks almost done, and before the bread is too brown, flip it and fry till finished.

Serve with bacon or sausages criss-crossed over the duck egg.

The co-op is even greener this weekend, as we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Look for special St. Paddy’s features around the store.

• Irish cheeses: Irish Harp cheddar – Maple Leaf Co-op, Monroe Wisc.; Dubliner cheddar – Kerrygold, Ireland; Cahill’s Irish cheddar with whiskey – Ireland; Cahill’s Irish cheddar with porter – Ireland
• Meat & Seafood: find corned beef and cabbage in the meat case. Call ahead with your order (612-338-2465), since this is a popular item!

  

• Bakery: Irish whiskey cake, soda bread and Irish cream cream puffs

Sunday, March 17, the Deli hot bar will feature a special St. Paddy’s Day-themed menu
Corned beef
Garlic mashed potatoes with poultry gravy
Smoked salmon potato cakes
Toasted barley pilaf with portabella mushrooms
Greens with turnips, rutabaga and almonds
Colcannon
Mustard braised cabbage

Friday, March 15 – Sunday, March 17: Look for special demos throughout the store, featuring our Bakery’s own soda bread and Irish cheeses from the Cheese department.