My adventures in food, as of late, have led me to more and more restaurants that are going organic. I saw something about a new place making ice cream, so I had to go for a tasting.
Everyday Organic is celebrating their one year anniversary this month. Last year Breighanna Newnham (Brei) and her husband opened the little farmhouse country chic restaurant at Cherrydale Shopping Center by the movie theater. The couple had gone organic and were disappointed that there weren't more organic restaurant options on the Furman University side of Greenville. They remedied that situation by opening their own.
Open 11am-9pm Monday-Saturday ( closed from 2-5pm for "siesta"). The lunch menu includes daily soup specials, salads, sandwiches, wraps and paninis with a host of vegetarian and vegan options. Dishes like made from scratch spagetti and meatballs, chicken and dumplings, black bean burritos, or "breakfast for dinner" are served up for evening fare. Specials change weekly and are posted online.
(This is Brei. She's working on a catering order. You can't see it but off to the right in the kitchen is quite the collection of old fashioned aprons. Too cute.) |
See picture: mild shredded white cheddar cheese with celery, onion, pimentos and "secret sauce". The sandwich was tangy and sweet and salty... oh, so good. It was one of those food moments where the world is all good.
Dessert. Ah... the ice cream. Brei and her friend and fellow Furman grad, Moe look at the ice cream as a culinary sketchpad. They occasionally get together to try out creative, immensely tasty concoctions. Thursday is churn day, so I practically tasted the honey lavender, fig & plum, banana butter pecan, and mint chocolate brownie (fresh mint flavor, not artificial!) as they were going into the freezer.
(this is Moe) |
They change flavors every two weeks, so you are likely to get to taste Twist and Stout (made with homemade beer syrup and sour dough spelt pretzels) or Dark Chocolate Cardamom Pistacio, or Strawberry Balsamic if you are a regular. Mouth watering yet? This folks, is amazing ice cream. I'm told they make awesome milk shakes too, but that's for a return trip.
I used to drive all the way to the other side of Asheville, to fetch my favorite gourmet ice cream concoctions. No more. When you stop in, tell them I said hi!
1 comment:
I love this! The more I've blogged and learned about food, the more we walked away from foods containing high fructose corn syrup, etc. One way to guarantee HFCS hasn't made it into your food is to buy organic - there ain't nothin' organic about that stuff.
I wish we had more restaurants like that in our local area, but we're pretty spoiled with the great choices in NYC. There is one local restaurant, the Trap Rock Brewery that (yes, makes its own beer, but also-)has a whole chalkboard list of farms that the day's produce has come from. They know where all their meats come from too. It's so refreshing!
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