Attention bargain hunters, and attention local residents in eastern Lancaster County – here are some coupons for the newly reset Kauffman’s Fruit Farm & Market that will make your winter shopping a pleasure!

Click the link to download a PDF document and print it using your printer. Cut out a coupon, bring it in to our market… and enjoy:

• More-customer-friendly travel throughout the market
• Many more products
• Better, more logical product grouping
• Easier checkout

We think you’ll like it! See you soon. Don’t forget, the coupons are only good in February and March, 2012.

Kauffman’s Fruit Farm is happy to announce that our farm market along Rt. 340 in Bird-in-Hand has undergone quite a drastic renovation and product reset. In order to get additional product displays, a more customer friendly layout, and faster checkout time, we’ve added better doors, moved the checkout counters, moved some shelving, and added refrigerator space and quite a bit additional shelving.

We have been open through the entire process, and thank our friendly customers for their patronage during the renovation. Our store is better and bigger than ever, and we look forward to your comments and to serving you in our greater capacity!

Tonight my wife and I hosted my parents and siblings for the evening. We ate in style, with my wife showing her skills in supplying a meal fit for a king… sorry, president, seeing we live in the USA.

Before finishing our family Christmas celebrations, we feasted on chicken wings, salad, and El Salvador rice, which received quite a few compliments. Made with white rice, chicken base, and sauteed vegetables, it’s a flavorful (and healthy) piece of the puzzle in a well-rounded meal.

Another dish that’s often served on New Year’s is sauerkraut, a type of pickled cabbage. Some people like it sour, and others prefer to have it more sweet. If you prefer it sweet, simply add brown sugar till it suits your tastebuds.

Ok, so why not try your hand at it? You still have the whole winter; even if the holidays are past, who says it has to be served around the holidays? Try sauerkraut anytime and enjoy healthy, tasty eating all through 2012!

Around Christmas and New Years’ Day there is always a lot of wonderful food.  We are blessed!  One delicious Christmas dish is “roasht”, sometimes called stuffing or dressing.  It consists of bread, veggies, and chicken, and is best served with a gravy. One of the most popular gravy flavors is chicken gravy.

The Amish and Mennonites are really good at making homemade chicken gravy. For those of us that want a quality gravy mix, here is a good selection.

Winter weather, bring it on! At least if you have hot drinks to go with it…. And in Kauffman’s bulk food department, they’ve got the hot drinks to get you all supplied and fortified against the next nor’easter. With 7 cappuccino flavors, 2 chai flavors, and 3 hot chocolate flavors, all made locally, of course, you will have almost two week’s worth of new drinks if you drink one flavor each day!

Stephanie says her favorite flavors are French vanilla, Swiss mocha, and espresso cream. Order yours today!

Last week, my wife and I enjoyed a super meal at our local Chinese buffet. One of my favorite dishes there is pork fried rice. While not normally a rice fan, this stuff, with its pork flavor and pork bits, along with tiny pieces of veggies, all mixed in with quality rice, is really top-of-the-line.

Add pork fried rice to the list of improvements to life that have come from southeast Asia: cars, computer technology, some of the latest smartphones, some of the world’s top scientists… and food!

Yes, it is the eve of Christmas Eve, so it may seem too late to be talking about a gift item. But, considering that lots of people have their Christmas party after Christmas, and considering that this is a bulk food blog, here goes.

If any of these statements apply…

1. You like nuts, or know someone who does
2. You enjoy buying gifts not in excess of $20
3. You don’t mind, or even enjoy, shopping online
4. You have family members or friends that would enjoy a day-brightener
5. You like food

… then you should take the time to check out the Nutty Niceties Gift Tray, a beautiful, inexpensive gift available exclusively from Kauffman’s Fruit Farm in Bird-in-Hand for less than $12! But don’t wait too long! It’s a seasonal item and will eventually disappear from our website and retail market, but it will appear again during the 2012 holidays.

Just like 2 + 2 = 4, so mulling spices added to hot fruit drinks make for a very pleasant, very healthy hot drink. Whether it’s a winter evening or a lazy winter afternoon or a brisk, chilly morning at 9 a.m. when you’re trying to get work done… hot mulled drinks really are very pleasant. They typically have no caffeine, plus have the natural benefits of fruity healthiness. The mulling spice’s natural ingredients (usually mostly cinnamon) add a pleasing aroma and taste without being negative health-wise.

You can use apple cider, cranberry cider, cranberry juice, cherry cider, pineapple juice, or any of a lot of other fruit juice possibilities for the hot juice part. Add the mulling spices, and you’ve got a final product you can drink with pleasure. Many of these ingredients (apple cider, cranberry cider, mulling spice bags) can be purchased here.

This one’s great for children! A newer item, but one loved by everyone, especially little people – Dried Tropical Fruit Salad. Norman’s (one of five company owners) oldest grandchild, Jevon, loves this stuff, which has 7 different dried fruits.

Ingredients include the following dried fruits: strawberries, cantaloupe, kiwi, pineapples, papaya, star fruit, mango.