The Memorial Day Weekend is here and we’re ready to kick off summer on the right foot! alter Stewart’s is your local shopping destination for the best of summer!
Continue readingKicking Off Summer
Fired Up for Grilling Season!
We’re celebrating the grilling season by offering the best cookout ingredients at one shopping destination!
Continue readingFirsts of the Season
It is the season of renewal and the time to celebrate many “firsts.” The first flowers blooming. The first barbecues. And the first of the season for many of your favorite fruits and vegetables.
Continue readingEaster Candies & Chocolates
Fill your Easter baskets with the finest gourmet candies and handcrafted chocolates and take your Easter egg hunt to a whole new delicious level with eye-poppingly-colorful foil wrapped eggs. Walter Stewart’s is your local source for the best selection of Easter candies, treats and decor!
Walter Stewart’s will be closed Easter Sunday.
Featured Cheese: Jasper Hill Creamery Harbison
Award-winning Harbison farmstead cheese from Jasper Hill Creamery is a bark-wrapped bloomy-rind cheese with woodsy, sweet, herbal, and bright flavors. The bark, cut from Jasper Hill Farm’s woodlands in Greensboro, Vermont, holds the delicate cheese together, provides flavor to the creamy paste, and allows for an ideal presentation as the centerpiece of a cheese plate. Aged 3-6 weeks, this Jasper Hill original cheese is soft-ripened with a rustic, bloomy rind.
HARBISON is named for Anne Harbison, affectionately known as the grandmother of Greensboro. Along with breathtaking views, traditions and people are part of what makes Vermont’s working landscape special; we’re proud to honor Ms. Harbison’s contribution with this cheese.
SENSORY NOTES – Harbison is a soft-ripened cheese with a rustic, bloomy rind. Young cheeses are wrapped in strips of spruce cambium, the tree’s inner bark layer, harvested from the woodlands of Jasper Hill. The spoonable texture begins to develop in our vaults, though the paste continues to soften on the way to market. Harbison is woodsy and sweet, balanced with lemon, mustard, and vegetal flavors.
PAIRING AND SERVICE – Harbison is a great excuse to gather a few friends and scoop into a decadent treat. When a bit younger, the bark can be peeled away for sliced portioning. If the bark has fused with a more loosened paste, then the best approach is to leave the bark intact and spoon out portions from the top. Pair with oaked white wine, or barrel-aged sour beer. Fruit mostarda and crusty bread make nice accompaniments.
Peak Season Winter Citrus: Red MandaRosas
If you’re looking for the perfect piece of citrus to liven up the winter doldrums, Red MandaRosas are the mandarin for you. A blood orange and mandarin cultivar, these Sicilian-created and California-grown sweet, juicy globes, are just waiting to be added to salads, cocktails, vinaigrettes & desserts. The flavor and internal colors of this variety vary and change as the fruit matures, very much like blood oranges, with some fruit having red/purple pigment & others more reddish orange.Sure the weather may be dreary but it’s peak season for so many delicious citrus varieties! Enjoy two of our favorite navel oranges: Heirlooms and Cara Caras! The large juicy Heirloom is ultra-sweet with an amazing old world taste. With plentiful low-acid juice and little or no seeds, Caras are one of the most popular of all navels!
Shop Stewart’s for all of your favorite peak season Winter Citrus varieties:
Red Mandarosas Heirloom Navels, Clementines, Cara Caras, Navel Oranges, Organic Navel Oranges, Organic Tangelos, White Grapefruits, Pink Grapefruits, Star Ruby Grapefruits, and more.
Featured Local Cheese: Arethusa Bella Bantam
Bella Bantam With the comforting aromas of fresh, buttered popcorn, Bella Bantam is supple and creamy, making it the perfect snack time staple. Bella Bantam, a toma-style, open textured cheese. Mild, sweet and tangy, an easy-eating cheese, great for melting.
AGE: 1-4 MONTHS
PAIRINGS: BELGIAN FARMHOUSE ALES (NORBROOK FARM BREWERY SAISON), CHARDONNAYS (PAUL HOBBS CROSSBARN OR DECOY SONOMA CHARD)
Arethusa Farm Dairy
Bantam, CT
In 1996 two ex-executive at Manolo Blahnik footwear, Anthony Yugaitis and George Makelmus purchased a century old horse farm across the road from their home in Litchfield, CT, and decided to revive the original dairy that stood in that spot a century before. They started out selling milk from their herd of Jersey, Brown Swiss, and Holstein cows which later evolved into a cheese-making venture. They use only milk from their highly pampered, purebred cows. They pride themselves on providing the absolute highest level of care for their animals and like to say “Great milk comes from great cows, and great cows come from Arethusa”.
Fresh Arrivals: Frog Hollow Farm Apricots, Cherries, Peaches. . .
A welcomed sign of summer is the arrival of first of the season produce delicacies! Now available at Walter Stewart’s: Frog Hollow Farm Organic Apricots, Cherries, Peaches, and White Nectarines!
Summer’s Berry Early Arrival!
Our local summer has started! One of our favorite signs of summer is the arrival of fresh picked CT Strawberries from Pell Farms. Shop Local, Shop Summer, Shop Stewart’s!
We will continue to post updates to our site as we receive more and more deliveries of your favorite summer fare fresh from the best local farms!
Fresh Arrivals: Jersey Fresh Asparagus & Kale | California Stone Fruits
With spring in full swing and summer fast approaching, every day we receive first of the season produce delicacies! Now available at WSM: Jersey Fresh Kale, Asparagus, and Bunched Beets; as well as your favorite California Stone Fruits: Organic Peaches, Nectarines, Plums, Cherries and more! With more varieties arriving daily!
