Introducing our next big idea... Submit your favorite recipe here

The Maurer Meals Fruit Cookbook is coming together nicely, with an anticipated Fall 2013 sale date.   With the help of many friends and good cooks over the past nine months, we’ve accumulated lots of great recipes and ideas for the book, but we’re asking for your help one more time as we try to balance out our offerings.  We received many great apple and berry recipes, but some fruits are under-represented--pears, peaches, grapes, cherries, plums, and some lesser used varieties, like elderberries, chokecherries and kiwis.  If you have a recipe using one of these fruits, please submit above.  If you know of other great cooks who might like to contribute, please pass this appeal along to them.

Thanks for your continued help—and look for the Maurer fruit cookbook in the fall!

Maurer Meals Cookbook Series - Celebrating Maine Fare, but we need your help.

This cookbook is intended to showcase locally grown foods and expand the fundraising base of Maurer Meals by sharing recipes from good cooks who use locally grown foods.  Many people may not be aware that Maine has peaches, kiwis, and sweet potatoes, in addition to maple syrup, lobster and blueberries, so we’ll include some information about the history, cultivation and availability of these foods in our region.

We also want to celebrate the connections that good food can help create—the spirit of community at pot lucks, the strength of family and friends gathering around a table to share a meal, the gift of food as the “fruits” of our labors.    So, we’ll include stories about the foods from our contributors.

We invite you to participate in this first phase of the project—dedicated to Maine fruits-- by submitting a recipe or two that are favorites in your family. Please submit your recipe(s) here. THANK YOU!

Mission Statement:

To raise money for the Justin A. Maurer Memorial Scholarship at UMF while raising awareness of activities necessary to improve local community health nutritionally, economically, environmentally and spiritually.

Goals of the project:

These are the goals of the Maurer Meals project:

Participating Restaurants* in Maine:

(please phone for reservations)

Restaurant City Telephone Website
The Homestead Bakery Farmington 778-6162 homesteadbakery.com
The Sedgley Place Greene 946-5990 sedgleyplace.com
Olde Mill Tavern Harrison 583-9077 oldemilltavern.com
LaFleur’s Jay 897-2117 lafleursrestaurant.com
She Doesn't Like Guthries Lewiston 376-3344 guthriesplace.com
76 Pleasant Street Norway 744-9040 76pleasantstreet.com
Café Nomad Norway 739-2249 cafenomad.com
The Farmhouse Inn and Restaurant Rangeley 864-5805 rangeleyfarmhouseinn.com
Brian’s Bistro Rumford 364-3300 brians-bistro.com
The Bankery Skowhegan 474-2253 skowheganfleuriste.com
The Heritage House Skowhegan 474-5100 hhrestaurant.com
Kel-Mat Café Skowhegan 474-0200 www.kelmatcafe.com
Calzolaio Pasta Company Wilton 645-9500 calzolaiopasta.com

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*The University of Maine at Farmington will offer a local foods lunch in conjunction with Maurer Meals. For more information contact Patrick Anderson at anderson-patrick@aramark.com.

For more information about the Justin A. Maurer Memorial Scholarship please contact Pat Carpenter, Director of Gift Planning and Stewardship, University of Maine at Farmington, 242 Main Street, Farmington, ME 04938. Tel. 207-778-7091

To give go to University of Maine at Farmington. You will find yourself at the UMF Alumni & Development online giving form. Please choose "Other Designation" under "Designate my gift to:" and write in Justin A. Maurer Memorial Scholarship Fund. Thank you for giving.

Please share your comments and suggestions with us. Thank you.