Limehouse Produce Kicks-Off 2017 “Berry Creative” Strawberry Campaign for Charleston Area Schools 3.15.17

With local strawberry patches almost in full production, Limehouse Produce is excited to kick-off their annual Berry Creative Campaign. For the campaign, Charleston area elementary schools submit their best artwork and creative projects promoting strawberries. School classes can submit recipes, drawings, artwork, or stories all showcasing more about the popular fruit.

The Overall Winner receives a Grand Prize of 50 pounds of local strawberries, strawberry pops from King of Pops for a celebratory party, a special trophy to display at school, and an announcement on Limehouse Produce’s website. Every school that submits entries receive 10 lbs. of strawberries. The Charleston County Library Main Branch will have a special display showcasing some of the items in May.

To learn more about the “Berry Creative” Strawberry Campaign, visit www.limehouseproduce.com.

2017 Limehouse Produce Citrus Celebration Details and Deadlines 12.12.16

SEE THIS YEAR’S ENTRIES & VOTE ON YOUR FAVORITE

The holidays are in high gear, and before you know it, it will be the beginning of the year. January is prime time to showcase delicious citrus in exciting and delicious ways and is also the time for Limehouse Produce’s annual Citrus Celebration.

This year, we are asking chefs and mixologists to focus on one very special variety of fruit: the Page Mandarin. The Page is a cross between a Minneola Tangelo and a Clementine Mandarin, making it essentially ¾ mandarin and ¼ grapefruit by ancestry. The grapefruit gene gives this sweet and easy-to-peel fruit a more complex flavor that the super sweet clementine, lending itself to tart cocktails, winter salads and palate cleansing pastries.

Competitors can submit savory, sweet, or drinks utilizing the Page Mandarin and any additional citrus fruits they wish. All submissions will be posted on the Limehouse Produce website starting January 9. The public can vote on their favorites as well as go and visit the locations to order the items. They can then post photos for a chance to win a gift certificate at a winning location.

If interested in being a part of the 2017 Citrus Celebration, email angel@hometeampr.com. We will then deliver a sample of Page Mandarins to try out on week of December 19. Dish and drink details, recipes and photos are due no later than Friday, January 6 in order to have part of the website on the official kick-off on Monday, January 9.

For the Celebration, there will be a panel of judges that visit the top 5 drinks and dishes (as selected by the judges) to taste the items the week of February 20. The judges will select one winner for Best Drink and Best Dish. Each winner will be promoted on the website, social media outlets, and to the media. The restaurant with the winning dish will be featured on the back page of Charleston City’s Paper’s DIRT and the winning drink will be featured in a ½ page ad in The Local Palate. *Note: ads will be designed by Limehouse in cooperation with winning restaurants.

Interested restaurants can submit their photos and caption details to angel@hometeampr.com. We hope to have you a part and look forward to hearing from you soon!

Limehouse Produce Announces Details of 2016 Fall Cornucopia Cook-Off 9.30.16

Limehouse Produce announces details of their 2016 Fall Cornucopia Cook-Off that will take place November 11 at the Culinary Institute of Charleston. Now in its second year, the competition invites local high school culinary students to submit recipes featuring fall produce. Each student’s culinary program director selects one recipe from their school to participate. The three most compelling entries will be selected to compete in a live cook-off.

Finalists will cook their dish in front of a panel of esteemed judges including Executive Chef Michelle Weaver from Charleston Grill, Post & Courier food reporter and restaurant critic Hanna Raskin, a representative from Limehouse Produce and from the Culinary Institute of Charleston. The winner receives $125 courtesy of Feed the Need, a behind-the-scenes tour with Chef Weaver including dinner at Charleston Grill, and is featured in a Local Palate magazine ad. All finalists win cash and prizes.

Ethan Tordoff from Fort Dorchester High School was the winner of the 2015 competition. To learn more about the Fall Cornucopia Cook-Off, visit www.limehouseproduce.com. For an application and recipe form, email angel@hometeampr.com.

Limehouse Produce Announces Winners of 2016 “Berry Creative” Strawberry Campaign 4.18.16

Limehouse Produce is proud to announce the winners of the third annual “Berry Creative” Strawberry Campaign. For the campaign, area elementary schools submitted their best artwork and creative projects promoting strawberries. School classes submitted recipes, drawings, artwork, or stories all showcasing more about the popular fruit.

Limehouse received more entries than ever and decided to select a grand prize winner and to designate four categories for other winners:

• Overall 2016 Winner: Hursey Elementary: Liz Ramirez, lead teacher
• Best Art Work Project: James Simmons Elementary: Jessica Wilson, lead teacher
• Best Recipe Project: St. Andrews Math & Science Elementary: Pritchet Gibbs and Michelle “Mickie” Evans, lead teachers
• Best Hands-On Project: The Green Heart Project: Mitchell Elementary School, Sander Clyde Elementary, Meeting Street Academy, Meeting Street Elementary @ Brentwood, and Sullivan’s Island Elementary.
• Best Essay/Writing Project: Hunley Park Elementary: Joan Doran, lead teacher

As the Overall Winner, Hursey Elementary receives a Grand Prize of 100 pounds of local strawberries, a special trophy to display at school, and passes to Boone Hall Plantation to pick strawberries or to attend their annual Strawberry Festival. The four category winners receive a special trophy and 100 lbs. of strawberries. All students that enters in the competition will receive strawberries for their class to enjoy. The Charleston County Library Main Branch will have a special display showcasing some of the items in May.

2016 Citrus Celebration Winners Announced! 3.8.16

After receiving a few dozen entries for the 2016 Citrus Celebration, Limehouse Produce is excited to announce this year’s winners:

Best Dish: The Granary’s Hiser Farms Clams with Meyer Lemon, Cara Cara navel, Satsuma mandarin

Best Drink: On Forty One’s Chinese Christmas with Hat Trick Gin, satsuma juice, lime juice, star anise, lemongrass, red jalapeno simple syrup and orange bitters

It was a tough decision for the judges (all of the entries were delicious and creative) and we are excited for the winners! As winner, The Granary will have a dish featured on the side of a truck and On Forty One’s drink will be featured in the May issue of The Local Palate.

Limehouse Produce Partners with the Charleston Wine + Food Festival for Next “Find the Truck” Promotion 2.19.16

Limehouse Produce, a proud annual supporter of the Charleston Wine + Food Festival, has wrapped a delivery truck with a special festival design to celebrate and promote the 2016 event. The wrapped truck features Charleston Wine + Food’s 2016 campaign icons (including the Gastronaut – a culinary adventurer) perfectly paired with Limehouse’s signature lime, and can be seen driving around town starting today.

People that “Find the Truck” can snap a photograph and post to either the company’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Limehouse-Produce/145010405572579), on Instagram (@limehouselocal) or on the Festival’s facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/ChsWineandFood/) or Instagram (@chswineandfood) with the tag #CWFFLimeTruck. One lucky person who submits an image will be selected randomly to win a pair of tickets to the Culinary Village on Sunday. The deadline to submit photos is Friday, February 26 for consideration.

Anyone can submit photos and there is also no limit to the amount that one post to the sites. Limehouse Produce does ask that all photos are done parked and not while driving a vehicle.

Winners Announced for 2015 Tomato Trek 8.17.15

After an exciting summer filled with amazing heirloom tomato dishes, a winner has been announced for the 2015 Tomato Trek. Chef Brannon Florie of The Granary’s dish was the overall winner of this year’s competition: Geechie Boy tomatoes, watermelon radish, Daikon radish, breakfast radish, English cucumber, pickled red onion, house mozzarella, house basil, baby arugula, white balsamic, and Watermelon, Heirloom Tomatoes, Radish, Pickled Red Onion, Basil-Arugula-Mint pest, Goats Milk Feta. The dish was selected by compiling votes from a panel of judges and online votes. Florie received a special trophy to acknowledge the honor, along with 100lbs of tomatoes.

The 2015 fan vote was presented Chef Aaron Lemieux of Michael’s on the Alley who received the most online votes for his dish: Smoked Tomato, Tomato consommé  braised farro, roof top garden basil, Rosemary & green onion flowers. Lemieux received 50lbs for the win!

The participants for the amateur competition all received gift certificates to The Veggie Bin or Boone Hall Farms for their participation, and one lucky winner was selected to receive $100 gift card to The Granary just for taking a photo and tagging it with #tomatottrek.

A big thanks to everyone’s support and we look forward to another great trek in 2016!

Local Produce of the Month: Heirloom Tomatoes 7.13.15

Produce of the Month: Blueberries 6.11.15

Strawberries: Produce of the Month 3.24.15