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Where to Get Your Thanksgiving Staples in Princeton

Griggstown Farm Market has a variety of turkey and poultry options for your Thanksgiving table.

November 11, 2019 By Rachel Fullan

The holidays are upon us! Whether you are looking for a full holiday catered-affair — or want to shop for local ingredients, like turkey or poultry, vegetables and more, we have it covered. See below for local options to make your Thanksgiving delicious and memorable.

CATERING OPTIONS:

Brick Farm Market

130 Hopewell-Rocky Hill Road

Hopewell

Brick Farm Market is offering a delicious menu of traditional favorites — along with some exciting new plates. You can order a complete Thanksgiving meal — or pick pieces to bring home. Orders need to be placed no later than Saturday, 11/23.

Appetizers include options like Almond Stuffed Bacon Wrapped Dates, Butternut Squash and Apple Empanadas and a Hummus Platter. Salads, charcuterie platters and cheese platters round out a meal. You can order Turkeys or Ham, as well as a root vegetable smash, spinach parmesan, maple glazed sweet potatoes, roasted local fall squash and more. There are also bakery desserts like Red Barn ice cream, deep dish pies and cheesecakes.

Order here https://securepayment.link/brickfarmmarket/

McCaffrey’s

Princeton Shopping Center

301 N. Harrison Street

Princeton

McCaffrey’s offers a large variety of Thanksgiving staples, available by the person or a la carte. Options include a complete Thanksgiving dinner for 12-14, with all-natural whole turkey, mashed potatoes, herbed bread stuffing, sweet potato bake, green beans almondaine, gravy, cranberry compote, dinner rolls, an apple cranberry pecan tart and a deep dish pecan pie. There are also sides and desserts available a la carte to add to your Thanksgiving feast.

You can order, no later than Sunday, 11/24 at 5PM by phone, in-store or online. All orders must be picked up Thanksgiving Day by 12PM. The store closes at 2PM on Thanksgiving for all of your last-minute shopping. You can find a full menu here: https://mccaffreys.com/departments/prepared-foods/seasonal-favorites/.

Emily’s Cafe and Catering

9 North Main Street

Pennington

Emily’s Cafe & Catering is offering Thanksgiving dishes you can pick up between 11Am-3PM on Wednesday, 11/27. Orders must be places no later than November 21.

Emily’s offers an Ala Carte Menu of items like Appetizers (a cheese board, shrimp cocktail, pastry encrusted raspberry brie and spinach dip), Mains (Whole Ready to roast brined turkey, apple sausage stuffing or classing stuffing, cranberry orange relish, maple whipped sweet potatoes, caramelized brussels sprouts and more. They also offer apple pie, pumpkin pie, pecan tart, apple cranberry crumble and pumpkin chocolate chip bars for dessert.

Order here https://emilyscafeandcatering.com/ThanksgivingMenu2019.pdf

LOCAL TURKEYS, VEGETABLES & BAKED GOODS:

Terhune Orchards

330 Cold Soil Road

Princeton

Make your Thanksgiving turkey shine by surrounding it with farm fresh produce from Terhune Orchards. They've grown all of the produce you need – potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, winter squash and greens. Most are certified organic. Thinking of serving a green salad? They have seven kinds of lettuces to choose from. They’re also picking fresh spinach, kale, Swiss chard and brussels sprouts. Festoon your table with a cornucopia of colorful squashes winter squash varieties including delicata, acorn, blue hubbard, butternut, kabocha, sweet dumpling and orange hubbards. They look fantastic as decorations and taste terrific in soups, salads, side dishes and even desserts.

Griggstown Farm

484 Bunker Hill Rd

Princeton

The Griggstown Quail farm began in 1975 raising chicken, quail and pheasant for sale to restaurants. In 2002 a market with a USDA kitchen was opened on the farm to sell poultry and prepared food to the public. As a result Griggstown continues to enhance their offerings to include their famous pot pies (like chicken, turkey, beef, vegetarian and shepherd’s pie); fruit pies, soups (like Lentil Bean, Chicken Vegetable with Orzo, French Onion, Minestrone, Potato Leek, Wild Mushroom, Tomato and Butternut Squash, to name a few) and many other quality foods for health oriented people.

You can order your Thanksgiving Turkey and Side Dishes from the Griggstown Farm Market here: https://griggstownfarm.com/pages/order-page. You can pick the location (the Griggstown Farm Store, Flemington Market, Bernardsville Market or Headhouse Market) and pick from traditional white broad breasted turkey or an all-natural, free-range, heirloom turkey (red bourbon), boneless turkey breast, Muscovy duck, capon, goose, jumbo quail or Chinese ringneck pheasant. u jus turkey gravy with fresh herbs and cranberry sauce are available, along with soups like butternut squash, wild mushroom and sweet potato. Add on pies like pumpkin, pecan or sweet potato.

Terra Momo Bread Company

74 Witherspoon Street

Princeton

Terra Momo Bread Company is offering a variety of delicious baked goods for your Thanksgiving Table. With items like: pumpkin pie, cranberry cheesecake, pecan cranberry caramel tart, flourless chocolate cake, rustic chocolate cake or a baked fruit tart with frangipane filling in apricot, pear, peach or apple — make it hard to pick just one. Orders need to be placed no later than Sunday, 11/24 and you can pick up your treats Wednesday, 11/17 from 6AM-6PM or Thursday, 11/28 from 6AM-1PM.

Dutch Farmers Market

19 Commerce Street

Flemington

With vendors like Becca’s Bakery, Beiler’s Cheese & Pickles, Dutch Country Produce, Esh’s Seafood & Salads, Lancaster County Meats and Stoltzfus Fresh & BBQ Poultry, there is a wide array of goods to add to your Thanksgiving table. Stoltzfus is taking orders for all-natural fresh, cooked or smoked turkeys for Thanksgiving available in 10-30lbs. Pick up is Tuesday, 11/26 or Wednesday, 11/27. You can call 908-806-8676 to place your order.

The market will be open Tuesday, 11/26 from 10AM-6PM; Wednesday, 11/27 from 9AM-5PM and will be closed on Thanksgiving.