re: holiday menu

Holiday menu is now available.  Remember to order early.  Almost all the Christmas cookies are out and available:  Italian Christmas Cookies, German Spice Cookies, Spritz Cookies, Raspberry Almond Rings, Gingerbread, Sugar Cookies, and the famous Wreath Cookies.  Butter cookies and Holiday rainbow cookies will be out later this week!!!  

re: food inc

Everyone in this country should watch this movie...learn how/why/where you food is coming from and why you should not eat at mcdonalds, why you shouldn't buy organic food at walmart, etc.   Probably why most of america should be a vegetarian, although if you read enough even corporate vegetables are awful.

Thanksgiving

thanksgiving is fast approaching...don't wait until the last minute to orders...soon we will stop taking orders and you will have to come in on wednesday and hope for the best...

thanksgiving menu is out!!

The thanksgiving menu is out and orders are pouring in...don't wait to the last minute.  This year we are offering assorted sides, gravy, rolls, breakfast items, traditional pies, tarts, cheesecake, cookies, and turkey cupcakes. Come in to pick up your copy.

Gobble, gobble, gobble...

Premiering tomorrow....thanksgiving turkey cookies...come check them out and all of our great fall items..

3 50 project

Great Book

Currently reading Farm City the education of an urban farmer by novella carpenter...EXCELLANT

Also  have joined the 3 50 project  http://www.the350project.net/home.html  check them out...

Spotlighted in the Boston Globe

We had a small blip in the Boston Globe Food Section today under the shortcuts....features our pumpkin cream cheese cakes..Yum...check it out.

Our first Egg!!!

Finally our chickens have laid their first egg...BEAUTIFUL!!

new coffee!!!

We are happy to annouce we have a new coffee company.  Beanstock Coffee from wellfleet, ma.  Here is a link to their website: http://www.beanstockroasters.com/  They are small local company and produce wonderful, wake-you-up and get-going coffee.  We hope you like it as much as we do.

An unusual cake

This has to be one of the more "unusual" cakes I've decorated!!

Return of the famous cream cheese filled pumpkin cake

Everyone will be happy to hear we are making our famous cream cheese filled pumpkin breakfast cakes again!!!  We will be featuring these throughout the fall so come and get them!!  Yum!!

returning from vacation

Almost time to be back at work!!  We have some new creative ideas that will be popping up in the store over the next couple of weeks.  Crisp fall morning are on their way.

Summer is here..sort of

Finally got to pick my first tomato from my garden yesterday. It was delicious. Soon we will be featuring all kinds of local (mostly home) grown vegetables. The summer squash and zucchini are pouring in..the tomatoes are starting..and the corn is growing by leaps and bounds. We've also started picking our own raspberries.

Some items we'll be making: zucchini streusal mufins, tomato pesto tarts, corn chowder, roasted vegetables, etc.

I'll post some pictures soon!!

re: Sweet Rue's

Just for everyone's info....don't know what happened....don't care.....glad she is gone!!

Home Garden Harvest

Have started harvesting some items from my garden...salad greens, herbs, a few strawberries (in addition to local native strawberries), and picked my first summer squash. Love using fresh ingredients from my garden at work!!

regarding not picking up items

Just really need to vent about people not picking up orders. Last week we did a large cake (14" for 50 people). Tried and tried repeatedly to reach customer when they failed to pick up the cake..no response. Left a message asking her to please call us on monday regarding the cake. Never heard from her. My husband left a "testy" message on her machine, thanking her for wasting our ingredients, time, and money. 5 minutes pass (during which time I am sure she was listening to him leave the message), she calls up and says he should be ashamed of himself..she had an emergency and couldn't pick up the cake but was going to come down to the bakery.

I don't understand people who fill soooooo justified in not paying for an order they have placed..I always want to ask them how they would feel if they showed up for their "special" cake but I had been "too busy" to make it.

Anyone who doesn't like the new policy of deposits on all cakes (even ones ordered over the phone) has mrs. f---man to thank!!!

Unfortunatly these are the customers I remember!!!

Finally!!

New refridgerator $2800....bakery running smoothly and actually having some room to store food....priceless

Meet the ladies....part of our new family...3 backyard hens!!!

banning transfats in needham

Hey...I'm all for healthier options but can someone explain to me how suet, lard, palm oil and soybean oils are a better way to go than margarine or shortening. I got some samples of transfat free margarine and it has twice the saturated fat that a butter/margarine blend does..
Isn't moderation the key....