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....