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JULY pantry bread subscriptions are live on my HotPlate! The usual line-up, bmilk loaves, spelt english muffins, and sea salt focaccia, PLUS grits bread! A seasonal favorite of mine, 90% because I love well cooked grits more than most foods, and 10%

Summer delicacy, the ice cream sammy. This one here is a fig leaf sugar cookie and black currant ice cream. I feel very strongly about it, one of my finest. They inspired us to drive around last night after dinner and deliver to a couple friends and

Two things I am an absolute sucker for 1) vertical florals on cakes, this one today was asparagus greens 2) 90’s country love songs, yeehaw. This absolute bop came on the radio while I was driving cake out to the wedding location today and it m

I have a new love for hydrangeas after doing a wedding cake for a customer this weekend. She brought me several varieties from her yard and I just loved the moody puffballs!

I’m in the midst of baking for today’s Creatives Cafe in Danvi

I’ve been bouncing back and forth between soon to be commercial bakery and still functioning cottage bakery this week. In the same hour I am spending money on new kitchen equipment and mixing cake batter. It’s a wild ride. But I am feelin

Got to the market this morning and felt the familiar feeling come over me. That first outdoor market of the season where every single farm on-site is abundant and I know I’m gonna panic buy everything because I am overcome by the beauty and exc

Chase has been home from work a lot the last several months. Has allowed us to balance a lot of things as a team. Like, who snuggles Spanky while mom works on bakery stuff? Dad. Who plays endless hours of tractor with Malcolm while mom mixes bread do

Fresh fruit and cold food meals time of year. Upon a discovery of the fact that I actually enjoy yogurt when it’s done up with fruits and peanut butter and granola, dash of @funksgrovehfg maple, I went down a rabbit hole of finding the perfect

The weekly ritual of Pantry Bread Subscriptions has become a time for me to fiddle around with bread formulas and methods. Sometimes I feel like a tweak was for the best and sometimes feel like I need to just keep on keeping on. I have been mixing ha

I think I’ve finally come back to reality after moving an entire bakery’s worth of equipment this last weekend (and the many weeks beforehand too.) There was so much strategy wrapped up in this move. Chase and I would discuss nearly every

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