Things are looking up. Last week I saw a blurb on one of the news websites about a new farmers market opening for the season – it is the Westside Farmers market sponsored by the West Grand Neighborhood Organization and the Stockbridge Business Association, they are in their second year of operation and just added Saturday morning hours. It is located on Bridge Street in the St James Church parking lot (just down the street from Little Mexico restaurant). So I contacted them to get more info and unlike all the others I have tried to contact I not only got a response on my first try, it was within hours. No where in their information does it say anything about a licensed kitchen, I had also noticed that in one other packet of information I received from a Market that is run by a non-profit group as opposed to a municipality. I also noticed on some of the websites I have read about licensing that non-profits are exempt. So I thought this would be a great place to go while I am trying to figure out all the licensing process. So that is where I will be Saturday morning from 8 am – Noon. If you stop by you will be able to see my new purchase – in talking to the market organizer she mentioned that there is not any shade and the sun can be a problem – which is something I learned from my first run. So over the weekend I found several amazing deals on those pop up awning/gazebos/canopies – and I bought one. If anyone is planning an outdoor event and would like to borrow a 10’ by 10’ shelter – just let me know – I am happy to lend (lease? :)) it out.
Special orders – Just wanted to remind everyone that I am happy to do special orders as well. In fact this weekend I had an order for 5 loaves of bread. One of these days I will actually put together a list of things I make, but I am always happy to try something new.
Shopping trips – Tonight I am going to embark on my second baking specific shopping trip. This should come as a surprise to none of you, but I sit down with my list of foods that I am going to make, including the quantities and I go through ingredient by ingredient to figure out the how much I need of everything and then figure out what I need to buy. Now I have always hand plenty of baking supplies on hand, I have an entire cupboard designated as the baking cupboard and I consider most ingredients as staples. So when I sat down to make the list I did not think much of it, until I started looking at the quantities of things. I actually went through two bags, 10 lbs in total, of flour in my first go round. That is a lot of flour. This time I need 27 eggs and 16 sticks of butter. These amounts are just crazy, even to me. I am sure I will get used to it, at some point.
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You need to start shopping at Costco, Sam's Club, or Gordon Food Service...
Actually I priced out Gordon Foods and the only thing they were cheaper on was vanilla - so I brought it there. In fact their 25 lb bag of flour was more expensive then 5 - 5 lb bags at Meijer. As for the other two - I don't have a memberships.
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