Happy Birthday, CSB! 🍰🎈🎉

This week was a special treat for me to have my daughter out of summer camp and in the kitchen helping with market prep. She has been my little helper since the very beginning days of C&C...I think she was about 3 or 4 years old when this picture above was taken. Tonight when we finish up all our work, we are looking forward to taking the rest of the weekend off to celebrate her 11th birthday and to get ready for a new school year. I know everyone says this - but SERIOUSLY - my goodness, they grow up fast!!!

This got me thinking that our Community Supported Bakery (CSB) program, "Blind Date With A Baker", is also coming up on a birthday. When we finish up the current rotation at the end of September, it would officially be a year that we've been running it. To the past and current bread share members, I want to say thank you so much for keeping it going! I love planning out the weekly bread flavor for you guys and look forward to coming up with new ones.

To celebrate the anniversary, every CSB membership level is on sale from now through September 9th for the fall/winter rotation. We will be wrapping up the farmer's market season pretty soon so I hope you will sign up and continue to get your weekly bread through our share program!

On the menu this weekend: we will be bringing Country White, Baker & Brewer, Cranberry Walnut, Olive Oil Semolina, Seeded Whole Wheat, Roasted Garlic & Cracked Peppercorn, and Black Sage loaves to all the markets. The special this week is the Blue Olive - a sourdough loaded with blue cheese crumbles and castelvetrano olives. I tried baking it for the first time last week for our CSB folks and a few things I realized were 1) Oh my, it's tasty; 2) The blue cheese flavor is very subtle at first but really settles into the bread as it ages; and 3) It didn't have nearly as enough olives as I would've liked the first time so I really piled them in there this time. Give it a try and let me know how you like it!