Hello!

I hope you’re having a wonderful week.

Community Cooking Day

Yesterday, we had our monthly Community Cooking Day and made some delicious tomato, lentil, spinach, and feta stew over rice with a side of Parmesan potatoes. All in all, 117 meals and 160 cookies went to community fridges around the city, thanks to only 7 volunteers and a lot of gumption!! It was a great day and a good reminder of why we do what we do. We previously accepted donations for the cost of ingredients — we’ll post that link again soon, if you want to help contribute to cover our ingredients for CCD. No sweat, we will always do it, either way.

Soda Bread

I realized at our staff meeting a few weeks ago that I had never made nor really ever eaten soda bread, which is wild because of how much I love bread. This year, I decided to remedy that and have been doing a few little tests this week of a recipe inspired by Cissy Difford’s Guinness Bread in the Kitchen Projects newsletter. We’re using stout made by Attic Brewing down Germantown Ave from us, and almost all stone-ground flour from Castle Valley Mill in Doylestown. It tastes damned good with some salty butter and an egg. I’m a soda bread believer now!

We’ll have 12 loaves of soda bread on Thursday morning, right at 9am, and 12 loaves of soda bread on Friday morning, also right at 9am. Come and see what I’m so excited about 🍀

Carrot Cake

We were asked to make a carrot cake for a birthday party this weekend so we figured why not make the whole world a birthday party and have carrot cake in the shop Saturday, too? Come in any time after 12pm and pick up a mini carrot cake for you, a friend, a dog, a buddy, etc. It’ll have cream cheese frosting, too, so you know we’re all in.

That’s all for now! Can’t wait to see you this week!

xo,

Dayna

Dayna’s What’s Up Corner

Okay, man, the movie The Secret Agent?? Eu adorei! Wagner Moura is cool as hell, and I love a little shark-themed magical realism. I’ve been listening to this Olive Jones album and it’s chill and nice and lush. I’m reading one too many things at once, none of which are grabbing me, unfortunately. Emary and I went to the Athenaeum over the weekend and did a puzzle and looked at an exhibit on the sewer systems and creeks of Philadelphia. I recommend it. Anything new with you?