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Hello from the bakery up on the hill. Did you
know that the
Round House Bakery is part of what makes the Round House Café
happen?
We have a wonderful bakery and kitchen here at
Pompanuck
Farm on Chestnut Hill Rd. where bakers and cooks are working
almost round the
clock making biscuits, scones, cookies and bread…soups, pickles,
salads, sauces
and side dishes. Every morning, someone, usually Scott, drives the
van down to
the café with a wide assortment of items that are needed for the
day; rubber
bands, blueberry muffins, leek and watercress soup, clean table
cloths, Italian
dressing, clean compost buckets…..
And did you know that each of our full time
employees not
only works at the café but also works at the bakery? We’re all
skilled cooks
and each one of us gives our best to the cooking we do for you. I
think it’s
pretty cool that the counter person can proudly take an order for
the chili that
she knows is super good because she made it herself the day before
up at the
bakery.
It can be tiring making endless batches of
roasted eggplant for
all of those Mediterranean Sandwiches but then aroma of 8 trays of
eggplant
roasting in olive oil is one of the perks of our jobs and everyone
of our
employees has this experience.
Right now, everyone’s chickens are laying like
mad so we
have plenty of local eggs for omelets, crepes and breakfast
sandwiches at the café
and we’ve brought back egg salad for the Spring. We make ours with
our own
organic eggs, chopped fresh herbs (dill, parsley and scallions), a
little Dijon
mustard and enough Hellman’s mayonnaise to moisten the eggs and
hold them
together but not so much that it will fall out of your sandwich.
It’s delicious
on a baguette but also between slices of sweet potato bread or any
of our other
varieties of sandwich bread.
We would love to offer avocado as part of our
regular menu.
We found that we were wasting a lot of avocados last year because
we lacked
proper cool storage. Thanks to a fortuitous donation by the
Patterson family we
now have a refrigerator in the café basement, our new mini
walk-in. Joanna
Patterson of said Patterson family, is a part of round House
Bakery and Café.
She has worked mostly at the bakery and Farmer’s Market but you’ll
be seeing
more of her at the café in weeks to come. Anyway, now we’ll be
able to order
avocados by the case and be able to control their ripening time.
So if you see
Joanna at the café or bakery, thank her for the avocados.
As always, we want to make the kind of food our
community
wants to eat. We love your suggestions in our suggestion box or
through email.
I know, we still haven’t brought back the homemade tuna burger.
There’s a good
explanation for this but it would take too long to read. Over the
course of
this first year in business we’ve continued to make adjustments as
we attempt
to give you the best quality food we can. Providing quality food
at reasonable
prices is our greatest challenge and we’re always looking for new
ways to
connect local food producers to local businesses and consumers.
Thanks for
participating! We love you!
