Breadness Buzz - Spring Has Sprung, The Great Rearrangement, Online Shop Update...

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Spring Has Sprung!

Call it serendipity but the arrival of Spring just happened to coincide with our Great Jam Transfusion! We now have amazing jams and fruit spreads from 5 different artisan kitchens, which makes for an interesting problem: they're all so delicious it's almost impossible to narrow down the choices to 1 or 2!

This avalanche of jam jars created another problem: where do we put all this stuff?

Rack Rearrangement!

The solution was to move some products around to give each group a shelf of their own!

Four of the jam brands (Jam I am, Roots Kitchen & Cannery, Clif Family and Arroyo Seco Orchards) are now on the second shelf of the rack by the front counter. Here are the flavors featured above: Apple Spice, Strawberry-Pineapple Marmalade, Blueberry Lime, Santa Rosa Plum, Strawberry Lemon, Blackberry Earl Grey, Fig, Persimmon Chutney, Peach Habanero and Pear Ginger.

The fifth brand of artisan jams, Bionaturae, is on its own shelf on the rack by the slicer. That's because we also carry their Organic Sourdough Pastas (Spaghetti and Penne) and their lectin-free tomato products made with organic peeled and seeded tomatoes (Strained Tomatoes and Tomato Paste) along with 6 flavors of their organic fruit spreads: Bilberry, Strawberry, Apricot, Wild Berry, Peach and Sour Cherry.

I call Bionaturae's shelf: "From Italy, with Love."

Two shelves up is where all the Ojai Olive Oil Company's tall bottles of Extra Virgin Olive Oil reside, along with our custom Guitar Cutting Boards and Bread Knives. One of each of these plus a loaf or two of Breadness make an unforgettable gift!

Right below that you'll find the short bottles of Ojai Olive Oil Company's Extra Virgin Olive Oil and all of our Olive Oil and Balsamic Vinegar sample tasters. (You can taste anything you like at Random Acts of Breadness!)

Over on the top shelf of the front counter rack you'll find all of our Balsamic Vinegars and Tapenades. You could say this is our "Savory Selection."

And below the jam rack we covered earlier is the Vegan Butter, Nut Butters and Honey Spreads shelf. Nut butter and honey on raisin toast was one of my favorite treats growing up! But I don't remember ever having anything as yummy as Yemetz Family Orchards Organic Skinless Almond Butter with Clif Family Cinnamon Honey Spread on a slice of our Cinnamon Raisin Maple Pecan Sourdough toast!

I hope you enjoyed your personal tour of our "Spring Collection" of flavorful foods. All of these are now available in our online shop as well, though sample tastes are only available when you visit the bakery!

Heatwave?

It was 90 degrees earlier this week so I scrambled to make a new batch of our organic Popsicles. Besides our original Strawberry Coconut Cream, I decided to make a new flavor: Orange-Ginger Coconut Cream, and it turned out really nice!

Back in the day there was the Orange Creamsicle sold from the local ice cream truck. This is kinda like that (but healthier with no added sugar; just whole organic oranges, organic ginger and organic coconut cream).

Heatwave? Two days later the temperature dropped like a stone, and it's winter again!

Oh well... Our Popsicles will stay fresh in the freezer until the sun comes out again...

Here's what we've got at the bakery this week...

— Organic Artisan Sourdough Country Loaf (Batard, Boule, Petite, Bread Bowl)

— Organic Artisan Sourdough Country Rolls (4 per bag)

— Organic Chocolate Artisan Sourdough Loaf (Boule, Petite)

— Organic Artisan Cinnamon Raisin Maple Pecan Sourdough Loaf (Boule, Petite)

— Organic Artisan Cinnamon Raisin Maple Pecan Sourdough Rolls (3 per bag)

— Amazing Fresh Coffee, Holland Process (Cup or Demitasse)

— Organic Blueberry Muffins (Gluten-free, Grain-free, Sugar-free, Keto/Low-carb)

— Organic Choco-Chip Chookies (Gluten-free, Grain-free, Sugar-free, Keto/Low-carb)

— Raw Farm Butter (Cultured Unsalted [French style], Lightly Salted [American style])

— Raw Farm Cheddar Cheese (1 lb.)

— Chocolate Chill (Gluten-free, Sugar-free, Keto, Vegan)

And our awesome lineup of Extra Virgin Olive Oils, Balsamic Vinegars, Tapenades, Nut Butters, NEW Fruit Spreads/Jams and Pasta and Tomato Products from Italy!

Random Acts of Breadness is located at 2214 West Magnolia Blvd in Burbank, 2-1/2 blocks east of Buena Vista on the south side of the street. Order at breadness.com/#shop, or via DoorDash. We also ship locally and nationwide.

We're open Thursday, Friday, Saturday 12 to 6pm, and Sunday 11am to 4pm.

Come see us at the bakery this week (except Sunday cuz it's Cyndie's Birthday and she and I are taking the day off to celebrate! Alyssa and Eve will be at the bakery on Sunday to grant all your Breadness wishes...)

Randall Michael Tobin
Artisan Baker/Chef
Breadness.com

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