Thursday, April 28, 2011

Bread on hold for now

I made bagels again today for my hubby who is preparing for a 100 mile ride tomorrow. whole wheat. Topped some with cheddar/green onion, some with roasted tomatoes and oregano, and the remaining plain. I'm going to make him 3 bagel/cream cheese sammies to bring. Yesterday, I made some banana/almond/chocolate chip granola bars. They are pretty crumbly but delicious. I basically took my granola recipe and pushed it into a pan. I felt as I was doing so it needed a binder like egg, but I was trying to make them vegan for something we might be able to sell at the bakery.

We've got a few gluten-free products well under way, and customers seem to be responding quite positively. So far, since sweets are my favorite and I love to make my favorites, we've been focusing on sweets, but will soon push out a nice savory item as well. We hired one of our interns part time, so it's a breath of fresh air for me allowing me to focus on product development and growing the business.

My husband wants me to buy a soft serve machine. Ice cream is probably my favorite thing so I'm suprised I haven't ventured there. Sure, I have a really nice ice cream maker at home, and sure, I do use it, but I guess I know I love ice cream so much that I probably don't want the temptation. But it would be cool to offer ice cream sandwiches with our cookies. Like that would be really great...made to order ice cream sammies. HMMMM....????