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We're in the market for a second ice cream churn, and as part of the decision-making process, we closed the kitchen on Friday morning and we all went to try…
We're in the market for a second ice cream churn, and as part of the decision-making process, we closed the kitchen on Friday morning and we all went to try…
I've been threatening for a while to get a poster like this and put it in the kitchen, but Marianne, our manager, said it felt too threatening. Well, it doesn't…
We get our milk and cream delivered once a week to our kitchens in Mowbray, but once in a while something goes pear-shaped (the farmer can't deliver, we have a…
People in food industry scratch their heads when they hear that we have too many fresh produce suppliers to count. Our guardian angels/farmers range in scale from third-generation fruit farms…
I take a lot of photos of random things I see at Creamery HQ. While trying to sort through my 'random photos' file last week, I realized that a lot…
I'm not much of a granadilla person, really. But the granadilla curd we swirl through our ice cream for Granadilla Choc Chip ice cream has totally converted me. It's tangy,…
We are immensely excited to invite you to The Creamery HQ in Mowbray, for a sunset concert on our stoep. We'll be rolling our scoop counter outside to serve up…
We've been ignoring the changing of the leaves and the occasional crispness in the air, but now it's official: the season is changing. Our first quinces and Bon Chretienne pears…
Some of you may remember my mid-summer post on foraging for herbs in my mother's herb garden. Well, with all the exciting stuff going on at Creamery HQ it's taken…
I like to describe our commercial kitchen as "small but perfectly formed". When I was planning it last year, I wrote out a long wishlist of things I wanted to…
“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.” -Jean Kerr Marianne and I deal with stress…
We are looking for new scoop staff for two positions: Our pop up shop in Kalkbay Our Cape Town market stalls For Kalkbay: Shifts are from 11.00-18.00, in Kalkbay You…
Four weeks down, and one to go. We've been scooping at The Comedy of Errors, before the show and during interval, at the beautiful Maynardville Open Air Theatre in Wynberg…
We tried something a little new two weeks ago: a birthday ice cream tasting, at our kitchen. The day was so lovely, we set up tables and chairs outside, under…
We're excited to welcome a new member to The Creamery team: Harmony. Harmony will be joining Progress in the kitchen, to help us increase our ice cream production. He brings…
There is very little as sad as an ice cream production kitchen with no churn. Except perhaps the ice cream makers. After last week's post on things not going our…
With very little fanfare, we launched our webshop the week before Christmas. Not really the ideal time, but hey, it was ready, we thought we might sell a couple pints…
On Saturday we spent several hours in the kitchen, and at our stall at the Neighbourgoods Market, taking product photos. We've been meaning to get some taken a while, but…
To celebrate Progress's birthday, we had our first staff lunch out last week. We chose to go to Clarke's on Bree Street, because we've been hearing how good their cheeseburgers…
It's been one of those weeks. One of our chest freezer's fans split in two, the churn started making similar grinding noises in sympathy, we ran out of eggs,…