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I know we're not supposed to have favourites, but one of the loveliest markets we sell at each week is the Urban Farmers Market at Starlings Cafe in Claremont. It's…
I know we're not supposed to have favourites, but one of the loveliest markets we sell at each week is the Urban Farmers Market at Starlings Cafe in Claremont. It's…
One part of our selling-ice-cream-in-winter strategy is ice cream sundaes. We want to start offering two sundaes at our Neighbourgoods Market stall, changing our offerings each week. So for the…
One of the questions we get asked all the time is, how many flavours do you make? People are always amazed that we don't have a definitive flavour list or…
We have a list on the wall in the kitchen, where we put down things for which we want to develop recipes. Sometimes it's ice cream flavours, but often it's…
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…
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'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'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…
My invoice from Franci, our herb grower, reads as follows this week: Chocolate peppermint (Yay! Glad to have that back in the kitchen) Green basil (For pairing with the last…
This is what 720 eggs look like: And this is what the honour system looks like: I had totally forgotten, but one of the eggs Celia delivered to us last…
I spent the weekend at my parents' farm, an hour of Cape Town. One of the few downsides to having my own business is how hard it is to take…