Farmer's Market—Week 15, September 17, 2012

Whew! We are in the home stretch, ladies and gentlemen! Only one more week left. 

But before we talk about next week, let's talk about yesterday. It was a beautiful day. The sun was shining, but it was a mild 70-some degrees. No rain in sight, at least not at 3:00, and I was comfortable in my shorts. As I was pulling in to set up, an old friend stopped by to say hi. I didn't expect him to stay for long, as he seemed to have other things he needed to get home to do, but he was sweet, and hung out with me during my 45 minutes of set up. He even pitched in and help. It was nice to have the company, and to visit for a while.

At 3:00 when the bell rang to open sales for the day, I actually had a line! I never have a line, but I had a line! It was so exciting!!! (As I'm typing this, I'm thinking how lame that sounds, but trust me, you would have been excited, too.) I had printed out some ballots for my customers to vote for the final week's cookie of the week, but I was so bombarded with customers during those first fifteen minutes that I totally forgot about the ballots. Oh well. 

The rest of the day went pretty well. This week, I sold my cranberry orange pound cake in four small pans, and they all sold. I had found these adorable little brown paper pans at the grocery store, and they seemed the perfect size. And they were! I was able to bag them like all of my other cookie packs with my ribbon and stickers. So I think I'm going to try that again for next week.

I did end up with some leftovers—not many, but enough that I can contribute to the bake sale that my daughter's school is having this evening, without having to bake anything new. Thank goodness, because I didn't have time to bake anything new anyway. 

Cookie of the week yesterday was the pumpkin gob. I really should be taking pictures of these things. I'm not sure why I don't think to do that. Maybe because I don't have a camera that takes beautiful pictures like I've seen other people use for good food shots. The lighting in my kitchen is very orange, so everything has this weird glow; although I guess for a pumpkin cookie, that might not have been bad. Anyway, I made a double batch (61 cookies), and I was sold out by 5:00. I even had a customer who didn't get to try one order a batch for next week. How cool is that?

So, I mentioned that I did this ballot to determine next week's cookie of the week. In the end, I didn't have very many people vote (totally my fault for not pushing it more), and only one cookie ended up with two votes—the potato chip cookie! So that's what I'm going to make for next week. I hope that everyone else feels the love and stops by to buy some. They really are a delicious and unique cookie.

This is going to be a busy week coming up, though. I have a few special orders, plus I have to make dough for three of my regular cookies, as my frozen inventory is just about wiped out (which makes sense since we're going into the last week of the market). In addition, we have to give our house a good cleaning this weekend, plus we're having my niece and some of her friends over on Sunday afternoon to jam (not to make jam.... to jam.... sing, play instruments, that kind of thing.... more on that later if it turns into a successful venture).

I hope to see you all next Monday, September 24, as it is our last week for the farmer's market at Caste Village. To everyone that came out yesterday, thank you so much! I'm so glad that you get as much enjoyment out of eating my treats as I get out of making them for you!!

Until next time, have a yummy day!