See you next season!

Looks like I won't be at the Palo Alto Farmers' Market again before it closes on 12/17 so see everyone next spring!

I'll still be baking during the off season and am ready to bake ipies for any of your special events or just to satisfy an ipie craving emergency!

Feel free to email me to discuss any special orders.

I will also be organizing a few ipie pop up shops for San Francisco and will post details on my facebook page.

And I'll be testing new fillings during the months leading up to the market so feel free to email me any suggestions.

If you live out of the SF Bay Area, you can still order your ipies. Order and shipping information is to the right of this post.

Thanks everyone!

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ipie at Palo Alto Farmers' Market this Saturday!

It's almost Thanksgiving so that means cranberry time which means....

apple cranberry ipies!

So come by our market stand at the Palo Alto Farmers' Market this Saturday, November 12 from 8-noon for classic apple and apple cranberry ipies!

Remember you can email us to reserve your ipies for pick up at the market.

This will be our only November market date so hope to see everyone there!

Give Thanks the ipie way!: time to pre-order for Thanksgiving!

It's time for our Thanksgiving pop-up shop!

Pre-order your ipies for your Thanksgiving feast and pick up between 11-noon on

Wednesday, November 23
at our pop-up shop in Menlo Park.

Available for pre-order is our classic apple ipie and apple cranberry ipie.

ipies are $5 each. Cash and credit cards accepted!

email us to reserve your ipies and for the address of our pop-up shop.

Please place your order by Monday, November 14.

Gobble Gobble Gobble...........

ipie at Palo Alto Farmers' Market this Saturday, October 29!

This photo is of the lovely and talented Devana from Waverly Kitchens.

Her market stand is across from the ipie stand at the Palo Alto Farmers' Market and features traditional Indian spices with a modern twist.

What's the modern twist? They take the guesswork out of how to cook with these fragrant spices. Each spice packet has two spice blends, step-by-step instructions and best of all -- a shopping list!

Buy your spice packet and use the shopping list to buy everything you need right from the farmers' market!

When you are done, buy an ipie for dessert! Sweet and savory -- what more do you want?

So come by our ipie stand at the Palo Alto Farmers' Market this Saturday, October 29, from 8-noon for classic apple ipies as well as apple caramel ipies.

Remember you can email us to reserve your ipies for pick up at the market.

Hope to see you Saturday!

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ipie at Palo Alto Farmers' Market this Saturday, October 15!

After reading all the latest news about the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, the business that didn't learn anything from the New Coke fiasco, and the seemingly endless details about the cast of characters running for President, I wanted to go out and commit random acts of pie.

So I did. I just moved to a new neighborhood so I spread the pie around to a few new neighbors and shopkeepers.

It felt good to do something so very basic -- talk to a fellow human and connect over something sweet.

Perhaps it can become a new movement.....

Hope to see everyone at the Palo Alto Farmers' Market this Saturday, October 15 from 8-noon for your own little bit of sweetness. We will have classic apple and apple caramel ipies again this week.

Remember you can always email us to reserve your ipies for pick up at the market!

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ipie at Palo Alto Farmers' Mkt October 1!

Even though these early days of Fall have been hot ones, the date on the calendar means all those yummy ipie holidays are just around the corner!

It also means it is time for Apple Caramel ipies!

Apple Caramel ipies start out as a Classic Apple ipie but we add a drizzle of our caramel sauce to the apple filling.

We cook the caramel sauce until it has a smokey caramel flavor and an amber color. We also brush the caramel sauce on top of the ipie to give it a bit of sticky goodness on the outside as well.

So come see us at the Palo Alto Farmers' Market this Saturday, October 1, from 8-noon for both your classic apple and apple caramel ipies.

Remember, you can always email us to reserve your ipies for pickup at the market.

See you Saturday!

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next market date: Saturday, October 1!

Hello local ipie fans!

Mark your calendars for the next market date for ipie:

Saturday, October 1 at the
Palo Alto Farmers' Market from 8-noon.

We will have classic apple and apple caramel ipies!

This weekend I'm baking ipies for a wedding -- how fun is that!

Keep ipie in mind for your special events -- it is a modern and fun way to serve dessert!

See you in October!

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ipie at Palo Alto Farmers' Market this Saturday, September 10!

Locally grown Granny Smith apples are now available!

This means we will have classic apple ipies at the Palo Alto Farmers' Market this Saturday, September 10 from 8-noon!

This will be our only September date at the market so hope to see you there!

Next market date will be October 1.

Remember, you can always email us to reserve your ipies for pick up at the market!

See you Saturday!

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next market date: Saturday, September 10!

Come see us at the Palo Alto Farmers' Market on our next market date of Saturday, September 10 from 8-noon.

Locally grown apples are now available so we will have classic apple ipies for your eating enjoyment!

Don't forget you can always email us to reserve your ipies for pick up at the market!

Hope to see you there!

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ipie at Palo Alto Farmers' Market this Saturday, August 27!

The kids may be back in school but it's still summertime to us as long as there are peaches to bake into ipies!

So, come see us at the Palo Alto Farmers' Market this Saturday, August 27, from 8-noon and savor one of the best tastes of summer with our peach ipies. We will also have that kid favorite (and the young at heart) treat -- cinnamon sugar pinwheel cookies.

Remember you can email us to reserve your ipies for pick up at the market.

Hope to see you at the market this Saturday!

(this photo of a very happy ipie fan snapped by Scott R. Kline - check out his website!)

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next market date: Saturday, August 27!

Come see us at the Palo Alto Farmers' Market on our next market date of Saturday, August 27 from 8-noon.

We will have peach ipies and pinwheels for your eating enjoyment!



Don't forget you can always email us to reserve your ipies for pick up at the market!

Hope to see you there!





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ipie at Palo Alto Farmers' Market this Saturday!

Hello ipie fan!

The organic peaches are now at their best so come to the market for organic peach ipies!

And on Saturday I celebrate my 28th wedding anniversary so here is a special promotion for all you love birds!

First person to come to the ipie stand that has been married longer than 28 years gets a free ipie! Talk about bliss!

So, come see us at the Palo Alto Farmers' Market this Saturday, August 6, from 8-noon for your peach ipies.

Remember you can email us to reserve your ipies for pick up at the market.

Hope to see you at the market this Saturday!

(this photo of a beautiful ipie fan snapped by Scott R. Kline - check out his website!)

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next market date: saturday, august 6!

We are off doing a little pie research and will be back at the Palo Alto Farmers' Market on Saturday, August 6.

You can still order your ipies online for local pickup or for shipping. See ordering information to the right.

Hope to see all ipie fans back at the market on August 6! Get ready for peach ipie!!!







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ipie at Palo Alto Farmers' Market this Saturday!

"oh no! last ipie!"


I will be at the market again this week so hope to see you at the Palo Alto Farmers' Market from 8-noon this Saturday, July 16.

I will have both organic peach and organic blueberry ipies available.

I sold out really early last week so please feel free to email me to reserve your ipies for pick up at the market. Link is below.

Hope to see you at the market!

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ipie at Palo Alto Farmers' Market this Saturday!

"What a morning. Bunny Funkhauser, blueberry pie and wham!"

The first ipie fan at my market stand on Saturday who can tell me where the above quote is from and who said it gets a free blueberry ipie!

And no fair using the internet to find out!

Along with blueberry ipies I will also have a limited number of peach ipies.

I was very excited to see the first of the organic peaches in the market and to bake them into ipies! And the blueberries are at their peak now.

So, come see us at the Palo Alto Farmers' Market this Saturday, July 9, from 8-noon for blueberry and peach ipies.

Remember you can email us to reserve your ipies for pick up at the market.

Hope to see you at the market this Saturday!

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ipie at Palo Alto Farmers' Market this Saturday!

Looking forward to seeing everyone at the Palo Alto Farmers' Market this Saturday, June 25 from 8-noon!

It isn't quite peach or nectarine season yet -- that is still a few weeks away but I came across a few organic nectarines that I just had to buy.

I tested several fillings using the nectarines and the nectarine/raspberry filling tasted amazing!

So I will have just a few razterines (!) ipies available at the market along with our mixed berry ipie filled with organic strawberries and blueberries. The berries are super sweet right now so hardly any sugar is needed in the filling!

So, come see us at the Palo Alto Farmers' Market this Saturday, June 25, from 8-noon for your own mixed berry and razterines ipies!

Remember you can email us to reserve your ipies for pick up at the market.

And don't forget we can now ship ipies outside the SF Bay Area -- see ordering information to the right on how to order.

Hope to see you at the market this Saturday!

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ipie at Palo Alto Farmers' Market this Saturday!

This photo shows two kinds of cherries -- the dark ones are sweet cherries and the light red ones are called sour pie cherries.

This photo was taken in Chicago last summer because as I found out when I moved to California, local sour pie cherries are as rare as rubies out here!

So imagine my excitement when a worker at a local farmers' market ran up to me and excitedly told me they had just gotten a shipment of local sour cherries! He had remembered me from last season pestering him to let me know if he ever got any of these jewels in.

The bad news was that these are priced almost like rubies but I just had to buy a few pounds. So, I will have a very limited supply of cherry ipies at the market this week.

We will also have the mixed berry filling of organic strawberries and blueberries.

So, come see us at the Palo Alto Farmers' Market this Saturday, June 11, from 8-noon for your own mixed berry and cherry ipies!

Remember you can email us to reserve your ipies for pick up at the market.

Hope to see you at the market this Saturday!

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iship ipie!: ipie now available outside SF Bay Area!

ipie for all!

I'm happy to announce that I can now ship ipies to your friends and family members that live outside the SF Bay Area!

It was a lot of fun sending ipie packages across the U.S. to my volunteer testers to see how good a traveler my little pies were!

Less fun to figure out but important to me was that the pies be packaged in environmentally friendly packaging.

The testing is done and the packaging is here and they are ready for you to send them on their journey!

How to order information is to the right!

Feel free to leave a comment or click here to email me!

ipie at Palo Alto Farmers' Market this Saturday!

This is Alex, or as we called him, Mr. Mixed Berry! That was the ipie filling at our last farmers' market -- strawberry and blueberry -- and Alex looked like he was a walking advertisement for our ipie!

So, come see us at the Palo Alto Farmers' Market this Saturday, May 28, from 8-noon for your own mixed berry ipie!

Unfortunately we were sold out of ipie when Mr. Mixed Berry stopped by so remember you can always email us to reserve your ipie for pickup at the market.

We are (of course) saving one for Mr. Mixed Berry!

Hope to see you all at the market!


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Palo Alto Farmers' Market Reopens this Saturday!

So happy that the Palo Alto Farmers' Market reopens for the season this Saturday, May 14, from 8-noon and ipie will be there!

I'm introducing a new filling this Saturday so come by our market stand for ipies with strawberry-blueberry filling -- the first berries of the season!

And once again please ask me if I have any oh my! ipies available that day -- you never know!

As always, you can email us to reserve your ipies for pick up at the market.

Hope to see you at the market this Saturday!

(what's an oh my! ipie? a broken ipie for $2 -- oh my!)

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Mother's Day, Bake Sales and Markets Oh My!

Just wanted to let everyone know of upcoming events! A longer post next week before the Palo Alto Farmers' Market reopens for the season. But for now, take note of all this fun stuff happening:

Apple pie and mother's day!
Check out local (Palo Alto) clothing store Leaf & Petal and their sister store Cassis for its Mother's day event this Saturday, May 7. They have amazing clothes and there will be ipie! There will be big pies to munch on while you shop and ipies with purchase!

National Food Bloggers Bake Sale!
The date is fast approaching for the second annual SF food bloggers bake sale.

The bake sale benefits Share Our Strength whose goal is to end childhood hunger in America. Last year we raised $1650 for this cause!

This year the event will be held on Saturday, May 14, from 10-6 p.m. at 18 Reasons in SF. The organizers also hope to add a second location. Please see the official site for the SF bake sale for more information.

Unfortunately I can't be there this year as the Palo Alto Farmers' Market reopens that day for the season but I'm sorry to miss it!


And of course, speaking of the farmers' market......
The Palo Alto Farmers' Market reopens for the season Saturday, May 14 from 8 a.m. to noon!
Come get your ipies (and pinwheels)!

ipie and the Online Bake Sale for Japan!: UPDATE

***update! we made more than $8,000! Thank you everyone! And high bid on ipies was $110! Thank you thank you! Pie people are very special people!***

In Indiana where I grew up , baking was often the language we used to communicate with each other.

Owe someone an apology? Bake them brownies. Someone you know not feeling so well -- a nice pudding would make them feel better. New job? Baby announcement? Almost any occasion called for hauling out the mixing bowls and butter.

And now, if only I could bake ipies for the people of Japan to feed their hunger and their souls I would do it.

I can't of course but perhaps indirectly I can make it happen.

Well, you can.

ipie is teaming up with a growing list of food bloggers to raise money for Japan via an online bake sale.

The auction is the brain child of Sabrina Modelle who writes the tomato tart blog.

The bake sale will be held, auction style, on her website on March 30^th. We will be donating to Second Harvest Japan, a food bank in Japan.

Sabrina has a list of participating food bloggers on her site. Although the auction doesn't start until March 30 -- Sabrina will be previewing what will be available.

So, please check out her site and on March 30, please bid on ipies or some other yummy goodie.

Here is more information about ipie and what I will be offering for the auction:

ipie will offer six ipies with either a classic apple filling or a pear honey filling.

An ipie is an individual fruit filled double crust pie about the size of a cupcake. I sell my ipies at the Palo Alto Farmers' Market and by special order.

I can't ship out of my local area but I would be happy to deliver them to you if you live in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Please email me if you have any questions -- an email link follows the ipie photo.






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National Pie (ipie!) Day!

I so miss being at the Palo Alto Farmers' Market so I was happy to get back into the kitchen to bake ipies in honor of National Pie Day this past Sunday, January 23.

I baked 24 ipies and packed them into my mini cooper for delivery.

It was a sunny, warm day and it was a lot of fun to commit random acts of ipie!

I tried to choose pie lovers that had not yet tasted an ipie but there were a few people that I felt needed a bit of a smile so they got an ipie as well!

Remember, pie is optimistic so eat more pie!