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!

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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!

ipie at Palo Alto Market Saturday, December 11!

ipie will be at the Palo Alto Farmers' Market this Saturday, December 11 from 8-noon!

This is our last market date for the season so hope to see you there.

This week's fillings will be classic apple and pear honey. The pear honey will be in limited quantity and always sells out first so please email me if you would like me to set any aside for you.

Thanks for a great season and see you next season for peach, blueberry, cherry, pear, apple, cranberry.........ipies!


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ipie at Palo Alto Market Saturday, November 13! Also time to preorder your ipies for Thanksgiving!

ipie will be at the Palo Alto Farmers' Market this Saturday, November 13 from 8-noon!

This Saturday we will have two fillings available:
classic apple and apple cranberry.

The combination of tart apples, fresh cranberries, a small amount of sugar and a hint of spices give this filling a bright and delicious flavor.

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


Also, just in time for Thanksgiving is our first ever ipie pop up store!

Preorder your ipies for your Thanksgiving feast and pick up on Wednesday, November 24 at our pop up store in Menlo Park.

Available for preorder is our single crust pumpkin ipie, classic apple ipie and apple cranberry ipie.

ipies are $5 each.

email us to reserve your ipies and for hours and directions of our pop-up store.

Please order by Thursday, November 18.

gobble gobble gobble......

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