http://riseandshinebread.com/index.php/site/index/ en alison@riseandshinebread.com Copyright 2012 2012-04-20T18:16:31+00:00 http://riseandshinebread.com/index.php/site/issue_67 http://riseandshinebread.com/index.php/site/issue_67#When:18:16:31Z {summary}Greetings!  Spring is here!  Even if there is still snow on the ground! Until we start baking weekly for the South Anchorage Farmers Market on June 9, we will be baking about once a month, so stock up and pop some bread in the freezer if you’d like. The bread really does freeze and thaw well. If you haven’t already, please sign up for our email newsletters (see the sidebar on the left)! The newsletters will remind you when to order, and let you know what flavors of bread we’ll be baking for you! For pickup on Wednesday, May 16 (please order by Sunday, May 13): We’re baking the ever-popular 100% whole grain SPENT GRAIN sourdough pan loaves, packed with barley groats from Midnight Sun Brewing Company’s beer-making process that make the bread healthy, moist, and flavorful. And we’re also lined up to bake our signature pan loaves, the 100% whole wheat LEVAIN (the French term for naturally-leavened bread, or sourdough), made from just three ingredients: organic whole wheat flour, well water, and salt… and of course, the sourdough! The three days of fermentation give the bread its flavor and keeping quality. Also for May 16 we’re baking the FRESH ROSEMARY sourdough.  Fresh rosemary gives the bread a lovely herbal flavor that goes really well with lots of different foods—great for sandwiches, as well as dinner bread with soup. If you’re using it for a dinner bread, just heat the unwrapped loaf in a 350 degree oven for 15 minutes to get a beautiful crisp crust on it before you sit down to eat, or just toast a couple of slices and dip them in olive oil to go with soups or salads.  YUM!  And speaking of olives, we’re also baking those fun KALAMATA OLIVE sourdough loaves! They make wonderful dinner breads, as well, and fantastic sandwiches and panini. And for the sweet hearth loaf of the week, we’re baking RAISIN & PECAN sourdough , loaves, packed with toasted pecans and organic raisins. Wonderful toasted for breakfast or for a snack with tea or coffee in the afternoon…  I love these little loaves! After you order the bread, you can pick up your loaves on Wednesday mornings (8-10am) downtown at Side Street Espresso (412 G Street), or on Wednesday evenings (4-6pm) at Summit Spice & Tea Company’s South Anchorage store, in the little mall at Huffman and Old Seward: 1120 Huffman Rd, Suite 1. If you’ve never ordered bread through the website, you’ll click on the “register now” link, pick a username and password, and enter your information (name, email, and phone numbers). Then you can place your order! In case you can’t make the website work, you can always email me at: , or call me at 677-3712. If you’ve ordered bread before, but you are having trouble remembering your login name or password, you can email me , or call me at 677-3712. I’m happy to help you! the bread ordering deadline You’ll need to order your bread by MIDNIGHT on Sunday, so we have time to plan our bake, feed our sourdough, and pre-ferment the dough!  When you order the bread, you can choose to “pay when you pick up your bread,” or you can pay via PayPal. By all means, use PayPal if you prefer—but I’m even happier to get your checks or cash when you come pick up your bread. bread pickup locations Pick-up locations for Wednesdays: 1.  Side Street Espresso, 412 G Street, downtown: 8-10am 2.  Summit Spice & Tea Co., 1120 Huffman Rd, Suite 1 (Huffman & Old Seward): 4-6pm If you need to call me during a pick-up time, you can reach me on my cell phone at 748-3712. At other times,  please call me at home/the bakery: 677-3712. Would you like to see a video of us baking your bread? Our bakery is a small commercial kitchen attached to our house on the lower Anchorage Hillside. Alison’s blog If you’d like to check out lots of savory and healthful recipes, you can find lots more of them on my blog about cooking and eating local food: Alison’s Lunch. You can even sign up for my blog posts (about local food, cooking, and recipes) to be delivered to your email! if you have trouble signing up, and I can help you. The Bread Bulletin, 2012-04-20T18:16:31+00:00 http://riseandshinebread.com/index.php/site/issue_66 http://riseandshinebread.com/index.php/site/issue_66#When:17:43:33Z {summary}Hello! Isn’t this daylight wonderful? Sure makes rising and shining easier, doesn’t it? We’re helping Side Street Espresso (412 G Street) celebrate their 20th birthday this month by offering an opportunity to taste all our April loaves for free!! Side Street’s official opening day twenty years ago was April Fool’s Day, but Deb & George will be celebrating all through the month of April. On April 18th, our next bread pickup day, we will be offering samples of all the Rise & Shine Bakery breads for your tasting delight at our downtown pickup location, Side Street Espresso. Be sure to stop by and try some! Until we start baking weekly for the South Anchorage Farmers Market in June, we will be baking about once a month, so stock up and pop some bread in the freezer if you’d like. The bread really does freeze and thaw well. Our next bake after this one, April 18th, will be May 16th.  Please see our long term baking schedule to find out what we’re baking in the future. If you haven’t already, please sign up for our email newsletters (see the sidebar on the left)! The newsletters will remind you when to order, and let you know what flavors of bread we’ll be baking for you! For pickup on Wednesday, April 18 (please order by Sunday, April 15): We’re baking the ever-popular 100% whole grain SPENT GRAIN sourdough pan loaves, packed with barley groats from Midnight Sun Brewing Company’s beer-making process that make the bread healthy, moist, and flavorful. And we’re also lined up to bake my personal favorite pan loaves, the 100% whole wheat ALASKAN POTATO sourdough, which taste just like the regular levain loaves, but with added moistness and tenderness from the Palmer-grown baked potatoes kneaded into the dough. Also this week we’re also doing the ONION RYE sourdough…  one of our all-time favorite loaves for sandwiches. It also makes a great dinner bread—the grassy flavor of the rye flour combined with the sweet complexity of the onions really makes for delicious slices. Heat as a loaf in the oven (just pop your loaf, unwrapped, in a 350-degree oven for 10 or 15 minutes until the crust is crispy and the middle hot and moist) or just toast a couple of slices and dip them in olive oil to go with soups or salads.  YUM!  And speaking of olives, we’re also baking those fun KALAMATA OLIVE loaves! They make wonderful dinner breads, as well, and fantastic sandwiches and panini. And for the sweet hearth loaf of the week, we’re baking FRUITED ALMOND sourdough, full of dried apricots, cranberries, and golden raisins, studded with toasted almonds, and scented with almond extract. It makes lovely snacks and breakfasts, great road food, hiking rations, and contributions to office parties.  After you order the bread, you can pick up your loaves on Wednesday mornings (8-10am) downtown at Side Street Espresso (412 G Street), or on Wednesday evenings (4-6pm) at Summit Spice & Tea Company’s South Anchorage store, in the little mall at Huffman and Old Seward: 1120 Huffman Rd, Suite 1. If you’ve never ordered bread through the website, you’ll click on the “register now” link, pick a username and password, and enter your information (name, email, and phone numbers). Then you can place your order! In case you can’t make the website work, you can always email me at: , or call me at 677-3712. If you’ve ordered bread before, but you are having trouble remembering your login name or password, you can email me , or call me at 677-3712. I’m happy to help you! the bread ordering deadline You’ll need to order your bread by MIDNIGHT on Sunday, so we have time to plan our bake, feed our sourdough, and pre-ferment the dough!  When you order the bread, you can choose to “pay when you pick up your bread,” or you can pay via PayPal. By all means, use PayPal if you prefer—but I’m even happier to get your checks or cash when you come pick up your bread. bread pickup locations Pick-up locations for Wednesdays: 1.  Side Street Espresso, 412 G Street, downtown: 8-10am 2.  Summit Spice & Tea Co., 1120 Huffman Rd, Suite 1 (Huffman & Old Seward): 4-6pm If you need to call me during a pick-up time, you can reach me on my cell phone at 748-3712. At other times,  please call me at home/the bakery: 677-3712. Would you like to see a video of us baking your bread? Our bakery is a small commercial kitchen attached to our house on the lower Anchorage Hillside. Alison’s blog If you’d like to check out lots of savory and healthful recipes, you can find lots more of them on my blog about cooking and eating local food: Alison’s Lunch. You can even sign up for my blog posts (about local food, cooking, and recipes) to be delivered to your email! if you have trouble signing up, and I can help you. The Bread Bulletin, 2012-03-29T17:43:33+00:00 http://riseandshinebread.com/index.php/site/issue_65 http://riseandshinebread.com/index.php/site/issue_65#When:05:23:19Z {summary}Hello! We hope you’ve all had a great Spring Break! We are excited to get back to baking!  Until we start baking weekly for the South Anchorage Farmers Market in June, we will be baking about once a month, so stock up and pop some bread in the freezer if you’d like. The bread really does freeze and thaw well. Our next bake after this one, March 28, will be April 18th. Thanks very much for signing up for our weekly Rise & Shine Bakery Bulletin. Every time we are gearing up to bake, I’ll let you know ahead of time about the bread flavors we’ll be baking, and remind you to order. Below, you’ll find a list of breads available for order this week. For pickup on Wednesday, March 28 (please order by Sunday, March 25): For pan loaves, we’re baking the ever-popular 100% whole grain SPENT GRAIN sourdough pan loaves, packed with barley groats from Midnight Sun Brewing Company’s beer-making process that make the bread healthy, moist, and flavorful. And we’re also lined up to bake our signature LEVAIN(the French word for naturally-leavened bread, or sourdough), made with just whole wheat organic flour, well water, salt and sourdough. It’s the three-day fermentation we use for all our breads that gives the levain its great flavor and keeping quality. Our savory hearth loaves for the week will be the 100% whole wheat TOASTED WALNUTsourdough, and the lighter (60% whole wheat) FRESH ROSEMARYsourdough. The fresh rosemary gives the bread a lovely herbal flavor that goes really well with lots of different foods—great for sandwiches, as well as dinner bread with soup. If you’re using it for a dinner bread, just heat the unwrapped loaf in a 350 degree oven for 15 minutes to get a beautiful crisp crust on it before you sit down to eat. Our crunchy, hearty toasted walnut bread is loaded with nuts; I especially love it for breakfast toast, but it’s great with soups and salads, too. And for the sweet hearth loaf of the week, we’re baking FRUITED ALMOND, full of dried apricots, cranberries, and golden raisins, studded with toasted almonds, and scented with almond extract. It makes lovely snacks and breakfasts, great road food, hiking rations, and contributions to office parties. After you order the bread, you can pick up your loaves on Wednesday mornings (8-10am) downtown at Side Street Espresso (412 G Street), or on Wednesday evenings (4-6pm) at Summit Spice & Tea Company’s South Anchorage store, in the little mall at Huffman and Old Seward: 1120 Huffman Rd, Suite 1. If you’ve never ordered bread through the website, you’ll click on the “register now” link, pick a username and password, and enter your information (name, email, and phone numbers). Then you can place your order! In case you can’t make the website work, you can always email me at: , or call me at 677-3712. If you’ve ordered bread before, but you are having trouble remembering your login name or password, you can email me , or call me at 677-3712. I’m happy to help you! the bread ordering deadline You’ll need to order your bread by MIDNIGHT on Sunday, so we have time to plan our bake, feed our sourdough, and pre-ferment the dough!  When you order the bread, you can choose to “pay when you pick up your bread,” or you can pay via PayPal. By all means, use PayPal if you prefer—but I’m even happier to get your checks or cash when you come pick up your bread. bread pickup locations Pick-up locations for Wednesdays: 1.  Side Street Espresso, 412 G Street, downtown: 8-10am 2.  Summit Spice & Tea Co., 1120 Huffman Rd, Suite 1 (Huffman & Old Seward): 4-6pm If you need to call me during a pick-up time, you can reach me on my cell phone at 748-3712. At other times,  please call me at home/the bakery: 677-3712. Would you like to see a video of us baking your bread? Our bakery is a small commercial kitchen attached to our house on the lower Anchorage Hillside. Alison’s blog If you’d like to check out lots of savory and healthful recipes, you can find lots more of them on my blog about cooking and eating local food: Alison’s Lunch. You can even sign up for my blog posts (about local food, cooking, and recipes) to be delivered to your email! if you have trouble signing up, and I can help you. The Bread Bulletin, 2012-03-22T05:23:19+00:00 http://riseandshinebread.com/index.php/site/issue_64 http://riseandshinebread.com/index.php/site/issue_64#When:07:23:32Z {summary}We are on our mid-winter break, and we’ll be back baking again at the end of March.  Starting on Thursday March 22nd you can begin ordering bread for pickup on Wednesday March 28th. We’ll be baking the following breads: Pan loaves: spent grain, levain Hearth loaves: toasted walnut, fresh rosemary, fruited almond If you’d like a reminder to order please subscribe to our bakery email bulletin! Would you like to see a video of us baking your bread? Our bakery is a small commercial kitchen attached to our house on the lower Anchorage Hillside. Alison’s blog If you’d like to check out lots of savory and healthful recipes, you can find lots more of them on my blog about cooking and eating local food: Alison’s Lunch. You can even sign up for my blog posts (about local food, cooking, and recipes) to be delivered to your email! if you have trouble signing up, and I can help you. Cheers! Dan and Alison The Bread Bulletin, 2012-02-17T07:23:32+00:00 http://riseandshinebread.com/index.php/site/issue_63 http://riseandshinebread.com/index.php/site/issue_63#When:02:22:01Z {summary}You can start ordering now for picking up bread on January 25. Please order by Sunday, January 22, to give us time to ferment the sourdough and make your loaves! After this bake, we won’t be baking again until March 28th, so if you need to stock up on a few loaves, remember, they do freeze very nicely. Our savory hearth loaf will be the KALAMATA OLIVE sourdough, great for dinner bread, sandwiches, and just dipped in olive oil anytime. And the sweet hearth loaf will be the RAISIN & TOASTED PECAN sourdough bread. These lovely little loaves make wonderful breakfast toast, teatime snacks, or road food. This is the first time we’ve baked our FLAX SEED sourdough pan loaf during the winter season. We grind the flax seeds (a half-cup at a time, in a coffee grinder) just before we bake the bread, so the flax meal is fresh and full of omega-3s. The bread also contains pumpernickel flour, so it’s hearty and delicious, but has a nice moist texture. The 100% whole grain ALASKAN POTATO and SPENT GRAIN pan loaves make wonderful breakfast toast and sandwiches. After you order the bread, you can pick up your loaves on Wednesday mornings (8-10am) downtown at Side Street Espresso (412 G Street), or on Wednesday evenings (4-6pm) at Summit Spice & Tea Company’s South Anchorage store, in the little mall at Huffman and Old Seward: 1120 Huffman Rd, Suite 1. If you’ve never ordered bread through the website, you’ll click on the “register now” link, pick a username and password, and enter your information (name, email, and phone numbers). Then you can place your order! In case you can’t make the website work, you can always email me at: , or call me at 677-3712. If you’ve ordered bread before, but you are having trouble remembering your login name or password, you can email me , or call me at 677-3712. I’m happy to help you! the bread ordering deadline You’ll need to order your bread by MIDNIGHT on Sunday, so we have time to plan our bake, feed our sourdough, and pre-ferment the dough!  When you order the bread, you can choose to “pay when you pick up your bread,” or you can pay via PayPal. By all means, use PayPal if you prefer—but I’m even happier to get your checks or cash when you come pick up your bread. bread pickup locations Pick-up locations for Wednesdays: 1.  Side Street Espresso, 412 G Street, downtown: 8-10am 2.  Summit Spice & Tea Co., 1120 Huffman Rd, Suite 1 (Huffman & Old Seward): 4-6pm If you need to call me during a pick-up time, you can reach me on my cell phone at 748-3712. At other times,  please call me at home/the bakery: 677-3712. Would you like to see a video of us baking your bread? Our bakery is a small commercial kitchen attached to our house on the lower Anchorage Hillside. Alison’s blog If you’d like to check out lots of savory and healthful recipes, you can find lots more of them on my blog about cooking and eating local food: Alison’s Lunch. You can even sign up for my blog posts (about local food, cooking, and recipes) to be delivered to your email! if you have trouble signing up, and I can help you. The Bread Bulletin, 2011-12-22T02:22:01+00:00 http://riseandshinebread.com/index.php/site/issue_62 http://riseandshinebread.com/index.php/site/issue_62#When:18:04:43Z {summary}I won’t add to your stress by pointing out how many shopping days there are until Christmas… But you can start ordering now for bread pickup next Wednesday, on December 21! You can use our bread as holiday gifts, as well as for your own holiday table! Another gift-giving option is gift certificates for loaves of bread. I know that sometimes we get inundated with delicious goodies in December—almost too many to enjoy properly. If you want to give your friends the opportunity to receive bread later in the year, I’m happy to create special gift certificates for you, and then mail them to you or your gift recipient. Just email me at with the name of the recipients, the number of loaves you’d like to give them, and the address to which I should mail the gift certificates. You can mail me a check or drop off the payment at Side Street (8-10am next Wednesday) or Summit Spice and Tea (4-6pm next Wednesday). If you sign up for our email list (at left) I’ll send you a reminder on the Thursdays before we bake. For pickup on Wednesday, December 21 (please order by Sunday, December 18): We’ll be baking our two most popular sweet and fruity sourdough breads this week—especially for gift-giving!  You can decide between the DARK CHOCOLATE & CHERRY loaves, and the ever-popular FRUITED ALMOND loaves. The CHOCOLATE & CHERRY bread is a bit decadent, filled with dried sweetened cherries and dark chocolate chunks—but it’s dairy-free, without any eggs or butter! The long fermentation of the sourdough is what gives the bread it’s great texture and moistness. It’s great with coffee, tea, or red wine!  The FRUITED ALMOND bread is packed with all kinds of holiday flavors—toasted almonds, apricots, golden raisins, and cranberries. The beauty of both of these loaves is that they freeze exceptionally well—so whether you’re giving them as gifts, or stocking up for yourself, these loaves do NOT have to be eaten right away, just when you’re inundated with all kinds of cookies, candy, and rich holiday foods. Your friends can pop them in the freezer and save them for January if they like!  Our savory hearth loaf for the week will be FRESH ROSEMARY sourdough. The fresh rosemary gives the bread a savory herbal flavor that goes so well with lots of different foods. Decorated with leaf-shaped slashings on top, it’s quite beautiful on your holiday table, too. If you’re using it for a dinner bread, just heat the unwrapped loaf in a 350 degree oven for 15 minutes to get a beautiful crisp crust on it before you sit down to eat! It makes fantastic sandwiches, too, with leftover turkey and stuffing. The 100% whole grain ALASKAN POTATO sourdough and SPENT GRAIN sourdoughpan loaves make fantastic bread cubes to use for your favorite stuffing recipe, and they are also wonderful for making toast and sandwiches. After you order the bread, you can pick up your loaves on Wednesday mornings (8-10am) downtown at Side Street Espresso (412 G Street), or on Wednesday evenings (4-6pm) at Summit Spice & Tea Company’s South Anchorage store, in the little mall at Huffman and Old Seward: 1120 Huffman Rd, Suite 1. If you’ve never ordered bread through the website, you’ll click on the “register now” link, pick a username and password, and enter your information (name, email, and phone numbers). Then you can place your order! In case you can’t make the website work, you can always email me at: , or call me at 677-3712. If you’ve ordered bread before, but you are having trouble remembering your login name or password, you can email me , or call me at 677-3712. I’m happy to help you! Our winter schedule will be similar to last year—we’ll be baking about every other week, always skipping the first Wednesday of the month. The schedule will vary a little, though, to accommodate the holidays, to make sure you’ll have plenty of opportunities to order bread for gifts, if you need to. Please see our long term baking schedule to find out what we’re baking over the next several weeks. the bread ordering deadline You’ll need to order your bread by MIDNIGHT on Sunday, so we have time to plan our bake, feed our sourdough, and pre-ferment the dough!  When you order the bread, you can choose to “pay when you pick up your bread,” or you can pay via PayPal. By all means, use PayPal if you prefer—but I’m even happier to get your checks or cash when you come pick up your bread. bread pickup locations Pick-up locations for Wednesdays: 1.  Side Street Espresso, 412 G Street, downtown: 8-10am 2.  Summit Spice & Tea Co., 1120 Huffman Rd, Suite 1 (Huffman & Old Seward): 4-6pm If you need to call me during a pick-up time, you can reach me on my cell phone at 748-3712. At other times,  please call me at home/the bakery: 677-3712. Would you like to see a video of us baking your bread? Our bakery is a small commercial kitchen attached to our house on the lower Anchorage Hillside. Alison’s blog If you’d like to check out lots of savory and healthful recipes, you can find lots more of them on my blog about cooking and eating local food: Alison’s Lunch. You can even sign up for my blog posts (about local food, cooking, and recipes) to be delivered to your email! if you have trouble signing up, and I can help you. The Bread Bulletin, 2011-12-15T18:04:43+00:00 http://riseandshinebread.com/index.php/site/issue_61 http://riseandshinebread.com/index.php/site/issue_61#When:16:46:42Z {summary}You can start ordering now for bread pickup on December 14.  In December, we’ll be baking for the two Wednesdays before Christmas:  December 14 and December 21.  If you’d like to use the bread as holiday gifts, as well as for your own holiday table, you’ll have both those opportunities to order bread. Another gift-giving option are gift certificates for loaves of bread. I know that sometimes we get inundated with delicious goodies in December—almost too many to enjoy properly. If you want to give your friends the opportunity to receive bread later in the year, I’m happy to create special gift certificates for you, and then mail them to you or your gift recipient. Just email me at with the name of the recipients, the number of loaves you’d like to give them, and the address to which I should mail the gift certificates. You can mail me a check or drop off the payment at Side Street (8-10am on the next two Wednesdays) or Summit Spice and Tea (4-6pm on the next two Wednesdays). If you sign up for our email list (at left) I’ll send you a reminder on the Thursdays before we bake. For pickup on Wednesday, December 14 (please order by Sunday, December 11): We’ll be baking our two most popular sweet and fruity sourdough breads this week—especially for gift-giving!  You can decide between the DARK CHOCOLATE & CHERRY loaves, and the ever-popular FRUITED ALMOND loaves. The CHOCOLATE & CHERRY bread is a bit decadent, filled with dried sweetened cherries and dark chocolate chunks—but it’s dairy-free, without any eggs or butter! The long fermentation of the sourdough is what gives the bread it’s great texture and moistness. It’s great with coffee, tea, or red wine!  The FRUITED ALMOND bread is packed with all kinds of holiday flavors—toasted almonds, apricots, golden raisins, and cranberries. The beauty of both of these loaves is that they freeze exceptionally well—so whether you’re giving them as gifts, or stocking up for yourself, these loaves do NOT have to be eaten right away, just when you’re inundated with all kinds of cookies, candy, and rich holiday foods. Your friends can pop them in the freezer and save them for January if they like!  Our savory hearth loaf for the week will be our ALASKAN ONION RYE. The mellow, subtle taste of the roasted onions in the bread marries perfectly with the grassy taste of rye. These breads don’t contain caraway seeds, just in case you’re thinking you don’t like rye bread—so you can taste the lovely flavor of the grains. Our rye bread is great for sandwiches, and as dinner bread with soups or salads. Toast a slice and dip it in olive oil for a starter—it’s got a lovely texture. The 100% whole grain SIGNATURE LEVAIN and SPENT GRAIN SOURDOUGH pan loaves make fantastic bread cubes to use for your favorite stuffing recipe, and they are also wonderful for making toast and sandwiches. After you order the bread, you can pick up your loaves on Wednesday mornings (8-10am) downtown at Side Street Espresso (412 G Street), or on Wednesday evenings (4-6pm) at Summit Spice & Tea Company’s South Anchorage store, in the little mall at Huffman and Old Seward: 1120 Huffman Rd, Suite 1. If you’ve never ordered bread through the website, you’ll click on the “register now” link, pick a username and password, and enter your information (name, email, and phone numbers). Then you can place your order! In case you can’t make the website work, you can always email me at: , or call me at 677-3712. If you’ve ordered bread before, but you are having trouble remembering your login name or password, you can email me , or call me at 677-3712. I’m happy to help you! Our winter schedule will be similar to last year—we’ll be baking about every other week, always skipping the first Wednesday of the month. The schedule will vary a little, though, to accommodate the holidays, to make sure you’ll have plenty of opportunities to order bread for gifts, if you need to. Please see our long term baking schedule to find out what we’re baking over the next several weeks. the bread ordering deadline You’ll need to order your bread by MIDNIGHT on Sunday, so we have time to plan our bake, feed our sourdough, and pre-ferment the dough!  When you order the bread, you can choose to “pay when you pick up your bread,” or you can pay via PayPal. By all means, use PayPal if you prefer—but I’m even happier to get your checks or cash when you come pick up your bread. bread pickup locations Pick-up locations for Wednesdays: 1.  Side Street Espresso, 412 G Street, downtown: 8-10am 2.  Summit Spice & Tea Co., 1120 Huffman Rd, Suite 1 (Huffman & Old Seward): 4-6pm If you need to call me during a pick-up time, you can reach me on my cell phone at 748-3712. At other times,  please call me at home/the bakery: 677-3712. Would you like to see a video of us baking your bread? Our bakery is a small commercial kitchen attached to our house on the lower Anchorage Hillside. Alison’s blog If you’d like to check out lots of savory and healthful recipes, you can find lots more of them on my blog about cooking and eating local food: Alison’s Lunch. You can even sign up for my blog posts (about local food, cooking, and recipes) to be delivered to your email! if you have trouble signing up, and I can help you. The Bread Bulletin, 2011-11-24T16:46:42+00:00 http://riseandshinebread.com/index.php/site/i http://riseandshinebread.com/index.php/site/i#When:05:13:19Z {summary}Thanksgiving is almost here!  You can order now for Thanksgiving week (pickup on Wednesday, November 23). If you sign up for our email list (at left) I’ll send you a reminder on the Thursdays before we bake. For pickup on Wednesday, November 23 (please order by Sunday, November 20): If you don’t have plans to make your own rolls for Thanksgiving dinner, our ROSEMARY SOURDOUGH bread and our KALAMATA OLIVE SOURDOUGH bread both make wonderful dinner breads for the feast—just heat them up (unwrapped) in an approximately 350-degree oven for about 15 minutes. The outside will be crusty and yummy, the inside hot and moist. Yum! The 100% whole grain ALASKAN POTATO SOURDOUGH and SPENT GRAIN SOURDOUGH pan loaves make fantastic bread cubes to use for your favorite stuffing recipe, and they are also wonderful for making turkey sandwiches all weekend long.  (The rosemary bread and olive bread also make great sandwiches, too!) And in case you didn’t already have a dessert planned, or you want an easy breakfast or snack this week, since you’ll be busy preparing the pumpkin pies and whatnot (although I admit, I love pumpkin pie for breakfast), stock up on a loaf or two of the FRUITED ALMOND bread. Packed with all kinds of holiday flavors—toasted almonds, apricots, golden raisins, and cranberries—you can’t go wrong. After you order the bread, you can pick up your loaves on Wednesday mornings (8-10am) downtown at Side Street Espresso (412 G Street), or on Wednesday evenings (4-6pm) at [please note new location!] Summit Spice & Tea Company’s South Anchorage store, in the little mall at Huffman and Old Seward: 1120 Huffman Rd, Suite 1. If you’ve never ordered bread through the website, you’ll click on the “register now” link, pick a username and password, and enter your information (name, email, and phone numbers). Then you can place your order! In case you can’t make the website work, you can always email me at: , or call me at 677-3712. If you’ve ordered bread before, but you are having trouble remembering your login name or password, you can email me , or call me at 677-3712. I’m happy to help you! Our winter schedule will be similar to last year—we’ll be baking about every other week, always skipping the first Wednesday of the month. The schedule will vary a little, though, to accommodate the holidays, to make sure you’ll have plenty of opportunities to order bread for gifts, if you need to. Please see our long term baking schedule to find out what we’re baking over the next several weeks. the bread ordering deadline You’ll need to order your bread by MIDNIGHT on Sunday, so we have time to plan our bake, feed our sourdough, and pre-ferment the dough!  When you order the bread, you can choose to “pay when you pick up your bread,” or you can pay via PayPal. By all means, use PayPal if you prefer—but I’m even happier to get your checks or cash when you come pick up your bread. bread pickup locations Pick-up locations for Wednesdays: 1.  Side Street Espresso, 412 G Street, downtown: 8-10am 2.  Summit Spice & Tea Co., 1120 Huffman Rd, Suite 1 (Huffman & Old Seward): 4-6pm If you need to call me during a pick-up time, you can reach me on my cell phone at 748-3712. At other times,  please call me at home/the bakery: 677-3712. Would you like to see a video of us baking your bread? Our bakery is a small commercial kitchen attached to our house on the lower Anchorage Hillside. Alison’s blog If you’d like to check out lots of savory and healthful recipes, you can find lots more of them on my blog about cooking and eating local food: Alison’s Lunch. You can even sign up for my blog posts (about local food, cooking, and recipes) to be delivered to your email! if you have trouble signing up, and I can help you. The Bread Bulletin, 2011-11-11T05:13:19+00:00 http://riseandshinebread.com/index.php/site/issue_59 http://riseandshinebread.com/index.php/site/issue_59#When:16:05:54Z {summary}Hello! If you haven’t already, please sign up for our email newsletters (see the sidebar on the left)! The newsletters will remind you when to order, and let you know what flavors of bread we’ll be baking for you! We’re back to our wintertime routine, where you can order the bread here on our website and we will bake your loaves for pickup on alternate Wednesdays. Are you ready to order your very own bread and have those lovely fresh loaves waiting for you when you come pick them up on Wednesdays? No more wondering whether we’ve run out of your favorite flavor at the farmers market—the loaves you order are just for you! IMPORTANT NOTE: We have a new delivery location on the south side. If you would normally pick up your bread at Over the Rainbow Toys, now you’ll be picking up your bread at SUMMIT SPICE & TEA COMPANY on Huffman Road. Summit Spice & Tea Company’s South Anchorage location is located on the other side of Huffman Road from the toy store and the post office, in the little mall at Huffman and Old Seward. The address is 1120 Huffman Rd, Suite 1. They have all kinds of great teas, jams, olive and nut oils, preserves, chocolates, and other goodies.  Our downtown location will remain the same, at the marvelous Side Street Espresso (412 G Street). For pickup on Wednesday, November 9 (please order by Sunday, November 6): We’re baking the ever-popular 100% whole grain SPENT GRAIN sourdough pan loaves, packed with barley groats from Midnight Sun Brewing Company’s beer-making process that make the bread healthy, moist, and flavorful. And we’re also lined up to bake our signature LEVAIN, made with just whole wheat organic flour, well water, salt and sourdough…  it’s the three-day fermentation that gives the great its great flavor and keeping quality. For hearth loaves this week, we’re baking 100% whole wheat TOASTED SEED sourdough. Loaded with sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, and flax seeds, this hearty little loaf is wonderful as toast for breakfast or with soups and salads for lunch or dinner. We’re also baking the ALASKAN POTATO & CHIVE hearth loaves, which make great sandwiches or dinner bread. You can heat them as a loaf in the oven (just pop your loaf, unwrapped, in a 350-degree oven for 10 or 15 minutes until the crust is crispy and the middle hot and moist) or just toast a couple of slices and dip them in olive oil to go with soups or salads.  YUM!  And for the sweet hearth loaf of the week, we’re baking the RAISIN & TOASTED PECAN, so full of fruit that you don’t really need anything on top of your toast slices, but a little butter does make it even more wonderful!  I helped out with a fun event at Rabbit Creek Elementary School last Monday, with the Farms to Schools project on National Food Day. We did a carrot tasting for the whole school, comparing Alaskan carrots to carrots grown Outside. Guess which carrots won! Want to see the piece on KTUU about the event?  Or Erik Hill’s photos in the Anchorage Daily News? After you order the bread, you can pick up your loaves on Wednesday mornings (8-10am) downtown at Side Street Espresso (412 G Street), or on Wednesday evenings (4-6pm) at [please note new location!] Summit Spice & Tea Company’s South Anchorage store, in the little mall at Huffman and Old Seward: 1120 Huffman Rd, Suite 1. If you’ve never ordered bread through the website, you’ll click on the “register now” link, pick a username and password, and enter your information (name, email, and phone numbers). Then you can place your order! In case you can’t make the website work, you can always email me at: , or call me at 677-3712. If you’ve ordered bread before, but you are having trouble remembering your login name or password, you can email me , or call me at 677-3712. I’m happy to help you! Our winter schedule will be similar to last year—we’ll be baking about every other week, always skipping the first Wednesday of the month. The schedule will vary a little, though, to accommodate the holidays, to make sure you’ll have plenty of opportunities to order bread for gifts, if you need to. Please see our long term baking schedule to find out what we’re baking over the next several weeks. the bread ordering deadline You’ll need to order your bread by MIDNIGHT on Sunday, so we have time to plan our bake, feed our sourdough, and pre-ferment the dough!  When you order the bread, you can choose to “pay when you pick up your bread,” or you can pay via PayPal. By all means, use PayPal if you prefer—but I’m even happier to get your checks or cash when you come pick up your bread. bread pickup locations Pick-up locations for Wednesdays: 1.  Side Street Espresso, 412 G Street, downtown: 8-10am 2.  Summit Spice & Tea Co., 1120 Huffman Rd, Suite 1 (Huffman & Old Seward): 4-6pm If you need to call me during a pick-up time, you can reach me on my cell phone at 748-3712. At other times,  please call me at home/the bakery: 677-3712. Would you like to see a video of us baking your bread? Our bakery is a small commercial kitchen attached to our house on the lower Anchorage Hillside. Alison’s blog If you’d like to check out lots of savory and healthful recipes, you can find lots more of them on my blog about cooking and eating local food: Alison’s Lunch. You can even sign up for my blog posts (about local food, cooking, and recipes) to be delivered to your email! if you have trouble signing up, and I can help you. The Bread Bulletin, 2011-10-28T16:05:54+00:00 http://riseandshinebread.com/index.php/site/issue_58 http://riseandshinebread.com/index.php/site/issue_58#When:14:16:26Z {summary}Hello!! Welcome to our website! We’re back to our wintertime routine, where you can order the bread here on our website and we will bake your loaves for pickup on alternate Wednesdays. Are you ready to order your very own bread and have those lovely fresh loaves waiting for you when you come pick them up on Wednesdays? No more wondering whether we’ve run out of your favorite flavor at the farmers market—the loaves you order are just for you! IMPORTANT NOTE: We have a new delivery location on the south side. If you would normally pick up your bread at Over the Rainbow Toys, now you’ll be picking up your bread at SUMMIT SPICE & TEA COMPANY on Huffman Road. Summit Spice & Tea Company’s South Anchorage location is located on the other side of Huffman Road from the toy store and the post office, in the little mall at Huffman and Old Seward. The address is 1120 Huffman Rd, Suite 1. They have all kinds of great teas, jams, olive and nut oils, preserves, chocolates, and other goodies.  Our downtown location will remain the same, at the marvelous Side Street Espresso (412 G Street). If you haven’t already, please sign up for our email newsletters (see the sidebar on the left)! The newsletters will remind you when to order, and let you know what flavors of bread we’ll be baking for you! For pickup on Wednesday, October 26 (please order by Sunday, October 23): We’re baking the ever-popular 100% whole grain SPENT GRAIN sourdough pan loaves, packed with barley groats from Midnight Sun Brewing Company’s beer-making process that make the bread healthy, moist, and flavorful. And we’re also lined up to bake my personal favorite pan loaves, the 100% whole wheat ALASKAN POTATO sourdough, which taste just like the regular levain loaves, but with added moistness and tenderness from the Palmer-grown baked potatoes kneaded into the dough. Also this week we’re also doing the ONION RYE sourdough…  one of our all-time favorite loaves for sandwiches. It also makes a great dinner bread—the grassy flavor of the rye flour combined with the sweet complexity of the onions really makes for delicious slices. Heat as a loaf in the oven (just pop your loaf, unwrapped, in a 350-degree oven for 10 or 15 minutes until the crust is crispy and the middle hot and moist) or just toast a couple of slices and dip them in olive oil to go with soups or salads.  YUM!  And speaking of olives, we’re also baking those fun KALAMATA OLIVE loaves! They make wonderful dinner breads, as well, and fantastic sandwiches and panini. And for the sweet hearth loaf of the week, we’re baking FRUITED ALMOND sourdough, full of dried apricots, cranberries, and golden raisins, studded with toasted almonds, and scented with almond extract. It makes lovely snacks and breakfasts, great road food, hiking rations, and contributions to office parties.  After you order the bread, you can pick up your loaves on Wednesday mornings (8-10am) downtown at Side Street Espresso (412 G Street), or on Wednesday evenings (4-6pm) at [please note new location!] Summit Spice & Tea Company’s South Anchorage store, in the little mall at Huffman and Old Seward: 1120 Huffman Rd, Suite 1. If you’ve never ordered bread through the website, you’ll click on the “register now” link, pick a username and password, and enter your information (name, email, and phone numbers). Then you can place your order! In case you can’t make the website work, you can always email me at: , or call me at 677-3712. If you’ve ordered bread before, but you are having trouble remembering your login name or password, you can email me , or call me at 677-3712. I’m happy to help you! Our winter schedule will be similar to last year—we’ll be baking about every other week, always skipping the first Wednesday of the month. The schedule will vary a little, though, to accommodate the holidays, to make sure you’ll have plenty of opportunities to order bread for gifts, if you need to. Please see our long term baking schedule to find out what we’re baking over the next several weeks. the bread ordering deadline You’ll need to order your bread by MIDNIGHT on Sunday, so we have time to plan our bake, feed our sourdough, and pre-ferment the dough!  When you order the bread, you can choose to “pay when you pick up your bread,” or you can pay via PayPal. By all means, use PayPal if you prefer—but I’m even happier to get your checks or cash when you come pick up your bread. bread pickup locations Pick-up locations for Wednesdays: 1.  Side Street Espresso, 412 G Street, downtown: 8-10am 2.  Summit Spice & Tea Co., 1120 Huffman Rd, Suite 1 (Huffman & Old Seward): 4-6pm If you need to call me during a pick-up time, you can reach me on my cell phone at 748-3712. At other times,  please call me at home/the bakery: 677-3712. Would you like to see a video of us baking your bread? Our bakery is a small commercial kitchen attached to our house on the lower Anchorage Hillside. Alison’s blog If you’d like to check out lots of savory and healthful recipes, you can find lots more of them on my blog about cooking and eating local food: Alison’s Lunch. You can even sign up for my blog posts (about local food, cooking, and recipes) to be delivered to your email! if you have trouble signing up, and I can help you. The Bread Bulletin, 2011-10-20T14:16:26+00:00