We’re stoked about the week - apologies for the radio silence, but I’ve been heads down on some consulting work and Corinna’s been swamped in the kitchen, but it’s been a really great week over at Corinna’s.

We’re putting out several posts over the next couple of days; two new customers (Hawthorne Valley Farm Store and Kaaterskill Farm Store), some awesome sales and feedback at Chatham Real Food Market Coop, and some exciting new stores that we’re in discussions with.

Also I’m going to blog about the fantastic service we got from our local printer, Pro Printers, where Ryan went above and beyond to help us out. We’re also going to talk about last Saturday at the Hudson Farmer’s Market, where we met several local producers (mushrooms, cheese, eggs and veggies) and lest I forget, the new line of ham and cheese croissants that are selling out every time we bring them out.

But first, lemme tell you about tomorrow’s Ginsberg’s 100th Anniversary Open House. We’re there, under the big top with an array of goodies for sale. We’ll have ham and cheese, plain, almond and chocolate crouissants, of course.

We’ll also have, for sale for the first time Corinna’s quark-cakes. These are real German cheese cake, made with Quark and not Philadelphia - they’re three inches wide and about four and a half inches high and topped with a delicate  tuile butterfly cookie. Delicate and substantial, satisfying but not overly filling. Five bucks.

There’ll also be cheese sticks, lemon petits four, lemon tartlets, rye bread and  palmiers. We hope to see you there - Route 66 near Route 9H!

We’re truly happy that living up here in the sticks provides us with more than the usual opportunities for Community Supported Agriculture - that is, sharing the risk with local (in our case, mainly organic or biodynamic) farmers by buying a share of their harvest before the start of the season. This gives us two key advantages.

First, we get the very freshest fruits and vegetables all summer long, into the autumn. Second, Corinna’s gets to have the finest quality produce and fruits for our products.

To that end, we just bought two shares of the CSA at Threshold Farms, a local biodynamic orchard that does sensational apples, pears and peaches. We bought a third share for our family.

Threshold does three white peach varieties (raritan rose, White Hale and Bell of Georgia) and three yellow (Bisco, Harbrite and Red Haven). It also does Paulared, Gala, Cox Orange Pippin, Jonafree, Jonagold, Macoun, Liberty,  Golden Delicious, Fuji, Idared and Baldwin apples, and Clapps, Bartlett, Bosc and Comice pears.

For more information about Threshold, which doesn’t have its own website, visit their listing on greenPeople.org. We’ll write more about suppliers in the near future.

At the request of a new customer we’ve not yet announced, Corinna’s been messing with scones again. The real thing with scones is that, like bagels in New York, they’re made correctly by few and incorrectly by the masses. There are legions of people out there who believe truly that a scone is some kind of triangular blueberry muffin.

So for the last week we’ve had scone-city up here in Harlemville, but now it looks like we’re good to go. We’re not selling these at many places, but will try them out at Strongtree and this new secret customer, and see how they go.

Meantime Corinna’s been cranking out the vanilla ice cream and that is pretty damn sensational. She does it with organic cream, Hawthorne Valley Farm raw organic (biodynamic, actually) milk and Ronnybrook Farms skim milk, organic egg yolks, and this pretty sensually spectacular fresh vanilla bean we had flown in from Madagascar - the result is out of this world, especially when she does it with a sauce from the raspberries growing on our land.

That last bit was not a product announcement, it was just to make you seethe with jealousy.

We’re proud and honored to announce that Corinna’s Croissants are available at the Chatham Real Food Market Coop in Chatham, NY. We’re so excited because we love shopping at the Real Food Market Coop - it recently built out from a farmers’ market to a full-fledged community resource, and it has a truly wonderful selection of extremely high quality locally-produced goods including some wonderful breads, a vast assortment of locally produced fruits and vegetables, and organic goods.  There’s a little cafe, and many people pop by for coffee break, lunch and snacks.

Chatham Real Food was founded with the specific goal of strengthening our rural community. It works with local farmers to develop our food security, and with local artisans, farmers and other producers to help build a healthy local economy in our county. The Market is a cooperatively-owned outlet for the products of local farms and kitchens, provides education about Columbia County agriculture, and promotes a more localized food system.

To some of those ends, Corinna’s baked goods will be available at the Coop from next Friday, May 22, when we deliver an assortment of croissants and cheese sticks at 10 am, in time for coffee-break.

Then, later on Friday, May 22, from 4-7pm, Corinna and I will be at the market doing a tasting and demonstration of the products. Come on out and join us for some fantastic new stuff, to talk baking and swap baking tips and tricks. There will be Mexican food available, so Corinna will bring along a batch of her seriously decadent Mexican Wedding Cookies - pecan-packed, confectioners-sugar-coated diet-busting cluster bombs.

We’re very happy to be selling at the market, and hope to see you there!

This afternoon from 5-8pm, Corinna’s Comestibles will be giving out croissants and quark-berry bear claws at the new Strongtree Organic Coffee Roasters in Hudson, NY.

Strongtree is a new coffee roaster and cafe at 60 South Front Street, at the Train Depot, Hudson, NY 12534 (518) 697-8851. Tonight is its ’soft-open’, where they’ll be introducing the new place to the community and trying to catch commuters on their way back from the City to tempt them with the delights that will await in the mornings.

Organic, Fair Trade, fresh-roasted, freshly-made good premium Arabica coffee. And our seriously decadent croissants, bear claws, puff-pastry cheese sticks? Maybe. If the trial run tonight works out, Strongtree and we will talk, and possibly we can get something going.

We’re extremely excited about the opportunity to cooperate with Strongtree - just the idea of a decent cup of coffee for the morning train to New York City is enough to get our blood going!

So come on down and see us tonight and enjoy a croissant and coffee on us and Strongtree!

We’re really happy to announce that the final state inspection of our production facility took place this morning, and Corinna’s is open for business! We’re beginning with croissant, bear claws and scones for some fantastic local businesses including the Berkshire Co-op Market in Great Barrington, MA and several others we’ll list when we solidify the order process.

Looking forward to working with you all, and sharing recipes, baking tips and tricks, horror stories and sharing content about organic and local foods.