Variety Includes Baked Bread

CSA Variety Now Includes Yummy Baked Bread!

The Co-op continues to look for new producing members that compliment the variety offered in our CSA Variety Box.

This year, we are pleased to welcome Roxana, owner and baker at the local Carmel Valley Wild Goose Café and Bakery.

Today’s box includes a one-pound loaf, baked fresh this morning in her Carmel Valley ovens. It is a whole wheat bread that includes multiple grains wheat, oats, and millet and flax seed. Roxana sprouts her own spelt and wheat and adds these healthy ingredients to her bread as well.

The Wild Goose Café and Bakery is located at 18 East Carmel Valley Road in Carmel Valley Village.

If you decide to make a trip ‘downtown’ you find other delicious baked goods, coffees and teas.I stopped by yesterday to say hello, and got to sample some of her rye bread, which was fabulous. A couple of weeks ago, I was treated to her home-made panna cotta. Oh my! Drizzled in berry sauce. It was so delicious, I could hardly see while I was eating it! That flavor is something I will remember in my final moments on Earth :)

She also has gluten free options including an amazing blueberry muffin made with rice flour, yogurt, and egg whites, and an entirely vegan rice flour banana bread.

Earlier this year, Roxana experimented with some of this year’s culinary lavender crop and made some lavender shortbreads! I am looking forward to sharing these with you through your Carmel Valley Co-op Variety Box in the future.If you are not a Carmel Valley Co-op Variety CSA member, please go to www.carmelvalleycoop.org and sign-up!