Giving Tuesday & Happy December! YOU DID IT!!! We made it back open just in time for Thanksgiving! Man, it was a wild week! We are open again this week Thursday, Friday and Saturday so we can get some veggies delivered and get all holidayed-up! Since it’s “Giving Tuesday” we are giving you some […]
100 Dresses, 100 Cakes, 100 Pies by Sam Smith Oh 2020. Somehow in a haze of masks, bad behavior and a weird casserole of neverending days and days like shooting stars, we have landed at the countdown to Thanksgiving. This is my 20th year baking professionally for Thanksgiving. Were I anyone but me, I […]
If Patience is a virtue than Persimmons are the perfect plant to push your pertinacious personality. Oriental persimmons take seven years to fruit. 7. I get antsy waiting for my toast to toast. BUT, some lovely garden fairy planted persimmons in the pasture of the house we rent and apparently it is this tree’s […]
The Raspberries Remained a Mystery. by Sam Smith Try to find a quote about September that seems applicable to the South. I found some beautiful quotes, “The light shed over the small breakfast table illuminates the day, many days.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Or. “Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of […]
JACKSONVILLE & WILMINGTON FRIENDS!! You can now choose Delivery at Checkout in our online store! https://sugar-island-bakery.square.site/ We will be offering Delivery this coming Sunday (the 30th) from Noon to Six! CSA bags from local farms, farm eggs, our very own house roasted coffees, and other Sugar Island goodies! […]
OSIYO! YOU’RE AN IDIOT. by Sam Smith What does Osiyo actually mean? Simple answer, the root means “good”. As part of my children’s never ending homeschool adventures, we have recently been exploring their Cherokee heritage and there is much to learn in the state of NC. We are still avoiding groups of people mightily and […]
KITE-LIKE BREATHING, PANCAKE-EATING, THE DENIM STRUGGLE IS REAL. by Sam Smith It’s not often a song makes me shoot elderflower lemonade through my nose. When I am driving, my brain goes a million miles a minute and sometimes, quite bored by my own company I will turn on the radio, and so when I heard, […]
Sugar Island Bookshop – Online! We’re working with IndieBound.org and Bookshop.org to help support local independent bookshops and authors! IndieBound.org, a partnership between independent bookstores and the American Booksellers Association, is all about independent bookstores and the power of “local first” shopping. Bookshop.org is an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. […]
Kitchen Log, Day 35. One to the neat things about having friends and family all over the world and the country, is that in this time of oddness, we can get a true play-by-play of what’s going on in different places. We have friends in London, Paris, Canada and Spain and family in big […]