Apples are in season, and now I am working on a batch of apple gelato this week. I picked up apples at the Vicksburg Farmers’ Market this past Friday, from none other than “The Apple Man”, Roy Ballet from Lawrence, Michigan. We will be providing a sample to the Western Michigan University (WMU) chef this …
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It is 5 AM and my mind is thinking how to develop a particular intermezzo for my friend, Chef Charletta Naylen, owner of Da’Lish, Kalamazoo. I often get inspired from things around me, especially when I go to farms to buy our fruits for Rollin’Gelato. On Tuesday, on my way to Skyline Orchards to buy more peaches …
This Wednesday at WMU farmers’ market we are going to try something new….with Coffee Rescue — a coffee food truck operated by Jamie Brock. At the WMU farmers’ market, we are side by side in booths with Coffee Rescue. We won’t have our respective trucks at the market, however, will be in booths serving coffee …
The K College Rockin’ the Dock event was fun last night. There was music, there was food (from the Organic Gypsy), and there was gelato. The K College Squasher gelato, the Lemon-blueberry gelato, and the Peach sorbet were all enjoyed. We had the RG VW Bus at the event, this time with outside lights, as this …
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Today is the day. It is the day that we make the first batch of the new K College gelato flavor that will debut at the Rockin’ the Dock event on Saturday, September 16th. The flavor is named: K College Squasher Gelato The main ingredient of the flavor is butternut squash, with this batch using …
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The first WMU farmers’ market at Western Michigan University for the fall 2017 season took place yesterday (Wednesday, Sept 13th). We sold out of all of our flavors — emptied out the mobile freezer, the freezer we take to the market via the RG VW Bug. This was a lot of fun — thank …
This past week we were at three local Kalamazoo farms picking ingredients for the coming Kalamazoo College event, Rockin’ the Dock (September 16th). These ingredients are for the three flavors we will be offering at the event: K College Butternut Squash gelato Lemon-blueberry gelato Peach sorbet For the K College Butternut Squash gelato, we spent time …
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Yesterday (August 2nd), we took the new RG VW Bus t-shirt to the Kalamazoo Farmers’ Market. And, wait for it….we sold the first on as a result. The t-shirt is simple and to the point — we offer our product in a VW Bus. 🙂
In working on setting up the market in Austin for Rollin’ Gelato, we are fixing up the 1972 RG VW bus. Just like the 1976 RG VW Bus in Kalamazoo, we worked on the brakes first. Thus, the bus went into the mechanic this past week, and we replaced the brake master cylinder (it was …
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