The Latest from the Shop

It's fresh blueberry season and in addition to making sweet blueberry treats, we're also making our savory summer blueberry salad. We start with a bed of red leaf lettuce and add red onions, mandarin oranges, chopped walnuts, grated white cheddar cheese and top it with a drizzle our homemade balsamic vinegrette dressing. Grilled french bread with our homemade cheese ball accompanies the salad. YUM!

Friends (and bloggers) Angie, Joelle, and Marsha visited the store recently and took lots of pictures of the shop, our yummy treats, and then went back to Ohio and wrote about their visit on Angie's blog. You can see the pictures and read their comments... all you have to do is click on the link below! www.alilcountrysugar.blogspot.com/

Linda and Sweetie-licious have won Modern Baking magazine's 2011 Leadership Award for Merchandising. We haven't yet seen actual magazine yet, but the story was just posted on Modern Baking's website. To read the article, simply click on the link below... Congrats Linda!!! modern-baking.com/retail_baking/bakeries-back-warm-0720/

Barbara Jean Hanson created, and gave us, this lovely piece of art entitled "Cherry Pie Slice". It is made with tempera, pastels, and markers. We thoroughly enjoy having it hanging in the shop. Thanks so much Barbara!!

Our newest summer pie is filled with our homemade vanilla bean cream filling and topped with fresh Grand Haven blueberries in a glaze that has been infused with basil fresh from our own gardens. It's the ultimate treat for both cream pie and blueberry lovers! YUM!!  Please call the shop (517-669-9300) if you want one... they sell as fast as we can make them!!

Our brand new early-summer sandwich (which will be available every day) is chock full of maple bacon, red leaf lettuce, pink heirloom tomatoes (from Giving Tree Farms) and mayo on grilled white Great Harvest bread… but that's not all... it also contains fresh avocado chunks, carmelized onions, and our special cream cheese spread. Our yummy Sweetie-licious variation on this classic summer sandwich will be sure to make you smile!

It's finally blueberry season and we're making lots of yummy blueberry treats. We have blueberry raspberry pies, blueberries and cream pies, just plain blueberry pies, fresh blueberry muffins, our wonderful blueberry salad, and lots of other 'blueberry-licious" treats!  Please stop in, or call the shop - 517-669-9300 - to make sure we have your favorite on hand...

This truely awesome miniature was created by Mary I. White of Lewiston, MI. The details are so perfect!  Everyone who's seen it so far has been amazed.  It was a gift from Sue Vlahakis and her family, our dear DeWitt friends. Thank you guys for such a sweet and thoughtful gift!!!

Vera Fox is our "Sandwich Queen" She runs the show when it comes to the lunch menu. We rely on "V" for much of the day-to-day functioning of the shop. When no one knows how to change the handsoap, we ask V. When no one knows where to find something, we ask V. Questions about the cash register, ask V. She is extremely competent at her responsibilities. V's strong work ethic is evident in the pride and ownership she takes in her work. We couldn't ask for more. With her sweet, quiet demeanor V is a pleasure to work with. But don't be fooled, she h...

"Man, as a rule, is an impatient creature, especially when returning home after a day of work and worry. If the meal is not quite ready, don’t make excuses, but commence immediately to set the table, leaving the impression that the meal is nearly ready…In the meantime, hand him a newspaper…his attention being diverted, the meal will be forgotten…this, of course, is a little deception, but it will work nine times out of ten, if shrewdly managed…a husband properly “cooked” is really delicious." The Standard Domestic Science Cookbook  (1908)...