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that’s it. just that. well i had this thing all about 250 things i hate at this moment but ah, you know. why. then i had…

August 11, 2014 6 Comments Read article

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?

The world would split open.

-Muriel Rukeyser

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another day, another #pridebark photo

Almond toffee before its bath in bittersweet. This is Shelly’s first toffee batch ever and she made it 100% using instructions from #lagustaslusciouscookbook and I am dying with pride & sorry I keep posting so much about this book that won’t be published until fall 2019 but, I’m just really psyched.

Incredibly creepy-looking weirdo coming @ you for Mother’s Day: PB & J Meltaway. Jenn and I made a pact not to eat sugar on Tuesdays except for very tiny quantities of work testers (I would not encourage anyone else on earth to do the same, ahem 🤑😬🤑) but when scraps of these babies rolled off the enrober I was a goner within 5 minutes. Tomorrow’s another day. Mother’s Day special PB-centric boxes coming to an online near you within 2ish days, Rose Riesling Caramels already there, snap em up snap snap

For sure everyone at the shop is going crazy with me asking them to test and retest and retest #lagustaslusciouscookbook recipes, making 50 caramels at a time when they’re used to making 700, triple checking cups ➡️ grams conversions and then back again ⬅️ and then when @911_bossbaby made the cake it was different from when @pittieprincessnana made it so here we go again again again again every night I taste what the day brought every night I type up notes every morning I have a new stack to work from THIS THING IS DUE IN A MONTH AND NINE DAYS

Our attempt to make a low key sweet: Rock Scramble, for stoners and others. Named for our beloved sweetest hiking spots, composed of organic salted California 🤑pistachios, salt, hippie cornflakes, hippie marshmallows, all loosely bound with 66%, ha ha ha 4/20 but it’s just depressing thinking about how many people, particularly people of color, are in prison on stupid nonviolent marijuana related charges, while it’s becoming less and less of a crime on the outside arg it’s almost like nothing’s fun under a capitalism violently and selectively enforced, hey

limited edition cherry white chocolate w dark choc layer, real tasty // unavailable to ship not at confectionery sorrry just a quick lil baby

Chloe’s been chocolatiering with us for two years this month. Sometimes she hangs out at @llcommissary on her day off, drinking Drinking Chocolate whose ganache she might’ve made. It makes me happy to see her. Once Chloe was going to move and, in the only feat of business acumen I’ve ever had, I **convinced her not to**. (@chloelwilkinson if there were other reasons not to move, don’t tell me about it, let me believe it was the job). Having wrangled her back into the fold from which she never actually left, we’re all doubly grateful for Chloeness. I’ve blabbed a lot about how she’s a perfect chocolatier, because she is. Sigh. What’s with our crew these days, how are they so fantastic? Kate Alexis Chloe Jenn Holly Erika Jasmine Shelly Jill Sam: queens, all, bow bow bow

The weather is unhinging all of us, but in just six or seven weeks (I cannot possibly be expected to do math when it’s freezie sleety in mid-April) we’ll be at the summer market outside Commissary! making Hawaiian style shave ice (no not shaved ice) from all of our Sweet Shop Screw Ups & Leftovers™️ #nowastedfood like this honeycomb syrup made from the part of the honeycomb toffee that sticks to the pot its baking soda fluffiness deactivated thru sheer spatulizing etc etc mark yr calendars: every summer Sunday let us icee u #NewPaltzSummerSunday

naked caramel #lagustaslusciouscookbook testers (made by our amazing intern @911_bossbaby!) courtesy @jennvaron, who’s our newest manager, btw, pls congratulate! So incredibly deserved, she’s such a great, calming, levelheaded, motivated presence in our sticky little land.

The triumphant springy return of #chocolatecalisthenics, courtesy @jennvaron. Please watch while “At Last” by Etta James plays in your head.

#pridebark forever admitting that in high school you were massively into Ayn Rand never

Things got a little crazy there, Valentine’s to Easter, but now we have time to make all of our old friends so we’re busting out our freezer stash of NP strawberries and this fond friend has returned. Adorable / blurry pic of same free w a small leftward swipe.

new double sided mega eco 🤑🤑🤑 wrapping paper~~to be paired w compostable ribbon I mean obvi~~for your gift-type theobromaish items, thank u @tellefsenatelier for drawing it and @guiltmtn for laying it out and Jacob for pulling it all together and @hemlockprinters for printing it it’s Monday in the world and shoosh here we go again ok limber up soften up how can I be softer this week than I was last human dryer sheet am I let’s go

Alexis created this genius bar and NO phone I don’t want to capitalize Genius Bar NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT YOU anyway it’s like a samoa like an almond joy like a mounds layers of vanilla caramel some almonds some coconut thing and if you want it Kate’s gonna make a page for it later on today but as usual I’m doing everything in the wrong order so if you want it NOW you can order a Turtle Bar and say in the notes to send this lil babe AND they’re at LL HQ already not commissary yet will be at confectionery weds xoxoxox impeach impeach impeach xoxoxo

More about Korn, a recipient along with Jasper of 20% of each #pridebark sold! So happy to help support these pals on their gendery journey. Korn lives in Beacon and has been waiting to look sharp in fitted button-up shirts for decades. She went under the knife on the last day of February, just in time to heal before turning 50. She loves her six cats more than anything, but is using a TV tray to keep them from laying on her chest. Everyone at the hospital in Poughkeepsie was careful to call her “he”: A for effort, but proving we still have so far to go! No thanks to insurance companies for the delay they’ve caused (she even met with a doctor in a tiny town in Brazil because it might be cheaper), but is super grateful to her friends and community for their support in this transition. Gender reveal spoiler alert: it’s a butch dyke--and always has been!

Some words from Jasper, one of the beneficiaries of our #pridebark fundraiser: “Hey it's Jasper! You know me as the person who gives you your morning coffee or afternoon snack. I'm also a cat parent, Rosendale resident, and proud queer weirdo who gets a kick out of funny-shaped produce. It gives me such joy to work at @llcommissary and supply you with wonderful treats. Now it gives me even more joy to think that there's a way you can give back to me! Thanks for supporting my upcoming top surgery and my journey toward gender euphoria!”

It was a good season. Got a very very few half price bunnies here & there, grab em. (I offered a screwy pb-leaky bunny to a 9-year-old pal of mine to share with his sister and he immediately yelled “I get the butt!!!!”) Also look at this lovely photo @plantcrush took.

Repost from that time I made #veganmacarons and didn’t get why @sweetmaresas was always going on about how tricky they were #notaquafaba

open Easter regular hours everywhere. (Maybe closing at 4 at LL if it’s realllly slow)

"If your best friend gets it, that's all that matters." -K. Hanna

Naomi Klein on my job:

It’s the job of the left to move the center. Get out there and say some crazy stuff! And then, suddenly, it’ll seem more reasonable for politicians to take riskier positions.

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