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BOND ARTISAN FOODS
Aren't Grandmothers Great?
Who hasn't had the experience of sitting in the kitchen watching
(or helping!) your grandmother cook or bake?
For me it was helping her bake. She had her specialties: peanut butter cookies, doughnuts, pan bread, sugar cookies, and a Norwegian flat bread called Lefse. That time in the kitchen with her has created many wonderful memories. The warmth of the kitchen, the quiet focus of mixing, rolling, baking. I loved the process of it all. And in the end, something delicious to eat and share. I was hooked.
And now after 50 years in the kitchen I have developed my own specialties: artisan breads, cookies, crackers, pizza, brewing kombucha, and most recently, bean to bar chocolate and raw honey from my backyard bees.
Introducing:
Milk Chocolate
50% Milk Chocolate Single Origin Bean to Bar
Although I prefer dark chocolate, my lovely and talented wife really likes milk chocolate. So I have been reading about milk chocolate and working up some batches in the test kitchen.
There are just four ingredients in a bar of bean to bar milk chocolate: cocoa nibs, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, and cane sugar. Besides using premium quality and fair trade ingredients, the differences in various milk chocolate bars lie in the proportion of those four ingredients.
I think we have landed in a great place. A velvety smooth and creamy mouthfeel, slightly milk forward (this is milk chocolate after all), with a solid backbone of chocolate with well balanced sweetness.
To my sweet wife: thanks for waiting while I made 1000 bars of dark chocolate before attempting a milk chocolate bar. I believe you when you say it is the best milk chocolate you have ever tasted. It’s not like you are biased or anything.
One 2oz. bar is $7. Two or more bars at $6 each.
BOND
BEES
HONEY
Great news! The new 2023 Honey is here! The bees have been hard at work all spring and early summer and we have finally begun harvesting some honey. This honey is primarily from the Linden trees which are abundant in Evanston. It is light and delicious. Try some today or give it as a gift.
Although not baking, a recent hobby is beekeeping. I have a few hives on my roof and if everything goes right, I get honey.
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Fresh
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Local
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Raw
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Unfiltered
1 lb. glass jars
$10 each or $9 each for 2 or more jars.
Also available in 1/2 lb. glass jars for $6 each
BOND
BAKERY
CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
Hi Folks, I am adding a new item for the holidays: Artruck® Chocolate Chip Cookies
Why do we call them Artruck® Chocolate Chip Cookies?
Our friend and neighbor Julie Cowan, who is an incredibly talented artist, is also a visionary. She had an idea to create a neighborhood art gallery featuring her art and the works of the many artists who live in and around Evanston. Her idea was simple: Art, hang it up in a truck. Sort of like a pop up gallery for a summer night. Julie and her husband rent two big U-Haul trucks, the ones with ramps going up into the truck. Together, they would wire the trucks for light and hang between 20-30 pieces of art in each truck for viewing.
My contribution was to offer baked good to the folks who visited Artruck®. We live right across the street from Julie so I just set up a table in our driveway and give away these cookies (and about 40 loaves of bread, one slice at a time!) throughout the event. Before the night was over, all 300 cookies were gone. People would come by and ask: “Do you have any more of those chocolate chip cookies left?” Artruck® has been going on for almost 10 years now, so at this point the cookies have developed a bit of a reputation. People were asking for them. They were memorable. I was thrilled and honored they had garnered a reputation and we began calling them the Artruck® Chocolate Chip Cookies.
I hope you enjoy them as much as the visitors to Artruck® have over the years.
Note: They are baked fresh to order. My goal is to have you pick them up no later than 12 hours after they are baked. I store them in an airtight plastic zipper bag and then in a kraft paper bag for easier handling. They freeze well so if you will not eat all of them within three days, you can put some in the freezer and remove as many as you will eat the next day and let them come to room temperature overnight. Please text me when you would like to pick them up so I can bake them fresh for you.
$10 per dozen
BOND
BAKERY
CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
Hi Folks, I am adding a new item: Artruck® Chocolate Chip Cookies
Why do we call them Artruck® Chocolate Chip Cookies?
Our friend and neighbor Julie Cowan, who is an incredibly talented artist, is also a visionary. She had an idea to create a neighborhood art gallery featuring her art and the works of the many artists who live in and around Evanston. Her idea was simple: Art, hang it up in a truck. Sort of like a pop up gallery for a summer night. Julie and her husband rent two big U-Haul trucks, the ones with ramps going up into the truck. Together, they would wire the trucks for light and hang between 20-30 pieces of art in each truck for viewing.
My contribution was to offer baked good to the folks who visited Artruck®. We live right across the street from Julie so I just set up a table in our driveway and give away these cookies (and about 40 loaves of bread, one slice at a time!) throughout the event. Before the night was over, all 300 cookies were gone. People would come by and ask: “Do you have any more of those chocolate chip cookies left?” Artruck® has been going on for almost 10 years now, so at this point the cookies have developed a bit of a reputation. People were asking for them. They were memorable. I was thrilled and honored they had garnered a reputation and we began calling them the Artruck® Chocolate Chip Cookies.
I hope you enjoy them as much as the visitors to Artruck® have over the years.
Note: They are baked fresh to order. My goal is to have you pick them up no later than 12 hours after they are baked. I store them in an airtight plastic zipper bag and then in a kraft paper bag for easier handling. They freeze well so if you will not eat all of them within three days, you can put some in the freezer and remove as many as you will eat the next day and let them come to room temperature overnight. Please text me when you would like to pick them up so I can bake them fresh for you.
$11 per dozen
A CHOCOLATIER MAKES CHOCOLATES
A CHOCOLATE-MAKER MAKES CHOCOLATE
I MAKE CHOCOLATE
Chocolate has terroir. Cocoa beans develop unique flavors based on where they are grown. The mineral content of the soil, the angle of the sun, the amount of water, all of these things and more contribute to the individual taste of a bar of chocolate made exclusively from beans of a single location.
The fun and challenging part is bringing out the flavors inherent in whatever beans I am working with. Will there be fruity notes? Floral or earthy notes? Will it have a long lasting finish? All of these things are in the bean. It is the chocolate maker’s job to bring the strongest qualities of each location’s beans into the bar.
All Bond Chocolate is:
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70% dark
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Small batch
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Single origin
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Cocoa beans, cane sugar, and just a touch of cocoa butter
One 2oz bar is $8.00. Two or more bars at $7.00 each.
Introducing:
Milk Chocolate
50% Milk Chocolate Single Origin Bean to Bar
Although I prefer dark chocolate, my lovely and talented wife really likes milk chocolate. So I have been reading about milk chocolate and working up some test batches to taste.
There are just four ingredients in a high-quality bar of milk chocolate: cocoa nibs, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, and cane sugar. Besides using premium quality and fair trade ingredients, the differences in various milk chocolate bars lie in the proportion of those four ingredients.
I think we have landed in a great place. Our evaluation reveals: a slightly milk forward taste (this is a milk chocolate bar after all), followed by a nice hit of chocolate (that's the 50% chocolate talking), a velvety smooth and creamy mouthfeel (thanks to the cocoa butter), with just enough sugar to balance the whole profile out.
To my sweet wife: thanks for waiting while I made over 1000 bars of dark chocolate before attempting a milk chocolate bar. I believe you when you say it is the best milk chocolate you have ever tasted. It's not like you are biased or anything.
One 2oz bar is $8. Two or more bars at $7 each.
BOND BAKERY
SOURDOUGH CRACKERS
Made with Spent Grain From Sketchbook Brewery
A crispy crunchy sourdough cracker made with 50% whole wheat that is freshly ground in my home mill. Featuring spent grain from Sketchbook Brewery for even more flavor, fiber, and protein. Topped with:
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Coarse Salt
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Freshly Ground Pepper
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Sunflower Seeds
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Pumpkin Seeds
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Flax Seeds
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Chia Seeds
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Sesame Seeds
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Poppy Seeds
6 oz. bag
$6.00 each
Biscotti Season is Officially Over!
You may not have known this but real homemade biscotti has a season. Due to the increasing humidity in the Spring, I stop making Biscotti around the April time frame. The humidity just takes the crunch right out of them. And what is a great biscotti without that distinctive crunch?
We thank you for all the orders throughout the official biscotti season and look forward to ramping up production again sometime around October/November of this year.
One 13oz. bag is $13.
New Holiday Gift Box Now Available!
Two bars of Bond bean-to-bar chocolate - one dark, one milk, and 8 chocolate almond biscotti. All in a gift ready box with room for your personal note on the label. Perfect for holidays, birthdays, house warming, hostess/host gift, school teachers, mail persons, yoga teachers...you get the idea. $20
