The Bread Peddler

06/02/2026

Yummy brownies this week. Full on chocolate infusion. Ice cream, cherry and background sunshine not included.

This week’s menu:

Sourdough breads:
Holey Hannah - French-style loaves
Grainy Day - multigrain
Mountain Groat - oats n’ honey with honey from 🍯

Focaccia with olives and rosemary 🫒

Apple Caramel Scones

Brownies 🍫 🍫

Maple Walnut Cookies

Eggs from 🍳

Lettuce from 🥬

📍 379 Archibald St
⏰ 5-8 pm Wednesday
🚲 or 🚶🏻‍♂️ to get a free 🍪!
🚘 park on Archibald St and walk through my yard, please

05/26/2026

This photo! Family bliss, circa 1974. Beer from a stubby bottle, straight down my two-year old gullet. That amazing sweater my mom is wearing! Those crazy balaclava-toque hats that she knit for my big brother and I. The puddle-jumper suit that my brother is wearing. We wore those things ALL THE TIME. The glimpse of the handlebar of the tricycle my brother is riding brings back all kinds of memories: We had two tricycles, one big, one small. They were both from the dump (all our bikes came from the dump), and they were both spray-painted red (all our bikes were spray-painted red). The big tricycle had large wooden blocks for pedals so our little legs could reach them. We rode our bikes every day, all day, all summer.
I’m so grateful to both my parents for making sure we were outside all the time, and that it was fun. The lion’s share of the work on the home front was done by my mom, of course. My mom made it happen. ❤️

This week’s menu is below, with some inspiration from my mom.

Sourdough breads:
Holey Hannah - French-style bread
Grainy Day - multigrain
Beer Belly - whole rye flour and beer!

Focaccia with tomatoes and chevre 🍅 🐐

Chocolate Ginger Scones

Mini Cherry Cheesecakes 🍒😋
(In honour of that cheesecake my mom used to make in the early 1980’s with a graham cracker crust, some strange unbaked cream cheese concoction, and gloopy store-bought cherry pie filling, all in a 9x13 glass pan. There may even have been Ready Whip, or whatever it was called.
My version is nothing like this, only the name is the same, to stir up some nostalgia).

Lemon Crackle Cookies 🍋

Lettuce from

Eggs from

📍 379 Archibald Street
⏰ Wednesday 5-8 pm
🚲 or 🚶🏽‍♀️ and get a free 🍪
🚗 Park on Archibald Street and walk through my yard

05/19/2026

Peanut Butter Cookies. Embrace your inner 10-year old.

Beat the chilly and changeable spring weather by eating baked goods. It really works.

This week’s menu 🎉

Sourdough Breads:
Holey Hannah - French-style yumminess
Cracked Kamut - golden crumb, nutty flavour
Mountain Groat - oats and honey 🍯 🌾

Rosemary Focaccia

Raspberry White Chocolate Scones

Peanut Butter Cookies

Eggs from

Lettuce from

📍 379 Archibald St
⏰ 5-8 pm, Wednesday
🚲 or 🚶🏽‍♀️ or 🛹 and get a free cookie!!
🚗 park on Archibald St and walk through my yard

05/12/2026

Garlic! One thing I can actually grow. Zucchini and rhubarb? Not so much. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Thankfully my lovely neighbours have a huge rhubarb patch and have generously given me some so that I can make Rhubarb Custard Tarts this week! 😋

So, it’s been a while! Here we go, the garden is pumping, the weather is fine, the long weekend is coming up, the oven is being fired up, and I’m busily prepping for Wednesday sales.

This week’s menu:

Sourdough Breads:
Holey Hannah - French-style bread
Grainy Day - multigrain yumminess
Roasted Potato and Garlic - 🧄 🥔

Foccacia with Roasted Sweet Peppers 🫑

Cherry and Chocolate Scones 🍒 🍫

Rhubarb Custard Tarts

Mom’s Jumbo Raisin Cookies - a family favourite

Also eggs from Apple Quill Farm and lettuce from Cranbrook Urban Farm.

📍 379 Archibald St
⏰ Wednesday 5-8 pm
🚲 Get a free cookie 🍪
🚙 Please park on Archibald St and walk through my yard

05/06/2026

I’m excited to be back in the bakery next week, and to see all your smiling faces on Wednesday. 😎

04/13/2026

03/31/2026

Cardamum Buns! Cute lil’ chicks and bunnies!
It must be spring. Even my garlic is poking out of the ground. Seems early, but who knows? 🤷🏻‍♀️

I was at a pot-luck last weekend, talking about food, as you do, and getting ideas from my friends who have way more experience and training in the food world than I do. So thanks to Julie, I have made a Vanilla Mocha Cake. It’s vanilla cake, glazed with espresso syrup, layered with dark chocolate ganache, topped with a swirl of vanilla buttercream and a drizzle of espresso syrup. I am just putting it together now, but I’m fairly certain it will be rather delicious.
(With Vanilla Mocha Cake and Cardamom Buns on offer, you won’t even notice that I didn’t make boring ol’ Hot Cross Buns).

This week’s menu:

Sourdough Breads:
Holey Hannah - French-style bread
Grainy Day - tasty multigrain loaf
Roasted Potato and Yam - delicious, moist bread

Rosemary Focaccia

Cranberry White Chocolate Scones

Cardamom Buns - yum! 😋

Vanilla Mocha Cake

Bunny and Chick cookies 🐰 🐥

Frozen Pizza Dough 🍕

Eggs from 🪺

Lettuce from 🥬

📍 379 Archibald St
⏰ Wednesday 5-8 pm
Free 🍪 if you 🚶🏽‍♀️ or 🚲 to the bakery.
🚗 Park on Archibald St.

03/24/2026

Nussecken !?! Okay, we’re going to call them Hazelnut Triangles, and they’re pretty good. They better be, because peeling hazelnuts is not the most fun bakery job.

This week’s menu:

Sourdough Breads:
Holey Hannah - French style bread
Mountain Groat - oats & honey bread
Speedy - 100% wholegrain bread, made with spelt flour and seeds

Focaccia with olives and goat cheese 🫒 🐐

Apple Cinnamon Scones

Hazelnut Triangles

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Frozen pizza dough

Eggs from

Lettuce from

📍 379 Archibald St
⏰ Wednesday 5-8 pm
🍪 Free if you walk or ride to the bakery!
🚙 Please park on Archibald St

03/17/2026

Mini Huckleberry Cheesecakes! 😋 (to remind you of summer: the smell of the warm forest floor, the purple stained fingertips, the “just one more bucket” greed, the sound of quiet, the feeling of being lost in time, did I mention the smell?)

This week’s menu:

Sourdough Breads:
Holey Hannah - French-style loaf
Cracked Kamut - golden and delicious
Beer Belly - rye bread made with beer from

Herb & Tomato Focaccia 🌿 🍅

Cherry Chocolate Scones 🍒 🍫

Mini Huckleberry Cheesecakes

Apricot Sunflower Seed Cookies

📍 379 Archibald St
⏰ Wednesday 5-8 pm
🍪 Free cookie if you walk or ride your bike
🚙 Park on Archibald St and come through the soggy yard