Our private showing of the de Young’s Birth of Impressionism exhibit this Saturday was a perfect start to our weekend. Over 100 people joined us at the de Young for a Boulange breakfast in their beautiful room overlooking the music concourse, followed by a viewing of the exhibit. Thank you to the de Young staff for making this special opportunity possible and thank you to all of our loyal customers for spending their Saturday morning with us!
It’s June! Which gives San Francisco license to begin to pretend like summer is upon us. The parks are nice and full on sunny days and we’re all wearing shorter sleeves and sandals. We, of course, all have our coats tucked into our bags for when the fog starts to roll in, but for all intensive purposes, summer is creeping in.
And one of our favorite things about summer is all of the delicious produce and cool fresh flavors that compliment the season so well. Outdoor picnics, entertaining and simply the inspiration to cook, make projects like the lemon tart a fun and fabulous hit with all of us. We’ve decided to post the recipe below so you can try your hand in it as well. So let the sunshine in.
TARTE au CITRON
Lemon Tart
1 pre baked shallow 9 inch Pate Sucree tart shell
4 extra-large eggs, at room temperature
1 cup sugar
¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice, strained
1 Tablespoon freshly grated lemon zest
½ cup plus 1 Tablespoon heavy cream
Makes one 9-inch Tart
Actually three of them are, at three of our stores, every weekday. And we’re waiving our flag about it.
So anytime you see the French flag posted outside of our Polk, Noe or Fillmore stores, then you can get happy too, because inside you’ll find $5 glasses of wine, $3.50 bottles of Kronenburg (yum) and cheese plates for $8. Plus, we’ve got a whole new punch card for Happy Hour partakers. If you come in and buy a happy hour beverage, you get a punch. Once you have nine, we’re buying your tenth. Go ahead, you can smile.
So come check it out, Monday through Friday, 3pm-6pm and put a little something in your stomach to start the night off right. We’ll be very Happy to see you.
La Boulange de Polk (at Polk and Green)
La Boulange de Noe (24th and Sanchez)
La Boulange de Fillmore (Fillmore between Pine and California)
“Thanks, Mom!” Uttered often in acceptance speeches, while holding a statuette.
“Hi, Mom!” Mouthed emphatically in the background behind reporters in crowded, on-location news spots.
“MOM!” Shouted from the top of the stairs, before the words, “do you know where my blue sweater is?!?”
“mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom….” Said by five year olds in department stores, until they are answered, with a usually patient, “what?”
Of all of the many applications of this beloved palindrome, our favorite is, “I love you, Mom.” And so for all of the moms out there who just plain rock, thanks for being fabulously patient and kind…..even after that time when we played with a ball inside and it broke that vase…
Seriously, you’re the butter on our baguette.
After almost of month of Earth Day awareness and thinking green, we are wondering what other folks are doing in this sunny, seven by seven city we love, to protect the planet and tread lightly. We’ve been posting our own planet preservation techniques, and thought it might be fun to hear from you about your favorite ways to think green.
Pick up a postcard in one of our stores and write down seven ways that you “think green” and pass it back to the staff. We’ll collect them all and the best postcard we get this week will win you four tickets to the San Francisco zoo, where we weeded and worked on our April volunteer project. Don’t worry…we did all of the dirty work already, so you get to just chill with the chimps and pass by the penguins.
As previously noted, we take our coffee very seriously around here. I mean, drinking a bowl full of anything takes some commitment…and it absolutely has to taste good. Enter our roaster, Equator Coffees. We love these guys because not only do they roast some seriously delicious beans, but they provide perk with some purpose. They are an eco-conscious, organic bunch of folks who also like to “think green.”
There are a few things that April has notoriety for:
Easter…that bunny is donezo.
Tax Day…for better or for worse.
April Showers…we’re really enjoying the sun, personally.
Earth Day… and here's where we get really excited. We love “thinking green” and work hard to make it a part of our daily routine. We've decided, in honor of Earth Day, to make the whole month a celebration at La Boulange and invite all of you to “think green” with us. We’re doing a green volunteer project at the zoo this weekend, getting our hands dirty with the horticulturists, while working with plant life in the different habitats. We’re hosting an organic coffee class and cupping with our super enviro-concious friends at Equator Estate Coffees & Teas. And our stores are decked out and stocked with fun “think green” action for kids and kids-at-heart. Check out our site to see details on all of the fun things we have going on all month www.laboulangebakery.com.
And we aren’t the only ones that are thinking green this month. San Francisco and its surroundings are full of all sorts of carbon-light action. A couple that we found include a wine tasting of organic and biodynamic wines at the Mandarin Oriental, a potting class for kids or a container garden workshop from the super stylish folks at Anthropologie, a line-up of Earthy good programming from KQED, and an awesome renewal day put on by California Parks for thousands of us to help together.
Are you green with envy yet? How will you be thinking green this month?
