Dear Blossom,
My lactose intolerant niece just had her 5th birthday party and it was a great day thanks to your yummy new lowfat Goat’s Milk Frozen Yogurt. We had nothing but empty Laloo’s containers of Raspberry Frozen Yogurt & Brownie and Clyde Frozen Yogurt, Goat’s Milk Frozen Yogurt Flavors. The best part, no guilt for us parents, all fun for ALL the kids, even those who cannot have cow dairy products. This was a huge surprise for everyone since my niece Kayla is lactose intolerant we’ve never been able to serve frozen yogurt or ice-cream at any of her previous birthdays. However, that doesn’t stop her for asking for it every year because it seems to show up at every other birthday she gets to attend. This was going to be our big year. Right after singing her happy birthday and bringing out a cake, mom walked out with a tray of 12 pints and the kids went crazy. Usually, Kayla gets sad because she knows she cannot have any, but this year we brought the biggggggest smile you’ve ever seen when we told her she could have it ALL…and she tried to!
Thanks again to all those goats that make is so good!
-Uncle Jason
Dear Blossom,
You would have loved the edible garden (www.copia.org) festival at Copia this weekend. COPIA is a non-profit discovery center celebrating wine, its relationship to food and its significance to our culture. We Laloolians were happy to be invited to scoop our spoon lickingly delicious ice cream in the beautiful summer gardens. The walkways had towering vines twisting with morning glories, carefully trained top-heavy tomatoes, and a mulberry tree keeping us shaded from the wine country sun!
Julia’s kitchen (the restaurant at Copia named for you – know – who) paired our Vanilla Snowflake with a country-style roasted fig tart paired (the crust was like a buttery croissant). And, served our Deep Chocolate topped with a selection of the fruity Spanish/California Calolea olive oils sprinkled with fleur de sel (our latest obsession). If you get a chance, visit Copia this fall for adventurous pairings of LaLoo’s with some exquisite eau de vies.
It’s good to be a foodie!
Love,
Sarah and Dana (Laloolians at large)
Dear Blossom,
Those meyer lemons are so plump and add just the perfect amount of pucker up to the cheesecake ice cream we affectionately called Chevre Chiffon. I know you and the girls take great pride in your chevre and especially since it’s hand crafted by Laura Chenel, it seemed like a parade of blue ribbons. Alas, that yellow package kept everyone asking – where’s the lemon? So I’ve added some real meyer lemon. Voilå a new flavor was born into the family – Lemon Chiffon. It’s the same fresh from the farm goat cheese with a lemon twist – udder decadence!
I hope you like it!
Love,
Laloo
Dear Blossom,
A funny thing happened last Sunday when we took some of Laloo’s Chocolate Cabernet to the 6th Annual Russian River Wine Road Event. Fall is in full swing and since our sweep of honors at the Harvest Fair in Sonoma we thought it would be funny to show off a bit. So we put our honorary medals on display while we gave away ice cream and POOF! during a rush of scooping the double gold medal for Chocolate Cabernet disappeared into the crowd. It’’s so strange, who would want our accolade that says “”Laloo’s Chocolate Cabernet “engraved on the front? (Don’t tell, but I don’t even think the medal is real gold!) Now this just so happened to be on the same afternoon that Bunny led the cha cha line through the hole in the fence and decimated my cabbage, chard and parsley in the garden. Coincidence? I don’t know, but I’ve got my eye on Jethro’s haystacks.
Love, Laloo
Dear Blossom,
As you know since our Affogoato invention, I have wanted to see for myself the home place of the Ponce Livornese. It is in the seaside village of Livorno, Italy where everybody buys their fish. Bar Civili is far off the tourist path, but the Italians know of the traditional drink made by the generous and strong people of Livorno to make a coffee that will blow your socks off! It is one part coffee, lemon peel, that tops a scalding hot shot of this maroonishblack syrup called ponce (punch) that is essentially rum and cognac loaded with sugar. To drink this you must keep one hand on the bar and have both feet braced firmly on terra madre. Of course, I tasted my first during coffee hours and probably because I’m not a sailor, it took a more pronounced effect. Thankfully, the fisherman’s morning air salted my senses and I emerged from bar Civili a stronger regazza worthy of a mariner’s parting wink.
Love,
Laloo
Dear Blossom,
From the hillside of Chianti I write to say how much you would love Italy. As you know, our chocolate cabernet is a best seller and I wouldn’t trade our Sonoma wine for anything, but as they say “When in Rome…” I’ve dedicated myself to an exploration of the local Bottegia. It seems that in this moment, it is the Southern Italian wines (from Sicily and Sardinia) that are capturing the hearts and minds of the Italian table. I have imbibed Nero D ‘Avola that is so georgeous it brought tears from the sheer beauty of it. To open a Cannonau from Sardinia is like to drink an ephiphany. I could describe elements like birch, granite, linen and blood – things I never would have subscribed to a grape . Even the locavores in Pistoia rave about what is happening on the little island south of the Tuscan coast. Blossom, can you imagine how the sun can do so many beautiflul things to our beloved planet?
Wish you were here.
Love,
Laloo
The truck left the farm full of little party sized Laloo’s and came back Sunday night empty! It was the 19th Annual B.R. Cohn Charity Fall Music Festival and featured: The Doobie Brothers, Little Feat, The Turtles, Lisa Loeb, Joe Satriani, and Loggins and Messina and Creedence Clearwater Revisited! The Laloolians worked hard and raised money for Hurricane Katrina victims by selling ice cream to the crowd. It was a perfect Sonoma county weekend with blue skies and the hills sparkling gold and red across the field of vines.
The concert really rocked, you could hear it across the valley. I know some of that music because TJ (our delivery guy) blasts “Takin’ it to the streets” from the truck to get him motivated each day at dawn. But I know more about Lisa Loeb because “Stay” is one of my favorite songs of all time. She is so cool. And, she loves PUMPKIN SPICE! She said she took some Laloo’s goat’s milk ice cream to a dinner party and everyone loved it. I can’t wait for her to bring her guitar to the farm someday… maybe she’ll write a song about me!
– Blossom
p.s. check out http://www.myspace.com/lisaloebmusic
p.s.s. look it’s Lisa !
