Holiday weekend

It is the 3 day weekend coming up next weekend.  GerDan will not be at Midtown Farmers Market on August 31.
Our next market will be on Thursday Sept 5 at Franklin Medical Center in Louisburg.  We will have a few truffles and brigadeiros but since our Rice Krispie and peanut butter bars are so popular there with the staff, we will probably have them for sale together with our Crack Bars.  So if you are in Louisburg on Thursday Morning of Sept 5, see you there.  There are other produce and meat vendors there too.

Sam's and Midtown

This coming weekend, I'll be at Midtown Farmers Market, and then I'll join Dan at Sam's Quik Shop in Durham.  Sam's is having a "Founders" beer takeover so we'll be there with our Brew Chews and Truffles.

Hot as .....

Dan just made a ganache with fresh Ghost Chillies.  I'm surprised the spoon didn't melt.

Where we'll be this weekend - August 10

We will be at the artisan market at Williams-Sonoma at Streets of Southpoint, Durham.  If you are in the area, drop by to say hello.  The market runs from 1:00pm to 5:00pm.

Figs

Our figs are starting to ripen on the trees.  Let's hope I can get some before the squirrels and deer.  Perhaps we'll try filling these with a ganache or marscapone or just dry them!  Either way... delicious.

Magazine article

In June we got this email asking would we be interested in being included in a story for a magazine on the burgeoning chocolate scene in Raleigh.  Since we never heard of the magazine, we looked it up and quickly jumped at the opportunity.  

Next email we got was from a photographer from the magazine, asking what days we would be available for a group photo. We met downtown in the Raleigh Depot area at 8:30am.  Luckily there was plenty of coffee on hand thanks to Videri.  We were brought down an alleyway to a location they chose and were instructed where to sit and stand etc.   More photos were taken against a different  terracotta brick wall but they didn't make the cut.    At the end of the session, we exchanged and tried each others chocolates.   

Next contact was to set up a time for the "interview".  The time was set for some evening afterwork down at our warehouse/production area.  Scott, the author of the article dropped by and we sat and chatted for about half an hour and then showed him around where we make our chocolates and candy.

The three of us talked, and laughed, sampled some chocolates and explained our process.    About 2 hours later the interview was over.  

Let's hope this is the first of many articles about GerDan Chocolates.

Walter Magazine  

Back into the swing of things

Our mini break is over and we are back producing chocolates and candy.  This Saturday we will be at Bottle mixx from 2 - 5pm.  Railhouse Brewery will be there sampling some of their beers.  We will have some Brew Chews made with their beers - Vanilla Porter and FCA IPA.  Of course we will have our Brigadeiros - a Lemon and a Pistachio so far.  So if you are in the area on Saturday, drop by and say hello.  Until then....... Keep on Trufflin'