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Bakery Blog & Recipes
Welcome to The OTHER Side of Mindful BakeHouse
The side for the do-it-yourselfers, the adventurous bakers, and those that live a little to far away to make it to our bakery in person. This is where I post all the fun gluten-free dairy-free things I've been testing/making that aren't official BakeHouse recipes. Most of which we also share on our YouTube Channel, as well as our second instagram account, & TikTok. So if you're like me and you'd rather watch than read, feel free to go follow us on your fav social media app in
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NEWS
Bakery news & updates, behind the scenes, as well as gluten-free and/or dairy-free product unboxing & finds.
Ingredient Spotlight - Canadian Maple Syrup
One of our most commonly used ingredients (right after almond flour and tapioca) is organic maple syrup. We use it as a sweetener, a healthier replacement for processed sugars, but did you know it has health benefits too? Pure maple syrup is high in anti-oxidants and anti-inflammatory properties. FUN FACT: It has the same anti-oxidants and anti-inflammatory properties as green tea!! It contains nutrients like: Manganese that helps in energy production. Riboflavin that helps
Mar 14, 2022
Countdown to DWFM 2022!
Come for a walk thru our farmer's market here: https://youtube.com/shorts/RFynIzJPkQU?feature=share Can you believe it’s only weeks away from the start of market season? The Downtown Windsor Farmer’s Market is starting early this year, on Saturday April 2!! I am totally excited (but totally not ready, lol). We have SOOOOOO much going on at the shop right now. It’s going to be a wild and crazy couple of months getting our front counter built out, setting up our new soft serve
Mar 7, 2022
Are We Keto? Vegan? What ARE We?
We get asked this quite a bit, and while we usually try to avoid labeling our type of baking (we purposely left a diet label out of our bakery’s name), Mary’s Mindful BakeHouse fits best into the “paleo” label, with our whole food, unprocessed ingredients, and no grains, dairy, or legumes. We also have lots & lots of plant-based/vegan options and a few nut-free & AIP items (and are trying to add more options in the future!). We often get asked if we are diabetic safe, but our
Feb 28, 2022
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!!
It's our storefront's first birthday this week!! If you're on our mailing list, check your inbox for a coupon from us! From the bottom of our hearts, we want to thank you for supporting us over the last year (and before! - I know many of you have been with us long before the storefront). We've doubled our team, added some fun equipment & new recipes, and found our way into some stores near you to make it easier for you to enjoy an amazing bagel or pretzel, or indulge in dess
Feb 4, 2022
Healthier Sugar Swaps to Start 2022
These days we are completely overrun with refined sugar. Not just in the obvious places like sodas, fruit drinks and candy, but it also hides in processed foods and pasta sauces, and all sorts of places you wouldn’t even think to look. The average child today consumes way more than the recommended limit of 25 grams (or 6 teaspoons) a day!! Refined, added sugars can lead to sugar cravings & weight gain, energy crashes & metabolic diseases, headaches, inflammation, and many oth
Jan 4, 2022
Holiday Food Flares - Are you flaring now too?
I made a bad choice yesterday, and now I hurt. I woke up with that all too familiar feeling, like I’d “been hit by a truck”. My whole body hurts. I used to feel this way every morning before going grain, dairy & nightshade free. It’s so hard to will yourself up & out of bed. To get up & get going. I know I’ve “red-fooded” myself (when you eat a food on your Red Food/Do Not Eat list), and am now in a flare up. I have to push through and get up. For me, luckily, I know at least
Dec 27, 2021
Holiday Baking? Here's our favourite staple ingredients & where to get them.
High quality ingredients we love. If you're planning out some gluten-free baking over the holidays, but don't know where to find some of the ingredients, we're sharing all our favourite brands for paleo home baking. FLOURS: 1) Almond flour - Kirkland brand: here at the bakery, we love Costco almond flour. Every few months, I search for newer/better brands, but Costco always wins out. Note: almond meal is not the same as almond flour in a recipe. Almond meal included the skin
Dec 13, 2021
Work-Life Balance? Does it exist?
Our bakery has been a labour of love from the very start. It started more than a year ago as a "side-hustle" while James & I both still had full-time jobs. I started baking on my time off, and James joined in quite soon after, taking over the bagels & pretzel orders, while I baked all the sweets. We'd pack up our kiddos and take them across town to bake late into the evening (sometimes a little too late - sorry teachers!!). And we'd ask our big kids to babysit the little ones
Nov 29, 2021
My Cookies are Springbok-Puzzle-Famous!
You won't catch my cookies with sprinkles or brightly coloured icing anymore, but it gives you a glimpse into my family's hard-core holiday baking tradition. My family takes cookie baking pretty seriously. Every December, as far back as I remember, my mom would spend a whole Saturday at my aunt's house baking the most amazing cookies, that they'd pack into pretty cookie tins, and hand out to everyone at Christmas. When I got old enough, I got to join too! I started as the ch
Nov 22, 2021
What is it like to be a Downtown Windsor Farmers' Market Vendor?
Short answer: Amazing & crazy! Long answer: It's a very early, very long day, exhausting & exhilarating... We started at the DWFM back in September 2020 (has it been more than a year!?!) Back then, I was still working full time as a Pharmaceutical Scientist at Catalent, so I signed up for alternating weekends, to give me time to bake enough product to bring. It meant lots of super late nights baking, labeling, packing and organizing. Waking up before the crack of dawn the mor
Nov 8, 2021
What's with this plate, you ask?
A few of you have asked about the striped plate we use in some of our photos. This awesome beachy plate in the photo below. (photo credit: 3 Girls and a Kiln) It starts back in Toronto, almost 15 years ago, when I was doing my post-grad in pharmaceutical R&D and met my best friend - she was in the class right after mine, and we ended up at a conference together and started a conversation over tattoos, lol. Fast forward a few years after we both finished our programs, and we
Nov 1, 2021
House of Sophrosyne Bake Sale
This Saturday, October 30, 2021 we will be participating in the county-wide bake sale fundraiser for the House of Sophrosyne!!! Stay tuned for their announcement this week, with a list of other participating bakeries across the county - but we're one of them! (so come see us Saturday if you need gf, dairy-free, or naturally sweetened goodies). Each bakery will be donating a portion of their sales that day. Instead of picking a special item, we've decided to donate $5 from EVE
Oct 25, 2021
Cheers to our new blog!
We're starting a blog! Where you can read about things we love, what we're up to or thinking about, and who knows what else. Stay tuned.
Oct 21, 2021
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