The cookbook club had a dessert potluck for June to wrap up our club until September. We ate tiramisu, lemon cookies, and lemon meringue pudding, chocolate cake, roasted rhubarb and more!
Here are a few ideas to top your desserts this June with these in season fruit – cherries and strawberries. Also in season now are: asparagus, beans, beets, broccoli, cauliflower, cucumber, lettuce, peas and radishes.
Try these desert places in Barrie:
- Cheeky Treats
- Sugar City Cupcakes
- CupCake
- Holly’s Sweets and Eats
- Cakes by Design
- Lemon Tree Bakery
- Sigrid’s Fine Bakery
- Simply Tea and Chocolate
Cool off this summer:
- The Chocolate Swirl
- Hartley’s Ice Cream
- Rawlicious smoothies
- Marble Slab Creamery
- Kawartha Dairy
- Beavertails (ice cream buffet style Downtown)
- Baskin Robbins
- Dairy Queen
To keep you busy this summer, here are just a few ‘foodie’ ideas:
- Barrielicious – Summer Edition
- EdenCrest Farms Openhouse & Farm Tour – Sunday, June 2, 2013 10am-2pm
- Kempenfest – find spice, preserves and more
- Savour Simcoe – Sunday, August 25th *Registration is open now!*
- Local Gastro Pub Monthly Beer Tasting Menus – 3 course meal by reservation
- Find out which fruits and vegetables are in season each month
- On the Farm at Sheldon Dairy – Saturday, June 15th 10am-4pm
- Strawberry Festival at Barrie Hill Farms – Saturday, June 22nd
- Blueberry Pancake Festival at Barrie Hill Farms – Saturday, July 27th – Sunday, July 28th
- Go on a Wine or Beer tour Georgian Hills Vineyards, Muskoka Lakes Winery/Johnston’s Cranberry Marsh, Flying Monkeys Brewery, Creemore Springs Brewery, Muskoka Brewery (call ahead to see if doing tours)
I hope you all enjoy the numerous patios in Downtown Barrie this summer. Don’t forget those near Lakeshore Drive – Pie and The Farmhouse – ‘Family-Sheek Farm Food’ at the old Shutter’s Location (from the owners of the now closed Oscars). The Farmhouse has a $12 corkage fee. Do you know of any other restaurants in Barrie offering a corkage fee, share them with us here.