As I compose this, Tammy is walking around with a grocery list. Here is her current thought process....

Crackers? Yes, we need crackers.
Oooh.. We need some tricked out name tags! I will go to Hobby Lobby and see what I can find.
How are we doing on mustard?
I've gotta get baking.
Do we have red velvet cupcakes?
What do we need for the dessert tray??
I like wallpaper, and doodlies. Can we put that in the blog?
Watch for the cop on Kiroli! There is a cop sitting behind the bushes now.
Oh.. Baked potatoes. I want to have baked potatoes.

Anna is looking at a tea magazine. Betsey is crumbling bacon. Oh, and I, Skye, am blogging. This is the life at Tammy's Soup, Salad and Sweets, or the dark side as we refer to it.



We work in one side of a family owned business, the other half of which is referred to as the boy's side. It is a coffeehouse. But this blog is about the girls. And introductions are in order:


Tammy - owner. Outgoing. Loud. Funny. 35 years of baking experience. Hairbrained (see above thought process). Can throw together a cake in about 15 seconds and it looks like it took an hour to create.


Betsey - owner's daughter. More like her father. Organized thought process. Clean.

Anna - cake decorator and Betsey's BFF. Artistic. Quiet. Likes to run.

Skye - doesn't really have a title except for the newly attained "blogger." I just work here. And you don't have to be crazy to work here, but it certainly helps.


So I bet you are wondering why we are blogging. The first and foremost reason is because we saw Julie&Julia yesterday and were inspired. Tammy tried to make us wear pearls and heels to work today. Ha. Rather than ruin our good jewelry with icing and jam our toes into uncomfortable shoes all day, we decided to join the world of blogging. Now, we can tell the free world what we do every day and how much fun we have and put pictures of the cakes we make. (Hey, a little free advertising never hurt anyone.) Maybe one day someone at the Food Network will read this blog and find our little shop to be interesting and make a show out of us. Let's start small.


Today is a pretty normal day. Here, a normal day looks much like this:

Arrive around 8 a.m.
8 - 10 a.m.: Set up salad bar. The salad bar is an every-day guarantee for income. Cakes are busy on the weekend and during the week we have salad. We chop cucumbers, make pasta salad, dice eggs, cook bacon, defend the bacon from the boys, and now, blog.
10:30 a.m.: The salad bar opens.
11:00 a.m.: Mrs. Lee arrives every day. We set our clocks by her.
11:15 - 12:15: Tammy bakes. We make cupcakes and brownies and ooey gooeys and lemon and key lime tarts; something warm and sweet to serve at lunch every day.
12:15 - 1:15: Lunch rush.
1:15 - 2:00: Business slows and we usually eat.
2:00: Salad bar closes.

Occassionally things happen that throw a wrench into this highly practiced and perfected schedule.

Ok. Everyday something happens. And that is what this blog is all about. So, if you want a peek behind the scenes at a busy bakery with a crazy owner... This is the place to find it. I will blog as often as possible. I hope you find it entertaining, enlightening, and enabling you to enjoy your normal, 9-5, stuck behind the desk all day in a cubicle job more. Some days, I would trade you in a heartbeat.

Hey, one way that blogging has already improved my life? It just got me out of doing dishes. (Yipeee!)