Cress Spring Bakery: Ruminations: October 2017

Friday, October 13, 2017

October 18! Pizza on the farm!

Last pizza night of the season!

Cress Spring Pizzeria will be serving them up on Wednesday, October 18, from 4:30 pm until 8:00 pm.

Folks, this is your last chance this year. It’s going to be a perfect October evening, with a bonfire, hot cider and cold beer, our fabulous pizza, and tasty desserts. Grab a blanket and your sweetie, or your brother or your mother. Bring a passel of kids, or your favorite farmer, or that cute librarian you’ve been dying to ask on a date. Just bring it.

We’ll have our famous peanut butter cups on the dessert menu, along with pumpkin bars and ice cream sandwiches.

Our musical guest this week will be You Knew Me When, a Colorado based folk-rock duo with a full band sound. Outfitted with an array of instruments including piano, ukulele, glockenspiel, guitar, and percussive elements, You Knew Me When creates a live show that blends a singer-songwriter soul with a rock n roll mentality.

Here’s how it works. Every Wednesday evening from May until October, we'll be selling flaming hot pizzas and delicious desserts, beer and wine, here at Cress Spring Farm. Picnic on our lawn or take your pizza to enjoy at home. Outdoor seating only - you are welcome to bring blankets, lawn chairs, and warm friends to snuggle with. You should also bring whatever plates, cutlery, etc. that you might need for your picnic. Pizza will be served in boxes, beer and soda in bottles and wine by the bottle or glass. We will have mason jars available for wine, but we encourage you to bring your own. You may supplement your picnic with any salads or other food you wish to bring, but we ask that you not bring your own alcohol. We accept cash, checks, credit cards, and chickens as payment.

Our menu for this week is below, and it's also posted on our facebook page. Pizza orders may be called in ahead of time, but on busy nights we stop accepting phone orders once we start serving. We hope to see you soon!

Cress Spring Bakery
4035 Ryan Road
Blue Mounds, WI 53517
608 767-3875

Cress Spring Bakery & Pizzeria

Menu for October 18

Appetizers

Appetizer basket: Salt & pepper crostini, and a selection of fresh & pickled veggies, and confit fingerling potatoes, served with dill aioli and spiced Moroccan yogurt-carrot dip- $8

Chips! Salsa!: In a basket with pickled red onions, melty queso, and roasted tomatillo salsa $6

Pickled veggies: Smoky, spicy, and refreshing escabeche $3

Pizzas

All pizzas are available on Cress Spring sourdough crust or gluten-free crust (GF=same price, smaller pizza)

Three Little Pigs: Fire-roasted tomato sauce, Cress Spring cheese blend, Jordandal Italian sausage, Jordandal bacon, pepperoni, onions, red peppers $17.00

Real Fungi: House-made mushroom tapenade, caramelized onions, shitake mushrooms, roasted beets, fennel, toasted walnuts $15.00 (vegan)

Baker’s Favorite: Caramelized onions, Cress Spring cheese blend, Hook’s gorgonzola, toasted walnuts $15.00 Add Bacon $2.00

Figgy Pig: Fire-roasted tomato sauce, figs poached in red wine, Sartori Montamore cheese, Jordandal Italian sausage, red onions, $17.00

Pumpkin Sage: House-made pumpkin- sage sauce, Capri Cheese chevre, arugula, dried cranberries, onions, bacon $17.00

Thai Chicken: Shredded chicken, spicy Thai peanut sauce, peanuts, sweet potatoes, carrots, daikon, pea shoots, cilantro, crème fraiche $17.00

Afternoon Delight: Fire-roasted tomato sauce, Farmer John fresh mozzarella, sun-dried tomatoes, scallions, arugula, Underground soppressata and prosciutto $17.00

Greek: Basil Pesto, Cress Spring cheese blend, Capri feta, Kalamata olives, artichoke hearts, roasted red peppers, broccolini, red onion

Big Cheese: Fire-roasted tomato sauce, Cress Spring cheese blend $12.00

Barbecue Pork: Fire-roasted green zebra tomato sauce, Cress Spring cheese blend, smoked pork, red onions, sweet corn, red peppers, barbecue sauce $17.00

The Duchess: A delicious way to end your meal! House-made smoked raspberry jam, Hook’s gouda cheese, fresh honey-soaked pears, toasted walnuts $15.00

Build Your Own: You are welcome to build your own pizza out of anything we have on hand each week. Prices are simple: $15.00 for a vegetable pizza, $17.00 for a meaty pizza

Desserts

Duchess Dessert Pizza: Smoked Raspberry Jam, Walnuts, Pears, Gouda, Cinnamon-Honey $15.00

Cookies: Gingersnap, Trail Cookie $2.00; Chocolate Chip, Chocolate Sea Salt $2.25

Pumpkin bar with cream cheese frosting: $3.00

Peanut Butter Cups: $2.00

Ice Cream Sandwiches! Sea salt, chocolate fudge cookie with vanilla ice cream $4.00

Beer:

Starcut Ciders Octorock $4.00

Bellaire, MI 4.9% ABV

Pabst Blue Ribbon $3.00

Milwaukee, WI 4.7% ABV

New Glarus Two Women Bavarian Lager $4.00

New Glarus, WI 5% ABV

Hinterland Brewing Packerland Pilsner $4.00

Green Bay, WI 4.5% ABV

Karben4 Block Party Amber Ale $4.00

Madison, WI 5.6% ABV

Karben4 Lady Luck Irish Red Ale $4.00

Madison, WI 7.5% ABV

New Glarus Moon Man No Coast Pale Ale $4.00

New Glarus, WI 5% ABV

Karben4 Fantasy Factory IPA $4.00

Madison, WI 6.3% ABV

Furthermore Black Cloud Belgian Strong Dark Ale $4.00

Black River Falls, WI %7 ABV

War Pigs (Mikkeller & Three Floyds Colab) Lazurite IPA $4.50

Munster, IN & Copenhagen, Denmark 6.8%

Ale Asylum Oktillion Oktoberfest $4.00

Madison, WI

New Holland Brewing The Poet Chocolate Stout $4.50

New Holland, MI 5.2% ABV

Wine

Pinot Grigio, Montefresco

Italy $5/$20

2013 Ravenna Riesling

Columbia Valley, WA $6/$22

Poire Authentique Sparkling Pear Cider, Eric Bordelet

France $7/$25

Chateau d’Oupia Minervois Rose

France $6/$22

Tuscan Red, Montauto Maremma Toscana

Italy $5/$20

Malbec, Allemand

Argentina $6/$22

Pinot Noir, Sean Minor

California $6/$22

Non-Alcoholic Beverages

Maine Root Beer $3.00

Maine Ginger Brew $3.00

Wiscopop Strawberry Soda $3.00

NessAlla Lemon Ginger Kombucha $3.50

Lemon Klarbrunn $1.00

Milk $1.00

Ela Orchards Hot Apple Cider $2.00

Friday, October 6, 2017

October 11! Pizza on the farm!

Cress Spring Pizzeria will be serving them up on Wednesday, October 11, from 4:30 pm until 8:30 pm.

Only two weeks left! Our last pizza night of the year will be October 18. These last few pizza nights in October are always special, seeing the fall colors on the farm, sipping hot cider around the bonfire as the moon comes up. Come and savor it with us.

Our musical guest this week will be Wrenclaw, playing as a duo, blending country harmonies and slithery slide guitars to create a down-home, backwoods soul shakedown.

We bid a fond farewell to both the Margherita and the Aubergine pizzas this week, but we welcome back our Thai Chicken pizza, with slow-cooked chicken in a spicy thai peanut sauce, topped with fresh cilantro, lots of veggies, and crème fraiche, along with our Barbecue Pork pizza, with smoked pulled pork and fire-roasted green zebra tomato sauce.

Cress Spring Bakery

4035 Ryan Road

Blue Mounds, WI 53517
608 767-3875

Thai Chicken

Cress Spring Bakery & Pizzeria

Menu for October 11

Appetizers

Appetizer basket: Salt & pepper crostini, and a selection of fresh & pickled veggies, and confit fingerling potatoes, served with spicy tomato jam, dill aioli, and cider-bacon-onion jam $8