Hello its been a very long time hasn't it

Hello it has been a very busy year for us a few years in fact which is why our blog account has not been updated but we are back onto it now.

We are still running the very popular Bread Baking Courses and they start again from 6th October following an end to our events and show season. The courses run throughout most of October and November.  We are back to Christmas events during December. 

Talking of Christmas our Bread Baking Course vouchers make an ideal present for a loved one who perhaps doesn't require a materialistic present...The 5 hour courses retail at £80.00 and you receive expert tuition and guidance,with a maximum of 5 students per class, thus ensuring a close attention ratio with a relaxed teaching style.  All the breads baked are yours to take away and the lesson doesn't stop when the course ends, Loafers ensure we carry the training on via email, phone or in person, we want you to bake breads!...Fantastic breads! 

At last we have managed to update our page!  We intend to keep you updated from now on with all the shows, food events and festivals Loafers have done or are doing in the future.
Just attended the Beer on the Wye festival over the 8/9/10th of July staged in Hereford...fantastic event well attended and fabulous weekend for Loafers!

We are still running our bread making courses on most weekends so get in touch and start baking the Loafers way!

Welland Steam Fair is fast approaching so another mad few weeks in preparation and an even more crazy event...come and see us their, another great event and loads of fun.

Thanks all of our customers for being patient with us during the event season we obviously don't like shutting the shop during these events, but there's only me and Sam.

Thanks in advance, we are going to try and 'Tweet' on a regular basis so watch out for us in tweeter sphere!

Kington Christmas Food Fair

We will be at Kington Christmas Food Fair 5 December 2015 selling our pies and sausage rolls. Come along there are some great stalls and plenty of carol singing!

Baking Courses Galore

Our baking courses are well under way and are proving very popular. We run them on Saturday afternoons from 1230pm until 5pm at Bromyard shop. The course costs £80 and covers the science behind bread making.

We have received many emails and letters thanking us for a great afternoon of baking and plenty say that they learnt more in our afternoon session than  they learnt in a three day baking course, great praise indeed!

We have vouchers available to purchase for the course which would be great surprises for Birthday or Christmas presents, you can purchase them from Bromyard Shop.

We have one course date left this year on 12 December then we will resume from 16 January 2016.

Now that we have only Bromyard shop it is making our life a lot easier and of course we bake everything now from Bromyard so fresh hot bread available every morning from 830am.

We would like to wish all our customers a great Christmas and prosperous New Year.

Darren and Sam

Learn How to Bake with Loafers

At long last we are starting our "How to Bake Better with Loafers" courses at our Bromyard shop.  We will start by running them on a Tuesday afternoon from 2.30pm and Saturday afternoon from 12.30pm.  We would both love you to come along and see how Mr Dough makes his delicious breads.

Call Bromyard shop on 01885 488370 for details.  This course costs £80 and will run for 3 hours minimum.

Well lots has been happening for us this year and we hope you are all enjoying the bread varieties we do, if you would like to try your own variety just let us know and we will give it a go for you.

Do come along and have ago at our Baking Courses, who knows you could be a star in the making.

It's been a while since our last blog but we have been busy busy busy.  We have been to Kington Show, Bromyard Folk Festival, Rye Bread Festival, in the last month (did you see my ugly mug in the Hereford Times, Sam thinks I look like a sunflower, I did say I am full of sunshine!!) with all these events we would like to thank all our customers for their support without you all we wouldn't be trading.

It is approaching a quieter month for us, (a breather at last) we will be selling Cider breads at Wye Valley Brewery Open Day on 19th October so make a date, come try lots of samples of fabulous cider, lots to keep the children entertained whilst you parents enjoy the tempting, delicious offerings of our breads.

We will be at Flavours of Herefordshire again this year selling breads and pastys on the market in front of Marks and Spencer, lets hope the weather is kind.

We plan to open our School for Baking in November so watch this space for more details, it would be a great Christmas Gift.

Thanks for reading will be in touch soon.

Your exhausted Bakers!

Bank Holiday Monday set to be a warm one!!

So don't forget to visit us at Hergest Croft Gardens, Kington where we will be selling our delicious breads and pasties and also at Dilwyn Show, (near Weobley) where there will be lots happening.  Oh and don't forget your shorts! its going to be a warm one (so they say).  See you there.

If you can't join us at either event then we now supply Legges of Bromyard with our Specialty Breads and CJ's Farm Shop on the Worcester to Hereford Road so you don't miss out.

We would also like to thank everyone who has supported us and nominated us to take part in Britains Best Bakery, we are immensely proud of what we have achieved and thank you for believing in and appreciating our hard work, and also enjoying our breads of course.  A big warm thank you.

It was a Great Event !

Well we had a great time at the British Red Cross event at Whitfield Estate, Hereford last Wednesday. The weather was great to us and there were plenty of you spending your money enjoying the great British Summertime.  We had huge success with selling our Artisan Breads, if you were there and had lunch or even a small snack in the Food Marque then you would have been tasting our delicious breads.  Hope you enjoyed them all! 

Our next events will be Bank Holiday Monday where we will be at Dilwyn Show and Hergest Croft Gardens, Kington, come along look forward to seeing you.  lets hope the weather will be just as kind this time.

Special Celebration Breads

A little something unique for that Special Day, why not try our decorative, creative and tasty accompliment of delicious breads.  We offer unique flavours of Walnut, Cheddar & Rosemary, Italian Herb, Stilton., Walnut & Stilton, Date & Ale, Beer, Olive, Feta and Olive, Sundried Tomato.  If you want your own delicious mixture of flavours just let us know, we'll give anything a try!

We can arrange for Tear 'n' Share, Mini Loaves, Plaits, Baguettes, Ciabatta, Sour Dough, Spelt, in individual rolls or complete large loaves for slicing.

Make your day extra special with us, Loafers, your local Artisan Baker.

Mother's Day's gone but mum's still the word isn't it?

Sometimes in business even if you put all your efforts into a special day for your baby (our business baby is Loafers in case you haven't guessed) you just get a pile of poop!

In our case it was Mothers's Day Brioche Bows.  Here's the smashing picture of Dr Darren all dressed up in his bow tie with a basket of bows.  We sold a few but we can't really complain because we were just pipped or 'bunned' out of any press by a wonderful campaign - the Mother's Bunday' for The Haven Cancer Charity.  We're happy to applaud someone else's baby and give a big thumbs up to the whole idea which raised monies for local charities.  What a great cause.  

But just like every mum, it doesn't change to way we look after our business baby o r the fact that it's a full time job! and I guess we need to start thinking how we can make sure Loafers is ready for Easter.  Spelt hot cross buns? Would that work? We don't even know if its possible ..... what would you like to see at Loafers this Easter? Let us know!

2013 Events Posted!

Hello Loafer Lovers and 'Loaflets'!

A belated Happy 2013 - we hope it'll be sunny, prosperous and full of new baking treats for everyone.

Actually, we've hatched a wonderful idea for Mother's Day but 'mum's the word' until after Valentine's... less than a month away... Hmm, what can we cook up for you and your lover?

Hopefully the weather's on the up and we'll be seeing more of you. We were snowed in for a couple of days at home so sorry to the Bromyard folk who missed their daily orders... We're back again!

Baskets for Bakers - a Loafers' Light Bulb Moment!

You know they love shopping for fine foods. Perhaps they've got a bread-maker... What to give them? Obvious. One of Darren and Sam's 'Baskets for Bakers'!

It simply ticks all the boxes even if you're stuck at the last minute (well, up 'til 20th December anyway).  A Christmas 'Basket for Bakers' is a brilliant pressie for anyone who enjoys being in the kitchen.  It even includes the just published Loafers' Puzzle Poem by yours truly. And what a great way to support your local traders and deliver something utterly unique and special to friends and family, personally.

Who's 'yours truly'? In case you can't guess, it's Liz Darcy Jones, guest blogger for today and Bromyard's 'blebsite mistress' (that's blog/web creator for those who want a really simple web solution that allows you to engage with your audience with minimum fuss or screen-time). I'm blogging while they're baking and  munching on some wholemeal spelt and yeast free French flatbread with melted cheese while I'm doing so. Just right for the cold evening and no getting bloated!  Mmmmm....

So what's in these baskets and how much will they set you back?

The list is not exclusive and you can pick and choose items to include if you wish - go and see the baskets in the bakeries, the photo didn't do them justice.

Best items (apart from the poem of course) include: beautiful baker's apron, bread tins, selected speciality flours, baking instructions, jam, a bottle of Pixley Berries to quench the baker's thirst while he or she works. Oh, and oven gloves (vital), a rolling pin to hit anyone who dares criticise the cook... not forgetting the obligatory fridge magnet! All that for £40... and a slightly smaller version for £30 (less the apron and rollling pin).

That'll be all from Loafers' until after Christmas, except to pass on a huge thank you from Darren and Sam to all their customers and suppliers. They wish you a restful Christmas and prosperous New Year. I'd like to thank them back - it's a pleasure working with you guys and I love your passion for bread!

As for the poem? It's the first item on the new Loaflets page! What's a Loaflet? Bet you can guess...

P.S. The baskets are those beautiful vintage looking ones which hold loads and will be useful for years to come.

Mary Berry Gets a Bite of Loafers!

Modelled on our Stress-free Kitchen of course!

Here's a snippet of news from the kitchen. Mary Berry's going to be eating our bread on Monday!

We're delighted to be supporting the British Red Cross by supplying a mixture of our speciality breads for a fund raising luncheon at Lyde Arundel. Walnut's definitely on the list - but at the time of writing we not sure exactly what the other nine loaves will be. Come in and try some walnut. If it's good enough for Mary...


We think the menu sounds pretty scrummy: soup, pate, gravadlax, our bread and other treats - but wonder if our kitchen would be as stress free as normal before serving it up to the Grand Dame of The Great British Bake Off! Baking breads? No problem. All the best to the catering team! It's great to be asked to help by Sarah Roberts and we hope the lunch raises lots of money for the Red Cross - a worthy cause. Thanks for the recommendation Debra.

P.S. Can't wait to spill the beans and some pics of our weekend at Flavours of Herefordshire - where Mary Berry was in such demand her talks were sold out long before the event.

P.P.S. Did we remember to tell you that we don't just have French Tuesdays at Bromyard? Sam over at Kington would be delighted to tell you all about our french flours. Try the croissants - we've been told they're as good as you'll get over the border - France that is, not Wales!

Hereford's Flavoursome Weekend!

A quick alert in case you're wanting to taste some wonderful local Autumn foods this weekend...

We'll be at Flavours of Herefordshire this weekend - 27th and 28th October - see our 'Find us at...' page (just uploaded). We're sure lots of our lovely suppliers will be too so we'll be having a good old catch up and let you know how it goes.

Well, it was another manic Monday in Bromyard which was marvellous - with all breads sold out by noon.
We like it like that, although we feel like chanting the lines our empty-handed Tea Poet came up with as she departed:

Secure your bread - order ahead! 

And you can of course, by simply picking up the phone and pre-ordering. Not only does that help you, it also helps us to ensure we're baking the loaves you want.

Darren and Sam have baked their first blog post!

We can't wait to share what we're preparing for you for Christmas...

Une boulangerie dans Bromyard! 

But we're going to keep our lips sealed for now! Our first post has to be a Big Thank You. Thanks to everyone who supported our First French Tuesday last week, when we added French loaves and croissants to the day's baking. Ooo la la!

Thanks too to www.bromyard.info for giving the launch a plug. We had no idea how well frequented our local information site is. We welcomed a steady stream of visitors who'd seen the item.

Do place your orders for croissants and French sticks. If the demand continues we may have to make Thursdays 'French Tuesdays'tool!

Out of the kitchen, we're discovering how to 'use our loafs' when it comes to the whole adventure of getting a website together. We're also learning how to balance on the telegraph wire that is twitter... we're @weloveloafers. By the end of day one we had a huge fan base of two followers! Actually, we're laid back when it comes to social media because it's making bread rather than tapping a keyboard that puts a smile on our faces - especially when we see it put smile on yours.

That's it for now - back to making bread, which comes before everything else (except on Sundays when we're certainly not telling you what we get up to!)

 Expect some more pictures soon. Better be careful, Sam's got her camera out.