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Fling yourself into spring! Tasting & Recipe Exchange

Todd G. — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:25:29 +0000

We’ve been tucking into all those delectable jars we spent last summer and fall putting up. Thank goodness for preserved tomatoes! Now spring has arrived and its time to gear up for the oncoming summer bounty with the Food Preservationists.

Join fellow home canning revivalists at the Spring Canning Fling on May 1st, 1-6 PM. Swap and taste recipes, sip cocktails featuring Happy Girl products, nibble on tea snacks, and get revved up with a barn music hoe-down. If you missed our Harvest Party last fall, now’s your chance to check out the coolest Victorian in Oakland, at the corner of 49th and Clarke. Bring your recipes and jars of what you’ve been preserving for a lovely spring afternoon.

And best of all, it’s FREE; there’s no cost to attend and no canning experience necessary.

Party in support of Happy Girl’s food revolution!

Todd G. — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:09:48 +0000

Join the Food Preservationists of Happy Girl Kitchen in igniting a food revolution! We’re striving to deliver amazing quality organic produce from small, local farms to home canners throughout the Bay Area. How you can get involved: rock out at our party to raise money for a delivery truck.

November 14th, 2 – 6 PM at the coolest Victorian in Oakland!
Featuring local bands, olde timey beverages, a gourmet food spread by Happy Girl, a canning contest, and a raffle with fab prizes.

Buy your tickets here! Get involved building a new food system with a donation starting at $35. If you are Happy Girl fan who lives beyond the Bay Area, you can still help and be eligible for our raffle prizes.

Spice it up with Berkeley’s Spice of Life Festival

Todd G. — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:08:21 +0000

Berkeley’s Gourmet Ghetto is transformed into an all out street fair this Sunday, October 4th from 10 AM – 6 PM for the Spice of Life festival. There will be cooking demos and samples, wine tastings, carnival rides, farm animals, crafts and music! And naturally, a farmers’ market where you’ll find the extraordinary Todd C. in one of his signature hats. Pick up Happy Girl’s newest delectables: raspberries or apricots in light honey syrup (perfect for waffles, pancakes and yogurt), spicy bread and butters or pick up previously out of stock favorites like dry farmed tomato country ketchup. The fall is here and we’ve preserved the summer.

HGK to the rescue for the tomato deprived

Todd G. — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:04:52 +0000

Online food maven Tasting Table recommends Happy Girl Kitchen’s burgeoning line of tomato products to get tomato blight afflicted East Coasters through the long tomato-less winter. And now dry farmed country ketchup–the richest, most flavorful ketchup you’ll ever find–is back!

Food and Wine Harvest Festival in Carmel

Todd G. — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:28:03 +0000

Join Happy Girl Kitchen this weekend at Food and Wine Magazine’s Harvest Farm to Table festival. Set among the rolling fairways and sparkling lakes of the soon to close Quail Lodge, the festival is weekend packed with chef demos, wine tastings, barbecue and gardening seminars and even a kid’s kitchen! Get snockered with a Very Happy Girl bloody mary, made with our world famous spicy heirloom tomato juice and stroll the grounds while you still can.

We’re truly world famous!

Todd G. — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:01:41 +0000

Our spicy heirloom tomato juice made The Guardian’s top 50 best foods IN THE WORLD (in no particular order, see #17)

‘Tis the season for food festivals

Todd G. — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:01:57 +0000

Come on down to Oakland’s Jack London Square to check out Todd C.’s food alchemy in a fast past paced pickle demo at Eat Real Fest’s Community Canning & Foraging Exchange, Friday, August 28th, 6-8 PM. There will also be fermentation, jam, and foraging tips from area experts. Bring the efforts from your own canning adventures to trade with others and enter in the Yes I Canned contest to win awesome prizes.

Then, stroll the marketplace all weekend long and visit HGK’s old fashioned lemonade and pickle stand, featuring our addictive lavender hibiscus lemonade, as well as sour, vinegar, and sweet pickles. It’s summer. Go out with a crunch (from a pickle, of course!)

Es war sauergurkenzeit (it was pickle time)!

Todd G. — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:10:35 +0000

Friday HGK co-owner Todd Champagne and marketing and brand manager Todd Gonzales joined Urban Kitchen SF for a mini-pickling workshop. The blogger of A mindful individual was on hand to make a podcast of the event. Check out the Two Todds rifting on the differences between salt water and vinegar brines and HGK’s goal to empower people to know their food. Click here to listen to the podcast

Peek into Happy Girl’s kitchen ONLINE

Todd G. — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:07:01 +0000

See what we’re preserving and follow our latest news on our recently unveiled Twitter feed happygirl_co and Facebook page. We’ll be posting photos and commentary from the kitchen as we capture the summer’s bounty for you to enjoy year round. Preserving traditional foodways with modern tools. Go for it!

Urban picklers unite!

Todd G. — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:24:19 +0000

We’ve teamed up with Urban Kitchen SF to offer a mini-pickling workshop at beautiful Pier 26 on Friday, July 17th, 7-9 PM. The pickle maestro himself, Todd Champagne, will lead a hands on event just in time to preserve the abundance of summer. Click to learn more and sign up