Showing posts with label Local food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Local food. Show all posts

Thursday, March 31, 2016

Springtime Excitement! Teas on the Road to Japan and YELP GREAT GET AWAY to BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA

HAPPY SPRING UPDATE!

New life is everywhere.  Plants emerging from ground.  Some branches budding, others already leafing out.  A day ago, I saw the first flush of red bud blossom.  Soon the entire ridge will be popping with who knows how many shades of green and this contrasting pink.

A week ago I wondered when the fast paced leafing would begin.  The growth that eventually obscures my view of the road.  It is fast upon me.


Strawberry 15 herbal tea  (pictured above) along with Rose Mint and Elderberry Rose Mint Jellies traveled with my friend Yuko to Japan!  The Rose Mint jelly was a request from an admirer there.

On the way - Farmer House Museum will soon have:  Farmer House Garden Blend, Spearmint Lift and Lemonbalm(812) 336-5597, They are located at 529 N College Ave (10th and College), Bloomington, IN 4




Some Quilter's Comfort jellies will soon be available in a Brown County shop!  More about that later!



 
As a Vendor to Upland, Quilter's Comfort is participating in  YELP'S Great Getaway.



 I plan on baking baby eclairs and filling them with beer jelly crafted from Upland beers; sourdough biscuit or maybe a jelly scone and something with the Everything Plus Dip!

Enjoy!






Saturday, December 12, 2015

Holiday Events, Jellies, Jellies and Chef Collaboration



 

May this note find all well and your hearts full of joy, and that Quilter’s Comfort will be some part of your celebrations and your day to day life.

For many of us, this may be a very hectic time.  If you are on the mailing list, you know that Quilter’s Comfort participated in Holiday House and thank all who came out to support the event and my herbal business in particular.

The Quilter’s Comfort website has been updated, well mostly.  There is still work to be done and pages to link, so please bare with me as I juggle the work.  Bloomington folks please note purchase arrangements available to avoid shipping cost!

Now, I am preparing for this year’s Krista Detour Holiday Show, Market and CD Release.  Each year Krista hosts a benefit for a local non-profit.  This year it is for VIPS, Visually Impaired Preschoolers and takes place Friday, December 18, 7:00 pm in the Unitarian Universalist Church.  Visit her website at http://www.kristadetour.com for details.

I plan to offer herbal teas, seasonings and this year have some new packaging options and gift sets. 


I also have an assortment of jellies- local beer, local coffee, herbal and some fruit jellies - Cranberry Orange and Apple Jam.  I also have some very decadently delicious Chocolate Raspberry Stout (certified organic) jam and Rose Delight (made from certified organic coconut sugar and local honey!  As you know, all are made in small batches, so are available while supplies last, or by special order.



Over the last month, just from a chance meeting, I have been exploring UPLAND Brewery’s Wheat Ale to be used by Executive Chef Padraig Cullen.  I am very excited about this collaboration and getting the details worked out to both our liking.  I love having the staff referring to me as their beer jelly lady!  So much fun and appreciation all around!  There are a few other collaborations brewing and depending on the details will unfold in 2016.

Speaking of 2016, we have the name for our new tea!  Visit our website tea page to see the name! Click Here



Sunday, September 29, 2013

ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION TEA SALE

 Patricia's Wellness Arts Cafe business turns two years old!  The "Cafe" is home to Quilter's Comfort products!

To celebrate the "Cafe is hosting a 2nd Anniversary Exhibit - "PAPER FOLDED PAINTINGS and PARABOLAS by Patricia C. Coleman.  Reception is Friday, October 4th, 5:00pm to 8:00pm.

The evening will feature paper folding demonstrations, musical performance by Janiece Jaffe and Curtis Cantwell Jackson, the Herbal Table, sale on all herbal teas and jellies, gift basket drawing, discount on holiday gift certificates and more.  The evening will feature a variety of delicious herbal treats.  
 

On Friday, October 18th join us for Artist Talk and Paper Folding Demonstration with Patricia 6:00pm to 7:00pm in the Wellness Arts Gallery, located in Patricia’s Wellness Arts CafĂ©, 725 West Kirkwood Avenue.  The Exhibit runs October 4th through October 31st, 2013.  

All Quilter's Comfort herbal teas, jellies, body care,  wellness services and gift certificate purchases will be on sale for the entire month of October!  If you are an early shopper this is the perfect time to purchase gifts for tea and jelly lovers.  Favorites are our coffee jelly made using coffee from the Runcible Spoon, Bloomington, Indiana's oldest coffee roaster; wine jelly made with wine from Butler Winery and beer jelly a blend of one of Quilter's Comfort HipHop blends and locally crafted beer.  At the moment we have Ruby Amber HipHop on the shelf.

Happy Fall

Patricia




Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Name a Tea Contest Celebrates HOT TEA MONTH!

Happy New Year! May January 2012, Hot Tea Month find you well and ready to drink teas! Quilter's Comfort is celebrating and invites you to join us in our Celebration of Hot Tea Month

at PATRICIA’S WELLNESS ARTS CAFÉ & Quilter’s Comfort Teas

With our Name a Tea Contest!

~One of the new teas to be released in 2012 does not have a name!

~Everyone making a purchase during the month of January can submit a name suggestion for the unnamed tea.

The person submitting the name selected by our judges, Ash Burgess, Noah Dadds and Betty Irvine will receive one bag of tea each month through 2012!

TEA TASTING, SYRUP AND JELLY SAMPLING DAILY

Hours - 1:00pm - 6:00pm Tuesday - Saturday

First Fridays - 1:00pm - 8:00pm

725 West Kirkwood, Ave, Bloomington,Indiana

Friday, April 1, 2011

What's Happening at Quilter's Comfort

Hello to each of you.

May this posting find you well, and of course I hope healthy and enjoying spring where ever you are located.

I am busy working to get teas out into my community, and with your assistance into shops and eateries near you! Some new opportunities for QCT are unfolding and to that end an updated Business Plan is being worked on. I will share more on that another time.

Following is info from my most recent "What's Happening" Update on the Quilter's Comfort site. Besides this information that is mostly about teas, thanks to James Lawrence, of Stair Lift Advisor I've done some updating on the Links page. Links or location information of business mentioned are at the bottom.



In late winter Quilter's Comfort released Owl and Pussy Cat's Berry Green and Players Pub's Bluesy Green Teas. Owl and Pussy Cat's Berry Green were inspired by the children's folk tale, The Owl and Pussy Cat who went to sea and while there dined on quince with a runcible spoon. For nearly 30 years, I along with family and friends have enjoyed consuming food and beverages at the Runcible Spoon Restaurant and Coffeehouse located at 412 E. 6th Street. So it was easy for me to design and name a tea with the Spoon, (as it is know by the locals) in mind.

It has been one of the regular places to stop whether with my children on a visit to the library, a chat with friends or for my writing time, and definitely the place to purchase my favorite, freshly roasted, organic and fair trade coffees. Long ago I was told that the Runcible Spoon was the first coffee roaster in the town, maybe the state. I will have to check to see if that is true. It is also the place I joined the line of men and women producing and hosting "The Runcible Spoon Poetry Series", now the "HART Rock Poetry Series" every fourth Friday in Rachael's Cafe (serving I LOVE Me tea). Jeff Danniels was the pioneering founding owner of the "Spoon" now run by Regan and Chef Matt O'Neil. Of course easy going people, wonderful food and having fish in the restrooms bathtub is a draw and pleasure for all of us. And of course Quilter's Comfort Teas!

Players Pub's Bluesy Green was blended while thinking about the excellant blues music I have enjoyed listening and dancing to at the Pub. I wanted to blend a tea that would support and nurture the complex tones I imbibed through my ears and skin curtesy of the Blues bands such as Cliff & The Guardrails, Carlyn Lindsey and the Snake Doctors, Doc Malone, Old Timey Blues of the Lost Shoe String Band, Curtis Cantwell Jackson and Janiece Jaffe, Michael Kelsey, the Blues Jam on Tuesdays, the Dynamics, Blues Street. Beasley. The Pub, located at 424 South Walnut Street serves good food and features great music. The musicians, many of them from around the Bloomington and Brown County areas are wonderful musicians.

For now, the Pub will be the only local place to serve Bluesy Green. They also have it available for take home purchase along with Quilter's Comfort I LOVE Me, Cold Thyme and Patricia's Delicious (Original Blend) teas, and it will be available for purchase in grocery stores locally and a variety of establishments elsewhere.

If you are in Bloomington, Indiana, in addition to the above establishments, you can find Quilter's Comfort teas on the menue at Roots on the Square, Rachael's Cafe and Max's Place. Want to buy some to enjoy at home? Stop in the Bloomingfoods Eastside Store and the Downtown Bloomingfoods (down the alley off Kirkwood) or the Players Pub. You can also purchase teas from my Reiki Peace and Wellness Office open by appointment only.

Quilter's Comfort was invited to design a tea for the Chalice Circles of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Bloomington (Small Group Ministry) using herbs folk historians have associated with such properties as to support deep listening, enhance group interactions, be calming, nurturing, understanding and compassionate. Of course they want it to have great taste. To that end, in May, Quilter's Comfort will release All Ears. After its debut,it will be made available to the community.

Before All Ears makes its community debut, we will release Orange Earl Green in just a few short weeks, and if our taste testers say its go at that time we will also release Green Dove, blended with a mind toward peaceful intentions.

James Lawrence of Stair Lift Advisor can be reached here

QUILTER'S COMFORT TEAS CAN BE FOUND IN THESE BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA LOCATIONS:

MAX'S PLACE
PLAYERS PUB
RACHAEL'S CAFE
ROOTS on the Square- corner of Walnut and 6th Street
RUNCIBLE SPOON Restaurant

BLOOMINGFOODS DOWNTOWN 316 West 6th St (ALLEY OFF KIRKWOOD)
BLOOMINGFOODS EASTSIDE, 3220 East 3rd St
PLAYERS PUB, 424 South Walnut
REIKI PEACE AND WELLNESS ARTS- by appointment only

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Thursday, March 17, 2011

"Bluesy Green" featured at Players Pub on St. Patrick's Day!

Quilter's Comfort "Bluesy Green" tea at the Players Pub!

This St. Patrick's night "Wear the Green, Enjoy the Blues"at the Players Pub as they introduce their new special tea: Players Pub's Bluesy Green" a Certified Organic herbal tea blended specially for them in Bloomington by Quilters Comfort. Quilter's Comfort blends organic herbs and teas in small batches. Quilter's Comfort's Patricia C. Coleman, tea blender, has been crafting herbal brews since the mid 1970's.

So stop by the Pub wearing your green and enjoy a cup of Bluesy Green tea on the house and of course there will also be some really good Blues music to enjoy.

For more information about the Pub, check out the Players Pub's calendar - http://www.theplayerspub.com/calendar.php

For more information about Quilter's Comfort visit http://www.quilterscomfort.com/