Speaking of Nuttyville

LAND HO! A Beautiful Landmark spotted from Route 2...



Nuttyville has become quite the hub for local foodies. Besides loaning space to Pete's Greens CSA for their weekly pick-up, we have hosted local foods tastings and the most exciting of soirees...

At a Rural Vermont Tasting we pose as a very handsome crew (from left):



Friend Amanda
Sticker Boy Anton
THE Nutty Steph
Bossman Baker Patrick
Badass Baker Ruth
Candy Bar Wrapper David
Delivery Gal Trish

Nutty gets chocolately!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY lovers of Nutty Steph's!


With constant growth from your support, our retail space at Nuttyville has had many incarnations. Most recently the launch of The Montpelier Chocolate Factory, our sister outfit that makes MAGIC CHUNKS possible. Stop in and check it out!

190 River St - Montpelier - VT

RECIPES - Series No. 2

BANANA GRANOLA PANCAKES

submitted by Leslie Atkins, Chico, CA (by way of Norwich, VT)

I toss some chopped granola and sliced bananas into my favorite pancake batter, top with butter and syrup. Mmmm. Here’s the recipe–

1 c flour
3/4 c whole wheat flour
1/2 t salt
1 T sugar
3 t baking powder
2 eggs
1 1/2 c milk
4 T melted butter

3/4 c. Nutty Steph’s granola
1 thinly sliced ripe banana

Mix the dry ingredients together (flour, salt, sugar, powder); in another bowl mix the wet ingredients well (eggs, milk, melted butter). Add wet to dry and mix lightly. Chop granola (to chop up the nuts); slice banana thinly. Fold granola and banana into batter. (You might need to add milk or flour to get it just right- should be a thick batter to hold the granola and bananas.)

Ladle onto griddle, turn once, eat with maple syrup!

VEGAN APPLE CRISP

submitted by Bentley Brooks

First, finely slice six vermont macintosh apples.

Second, toss with desired amount of cinnamon.

Third, put apples in 8 inch pie plate.

Fourth, fill remainder of pie plate with nutty steph granola.

Next, bake your vegan apple crisp in the oven at 350 degrees for about 40 minutes or until you think the apples are soft.

Finally, ENJOY!

NUTTY AUTUMN APPLE CRISP

submitted by Pam Loeb Lanham, MD, presently in Shelburne, VT

"PS -- Congrats on the new chocoloate factory!!!! Can't wait to try to the new goodies!!"

Ingredients:

8 apples (Granny Smiths are my fave!), peeled and sliced

1 cup Nutty Steph's Granola

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 teaspoon cinammon

1/4 lb butter, room temperature, cut into small pieces

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spread apples in 9x9 square glass baking dish. Add @ 1/2 cup water. In a bowl, combine Nutty Steph's granola, brown sugar, cinammon and butter until coarsely combined and beginning to feel crumbly. Spread evenly over apples. Bake for about 30 minues, or until the crust is browned.

Delicious warm or cold, and enhanced by your favorite ice cream. Enjoy!!

TESTIMONIALS TIME - Series No. 2

Your granola is the bomb and we love it. ~ Rob Ochitwa, Denver, CO

We've run out of magic chunks and I fear for my life because we have quite a few customers addicted!

~ Sheri Wells, independent owner of City Grounds Coffee Shop

I just got my magic chunks and samples. I think we have had the magic chunks here in the office for two hours and it is almost gone. All I have to say is “WOW” they are great!

More people need to know about magic chunks! I think I may order a big bag for my son’s first birthday party. Just wanted you to know how good they are!

- Emailed from a great new customer Kimberly Steward

Die Hard Nut

These are comments from a customer named Craig Jablonski. I've never met him. The second comment does not reflect particularly well on the company but it does shine a brilliant ray on that gorgeous entity we call Humor.

"Thank you so much for the granola. It's absolutly terrific! I can feel my cholesterol dropping as we speak! I am a little concerned about this "End of the Road Farm" maple syrup, though. Is this a synonym to "Dirt Nap" maple syrup? How 'bout "Pushing Daisies" maple syrup? Maybe "Six Feet Under" maple syrup? Anyway, thanks again for the 'nola. My kids and I will be healthier for it!"

"Recently, I was eating some of your nutty granola and I found a mysterious substance. I took it to a world renowned chemist from, oddly enough, Johns Hopkins named Adam and he told me it was tetrahyclotrimazolethlybenzene. I asked him why I wasn't dead yet and he informed me that it wouldn't kill me but I should keep clean underwear and toilet paper handy.I said at my age I do that anyway. He went on to say I should never eat anything from nutty Steph's again. I suggested you change the name to nutty Staph infection. He agreed.Anyway, I contacted my lawyer but because I shared my granola with him, he was in the bathroom and couldn't return my call. You'll be hearing from the firm Ben, Dover and Takit shortly."

Comic Strip Contest Winner

COMIC STRIP

Winner of Nutty Steph's 2006 Comic Strip Contest (and sole participant, just for the record)

The ideal DELIVERY

We don't advertise in print, but since our staff is comprised of ridiculously talented artists, we sometimes use the company for excuses to do photo shoots and other artistic stuff. Trisha Denton, the diva of deliveries, grease and warehouse organization, is so talented that she was able to transform me into a complete granola sexpot. Mmmmmm. Buy some today!

Here I am getting on the delivery bicycle that doesn't exist

Ooops! What's wrong with the pedal?

Ooo, this will fix it...

So i can carry on, delivering into the sunset.

Starring The GRANOLAMOBILE!

This is Trish.

She drives the granola to Vermont locations and makes ongoing improvements to our warehouse systems. Trish is a major champion of the vegi-powered Granolamobile. Stay tuned for photos of Trish and Steph in coveralls at the new "Granola, Grease and Go" station, coming soon to the naval of the universe, our one and only Montpelier, VT.

If you see Trish on the road, "honk for your free sample!"

Steph (left back), Trish (center with puppet), Cecelia, Talia and friends standing in front of the Granolamobile just before the 4th of July parade, Montpelier, 2007.

(Chronology is overrated)

RECIPES - Series No. Yum

FRUITY GRANOLA PIE

Submitted by Abbey Kampmeier

Start with a graham cracker crust-
Fill with your favorite yogurt-
Top with chunks of your favorite fruit-

*Sprinkle with Nutty Steph’s Vermont Granola!!!

*If you are not going to consume the entire pie in one sitting, you may want to only sprinkle the granola on one piece at a time as it gets soggy on the fruit overnight.

Submitted by Abbey Kampmeier

Age 13

GRANOLA AND ICE CREAM

submitted by Kelly Stettner, Springfield, VT

Well, my favorite way to eat your ‘nola is in a small bowl with gobs of Breyer’s Natural Vanilla ice cream and a generous drizzling of maple syrup. No recipe required, just a strong jaw for all the great nuts! Oh, and I keep my black Lab, Cassie, on hand for cleanup afterward.

HEARTY GRANOLA BREAD

ubmitted by Elizabeth Skypec

This recipe is for people who enjoy playing with their food!

1C Nutty Steph’s granola
1C boiling water
1T canola oil or melted butter
¼ c. maple syrup
2 tsp salt
2 ½ tsp active dry yeast
½ cup lukewarm milk
3 ½ cups flour (can mix white & whole wheat flour)

This makes great toast, if you don’t eat it all as soon as it comes out of the oven. Put the granola in a large bowl. Pour boiling water over it, let stand 15 minutes or until it is lukewarm. Stir in the oil, syrup, salt, yeast and milk. Mix well, then add flour to make a wet dough. It should be fairly sticky …you may not need all the flour. Add the last ½ cup only if the dough is too wet to handle. Use the rest of the flour to dust the surface you’ll knead on. Turn dough onto the floured surface and knead gently until smooth …just keep patting it into a pancake form & flopping over on itself, patting and flopping with increasing gusto as the dough gets smooth and elastic (5 to 10 minutes). Place the dough in an oiled bowl & cover with a clean cloth. Let rise 1 hour. Actually, recipes always call for an oiled bowl and a clean cloth, but you can just put it back in the dirty bowl and cover it with the t-shirt you were wearing when you got up this morning, and it will still rise. Shape into a loaf and place in a greased loaf pan. Cover and let rise until the dough fills the corners of the pan and a granola- flecked hump rises over the top of the pan (1 to 1 ½ hours). Bake at 350 for 40-50 minutes.

Holiday Fabulous

Are you ready for the holidays?

I am! Long ago, the Roman government made this one particular birthday very, very popular for the purpose of reminding YOU to spend money at MY store this very season. The holiday season. Enjoy Nutty Steph's dark chocolate-covered maple Vermont Granola.

HOW 2 USE BAG - Series No. 1

FRESH CAT FOOD

"Hi. I want to let you know that I reuse your bags to store open cans of cat food."

~Art Lubin, Phoenix, AZ

PORTABLE FISH TANK

A brilliant idea for re-using your sturdy 24 oz. Nutty Steph’s stand-up ziplock bag from one Elizabeth Ewaskio of Salt Lake City, Utah. We don not have a photo of Liz actually using her portable fishtank, but this is her enjoying Nutty Steph’s Vermont Granola with fresh cherries and unsweetened yogurt…

SNEAKY SHOTS

"Use number 63 for an empty nutty steph's granola bag. Fill with Crown Royal to smuggle into a Jimmy Buffett show. Worked like a charm. Nutty Steph's bag photo not available but it's effects are noticeable."

~Rob Ochitwa, Denver, CO

NUTS INT'NAT'NL - Series No. 1

Sam Holt, filmmaker and bike-tour operator, enjoys his Nutty Steph's with fresh tropical fruit in Sri Lanka.

Thanks to Ben Lenzner for these hot and nutty photos taken in the Argentinian desert during his Geologic research expedition with Lars Battle and Scott Hynek.

Atencion, Yo quero my Nutty Steph's.

TESTIMONIALS TIME - Series No. 1

"I will be ordering some granola from you soon.. the shipping really adds to the cost and I have been using local granolas because of it. But no one's.. not even the loads I have made myself come close to tasting as wonderful as yours. (in my opinion.)"

~Debra Thatcher, Fontana, CA

"A friend of mine at work just handed me the most delicious piece of food I have ever had the pleasure to put in my mouth. It was one of your Magic Chunks. They are absolutely THE BEST THING EVER! It is so nice to be able to enjoy a snack so much and know that is is not full of all the bad stuff you can live without."

~Erin Bruno, Brockton, MA

"Tried some other brand for a month or so....big mistake..please forgive me, just placed another order - missed your stuff."

~Joe Trageser, Jupiter, FL

Nutttin' it up with Spiderman

Steph serving granola to the participants of Walk for Children, fundraising event for Prevent Child Abuse Vermont.

Tourists LOVE Nutty Stephs

A bundled up Steph passing out samples of granola with the Vermont Ski Areas Association at Winterfest in Boston.

Another sort of MARKET...

Steph launching a guerrilla campaign, passing out Nutty Steph's Magic Chunks outside Fairway Market on 78th St in Manhattan. We ain't in Montpelier no' mo'!

Capitol City Cobbler

Steph and the Powell ladies at the Montpelier Farmer's Market selling granola topped "Capitol City Cobbler."


Our market boasts more than 40 farm, artisan and specialty vendors. All Vermont products! Even free live music!

Town: Montpelier Date(s): May 01 to Nov 01 Days/Hours: Sat., 9-1 pm. Address: 60 State Street PO Box 515 Montpelier, VT 05602 Phone(s): (802) 685-4360 Business (voice)

First Lucky Magic Chunk Customers

May 2007: A very special sunny Spring Saturday... The grand opening of NUTTYVILLE, our granola outlet store on Route 2 in Montpelier. Lisa Mase and Ryan Case found the welcoming golden walls filled with an array of our crunchy products and left as the lucky purchasers of the very first bar of magic chunks, then called "Your Bar". Thanks Lisa and Ryan!

(If only they'd known then they'd be hooked ever since!)