Simple Simon's Pieman and more!

 Last Wednesday was a beautiful, warm and sunny day (of which there have been few lately), so I called up my friend, Lukas, and we agreed to meet at the Surrey Farmer's Market near the Surrey Central Skytrain.  Being late in the season, there weren't a lot of stalls open but we had fun poking about.

Feeling a bit peckish, I decided to pick up a sweet treat for us and went over to a stall that had baked goods which was being run by this very gracious gentleman who explained that the goods were the work of his partner and himself.  He said she was an excellent pastry chef and they had not yet found a permanent location but invited me to check out their website.  (I have an awful memory for names so, having pored over their site, I am so hoping that his name is Laurie.)

Let me tell you the choices there were killer!  But I narrowed it down from rhubarb streusel (lower left), almond (center) and pear (upper left) tarts to the rhubarb and two absolutely deadly ginger cookies.  (There was much, much more but I didn't get a picture of everything.  :)


Except...

Pies!  Ohmigawd, how I love pies and the only reason I got out of there without going amok at their pie counter is that I had prudently only brought a limited amount of money with me.  (I may go back this Wednesday to see if the market is still open and rectify that error!)

Anyway, I went to their website today and yom! yom! yom!  Folks, it's worth the visit just to drool your way through the photos in the galleries.  Sweet Thea looks like a going concern (especially with their custom designed wedding cakes) and I can tell you that they taste like a winner.  I don't know where they will ultimately open up their outlet but I am sooooooo going to add them to my list of gotta-go-to places.

Meanwhile, go to http://sweetthea.com/ and tell me if there are not some of the most droolworthy goodies there!

November 23 ~ Up-date:

Sweet Thea had a booth at the Circle Craft Co-operative Christmas Fair and I bought a package of their Lebkuchen (a traditional German cookie baked for Christmas, somewhat resembling soft gingerbread.)~ absolutely delish!  Definitely two nom! nom!'s up.