Organic ingredients we use
in our breakfasts:
-- all flours, butter and shortening, soy milk, half & half, honey, maple syrup, jams, eggs, coffee, tea, fruit (almost always and local when in season) and fruit jucie.
We buy local whenever we can and take part in the "Taste the Local Difference", a project of the Michigan Land Use Institue.
Some of our food providers
Oryana Natural Food Market
Shetler Family Dairy
Food for Thought
Sleeping Bear Farms
Higher Grounds Trading Co.
Many ingredients for our breakfasts come from our local food co-op, Oryana. That means they are often organic and locally grown when in season. The flour for our muffins, coffee cakes, and pancakes is always organic, a mixture of unbleached white and whole-wheat pastry flour.
Sally bakes our bread from organic hard whole wheat flour without milk, butter or eggs. We often serve this wholesome bread toasted with Sally's home-made granola.
For people with milk allergies, we often use soy milk instead of cow's milk; please let us know when you check in. We use eggs in some of our breakfasts, but again they are usually from our food co-op and are from free-range chickens that are not fed antibiotics and hormones.
For people who like good coffee and don't want to feel guilty about how it is grown and harvested, we use Fair Trade coffee from Higher Grounds Trading Co., organic, sustainably grown and harvested by worker cooperatives. We serve organic juices from our food co-op as often as possible and our large assortment of teas offers a wide choice; a few of note: green and black teas, peppermint, kava, ginger, and many more.
Examples of breakfast at the Inn:
- Whole wheat yeasted pancakes, (light but hardy pancakes raised with yeast -- delicious!) fruit or fruit salad, juice, coffee and tea
- Breakfast wraps — filled with eggs, red pepper, vegetarian sausage , salsa and cheedar cheese; serverd with a side of potatoes or rice.
- Potato Pie - a whole wheat crust fill with potatoes, eggs, vegetarian sausage and red peppers; served with toast and jam
- Homemade granola, toast or whole wheat fruit muffins and organic jam, fruit or fruit salad, juice, coffee and tea
- Muffin cake covered with a yummy fruit sauce, fruit or fruit salad, juice, coffee and tea
- Cranberry, Cherry or Blueberry scones (made with yogurt and a small amout of real butter), fruit or fruit salad, juice, coffee and tea
- Fruit-filled coffee cake, fruit or fruit salad, juice, coffee and tea
- Hot cereal, toast, fruit or fruit salad, juice, coffee and tea
- Potato Corn Cakes, fruit or fruit salad, juice, coffee and tea
- and more . . .