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News 12's Doug Geed take a stroll on Love Lane where you can find the North Fork Doughnut Co. He also visits Schmitts' Family Farm in Riverhead and the East End Food Market.&nbsp;&nbsp;

<a href="https://www.nofodoco.com/">North Fork Doughnut Company </a>Love Lane, Mattituck&nbsp; East Main Street, Bay Shore 631-298-7941

<a href="https://schmittsfarmstandonsound.com/">Schmitts' Family Farm </a>Sound Avenue, Riverhead 631-983-6565

<a href="https://www.eastendfood.org/">East End Food Market </a>Open Saturdays Routes 25 and 105, Riverhead

News 12's Doug Geed take a stroll on Love Lane where you can find the North Fork Doughnut Co. He also visits Schmitts' Family Farm in Riverhead and the East End Food Market.  

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Um, we've had good weather but things are kind of going downhill. Now, for the weekend, we've got some rain moving in, but that's ok. Maybe you can stay indoors, decorate your house. The rainy day is going to be Sunday. We do have showers around this evening as well. But tomorrow we'll get a little bit of a dry period. It will be mostly cloudy and mild. Look at the highs this weekend, 56 on Saturday, 54 on Sunday. So Sunday will be the day where it's, uh, you know, pretty wet out there. It will be raining on and off for much of the day. Um, meteorological winter starts today. So go figure the cold spells over. We have those warm temperatures now, but basically December, January, February, it's typically the coldest time of the year. Um, of course, astronomical winter, the official start to winter is not coming until December 21st. But right now, winter is nowhere in sight that cold air is up in Canada. That's where we have the snow. It's mild right now. We're looking at a batch of rain on Long Island for the next few hours by 10 to 11 o'clock tonight, the rain moves out 6 a.m. Saturday. We're in the forties. We start the day with some low clouds and fog. Most of the day is fine. It's going to be a little bit gray. We have some light winds but that mild feel at night showers return light rain Sunday morning, a little bit of a late morning break and look at the afternoon, that rain will kind of be on and off for the rest of the day. So it will be a wet finish to the weekend. Monday. We get a break. Tuesday right now looks nice. We might have a couple of showers on Wednesday but cooler air is going to be building in for Wednesday and Thursday, a little bit of a chill will return to Long Island. So tonight we're in the forties, fifties for the weekend with that rain, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday looking pretty good through the end of the week. It's nice. It will be chilly with highs in the forties.

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East End Full Show: North Fork Doughnut Company; Schmitt's Farm Stand; East End Food Market

Yeah, you'll find a lot of people who just hate winter, but you'll find a lot of people who no matter what the season. Just love this spot. This is Love Lane in Manitoba. Hello again, I'm doug Hyde. Welcome to another edition of the East End here on news 12 Long Island. Well, if you have a sweet tooth boy, this is the show for you. We're going to take you to a farm in Riverhead where they make their own jams and jellies from locally grown fruit. Then we'll visit a farmer's market that's open every saturday all throughout the winter where you can get a taste and feel of the east end. But our first stop, Well, talk about things that people love. How about donuts right across the street, the new home of the North Fork donut company ever since we opened in almost four years ago now, we always wanted to be a Loveland. Loveland was one of the reasons why we wanted to be on the North Fork and when something opened up for us out here, we really just want to jump on it. North toward donut company is it's, we're a small business, small donut shop, we make donuts fresh daily. My wife and I started it in 2018. You know, we were waking up at two am every day making donuts getting everything ready for the store to open up. So for people who say donuts or donuts, what make sure donuts stand out. Well, if you've ever seen our donuts aside from the toppings and the decadence that a lot that are on most of the donuts, you can see the size of our donuts is certainly doubled if not tripled some donuts and aside from that they're yeast donuts which are different than cake. Donuts cake. Donuts definitely have their place in the donut universe. But yeast donuts when I think of a delicious donut, I usually think of that light fluffy glazed donut that's uh that's very different than the dense cakey ness of a cake donut. And we have our classic eight hour best sellers, the caramel coffee cake. Then we have my personal favorite, which is the black raspberry jelly. It's, I made sure since the day we opened that it's stuffed with tons of jelly in every single bite. It's delicious and perfect. Then we have our boston cream, we have a classic O. G. S, vanilla, chocolate, strawberry. Um and then we have some of the really crazy fun ones, like today, we have a lemon blueberry granola tart, That one's phenomenal. We also have a caramel macchiato, that's a coffee cream filling. A churro donuts, one of our classic eight. That's cinnamon sugar caramel and chocolate drizzle so that the chair, a donut would be kind of just like eating a delicious with just a little drizzle of caramel and chocolate and everybody so good. I love napoleon. The dessert. Classic dessert is the donut very, very similar. Very, very, very, very similar than we have. Um it's with the cream and it's cut in half. So it's cream and everybody. Again, it's that one is really delicious. That's actually, I would say another best seller. Do you see that every donut has its own fan club? Like someone comes in and they go right for, it really depends, it depends what you like. You know, we have, we have the classic club that only, you know, they come in for the glazed, the boston cream and the jelly and then you have the ones that see the picture on instagram and they come in, they're like how do I get this one? And that one is part of the flavor forecast which we have up on the website and it's a really fun, crazy flavor and the little kids, they want, they want the sprinkles, they want they want the s'mores with the marshmallows and the chocolate and the graham. They like the crazy ones, will always introduce new flavors every week, every, every two weeks kelly and I and our pastry chefs, we've probably been through about probably in the upwards almost 1000 different flavors over the past four years. We have saint patty's Day and valentine's Day the next few holidays. So we're gonna be doing Shamrock shaped donuts, we're gonna be doing heart shaped donuts and we're gonna be doing pre orders for those online on our website and you'll be able to see some of the cool stuff that we do in our kitchen. We make our apple fritter doughnuts fresh every day, just like everything else. It's our donut dose or yeast donut dough. We mix it in with a nice delicious apple filling fry them and then we coat them in our glaze. You still doing parties and events? But we had countless weddings, countless parties that we were doing, we do your gender reveals, baby showers. We have parties all across the island. We've done donut walls and my father in law and my father and I make all the donut walls at my house actually. So we have all the, all the ones that you see at these events and these weddings that we've made them all ourselves. Now we have an espresso machine here in the back of the counter as well. So aside from the donuts now we're gonna be offering lattes, espressos, cappuccinos and we use really, really, really high end delicious coffee. So you know, sort of like our donuts, you know, we're not gonna skimp on anything. We're always going to give you an elevated high end product. We're even gonna be doing really nice hot chocolates, different flavors of hot chocolates for the winter as well. Two boston cream. We opened up a second store in bayshore, right on Main Street. That store has been doing great for us. So now kelly and I are kind of juggling a bunch of stuff. We've got a lot more employees now. We make a lot more donuts than we did in the beginning. And yeah, we're here almost four years later now on Love Lane and enjoying it. We're on lovely. And with some of the most incredible local businesses, it was just so exciting to be with kind of like the big dogs now and the foot traffic is wonderful that, you know, people come for the wineries and they come out here and they can park and walk around and then stop in, grab a donut, go to the cheese shop we have, it's such an awesome location. We're very, very excited. The North Fork Donut company has opened seven days a week. We'll give you their contact information later. In our show first though a visit to the Schmidt's family farm in Riverhead, which produces a line of foods from the produce they grow and that includes some delicious jams and jellies. I started with the strawberry and then I found the carrot cake jam and I did that one too. That's a very unique flavor. Their carrot cake jam. How did you come up with that? It was something that I found in a magazine and I said, oh because it has carrots and it had pairs, which I get from a local farmer and I'm like, oh, what a nice combination. The only thing that I do add, I do add a little crushed pineapple in there. You've got cinnamon close nutmeg. Do you get people who look at it just kind of like, oh, that's different And they ask you what it tastes like, that sort of thing. Yes, Yes. And you know, I tell them it tastes like carrot cake, I tell them if you take an english muffin and you put some cream cheese on it and you spread that jam on it tastes just like it. It's really good because the icing on carrot cake is cream cheese. Yes, exactly. You shred the carrots and then um you have to put it in into the pot and then you have to cook it until it cooks down, let it come to a boil, you add the pectin boil, then you add the sugar full boil, then you pour it in the jars and there's prep work for that too because all the jars have to be sanitized and I pour the jam into all the jars. I take a little plastic spoon and I call it north, south, east and west. So once you pour the jam in, you have to do that to get the air or the bubbles out of the jam. Then I put the lids on and you twist it but not too tight because you're you're canning. So it's gonna pop when you open it and this is nice. A cold winter morning with a cup of tea and I've had a customer tell me the jam tastes like christmas, Oh my gosh, it's delicious. I'm a huge carrot cake. I first of all, I'm very excited about this. It really does carrot cake, it's a big seller for you. Yes. Some of the things I make I sort of do seasonally. So I kind of do the carrot cake network obviously pairs pear season and I do that now and kind of carry it through the winter and hopefully we have some left over for the spring. So you're making a carrot cake, strawberry rhubarb. Yes I always try to make sure I have some for thanksgiving and christmas and strawberry vanilla. That's unique to. Yes and that was another recipe that I saw talk about the stand a little bit. I love this. Not big but you have a lot of things in here. Yes from our customers telling us well you should have this, you should have that. So we try things. Some things work. Some things don't we do pickled beets, we do a sweet vinaigrette dressing, balsamic salad salad dressing. We do a horseradish still tip which is very popular. Well another thing with holy Schmidt, we do a bloody mary. We do with bloody mary mix now which has been very popular. The salad dressings and the dill dips. All those things that um have a shelf life. We can do all year round. The other thing that is kind of a fresh product is um we do a sweet corn salsa and as with tomatoes, corn peppers and you know a lot of the things that we have but it's sweet. Um, so it isn't that it's hot, like some salsas are, we have the North Fork chips, we have honey sticks, we do have pies, which we do have quite a few people buying our pies and our cider, cider, donuts, chocolate chip cookies, oatmeal cookies we do and then I have another, which is my daughter in law sister, she does baking up more treats, which is some of the crumb cakes and pumpkin bread. So it is quite a lot of nice treats when it all comes together. Schmidt's family farm is in Riverhead and the farm stand is open all winter Long will give you their contact information later in our show first though, it's just so nice to see everyone interact with each other. It's just, it feels like a small little family at the east end, a farmers market where you can get fresh local products every saturday in winter and spring. That's next. On the east end here on news 12 Long Island. No, you're looking at a smoked maple stout, It's a great beer for winter and it includes maple syrup from new york state. Welcome back to the East End here on news 12 Long Island. I'm Doug guide. This is the trade winds brewing company in Riverhead which will feature on our next show the weekend of february 12th, but let's continue with this weekend, show our next stop right down the road from here, a farmers market that's open all winter long. We have 45 vendor booths, some of them are double. So about 40 vendor spots each week. The whole different variety of different vendors from produce to poultry and seafood. And we're open on Saturdays right now from nine AM to one PM every week through the end of april, we are looking to get some feedback and see if people really want to see this going as a year round market or perhaps move to a weekday evening during the height of the summer time. We're shooting this segment on a weekday when you're not all completely set up. But like all of these tables, they're filled with whatever it is. That's right products, The banners go up, the tables are set and the items go out for display. It's a big open space. I like the high ceilings. So there's probably a safety comfort level right for people coming to. That's right. And everyone's been very good about wearing their masks and we sometimes limit the capacity in the space if it feels like it's getting a little bit crowded. Um, we just want to keep everyone safe and have a great shopping experience. When I first come in, it's empty and then by nine o'clock there's just this atmosphere that's just in like comparable to like anything else I've ever been to like. And we also have live music and so I think it just adds to the ambience. There's such a variety of products and it's all amazing. So we have green door woodworks who makes these beautiful, beautiful cutting boards. We also always have a rotating nonprofit at the eastern food market. And then we also have North Fork oyster company. We also have products like jam linda, dooms that excellent remake Kesha's from products around the eastern. And so their cases are delicious. We just have a huge variety of vendors here. And so I think it's like a one stop shop on the east end. That's amazing. Seafood meats, produce, gifts, crafts, soaps. We even have soaps too. And we have a soap vendor that makes their products from goats milk. One of the vendors you'll see is Mila Benavides. She makes a product not common here, but something very common in her native country. They're called Brazilian cheese puffs. They are made with tapioca flour. Some people know as a cassava flour, which is the same comes from the cassava root. So they are naturally gluten free and I use local cheese, eggs milk. But basically everything is locally sourced aside from my tapioca. So it's a frozen dough. You can buy at the frozen section in a supermarket and it's from freezer to oven and I have in two sizes cocktail size. Also the dinner roll size, perfect for any time for sandwich sliders and I having two flavors, the classic chatter parmesan and the tomato basil. So you can do an appetizer or you can actually use it to make a sandwich. Absolutely, you can serve for an appetizer or breakfast and it's great with like a cheese platter or a veggie platter, it's very versatile. Everybody likes it. So when people come here to the market, they can taste, you have them, you're selling them cooked and frozen. Yeah, you have a chance to have them to eat here, they're crispy outside and chew inside and the best way to experience them. It's eat while they still warm, it's absolutely delicious. It's like a perfect bread, you know, it's a, it's just not overpowering in terms of the cheese because I use like mild parmesan. So it's just perfect. And you can open up and make your favorite sandwich with your favorite cold cuts or you can use your grilled veggies or just to spread the Peconic River Herb Farm is a retail nursery and we specialize in unusual plants. We started with herbs, hence the name, but now we do a wide variety of plants and that really is are the heart and soul of the business. We're open from april 1st to october 31st. So when the market came along, we said, wow, this would be perfect for us because it literally starts three weeks after we closed for the season, enables us to sell um whatever plants we have left the house plants are really Hot right now. So we'll grow them through the season at the Herb farm, but primarily we're growing them on for the farmers market after being in business, 30 plus years in our location. You think everyone knows where you are, but it's not true. You're getting constant influx of new people. So that's why I feel it's important to be here and to introduce ourselves to people and hand out flyers and tell them to come in the spring. And that this is just a small sampling of what we do. And you would be amazed how many people have come in this throughout the season and say, remember we saw you at the farmers market, we have to give these farms and these producers opportunities to sell their products at a higher scale. And um you know, we have some big broad plans and looking to share them with folks that are wanting to partner with us. It's just such a community. A lot of the vendors have known each other for years just being on the east end and then a lot of other vendors are new and so they're like getting to know their community and it's just so nice to see everyone interact with each other. It's just, it feels like a small little family. And at the East end, the East end farmers market is open every saturday through the end of april, we'll give you the contact information for them for the other spots we visited on this weekend's program and give you a peek at our next show. That's all straight ahead on the East End here on news 12 Long Island. Well, the african desert is we'd expect to see these guys not here on Long Island in the middle of winter. Welcome back to the East End here on News 12 Long Island. I'm doug guide will tell you in a moment where you can see these zebras first. Let's visit the places we showed you on this weekend's program. Our first stop was the North Fork Donut company. Their new location is on Love Lane in Manitoba. They have a second location on East Main Street in Bay Shore. You can call Mattia Talk at 6312987941. Or check out their website. No foe dot co dot com. Then we visited Schmidt's family farm to show you their homemade jams and other products. They're open year round on Sound Avenue in Riverhead, you can call 631983 65 65. Or visit Schmidt's farm stand on Sound dot com. Then we showed you the East End food market of farmers market, which is open Saturdays throughout the winter. It's at the intersection of roots 25 105 in Riverhead. For information, you can go to the East End food Institute website East End food dot org. Remember for links to these and other fun places to visit in the area and to see more of my East End segments. Go to News 12 dot com slash East End. That will wrap things up for this weekend's program on our next show. The weekend of february 12th will visit Susie, the Wallaby and the other animals at the Long Island Game Farm and tell you about their behind the scenes winter tours that you can take. Remember. Go to the East End shows, facebook page and like us for more information about our show and check us out on instagram at East End Show. I'm doug guys, Thanks for watching, enjoy the rest of the weekend and we'll see you next time from the East Bay.

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East End Full Show: North Fork Doughnut Company; Schmitt's Farm Stand; East End Food Market

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