June Sales Flyer B (6/11-6/24) (larger print)
Watermelon Jicama Salad Recipe
With watermelons just coming into season, it’s the perfect time to try out this refreshing Watermelon Jicama Salad recipe. It’s sweet, spicy, crisp, and everything you could want on a hot summers day. 🍉
Watermelon Jicama Salad
Serves 4-6
Total time: 25 minutes
Vegan, gluten-free, grain-free
3 pounds watermelon
1 ½ pounds jicama
2 scallions
Dressing:
1 tablespoon avocado oil
2 tablespoons fresh lime Juice
¼ teaspoon crushed red chilies
½ teaspoon ground cumin
¼ teaspoon sea salt
1 medium serrano pepper, seeded and minced
- Prepare salad ingredients. Peel and chop watermelon. Peel jicama and cut into matchsticks. Thinly slice scallions.
- Whisk together dressing ingredients, adjust heat to taste.
- Toss dressing with jicama and watermelon in a large bowl. Top with scallions and serve.
June 2025 Sales Flyer A (5/28-6/10)
June 2025 Sales Flyer A (5/28-6/10) (link to larger print)
Halloumi and Veggie Skewers Recipe
Halloumi and Veggie Skewers
Makes 9
DIETARY: Vegetarian, Gluten-free
TOTAL TIME: 35 minutes
Ingredients
9 wooden skewers
12 ounces halloumi cheese (sub bread cheese)
1 medium zucchini
1 large orange bell pepper
1 large red onion
1 pint cherry tomatoes
1 pint button mushrooms
Olive oil, for brushing
Salt and pepper, to taste
1 cup honey mustard sauce
Directions
- Place wooden skewers in water and soak for at least 15 minutes while you prepare the recipe ingredients.
- Cube the cheese into roughly 1-inch pieces. Cut the zucchini, bell pepper, and onion into 1-inch pieces. keep cherry tomatoes and mushrooms whole.
- Build the skewers by alternating between ingredients. Leave a small amount of space between ingredients and a bit of space on each end of the skewer.
- Brush skewers lightly with olive oil and season lightly with salt and pepper.
- Grill skewers on medium-high heat, and cook to desired doneness, flipping occasionally.
- Serve skewers with honey mustard sauce.
May 2025 Sales Flyer B (5/14-5/27)
May 2025 Sales Flyer B (5/14-5/27) (larger print format)
Chocolate Chia Seed Pudding Recipe
This decadent chocolate chia seed pudding is equal parts indulgent and delicious!
Whether you’re meal prepping tomorrow’s breakfast or craving a chocolate-y dessert – this is the recipe for you!
Chocolate Chia Seed Pudding
5 min prep + 2-4 hr chilling time
Serves 2-3
Vegetarian
Ingredients
1 cup milk (whole, almond, oat, etc.)
½ cup plain yogurt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ cup chia seeds
2-4 tablespoons agave syrup
3 tablespoons cocoa powder, sifted
1 teaspoon mushroom powder
Pinch of salt
Shaved chocolate, for garnish
Sliced almonds, for garnish
Mint leaves, for garnish
Directions
- Whisk together all ingredients in a mixing bowl until smooth. Adjust sweetness to taste and place in the refrigerator for 2-4 hours to thicken.
- Spoon pudding into serving dishes and garnish with shaved chocolate, sliced almonds, and mint leaves.
World Fair Trade Day – May 10, 2025
We definitely believe that World Fair Trade Day is an occasion to be celebrated. After all, it helps to create a more ethical world!
The Fair Trade movement campaigns to improve the lives of workers and small producers, especially those within developing economies, by asserting their rights and raising their visibility within international trade.
World Fair Trade Day was started by the World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO) in 2002, though the WFTO itself came into existence 15 years earlier, in 1989.
WFTO is a global association of 324 organizations in over 70 countries, and World Fair Trade Day takes place on the second Saturday of May of each year, and it is an inclusive worldwide festival of events celebrating Fair Trade as a tangible contribution to the fight against poverty and exploitation, climate change and the economic crisis that has the greatest impact on the world’s most vulnerable populations.
If you want to take part in this special day, researching the work conditions of people around the world would be a good place to start, just so you can get a general idea about how some people are forced to live. You are likely to be shocked at how the things you enjoy on an everyday basis are made, but awareness is the first step towards making any kind of change.
When workers are paid fairly, they and their families are able to lead better lives. Everyone benefits because there is a fairer and healthier world. It helps to open our eyes to some of the injustices in the world so that we can all fight to do better.
Start with today and make the simple but effective promise to only buy certified Fair Trade products whenever possible, thereby giving your hard-earned money to only those companies that truly care about the well-being of those less fortunate.
The Annex Sessions: 2024 Fundraising Report
Recently Amer Budayr, representing Sunjams, presented a check for $5,000 to Barbara Hodgkinson of the California Symphony. These funds were raised in 2024 by the Annex Sessions, Wednesday night music performances at the Annex in El Cerrito. These weekly free music events are sponsored through the joint efforts of The Annex, Sunjams, and Javier Navarrette Music. The funds will be used to support the Sound Minds program at Downer Elementary School in San Pablo, providing free instruments and instruction to students.
2024 Financial Report
The Annex Sessions presented 48 shows in 2024.
The Natural Grocery Company donated $12,000 in 2024 in support of The Annex Sessions.
From the donations you gave, money disbursed to musicians in 2024:
$42,343 (this includes $9600 paid to produce the shows).
SunJams pledged to give $100 per show to the California Symphony/ Sound Minds organization. The check was for was $5K (SunJams rounded up the amount of the donation).
Thank you for your generous donations and support for this series!
May 2025 Sales Flyer A (4/30-5/13)
May Sales Flyer A 2025 (4/30-5/13) (Larger Print)
Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes Recipe
Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes
1 hr 30 mins
Makes 18-20
Vegetarian
Ingredients
3 cups all-purpose flour or cake flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon sea salt
12 tbps (1 ½ sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1 ½ cups cane sugar
3 egg whites
1 cup buttermilk
Zest and juice of 2 medium lemons
1 lb unsalted butter, softened
2 cups confectioner’s sugar, sifted
¾ cup strawberry jam, divided
10 ripe strawberries, halved
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt.
- In a large mixing bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer, cream butter and cane sugar together until pale in color. Whisk in egg whites until batter is smooth.
- Fold in half the dry ingredients, then half the buttermilk and repeat. Fold in lemon zest and juice.
- Line two cupcake pans with cupcake liners and fill 2/3 full of batter. Bake for 20 minutes (rotating pans halfway through baking) or until a toothpick inserted in the centers come out clean. Set aside to cool completely.
- Cream butter and add sifted confectioner’s sugar. Beat frosting until smooth then mix in ½ cup of strawberry jam. Place in a piping bag fitted with a star piping tip.
- To decorate cupcakes, pipe frosting in a circular pattern over the top of the cupcake leaving a well in the center. Place a teaspoon of strawberry jam in the center of the frosting. Top cupcakes with a strawberry half.