Carter & Rye

This week’s menu is all about the good stuff coming out of the orchard and the garden. 🍐🍯

🍐 CHAI SPICED LOCAL PEAR
Delicate, delicious D’Anjou pears from Fruit of Levine are doing the heavy lifting here. We roast them with brown sugar, ginger and a little Timbo’s Spice- Hand Crafted Seasonings and Rubs chai blend, then buzz it all into silky pear butter.

🍯 HONEY & GRANOLA CHEESECAKE
Creamy cheesecake sweetened entirely with Fruit of Levine honey, folded with orange vanilla granola from The Gourmet Granola, and finished with more granola turned crisp topping. Cozy, creamy, crunchy delight!

🍅 HARVEST SCRAMBLE
Roasted local delicata squash with the sort of sweetness that reminds us of sweet potato, tucked in with farm fresh scrambled eggs, salty feta, and a swirl of savory tomato jam. A little bit of everything we love about this time of year as we transition from summer to autumn.

🥬 FUNZA
Our hand pie take on the Nebraska classic: ground beef, cabbage, onions, cheese, salt, and black pepper. Simply Midwestern. So good.

Find us at the shop
Friday & Saturday ~ 8a-12p
Sunday ~ 9a-12p

Aksarben Farmers Market Sunday ~ 9a-1p (only three markets left this season)!

🍂 IT’S HAND PIE SEASON, YA’LL. 🍂

The skies have been gray and drizzly, and apparently that’s all it takes for us to loosen our little grip on summer and start putting warm spices, gravy and breakfast casserole into pastry. 😂 We’ll have the crew waiting for you at the shop Friday/Saturday 8–12 + Sunday 9–12, AND we’ll be at the Aksarben Farmers Market Sunday 9–1 (final countdown)!

This weekend’s menu 👇

🤎 BROWN SUGAR PUMPKIN SPICE
Our classic Brown Sugar Cinnamon gets its fall sweater. Brown sugar, butter + cinnamon with an extra handful of warm, cozy spices thrown in for good measure. No pumpkin purée yet!

🥣 OATMEAL CREAM PIE
THE LONG-AWAITED OATMEAL CREAM PIE HAS ARRIVED. Soft oatmeal cream pies folded into a creamy, cinnamon-spiced cream cheese filling with our buttery oatmeal crisp topping. It tastes like childhood. It tastes like fall. It tastes a little like Little Debbie grew up and became Little Deborah.

🥔 TATER TOT BREAKFAST CASSEROLE
Tater tots + farm-fresh scrambled eggs + sharp cheddar cheese, all folded together with a thick cracked-black-pepper + fresh rosemary gravy. Basically the coziest breakfast casserole you’ve ever eaten, tucked inside pie.

🍳 SAUSAGE, EGG & CHEESE
No tricks necessary. Our breakfast sausage is ground and made in-house with local pork + Timbo’s Spice- Hand Crafted Seasonings and Rubs then folded with farm-fresh scrambled eggs and plenty of cheese. Classic, cheesy, sausage-y breakfast perfection.

🍑 PEACHES IN EVERYTHING. 🍑

Every year, I disappear from the market for a couple weekends and head west to sit beside alpine lakes, hike to the tippy tops of very large mountains and come home feeling like the best, most inspired version of myself. This year, I returned from Colorado with 40 pounds of Palisade peaches…only for Mike from Fruit of Levine to offer us even more peaches immediately upon returning!

So, after processing something like 80 POUNDS OF PEACHES, we landed here: peaches in every. single. flavor. 😂🍑 When they’re this abundant, ripe and freshly picked, it feels like a disservice to do anything else.

We’re in that funny in-between where summer hasn’t left, but the way we cook starts to shift…we brown the butter, cook the peaches longer and slower, and reach for brandy and vanilla over fresh citrus and bright herbs. Before we turn toward apples, pumpkins and all the cozy things, we’re lingering here a little longer. Peaches are magic, and we’re not ready to move on yet. 🍑

THIS WEEK’S MENU 👇

🧈🍑 BROWN BUTTER PEACH
Fresh peaches cooked low and slow with nutty brown butter, brown sugar, vanilla + a touch of brandy until thick and rich like a fruit butter should be.

🫐🍑 BLACKBERRY PEACH CHEESECAKE
Peaches + tart blackberries cooked into a bright, jammy swirl, whipped with our sweet cream cheese filling and finished with buttery vanilla-rosemary crisp topping.

🍑🌽 SWEET SUMMER HASH
Diced potatoes tossed with a zesty peach + sweet corn chutney, cream cheese and melty quesadilla cheese. Sweet and dreamy, just like summer!

🥓🍑 PEACH-GLAZED BACON SCRAMBLE
Smoky bacon glazed with sticky-sweet peach sauce, folded up with fluffy scrambled eggs and cheese. This scramble is creamier than ever. Peach and bacon just GET each other.

Find us at BOTH the shop + Aksarben Farmers Market! Just five more market weekends left this season!

🏠 SHOP
Fri + Sat • 8a–12p
Sun • 9a–12p

🌽 AKSARBEN FARMERS MARKET
Sun • 9a–1p

Summer is slipping away, y’all. Come eat the peaches while we’ve got ’em. 🍑

WE’RE BACK AT THE FARMERS MARKET THIS SUNDAY! 🌞

And somehow, there are only SIX markets left?! Summer is slipping by, but there’s still loads of summer bounty to enjoy, and you know you’re going to miss it when it’s gone. Come spend your Sunday morning with us at Aksarben! 💖

SHOP HOURS
Friday + Saturday: 8a-noon
Sunday: 9a-noon

AKSARBEN FARMERS MARKET
Sunday: 9a-1p

We’re coming back with a BANGING menu, plus a freezer full of summer favorites available while supplies last! Look for Stone Fruit Jam, Baltimore Lemon Stick, Key Lime Cheesecake, Cheesy Dill Hash and BBQ Burnt Ends. Come grab ’em while we’ve got ’em!

THIS WEEK’S MENU 👇

🍪 CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE DOUGH
Creamy, dreamy chocolate chip cookie dough filling. All the joy of licking the spoon, tucked inside pie.

🫐 BLUEBERRY
A classic, juicy blueberry filling with just the tiniest hint of garden thyme. Bright, jammy and bursting with late-summer blueberry goodness.

🥔 UMAMI HASH BROWN CASSEROLE
A Carter & Rye throwback! Kimchi was all the craze when we first started slinging pies back in 2019, and this savory little number became one of our backbone flavors. Shredded hash browns folded with aged Gouda, cream cheese and kimchi for a gently tangy, pickley, umami-rich bite. It’s not too spicy or funky, just creamy comfort food with a twist that everyone loves. Trust the crust!

🍳 SMOKED HAM, EGG & CHEESE
A straight-up breakfast classic: smoky ham, fluffy eggs and plenty of melty cheese. No notes. Just a very good breakfast tucked inside a buttery square pie.

Summer isn’t over yet, hot ones. We’ve got the 90 degree temps to prove it! 😜 Come eat it up while you still can! ☀️

🚨 THE SHOP IS OPEN REGULAR HOURS THIS WEEKEND! Friday + Saturday: 8a-noon, Sunday: 9a-noon 🚨

NO MARKET FOR US THIS SUNDAY! Come to our shoppe for breakfast, brunch, lunch or dinner for later! Loads of hot ones and cold ones with your name on 💚

🤎 BROWN SUGAR CINNAMON
Our always-and-forever classic. Buttery brown sugar and warm cinnamon tucked inside our flaky crust.

🍋‍🟩 KEY LIME CHEESECAKE
Tart, juicy key lime curd folded together with whipped cream cheese and graham cracker crumbs to seal the deal. Bright, creamy, tangy perfection.

🥔 CHEESY DILL HASH
A beloved classic featuring Timbo’s Spice- Hand Crafted Seasonings and Rubs Everything Seasoning! Shredded hash browns, mozzarella, cream cheese, fresh dill, garlic and that good, good seasoning atop our crust!

🍖 BBQ BURNT ENDS
Back for the first time in a long time, and perfect for stocking up ahead of Labor Day! 👀 Smoky barbecue beefy burnt ends mixed with cabbage, melty cheese and plenty of barbecue sauce.

🚨 A QUICK SCHEDULING NOTE! We will NOT be at the Aksarben Farmers Market this Sunday, August 23 (OR next Sunday, August 30)! 🚨

Our SHOP IS OPEN NORMAL HOURS both weekends:
FRIDAY 8a-noon + SATURDAY 8a-noon + SUNDAY 9a-noon

We’re only taking a little break from the farmers market, so come see us at the shop and stock up on this extremely good lineup 👇

🍋 BALTIMORE LEMON STICK
Inspired by my sister Amber and a beloved Baltimore tradition: fresh lemon curd paired with a peppermint stick. It’s juicy, puckery, intensely tart and finished with that crisp, cooling hit of peppermint. Baltimore put it in a lemon. We put it in pastry. Topped with a touch of peppermint. We’re in love with this one.

🍑 STONE FRUIT JAM
The juiciest peaches, nectarines and plums, simmered low and slow with sugar and a touch of vanilla. Nothing fussy, just peak-summer fruit transformed into the kind of classic, sticky jam that flaky pastry was made for.

🌿 MARINATED ARTICHOKE & FETA
Based on this viral summer dish I cannot stop making and genuinely one of the best vegetarian fillings ever created. Marinated artichokes, loads of feta, fresh dill, briny capers, lemon and balsamic come together in one wildly bright, salty, tangy, herb-packed pie. Oh, plus a handful of potatoes so you can officially not feel weird about it being for breakfast. An immediate obsession.

🥓 BACON, EGG & CHEESE WITH TOMATO CHUTNEY
A bacon, egg and cheese, with a little something extra underneath. More than 10 pounds of juicy heirloom tomatoes gifted to us by Long Walk Farm were simmered with onions, vinegar, black pepper, paprika and a touch of sugar to make a deeply savory tomato chutney. The bacon is still very much the star.

Again: NO AKSARBEN FARMERS MARKET THIS SUNDAY OR NEXT~ but the SHOP IS OPEN BOTH WEEKENDS! Come find us at 35th & Center. 💚

DON’T YOU DARE SAY PUMPKIN SPICE. IT’S PEAK SUMMER, BABY. 🍅🌽☀️🥧

And we’ve got a menu built accordingly: good produce, good cooking, lots of butter. This weekend’s menu below!

🤎 BROWN SUGAR CINNAMON
The forever favorite. Buttery, gooey, cinnamon-y perfection.

🌶️ PEPPER JELLY CREAM CHEESE
You know the dip. Cream cheese whipped with our sweet-tangy pepper jelly. Bright with vinegar, mildly spicy, a little sweet…all tucked inside a buttery crust that gives major Ritz cracker energy. Salty, creamy, tangy, sweet. Trust me, you want one. Always a customer fave!

🥔 GOLDEN GARLIC POTATO HASH
Becoming a beloved repeat around here! Tender diced potatoes + farm-fresh garlic-infused butter + sharp cheddar + mozzarella, with Timbo’s Spice- Hand Crafted Seasonings and Rubs Jalapeño Butter seasoning taking this batch to a whole new level. Not spicy. Just savory, buttery heaven.

🍗 SUMMERTIME CHICKEN POT PIE
Some weeks are just about GOOD COOKING and this is one of ’em. We deeply caramelized pounds of local onions + fennel, braised juicy chicken with white wine, chicken stock and herbs, then reduced all that goodness into a rich jus and folded it right back in. Perfectly savory and succulent, somehow comforting AND fresh at the same time.

❄️ PLUS SOME KILLER FROZEN-ONLY FLAVORS while supplies last:

Tart Cherry Pomegranate • Watermelon Taffy • Fresh Herb Scramble • Prosciutto + Mozzarella with Cantaloupe Jam (only a couple dozen left!) • and more!

IMPORTANT MARKET NEWS! 📣

This Sunday, August 16, is your LAST CHANCE to catch us at the Aksarben Farmers Market in August! We’re taking a little summer break from the market specifically on August 23 + August 30, so come see us this Sunday and stock up on butter-flaky breakfast goodness while you shop the absolute PEAK of summer produce. 🍑🌽🍅

P.S. Our storefront will remain OPEN NORMAL HOURS all month long, including the weekends we’re away from market. 💚

📍 SHOP: Fri + Sat 8a–12p • Sun 9a–12p
🌽 AKSARBEN MARKET: Sun, Aug. 16 • 9a–1p
🏔️ NO AKSARBEN MARKET: Aug. 23 + Aug. 30

See ya this weekend, hot ones. 🥧💋

☀️🍉This week’s menu is an ode to summertime, an ode to MELONS!🍈☀️

Summer’s giving us another stretch of hot weather, so we’re celebrating one of the season’s very best flavors before it’s gone. MELONS! These are the kinds of flavors that only make sense this time of year, and our little test kitchen has been having a BLAST dreaming up such playful, seasonal delights.

We’ll be at the shop our normal hours Friday–Sunday, plus the Aksarben Farmers Market on Sunday from 9a-1p!

🍉 Watermelon Taffy
Freshly juiced Cream of the Crop watermelon is cooked into a silky, lemon bar–adjacent filling with plenty of fresh lime juice and zest for a bright, tart, puckery finish. Perhaps our most playful pie to date, may transport you to a core childhood memory!

🍒 Tart Cherry Pomegranate
A bold, jammy twist on a classic fruit pie. Tart cherries and apples simmered in pomegranate juice create a vibrant, sweet-tart filling that’s unexpected but still familiar. We keep sneaking spoonfuls of this one!

🌿 Fresh Herb Scramble
The one you know and love. Fluffy eggs, melty cheese, a generous handful of fresh garden herbs, plus shredded hash browns, all baked together into the ultimate brunch hand pie. Simple, fresh, always a crowd-pleaser.

🍈 Prosciutto & Mozzarella with Cantaloupe Jam
She’s back! Fresh mozzarella, imported prosciutto, basil-kissed whipped ricotta–mascarpone, and our juicy cantaloupe jam made from peak summer melons from Wolff Family Farms. Sweet, salty, creamy, this fancy little pie only makes an appearance once a year, and we’re SO happy she’s here! We’d wager this one will sell out early, so come early to snag yours.

MADE FROM SCRATCH. LITERALLY. 🖐️🥧

Our dough is mixed in small batches, portioned and rolled by hand, sometimes with assistance from our dear friend Skeeter the Sheeter™. Every jam, custard and savory filling is whisked, whipped and sizzled up from scratch using fresh, often local ingredients. Then every pie is cut, scooped, folded and sealed by hand, one by one. Tray by tray. Week after week. Hundreds to thousands of tiny square pies. A labor of love, butter and repetitive motion. 🫡

GOOD NEWS: after two weekends of melting into the pavement, the forecast has returned to a civilized 80–85°. We survived. Barely.

The shop is open regular hours all weekend, and we’ll be at the Aksarben Farmers Market Sunday from 9am–1pm. Thanks to the heat being…less than ideal for pie sales, we’ve also stocked the freezer with some absolute bangers while supplies last.

THIS WEEK’S MENU 👇

🤎 BROWN SUGAR CINNAMON�Our tried-and-true favorite. Warm cinnamon, buttery brown sugar, the pie that never lets you down.

🍑 PEACH MELBA�Peak summer peaches meet bright, jammy raspberries for a juicy classic that’s especially berry-forward this week, in the berry best way.

🍅 GRILLED CHEESE & TOMATO�The pie of the summer? Caramelized local onions and fennel cooked with juicy tomatoes, sun-dried tomatoes, balsamic and herbs, then folded together with heaps of melty cheese. You demolished it last time, so she’s back.

🌯 BREKKIE “BURRITO”�Cheesy seasoned ground beef, scrambled eggs, local peppers and onions, diced potatoes, black beans, green salsa and creamy white queso. All the breakfast burrito goodness, tucked into buttery flaky crust.

FROZEN FAVORITES ❄️ Available beginning Friday while they last 👇

🍋‍🟩 Passionfruit Lime Curd (our lemon bar’s cooler sister 😎)
🍓 Strawberry Shortcake Crunch (strawberry jam + vanilla custard + crisp topping)�🌿 Zesty Market Kale Scramble (classic breakfast is always a good one to have on hand)�🧀 Charcuterie (best seller status: salami, whipped cheese, house fennel-honey jam)

Come early for your favorite, or roll the dice and let fate choose your pie!