My November Foodzie is Here

This month's theme is "Leading Up to the Big Feast"

The box includes:

* dried cranberries

* garlic onion pistachios

* fruit nut crostini

* heirloom cornmeal baking mix

* pickled figs

* pistachio and almond nougat

I can already attest that the fig preserves are phenomenal on crackers. Can't wait to see how it is on biscuits!

My October Foodzie is Here!

This month's theme is FALL HARVEST. Goodies include:

* pumpkin spice caramels
* persimmon and kumquat fruit leather (think fruit jerky)
* Gravenstein apple juice
* sea salted pumpkin seeds
* maple syrup in A medium and B grades
* apple cinnamon bar

First off, I tried one of the fruit leathers. Not a big fan, but the caramels are yum!

My September Foodzie is Here!

This month's box had a theme - It's Tea Time! Included in the goodie box were:

* Bengal Breakfast Tea
* Snicker Dudes (these are HUGE!)
* Tupelo Honey
* Salted Rosemary Shortbreads
* Coconut Chili Macadamias

Believe it or not, I fixed me some of the tea first. After a hard day at teaching Kindergarten, I found it to be a great little treat.

My August Foodzie is Here!

This month's selection is called "Childhood Faves, All Grown Up"
Included are:

* gourmet scooping ketchup
* frrrozen hot chocolate
* sweet potato chips
* nut butter sampler (including chocolate hazelnut butter, maple almond butter, classic peanut butter, and honey peanut butter)
* marshmallow crunch bar
* nut and herb bars (sage nut and honey, and coconut nut and honey)

And, yeah, the Rice Krispie Treat imitator was the first to be devoured!

My July Foodzie is Here!

Included in this month's package:

Fleur De Sel Peanut Brittle

Organic Olive Oil

Black Truffle & White Cheddar Popcorn

Dried Cherries

Fennel Pollen Shortbread

Organic Heirloom Emmer Farro

The first casualty?  The peanut brittle, natch! 

My June Foodzie is Here!

Included in this month's box:

* Falafel chips

* green tomato relish

* blueberry acai gummies

* spiced almonds

* miso chocolate brownie (already my first casualty)

* coconut oat bar

And as a bonus, a reusable produce bag! (The white thing on top.)

Oh, and I forget to mention there's always a recipe card included.  This month it's for "Savory Cornbread Pudding".

My May Foodzie is Here!

In this tasting box:

* dried pineapple

* traditional alfajores

* lemon poppyseed and almond Biscotti

* assorted fresh herb sea salts

* pure southern iced tea

* classic seaweed snack

Biscotti and hot coffee - yum!



My April Foodzie is Here!

In this box:

- Horseradish Dill Mustard
- Thousand Layer Spice Cake
- Plantain Chips
- Ginger Snapdragon Cookies
- Cinnamon Almond Granola
- Italian Butterhorn Cookies

Did I go for the sweets first?  Nope.  Believe it or not, I reached for the plantain chips.  Trust me, you've NEVER had chips like these before!  (And, no, you can't eat "just one.")

My March Foodzie Box is Here!

My March Foodzie Tasting Box arrived!  This is what I have to look forward to:

* Aleppo chile pepper and Sumac pepper salts

* Gogi berry and Himalayan sea salt dark chocolate bar

* Regular and dark chocolate cocomels

* Blue cheese fig savory shortbreads

* Kale chips

* Hot chocolate on a stick

I'm heading for the kale chips, but those cocomels will not survive the night.

My February Foodzie is Here!

Whooohoo!  My February Foodzie has arrived, and I've already dived into it.  It contains:

* sweet & spicy walnuts
* Cabernet brownies
* Parisian mendiants
* Fleur de Sel & berr and pretzel caramels
* Charlie's truffled popcorn
* almond chocolate trail bar

(BTW, the mendiants were the first to go.  Mmmm...deeelish!)

My January Foodzie is Here!

My tasting box for January arrived yesterday.  For those of you who don't know, Foodzie is a company that mails out treat-size edibles which are not your ordinary, run-of-the-mill snack items, with the option of going to their site and buying larger quantities.  The companies which provide these treats are usually Mom-and-Pop operations or specialty shops.

Anyway, I'm hooked on it. I tend to graze when I'm working on the computer, and this box is a snacker's paradise.  This month I'm getting to taste:

- dried nectarines and peaches
- Matcha and chocolate mini cupcakes
- assorted Guayusa (why-you-suh) tea
- roasted almonds with hickory salt, olive oil, and herbs de provence
- dulche de leche
- raw blueberry and gogiberry granola

Mmmmm....

Gift Themes

Several years ago, just to do something different, I began Gift Themes.  Basically, I picked an idea out of the air, and every month I would send my mother and best friend a "little something" that related to that theme.  On their birthdays and Christmas, the theme would be included on/with every gift.  Also, I would include one item that would hint at their theme for the following year.

This practice caught on with my friend, who does the same now to me. We've since traded themes with sunflowers, roses, fruit, dragonflies, coffee, monkeys, teapots, bracelets, bath soaps, etc., for several years.

For my theme this next year, my friend has presented me a yearly subscription to FOODZIE.  Every month I receive a small box (the size of a child's shoe box) filled with lots of tidbits of strange and unusual, but very tasty food items.  So far I've had baked Parmesian chips, bacon-flavored peanut brittle, beef jerky marinated in soy sauce, organic caramel popcorn with sea salt, cranberry beans, and some wonderful dark and slightly bitter chocolates.  And that's just a few of the items (5-7 per box, depending on what's on the menu).  Since I love to snack while I write, these items are sinfully delicious.

I've never heard of this company before now, but if you're not afraid to try something different, you might want to check them out.