Foodzie monthly tasting box: May

Surprise! Here's what came in.

This month's tasting box brought in a fresh sample of goodies. I most especially enjoyed how the items were a great mix of spring and summer flavors, a good variety of sweet and savory. Stayed tuned for post reviews on each product, recipes and how we enjoyed this month's gift of flavor.



Dried Pineapple- Peeled Snacks, Brooklyn, NY
Alfajores- Dulce Caramel Co., Buffalo Grove, IL
Lemon Poppyseed and Almond Biscotti- Biscotti Bari, Petaluma, CA
Fresh Herb Seat Salts- Woody's Gourmet, Campbell, CA
Pure Southern Iced Tea- Pluff Iced Tea, Bluffton, SC
Seaweed Snack- SeaSnax, Los Angeles, CA


Check Foodzie.com if you'd like to subscribe to their monthly tasting box or purchase full sized items of those that you've seen here.

Look what's arrived! My monthly tasting box provided by the folks at Foodzie.com

Foodzie.com is an amazing website filled with crafted, hand-made food by small specialized companies. I first discovered them almost two years ago when they were first on my radar in San Francisco.



With rumors of "the rapture" looming, my monthly tasting box couldn't have come at a better time. I can't wait to share with all of you what was hand picked this month. Stay tuned!


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xoxo

Mama like.

Nike Black and White All-Court Canvas Mids
Outfitting my husband in nike. These would be the only way he'd wear this brand and they would look great on him!


Munny diecast keychains
Available at Kidrobot.com


Acne Dance Draped tank dress
Available at Shopbob.com



3.1 Phillip Lim K.C. Satchel
Perfect for carrying it all, including an SLR


Dilligently thrifting, craigs listing and ebaying for a mid century dining table without having buyer's remorse.


Terrariums
There are so many DIY online sources using what is already right out your front door. On one of our daily walks around the neighborhood we found succulents and moss for plucking.
This idea also sparks another DIY, dressing up our courtyard fire place.

Moss Graffiti!


xoxo

Party nails

A girl's got to get her nails right and for tonight's concert, it's party time.

Deborah Lippmann Collection, $18

available at Nordstroms

A gift from Cartier to Kanye

Loving the Leve collection and considering getting a ring for husband Donato.


xoxo

Queen of Hearts and Alice in Wonderland Costume Set GIVEAWAY!!!!

These toddler alice in wonderland costumes are so beautifully detailed and intricate. You can see the love and time put into them that you don't ever get from store bought costumes. Hope I win this costume set! Click on the link for you chance to win. Good luck!

Queen of Hearts and Alice in Wonderland Costume Set GIVEAWAY!!!!

Thomas Keller and Williams Sonoma partner up again

Yes, the man does it again bringing you another bite from his empire.

I wanted to check out the new digs on the Williams Sonoma store and look for gift ideas for father's day - maybe a grill gift basket of sorts for my husband and a kitchen gadget for papa- and that's where I saw it snuggled on a corner display table partnered up with deep fryers, skillets and mesh grills- a ready made packet of Mr. Keller's famous buttermilk fried chicken mix sans chicken of course.

I couldn't believe it. You mean instead of rolling the dice on opentable.com and hoping to get a reservation to Ad Hoc on any of the two Monday's and making my way up to Yountville I could just buy a packet and make it myself from the comforts of my own home?
Talk about short cuts.

At about $15 a packet you would still need to buy your whole chicken, buttermilk and a few other staple fresh ingredients. The packet is pretty much just the dry ingredients seperated for both the brining and frying used in his famous comfort food dish. Each packet, if I remember correctly, prepares two whole birds.

If you were to do it yourself from scratch it's been noted to take almost 24 hours, depending on preferred brining time, before you could bite into that succulent hot piece of bird. Kudos to those who have that kind of patience to do so!

So if you're dying to see what all the hype is about and wonder if it's really true (yes, it is!) here's a shortcut way of finding out yourself. Personally, I'd still try my luck rolling the dice.

Recipe of Thomas Keller's famous buttermilk fried chicken (from Epicurious)

Momma Like

Spring's here and from what I've seen, me likey.



Maxiumum Fringe Necklace.



Yummy candy colors of Gabriel & Schwan's "Knot" Necklace.


Husby wants to get me a new laptop. Oh honeeey...



or maybe just the wireless mouse



HP.com


I saw this in red. Killer. Very Palm Springs-esque.

net-a-porter.com


Drools.

pinkmascara.com


Happy shopping!


xoxo

Christmas browsing

Good morning and happy Sunday! I've been on bed rest for the last couple of day due to some major BH contractions. I thought i was going into early labor. Eek!

So with all that time keeping my feet elevated and holding back from running errands and doing chores I've done some online browsing this morning for early stocking stuffers. With the economy going down the drain and money being tight I found some cute ideas that are wallet friendly and sure to make your gift recipient smile.
Oh and these all run under $10!

GIANTmicrobes offers cute stuffed, well, microbes. Cute and inexpensive. This is getting good.



My husband at all costs avoids having to wear ties unless of course the occassion calls for it. In which case falls under weddings, funerals, corporate speaking events. We went out to a nice dinner a few days ago and saw that most of the male patrons of the restaurant were in either ties or collared shirts. My husband wore the shirt I bought him. How sweet of him to do that!
So I thought I'd slip these into his stocking this Christmas so he'd never feel underdressed (which BTW, I'm sure he could care less).




Here's for the traveler in all of us.



Not only is it bright and bold so you can quickly sweep it off the belt in luggage claim but it has also has a friendly note to anyone who should handle it or misclaim it. Let 'em know it's just not worth the hassle.


And finally everyone, and I mean everyone, has a bud smoking/toking friend. I have a couple in mind.


Well I'm off getting my day going with some light errand running and some grocery shopping followed by lunch with my husband. Look out for more stocking stuffer ideas when I return but for now have a wonderful day!

xoxo