Kernel Season's National Popcorn Month

Kernel Season's popcorn seasoning launched two new seasonings this month, chocolate caramel and pumpkin spice, in honor of National Popcorn Month.

They make many flavors of popcorn seasoning and can be found at movie theaters and stores. They are kosher, gluten-free, all natural and contain no msg. They can be sprinkled on popcorn, veggies, rice, eggs, pasta, potatoes, meats and anything else you like.

We recieved 7 flavors including the Chocolate Caramel and Pumpkin Spice as well as Ranch, Butter, Kettle Corn, White Cheddar and Nacho Cheese. I've already sprinkled the pumpkin spice on pancakes and hot cereal, and the white cheddar on baked potatoes. When I can find some plain microwave popcorn I'll be using that chocolate caramel for sure, yum. We all love these seasonings and love that we can pick our own flavor for our bowl of popcorn.

Check out these fun recipes for their seasonings. Find a store near you. Follow along with them on Facebook and Twitter too.

  

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Two Swagbucks Extravaganzas Next Week

Next week will be a can't miss at Swagbucks, as they run not one but TWO big days of codes. It all starts on Halloween Monday, with a series of Trick-or-Treat code hunts throughout the day. Then, on Thursday, it's another Swag Code Extravaganza - 60 Swag Bucks worth of codes being released throughout the day, plus special promotions, announcements and more. Be sure to go to the Swagbucks Blog at 7am Pacific Time Monday to join in the fun with me.




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One Sweet Cookie: Celebrated Chefs Share Favorite Recipes Cookbook Giveaway and Review

One Sweet Cookie: Celebrated Chefs Share Favorite Recipes by Tracey Zabar is a wonderful collection of recipes extraordinary chefs, pastry chefs and bakers such as Thomas Keller, Tom Colicchio, Jonathan Waxman, Mario Batali, Karen DaMasco, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Lidia Bastianich, Todd English, Sarabeth Levine, Marc Murphy, Nancy Olson, and many more as well as her own family's recipes.

One way to satisfy her obsession of cookies is to host an old-fashioned cookie swap in her home. Zabar’s family have been honoring this tradition for more than 50 years, and she looks forward every year to gathering with her friends to share favorite recipes and cookies. It was at one of these cookie swaps where the idea for her new book One Sweet Cookie: Celebrated Chefs Share Favorite Recipes was born. Zabar thought how much her fellow cookie lovers would appreciate a book that not only shares some of her and her family’s beloved recipes, but also the recipes of some of the country’s most renowned chefs and bakers – a virtual cookie swap featuring signature recipes and baker’s secrets from the biggest names in the food world.
 

For my recipe review I chose to bake the Flourless Chocolate Cookies from François Payard of François Payard Bakery. You may find the same recipe here online as well. Now, something did not work for me in the recipe, but I will take full blame. I have been using my convection oven setting for everything, and I think it did not work for these cooking, being a meringue base cookie. These cookies came out really flat, chewy-stick to you teeth, as well as sticking to my silpat. Also I used my small scooper because at first I used my biggest one (reg. ice cream scooper size) and they were too big and spread like a wild fire. Hmmm. Well the kids still liked them so they didn't go to waste. Next time (because these are gluten free, yay) I'll use my regular oven setting.

This is a nice 192 page book, photos of some recipes, full of all kinds of recipes from brownies, cookies, meringues, shortbread to even doughnuts.

  

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SeaPak Poptoberfest Giveaway and Review

For the first time, SeaPak is launching a Poptoberfest festival, a family program to be held during the month of October. SeaPak is celebrating family and the time they are able to spend together. Not only does SeaPak want families to enjoy delicious meals together, but they also want to encourage families taking a vacation from the everyday routine.
During Poptoberfest, friends and fans of SeaPak will be able to engage on Facebook where there will be weekly trivia, polls, and fun questions that celebrate family time together. There will also be a different prize and special coupon offers given away each week.

To help them celebrate Poptoberfest, we were able to try SeaPak POPcorn Fish and POPcorn Shrimp. Remeber last year I reviewed the POPcorn Fish and made them into my fave fish tacos. This time we did another favorite, POPcorn Shrimp with an apricot and soy dipping sauce. I was making some coconut chicken for dinner, so I fried up this POPcornShrimp as well. The sauce is simply 1/2 cup apricot preserves, 2 TBL soy sauce, maybe 1/4 C. water, heated over medium heat in a small saucepan until it all combines together. You could also add in some red pepper flakes if you want it spicy. I thought only Mr. and I would be eating the shrimp, but nope. the two youngest kiddos ate it as well. They're perfect pop-in-your-mouth size and was great either alone or dipped in the sauce.

I encourage you to visit SeaPak’s Facebook page to participate in Poptoberfest, head over and enter to win some great prizes.

SeaPak POPcorn Fish

One of you will receive a SeaPak Kitchen Pack giveaway prize:

-a SeaPak reusable grocery bag

-a spatula

-a cooking conversion magnet

-a flexible cutting board

-a $3 off coupon good through 12/2011.

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Driscoll's Berries Giveaway and Review

Who's busy making Halloween goodies? I sure was today, I made the Driscoll's Mixed Berry Halloween Graveyard Cake. It’s perfect for entertaining a crowd and the combination of the chocolate with the naturally sweet berries makes this a crowd pleaser for kids and adults alike.

Driscoll's is a family owned and operated business for over 100 years specializing in strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and blackberries.

Be sure to check out their recipe selections for your upcoming Holiday events. You can follow along with Driscoll's on Twitter and Facebook. For a store near you check their list.

one little ghost fell in the dirt

So I made this cake a little different. I could not find any fresh blueberries, so raspberries and strawberries it was. Only 1 of the 3 stores I shop at had Driscoll's, well some Driscoll's. I also used a gluten free yellow cake mix, strawberry & raspberry preserves for the filling, easy chocolate frosting and crushed oreos for the dirt. I left the back corner free from any gluten products (cookies) for myself. I had a heck of a time dipping the strawberries, so I kind if painted the chocolate on and piped on little faces. I also propped the strawberrie ghosts up with toothpicks so they'd stay. The kids loved the decorations, but was not keen on the cake flavor itself, lol. We loved the berries though, wish I had dipped more.

Mixed Berry Halloween Graveyard Cake

Prep Time: 30 minutes Cook Time: 25 minutes Servings: 12

Strawberries, raspberries and blueberries combine to make a boo-tiful and delectable chocolate berry cake perfect for any Halloween celebration. Pureed blueberries are added to the chocolate cake batter and a sweet strawberry-raspberry jam fills the middle. Impress everyone with this clever and tasty treat.

Strawberry Ghosts and Tombstones

1 cup white candy melts
2 Tbsp. vegetable shortening
1 pkg. (16 ounces) Driscoll's Strawberries
2 oz. bittersweet chocolate, melted

Assorted Halloween sprinkles, such as Jumbo Ghost Sprinkles

3 Milano cookies
6 cream filled chocolate cookies, such as Oreo's

Graveyard Cake

1 pkg. (6 ounces or 1 1/4 cups) Driscoll's Blueberries
3/4 cup water

1 pkg. (18.25 ounces) devil food cake mix

1/3 cup oil
3 large eggs

Raspberry Strawberry Filling
1 pkg. (6 ounces or 1 1/3 cups) Driscoll's Raspberries

1 1/2 cup coarsely chopped Driscoll's Strawberries

1/3 cup sugar
2 Tbsp. cornstarch

Chocolate Ganache Whipped Frosting
2 cup heavy cream
12 oz. bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped
1 pkg. (6 ounces or 1 1/4 cups) Driscoll's Blueberries for garnish
1 pkg. (6 ounces or 1 1/3 cups) Driscoll's Raspberies for garnish

Instructions
Strawberry Ghosts and Tombstones
Line cookie sheet with parchment paper.
Combine candy melts and shortening in large microwave safe bowl. Microwave on 50% power for 30 seconds. Stir thoroughly. Continue to microwave and stir at 30 seconds intervals until smooth and completely melted.
Dip strawberries into candy melt to coat completely, let excess drip off. Carefully place stem side down onto prepared cookie sheet. Let stand at room temperature or store in refrigerator 30 minutes or until coating is firm.

Spoon melted chocolate into a pastry bag fitted with Wilton tip # 3. Using melted chocolate place dots of chocolate as glue and arrange ghost sprinkles for eyes. Pipe on eyebrows and mouth, let stand until firm.

Arrange cookies on tray. Pipe saying onto each cookie.

Let stand at room temperature until coating is firm. In food processor blend cookies until fine crumbs, set aside.

Graveyard Cake

Heat oven to 350°F. Lightly grease and flour 2 (9-inch) square baking pans. Place 1 cup blueberries and water in bowl of a food processor. Puree 1 minute or until smooth.
Blend cake mix, blueberry mixture, oil and eggs with an electric mixer in large bowl on low speed just until moistened. Scrape sides of bowl.
Beat at medium speed 2 minutes. Stir in remaining blueberries. Divide batter evenly into prepared pans.
Bake 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely.

Raspberry Strawberry Filling

Combine raspberries and 1 cup coarsely chopped strawberries in food processor. Puree 1 minute or until smooth.
Press through a sieve to remove seeds. Whisk sugar, cornstarch and berry puree in small saucepan until blended.
Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring constantly and boil 1 minute.
Remove from heat stir in ½ cup chopped strawberries; set aside. Cool completely.

Chocolate Ganache Whipped Frosting

Bring heavy cream to a boil over medium-high heat in medium saucepan. Whisk in chocolate. Whisk constantly until the chocolate is completely melted.

Pour chocolate into a bowl, cover surface with plastic wrap, chill 2 hours.

Beat chilled chocolate with an electric mixer on low to medium speed 30 seconds or just until mixture is thickened and begins to hold a shape. Do not overbeat.

To Assemble
Place one cake layer on serving plate. Spread raspberry strawberry filling to ½ inch from edge. Top with second cake layer.
Frost sides and top with ganache whipped frosting. Arrange blueberries around top edge of cake and raspberries around bottom edge of cake.
Sprinkle center top with cookie crumbs. Arrange strawberry ghosts and press cookies into cake, for tombstones.

Recipe courtesy of Driscoll’s, above Photograph courtesy of Driscoll’s. Copyright 2010. All rights reserved.

my gluten free corner piece

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Manna Organics Bread Giveaway and Review

Manna Organics, LLC is a family owned and operated bakery. They are a small team of dedicated bakers and make Manna Bread® by hand in small batches, with lots of love and care, in their family owned and operated bakery in the Chicagoland area.

If you haven’t had sprouted Manna bread before, it’s not really bread. It can be best described as a meal of whole sprouted grains, moist and denser than bread. Muffin or cakelike in consistency. Baked at low temperatures for a short time, almost raw. It doesn’t rise, has no yeast, no salt, no flour, no oils.

Their artisan sourdough breads, launched in March this year. They are made Bavarian style, are much denser and flavorful than your typical sandwich bread. Tastes great and is very different compared to the American or San Francisco style sourdough breads. They use only organic rye and/or wheat flour as a base, and do not add any yeast, oils, sweeteners, and baking aids to these breads.

Please check out their recipes here. Be sure to follow along on their Twitter and Facebook.

Manna Bread Bavarian Style Sourdough Multigrain Flax Bread

sandwich with cream cheese, beet salad mix, pastrami and swiss

We had the pleasure of reviewing four of the Manna Organic's loaves of bread. I enjoyed them as toast with cream cheese or butter and as opened faced sandwiches. The kids liked them toasted with the cream cheese. Manna Organics is NOT gluten free. I'm glad I could try them before I went GF. You can look for these breads in your local health food store or shop online here. Would you like to try Manna Organics bread? One reader will when these same flavors:

-Multigrain Sprouted Bread

-Fruit and Nut Sprouted Bread

-Carrot Raisin Sprouted Bread
-Multigrain Flax Sourdough Bread

  

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(Multigrain Sprouted Bread, Fruit and Nut Sprouted Bread, Carrot Raisin Sprouted Bread, Multigrain Flax Sourdough Bread a $25 value)



 

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Reusable Snack Bags from Etsy Store Cover Under The Mat: Worldwide Giveaway and Review

Cover Under The Mat is an Etsy store by Christine S. She specializes in making reusable snack bags as well as other homemade fabric gifts. She was kind to offer me a reusable snack bag in a polka dot pattern for my daughter. These snack bags are durable, made with a sturdy baggie to protect the food and fabric, velcro closure for easy access. They are about 6x6.5" big and best of all reusable, just turn inside out and put in the top rack of your dishwasher to clean. I then took mine out once done and let it air dry resting on top of a spoon in a cup. I suggest buying a pack of these so you have one clean at all times, since they take a little while to be completely dry.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/armywifeiam

At her Etsy shop, she'll even do a custom order for you if you have other fabbric in mind. They are $3.50 each or a set of 3 for $10.50 or a set of 5 for $17.50 (she'll even add in a free one if you buy 5). Come check out her Etsy shop and note that she ships Worldwide, so that's great.

Follow along with Cover Under The Mat on  Etsy and Facebook too.

We are enjoying our snack bag. It's been to school a few days now and is holding up well. It's lasted through the dishwasher and saved us on using a disposable baggie everyday for loose snacks. I asked Christine a few questions about her Etsy, here's what she said:

How long have you been sewing?
I've been sewing for about 2 years now, but just recently opened up my etsy store. I'm surprised and excited at how well it took off. People really need those mat covers!

What other sewing projects do you take on?

I like to do any sewing, especially new projects. It's a challenge to try something new, but fun! :) Right now I'm making Kindermat covers, diaper clutches, burp cloths, pillowcase dresses, pillowcases, and then the snack bags.

Where do you ship to?
Worldwide.

What are the care instructions and sizes for these snack bags?

To wash you turn them inside out and wash in the dishwasher, once the cycle is done take it out and let them air dry. Or you can wash by hand and air dry. Really simple! :)

  

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