Exciting New and Delicious Products

Over the past few months I have received a whole bunch of exciting new and delicious products to taste test, plus a couple of awesome cookbooks. So I am thrilled to be able to share them with you now!

Oteas Organic Teas

For great taste and zero waste, I highly recommend Oteas Organic Teas. Oteas utilizes ultrasonic technology to perfectly and seamlessly seal their plant-based biodegradable tea bags, string and tag rather than using staples or hazardous glue. But even more importantly, all of their tea blends are made from the highest quality leaves, herbs, flowers and spices that are responsibly sourced, never crushed and always whole.

They use only NON-GMO verified, Gluten Free Certified, Vegan Certified and USDA Organic ingredients. Plus they are suitable for home composting.

I love the Green Tea with its hint of citrus. I found it to taste great over ice. So refreshing after a day of sightseeing or anytime!

Festive Chickpeas

Festive Chickpeas are naturally good with no preservatives. They’re 100% VEGAN! Join the Plant-based movement with this easy crunchy snack. NON-GMO ingredients grown in nature and seasoned to perfection. Best suitable for soy-free diets keeping you away from allergy irritants. These are a delicious, nutritious snack made from all natural chickpeas seasoned with mouth-watering flavors

This is an addictive snack and you don’t have to feel one bit guilty about indulging your cravings!

Alcoeats Cashews

The good people at Alcoeats are very diligent in their efforts to procure the highest quality cashews. The process of procuring cashews is very rigorous, but they are committed to serving you the richest flavored cashews that you will ever consume. The process starts by removing the nut from the cashew apple by hand. After, they remove the outer shell by roasting the cashew at high temperatures and retrieving the edible part of the nut.

Their cashews are coated with exotic spice blends from around the world. Just one of their cashews will cause an explosion of flavor that will keep you coming back for more. These cashews are healthy, nutritious and best of all truly delicious. They make for an excellent snack on the go that is rich in proteins, heart healthy fats and a great source of energy.

Elda’s Kitchen

Developed by an immigrant family, Elda’s Kitchen prides itself on its small batch, artisan recipes based on 1950’s kitchen culture. Each sauce is packed with flavorful ingredient combinations meant to compliment any kind of cuisine. Elda’s Kitchen offers a wide variety of sauces inspired by different regions all over the world including but not limited to Ginger Teriyaki, Jamaican Jerk and Kentucky Bourbon.

Elda was consistently in the kitchen, always there for her family, bringing people and meals together with her loving sauces. Today, Elda’s Kitchen replicates the care and love that she put into her family meals into every batch of her namesake sauce brand. Elda’s Kitchen is still made in a large kettle, the same kind of sauce pot Elda used to cook sauces for her family in the 50s. Co-created by Aldo, Elda’s son and dedicated butcher, and her granddaughter Brie, a self-taught cook and creative in the kitchen, Elda’s Kitchen helps others create comforting meals with a modern twist.

Elda’s Kitchen cooking and grilling sauces are perfectly sized for generous flavoring without waste.

Oryx Desert Salt

Oryx Desert Salts are natural, unrefined and very flavorful! These salts are sun-dried, unrefined, have absolutely no additives and are as pure as nature intended. Dried by the hot African desert sun. Unrefined and unprocessed. The underground brine lake is 100% saturated, so it takes only 4 weeks for the salt to crystalize during their main harvest season in summer when the temperatures reach up to 117 degrees F.

This salt comes from an ancient and pristine source, the Dwyka rock formations, through which the underground streams flow, are geo-scientifically tested to be 250-300 million years old. The 50 km salt pan is situated in the Kalahari Desert of 900,000 km, inside the Kalahari Basin which spans an area of 2.5 million km.  

These salts are available in refillable grinder bottles. The new grinder heads have a ceramic mechanism for long lasting use. So far they have been tested up to 10 refills and they still grind smoothly.  

Crazy Sweet Creations

“How to Cook That is the most popular Australian cooking channel in all the world, and it’s not hard to see why.” ―PopSugar 

Offering a fun-filled step-by-step dessert cookbook Crazy Sweet Desserts, Ann Reardon teaches you how to create delicious and impressive pastries, cakes and sweet creations.

Inside this new book, food scientist Ann Reardon, host of the award-winning YouTube series How to Cook That, explores Crazy Sweet Creations. An accomplished pastry chef, Reardon draws millions of baking fans together each week, eager to learn the secrets of her extravagant cakes, chocolates, and eye-popping desserts. Her warmth and sense of fun in the kitchen shines through on every page as she reveals the science behind recreating your own culinary masterpieces.

This book is for home cooks and fans who love their desserts, cakes, and ice creams. It will help you create desserts that look amazing and taste even better. Take your culinary creations to influencer status. You will also learn to make treats that get the whole family cooking. Plus you can now impress guests with beautiful and absolutely yummy desserts.

The Complete Summer Cookbook

I know, winter isn’t over yet, but in most parts of the country you are longing for warmer weather. Well, get ready for summer’s bounty with this relatively new book by America’s Test Kitchen. The Complete Summer Cookbook will give you plenty of inspiration!

This is the only cookbook you’ll need during the year’s warmest months

When fresh produce beckons but you haven’t much energy to respond, these recipes help you settle into a more relaxed kind of cooking designed to keep you and your kitchen cool. Untie yourself from the oven with make-ahead meals best served cold (or at room temp), like Poached Salmon with Cucumber and Tomato salad and Tzatziki. Fix-and-forget recipes like North Carolina-Style Pulled Pork made in the electric pressure cooker won’t steam up the kitchen. Equally easy are dinner salads. There are enough salad recipes to keep them interesting and varied, from Shrimp and White Bean Salad with Garlic Toasts to Grilled Caesar Salad. Barely more effort are fresh summer recipes requiring the briefest stint in a pan, such as Beet and Carrot Noodle Salad with Chicken or Braised Striped Bass with Zucchini and Tomatoes.

Ready to take the party outside? You’ll find all you need for casual patio meals prepared entirely on the grill (from meat to veggies, even pizza). Throw a fantastic cookout with easy starters, frosty drinks, and picnic must-haves like Picnic Fried Chicken, Classic Potato Salad, and Buttermilk Coleslaw. Visited the farmers’ market? Find ideas for main dishes as well as sides inspired by the seasonal bounty, plus the best fruit desserts worth turning on the oven for. To end your meal on a cooler note, turn to a chapter of icebox desserts and no-bake sweets.

Well that’s my latest list of exciting new and delicious products. I hope you try them and enjoy them as much as I have!