Mail Truck!
One smart cookie came up with a brilliant idea: people who love food enough to write about it should send each other food. Real food. In the mail. Cathy of My Little Kitchen, host of this month’s Blogging By Mail, asked participants to send holiday-themed food and recipes.
My package, lovingly tucked into the box you see above by Heather in Kansas, contained the following fun items:
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monster cookies. These have so many decadent ingredients, how could they not be divine? Peanut butter, chocolate chips, M&M’s…you can find the recipe over at Heather’s blog. I am having to fight my husband for the last of these.
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two very cute dishtowels. Someone must have told Heather about the stained, ragged-edged cloths barely passing for dish towels hanging in my kitchen. The sunflowers (the Kansas state flower) are a particularly bright and welcome replacement!
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two weeks worth of the food section from her local newspaper in Topeka, which sadly (for its readers), is only one page. However, one page contains a recipe for Dog Breath Chili, so I’m not complaining.
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a picture of her spacious kitchen
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two very cute note cards and envelopes that look homemade–Heather, did you make them?
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a little orange candle that smells a lot like the next item…
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my favorite: pumpkin bread! Tucked in beneath the dish towels, I discovered a loaf of dense, spicy bread that is the perfect breakfast with coffee. Or mid-morning snack with tea. Or mid-afternoon snack. Or before-bed snack. I love it with a little pat of butter. Here it is:
Like me, Heather is in graduate school. She writes in her letter that she started blogging to find an outlet for her creativity, also like me. She has only been at it for a couple of months now, so head on over and check out Eating 4 One. Also head over to Cathy’s to check out the round up and see what other fun things people have been swapping in the mail.
Heather, thanks so much for sharing your holidays with me through this very fun package. As I sit here and sip my tea with pumpkin bread and my spicy candle burning, I am thinking very nice thoughts of you. Happy Holidays!