Favorite Snacks

Here are the snacks and drinks that have been some of my favorites and would happily buy more of. With an additional non-food item at the end. Many of these foods were from my Try the World subscription box.

Top Row: Perugina Limoncello Dark Chocolate Bar, Ines Rosales Cortadillo Citrus Crumble Cakes, Piana Degli Ulivi Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Middle: Confitures a l ancienne Powdered Hot Chocolate, Orientines Moroccan Orange Peel Cookies, El Almendro Turron, Zenbunni Chocolate Cali Almond, Zenbunni Chocolate Wishing Well Walnut

Bottom: Bake Love Koo Sweet and Salty Cookies, Le Palais des Thés Variety Pack of Flavored Teas, Alpine Cheer Home Fragrance -Bath & Body Works

Try the World: Venice Box Review

I am really happy about this box, I loved Venice! I've been wanting to buy some anchovies to make some Caesar salad from scratch, I am so happy to try this with the Orlando U’Piscatori Anchovies! I also just ran out of Olive oil and happy get some of the Merico Maria Rosa Di Consiglia Extra Virgin Olive Oil. I haven't tried the La Bandita Pear and Grappa Jam but I'm very excited about it. The Domori Cherry Chocolate Treats are delicious, I love cherries! The Apicoltura Luca Finocchio Thousand Flowers Honey is good, not great and the container is a bit small. The Mogi Ethic Coffee smells really good, I just don't know how it tastes yet because I'm not sure how to make it correctly just yet. Lastly, I have the Perugina Limoncello Dark Chocolate Bar. I'm not a huge fan of chocolate, or lemons but all the reviews I've read have raved about it. Overall, I'm loving everything in this box and I'm sure you will too!

Try the World : Holiday Box

The Holiday box came after the Holidays... First, it wasn't wrapped in a red ribbon like other Holiday boxes I saw online. Also, I've been waiting for the Rome box for 4 months and never received it. I did however get he Rio box and the England box. That being said this box had a lot to live up to and I did enjoy that it represented food from multiple countries. I also noticed this box didn't have as many amazing goodies as other Holiday boxes. It didn't include: Favarger Milk Chocolate, Doce De Leite set, Les Confitures à L’Ancienneor or the HazerBaba Turkish Delight with Pistachio.

My box had Rip Van Wafels, Teas, Scandinavian cookie ginger snaps, Urbani Tartufi Truffle oil, Guylian Belgian Hazelnut Chocolate Truffes, Maison D’Armorine French Salted Caramel Chocolate, and Rendez-Vous French Fruit Flavored Candies in Peach, pear and cherry.

I've never been a chocolate person, however the Guylian Belgian Hazelnut Chocolate Truffes are fantastic! I wish that I had gotten the Doce De Leite set instead of the French Salted Caramel Chocolate, and Rendez-Vous French Fruit Flavored Candies... but I guess it wasn't meant to be. This has been my least favorite box so far, but mostly because it made no sense to get this in mid-January, it would have been better to get this in November (instead of my England box). The other winners are the Rip Van Wafels and the Ginger snaps!

A lazy person's guide to Halloween Decorating!

And by lazy, I mean a busy person's guide, because I am a very busy person. First, I got these Fall Paper Fan decorations from Target's Oh Joy Fall Collection. I love her blog and her products. I hung them at my front window.

Next, I bought some small pumpkins, because I was too lazy to carry heavy pumpkins into my apartment, design, carve and or paint them. So I got three small pumpkins and I had some gold paint. So I painted the stems. I saw on Pinterest and Instagram that people with free time have painted their stems and added glitter also. Who has the time? I wish I did.

 

Once completed, they looked like this:

 

I placed the the third pumpkin on a bowl and placed it on my dinning room table.

 

Lastly, I make Reese's Peanut Butter Cup stuffed in Chocolate Chip Cookies, in a muffin cup tin. But, unlike most years, I didn't have time to make it from scratch, like I did in this previous blog post.
Instead, I used these products, which saved me 2 hours!

I just use a piece of the Chocolate Chip dough, place on the bottom, add a peanut butter cup, then add more Cookie dough as needed. See each step here:

After about 15 minutes in an oven that is set at 350 degrees, they should be done and should look like this:

Once cooled, I removed each with a knife. They should come out easily (if you use PAM or a similar product) and then place them in individual paper cups. I don't heat them with the paper cup because, I hate eating a cupcake and some of it is still on the paper... what a waste!

The finished product! I cut a piece off to show you all what it looks like. I hope you'll enjoy making some for yourself for Halloween or Christmas, or any day really. I've also enjoyed this great song (click here, to listen on YouTube), so I had to share it before the month is out, I hope you all had a great October!

Treasured

Thank you to everyone who had placed one of my items in their Treasury! I've posted some of the most recent ones: