I heard through the blogging grapevine that Rock Salt was arranging a Foodie Penpals scheme, based on the idea of the US blogger The Lean Green Bean .
Each person is allocated a penpal and sends them a parcel of food based items to the value of about £10 and you get sent one from someone else.
My parcel randomly and bizarrely came from Chilli and Chai. Now I have to declare an interest....Chilli and Chai is a Devon mate of mine anyway so I felt secretly pleased that she would know the kind of stuff I liked and my hopes were certainly fulfilled.
What a whole heap of wickedly interesting, quirky and cool food from Devon and beyond she had amassed:
A pat of smoked goats milk butter, goats milk from Pitmans Farm, smoked by Country Wood Smoke
Homemade oatcakes (using the goats butter) - these were fantastic and I was really touched that she had made me something - and a combination of three different Devon foodies' creative endeavours.
Montezuma's chocolate - two bars!
A carton of totally weird soya milk stuff that looks like Ribena but obviously isn't,
Thai soup paste - that'll definitely come in handy
and probably my joint favourite (with the oatcakes) a jar of Bacon Jam - after reading Eat Like a Girl's recipe, I have been very keen to try some of this.
Plus a heap of wild garlic
and to fulfil her 'chilli and chai' legacy:
Some sachets of Pukka Chai tea (ones I hadn't tried before - hoorah)
Some mega scary 1 million scoville chillis - bit worried about them - will I just need one square millimetre for an entire curry?
What an amazing parcel of very thoughtful produce. Thanks, to my lovely foodie penpal!
I sent this parcel of stuff to Cider with Sophie - I hope she liked it. I enjoyed putting it together with some of my homemade chutney, lemon curd, muffins, my own blend of Ras-al-hanout spice blend, Lahloo tea, Devon fruit leather, a vinegar 'starter' and other random stuff.
This scheme is becoming a regular event, so go here if you fancy taking part, (whether you have a blog or not) and please leave a comment if you also received a parcel so I can visit and take a look.
Each person is allocated a penpal and sends them a parcel of food based items to the value of about £10 and you get sent one from someone else.
What a whole heap of wickedly interesting, quirky and cool food from Devon and beyond she had amassed:
A pat of smoked goats milk butter, goats milk from Pitmans Farm, smoked by Country Wood Smoke
Homemade oatcakes (using the goats butter) - these were fantastic and I was really touched that she had made me something - and a combination of three different Devon foodies' creative endeavours.
Montezuma's chocolate - two bars!
A carton of totally weird soya milk stuff that looks like Ribena but obviously isn't,
Thai soup paste - that'll definitely come in handy
and probably my joint favourite (with the oatcakes) a jar of Bacon Jam - after reading Eat Like a Girl's recipe, I have been very keen to try some of this.
Plus a heap of wild garlic
and to fulfil her 'chilli and chai' legacy:
Some sachets of Pukka Chai tea (ones I hadn't tried before - hoorah)
Some mega scary 1 million scoville chillis - bit worried about them - will I just need one square millimetre for an entire curry?
What an amazing parcel of very thoughtful produce. Thanks, to my lovely foodie penpal!
I sent this parcel of stuff to Cider with Sophie - I hope she liked it. I enjoyed putting it together with some of my homemade chutney, lemon curd, muffins, my own blend of Ras-al-hanout spice blend, Lahloo tea, Devon fruit leather, a vinegar 'starter' and other random stuff.
This scheme is becoming a regular event, so go here if you fancy taking part, (whether you have a blog or not) and please leave a comment if you also received a parcel so I can visit and take a look.
