Foodie Pen Pals - October 2012

Happy Halloween!  I think FPP might be one of my favorite things ever.  This month, I sent a package to Pam from Scrumptious Bento and received some fantastic goodies from Dawn of Dawn's Divine Delights!  I fell in love with both of these blogs right away, and I knew this would be a good month for Foodie Pen Pals.

The package I sent was pretty much the usual - chocolate chip cookies, Hunter's honey, and Amish popcorn, plus oatmeal scotchies, apple butter cupcakes with cinnamon frosting, and locally made pumpkin butter.

I knew I would love the package that Dawn sent me when I opened her note and read that the theme of her package was "chocolate".  I loooooove chocolate!  I'm actually not sure there were enough O's in there to accurately describe my love of chocolate.  She sent two huge chocolate bars, one milk and one hazelnut, allergy-free chocolate chips, which I can't wait to bake with, and (my favorite) HOMEMADE pumpkin fudge!  I love getting homemade stuff for FPP.  You can even make your own pumpkin fudge with Dawn's recipe here.

Another great month for Foodie Pen Pals, and I can't wait for next month!  As always, you can join FPP yourself at www.theleangreenbean.com.  See you next time!

Always,
BeccaBot

Foodie Pen Pals - September 2012

I don't think I'll ever get tired of Foodie Pen Pals.  I love putting goodies together for someone else, and, of course, I love getting yummy stuff too.  This month, I sent a package to K in Massachusetts and got one from C in New York.  (Sorry about the late post, but I didn't get my FPP package from C until Saturday.)

I sent K a bunch of my chocolate chip cookies (of course), pear-pecan muffins made with my own variation of Magic Muffin Mix, a jar of my mom's triple berry jam, Basswood honey from Hunter's Honey Farm, and Tailgate Catsup from FARMbloomington.

In the package that I finally received from C was included Tazo green tea bags, chile spiced mango from Trader Joe's (Mango is my favorite fruit!), two homemade chocolate cupcakes, some of her favorite fruit bars, homemade apple cider caramels (which are amazing), and...a ketchup packet?  Not sure what's up with the last one, but the caramels pretty much made up for the package being late.

It'll be hard to share these!

Can't wait for next month!  Remember, you can join Foodie Pen Pals at www.theleangreenbean.com.

Always,
BeccaBot