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Chewy Cookie Goodness from Country Cupboard

Ahhh! Remember the smell of fresh-baked cookies coming out of your mother or grandma’s oven? The taste of brown sugar or, if you were lucky, getting to taste the cookie batter that was left in the bottom of the bowl? Times may be rough right now, but the warm comforting memories brought back by a good cookie are enough to bring a smile to almost anyone’s face.

Don’t have time to bake? The bakers at Country Cupboard Cookies have the perfect solution. Their fresh baked gourmet cookies and brownies are guaranteed to bring the taste of grandma’s kitchen right to your front door – only without the mess or hassle of hours in front of the stove.

  Country Cupboard Cookies specializes in baking a wide variety of sweet cookie treats. Whether you love chocolate chip, M&M candies, or simple sugar cookies, Country Cupboard Cookies has something for you. Many of their packages come decorated for a special occasion, but they’ll sell any of their cookies by the dozen as well.

Looking for a special sweet treat for someone incredible this holiday season? Country Cupboard Cookies has special Christmas packages, including fun loving ginger bread men in decorative boxes. If you order before the first week of November is out, you’ll receive a 15% discount AND they’ll ship fresh cookies closer to the holiday date you specify!

What about a thank-you gift to send one of your top clients? Country Cupboard has a variety of professionally packaged business gift packages as well. No one minds interrupting his work day to open up a box of fresh baked cookies! Need a sweet treat to hand out at a convention or fair? They can ice your corporate logo and slogan right onto a sugar cookie. They’re better than business cards!

We, of course, recommend buying a box and stashing them away in your kitchen or favorite drawer – you never know when you’ll have a craving for a late night snack and a cookie or brownie from Country Cupboard Cookies will prove an irresistible tool in fighting off that sugar craving when it attacks.

Visit Country Cupboard Cookies for a complete listing of cookie varieties, gifts, and for details on their spectacular Cookie of the Month Club. You won’t want to miss out!

Eat Healthy with Foods from Fiber Gourmet

Everyone loves good food, but people today are more health conscious than they were in the past - and that's a good thing. Eating right is an important part of living a healthy life, but that doesn't mean that people have to eat bland food, does it? Of course not! Fortunately, the people at Fiber Gourmet understand this and they have created a line of pastas that are healthy, full of fiber, and tasty.

The high fiber pastas have about half the carbohydrates of traditional pasta. It has fewer calories as well as more fiber, but the taste is just as good as any other brand of pasta that you will find.

  Fiber Gourmet offers a number of different styles and flavors of pasta. You can have short cut or nest style fettuccini in classic, spinach, tomato, or garlic-parsley  flavors. Whatever flavor of pasta you like, you are sure to find it.

If you aren't sure which flavor you would enjoy the most, you might want to pick up the sampler pack, which contains thirteen packages of pasta.

Fiber Gourmet also offers great macaroni and cheese dinners. Kids and adults will love the tasty, healthy meal.

While the company currently only has pastas available, they are developing a number of other products. Eventually, they will have cookies, muffins, crackers, pancakes, and a whole lot more.

It is nice to know that there are companies out there such as Fiber Gourmet that are dedicated to providing people with food that is not only good, but also good for them.  So, hey...get slim, get healthy, and get goin'! Visit Fiber Gourmet.

Big Acres Gourmet Sauces and Spices & Rubs Adds Big Flavor

Operating out of California, Melanie's Fine Foods was founded in 2002 by Melanie and Kent Yunk. They manufacture Big Acres Gourmet Sauces and Spices & Rubs and sell them to sauce lovin' customers around the world. Not only do they create a ton of tasty sauces, but they are also a green business and make every effort to reduce waste, conserve water, and use energy efficiently.

While it is great that they are a green company, most of us are equally interested in their sauces and marinades! They have a grand variety of products to give your barbecue a boost!

Fire up the grill and try Big Acres all-natural Award-Winning gourmet sauces, such as Ginger Teriyaki, Mango Peach Chile, Rich and Mild BBQ, Chipotle Maple BBQ, Chipotle Peanut, and Milagro Mole. Each of these wonderful sauces stocked full of flavor and can add a brand new taste to your same old barbecue.

Don't be afraid to get a little creative...the sauces work for a lot more than just barbecue. They are also good on pizza, salads, tacos, and a whole lot more.

Big Acres also offers several dry rubs that you will want to try. Choose from among the following: Fancy Fish Spice & Rub, which is as good on vegetables as it is on seafood; the Perfect Poultry Spice & Rub that is great on chicken, turkey, quail, and just about every other type of fowl you can think of; and the Stellar Steak Spice & Rub, which is excellent on steaks, burgers, fajitas, and more. Grab a few of their Smoker Bags for real smoke flavor in just minutes! Just smell that sizzle!

If we've got your mouth watering for some down home good cookin', check out all of the Big Acres products from Melanie's Fine Foods.

Smoked Pork Tenderloin with Big Acres Mango Peach Chile Sauce
Serves 4

1 pork tenderloin (up to 2 1/2 pounds)
Salt and pepper
1 SAVU Smoker Bag for Oven or Grill -- Beef/Pork
1 bottle Big Acres Mango Peach Chile Sauce

Preheat oven to 475 degrees or grill to high heat. Remove silverskin from tenderloin and slice into 1-inch medallions. Season with salt and pepper as desired. Place medallions in smoker bag and roll all sides of bag three times and press tight. Place bag in preheated oven or on grill. Cook for 15 minutes, then reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees or grill temperature to medium and cook until the internal temperature reaches 160 degrees (about 10 more minutes). Remove bag from oven or grill and allow to rest for 10 minutes.

To serve, cut open top of bag and divide medallions among 4 plates. Spoon Mango Peach Chile Sauce over medallions and serve with mashed potatoes and green beans.

Is Your Food Well-Dressed?

Located in the beautiful Adirondack Park of Upstate New York is the Well Dressed Food Company, a unique company that creates a variety of tasty foods. The owner of the company, David Tomberlin, was originally from the South, but fell in love with the rugged beauty of the mountains and the green forests (which turn gold and crimson in the fall). His story is interesting...read it here.

Upon moving to the Adirondacks, the owner discovered that there were many wonderful foods to be found in the area. Today, The Well Dressed Food Company offers many of those same wonderful foods to people from around the world.

The Adirondack inspired products they offer are tasty and fresh and guaranteed to help you with every meal of the day... and even snack time! Check out a few of them below.

The North Country Maple Syrup is Grade A amber and makes the perfect topping to pancakes, waffles, and just about anything else where you want something sweet. You can even add it to recipes as a sweetener.

One of the items that the syrup complements is the North Country Oatmeal Pancake Mix. The mix is made from all natural ingredients and it makes some of the fluffiest and most delicious pancakes you will ever taste. Their granola is award-winning, and by now practically famous!

You will also be able to find some great sauces from the Well Dressed Food Company. Try the Spicy Asian Peanut Sauce on meats and noodles, and don't forget the sweet and spicy Firepit Grilling Sauce for all of your barbecue needs.

The Well Dressed Food Company also has some incredible spiced nuts, a variety of honey, caramel, and chocolate products, and even desert mixes.

You can even buy gift sets to give out to your friends and family to show them just how great some of these Adirondack foods really are.

The Well Dressed Food Company is continually adding new products, such as their newest Savory Jams for Fall...try the McIntosh Hot Pepper Jam. Or better yet, grab a bagful of these unique products when visiting The Well Dressed Food Company!

Chocolate Body Frosting for Dessert?

Okay, so let's admit it. Most of us simply can't live without chocolate!

If you are among those who consider yourself a chocoholic then you must check out the amazing product line offered by Chocoholics Divine Desserts.....as close to chocolate heaven as you're going to get!

The company was created in California in 1995, starting with a small product line. Over the years, they increased the variety of chocolate and chocolate related products to over 300 items. And believe me, they offer just about everything a chocoholic could ever desire....from chocolate body frosting and voo doo dolls to hot drinking chocolate and chocolate pasta, to everything in between! With all of the wonderful goodies they offer, every day can be chocolaty sweet.

Check out some of the incredible and fun things they are doing with chocolate!

Have you heard of hand-dipped spoons? These teaspoons are dipped into a variety of chocolate flavors (milk chocolate, white chocolate, etc.) and can be used to flavor your coffee or hot drink of choice. They offer unique flavors, such as Orange Blossom, Apple Green Cider, and Spicy Cinnamon for both hot tea and iced tea.

Merge chocolate connesiurs with lovers of good wine...and its a match made in heaven with Chocolholics Divine Desserts Vintage Dessert Toppings-- Caramel Chardonnay, Chocolate Raspberry Cabernet, Chocolate Espresso Merlot, Strawberry Champagne, and Extreme Dark Chocolate Decadence.

Planning a romantic dinner? Imagine your partners reaction when you grab a jar of chocolate body frosting or chocolate passion body powder for dessert! 

Hey, we're not going to ruin the fun for you. You need to get over to Chocoholics Divine Desserts now, and discover the true pleasure of chocolate for yourself! Visit Chocoholics Divine Desserts.

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Chicken Mole

• 1 tbsp. oil
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 ½ cups chicken broth
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 2 cups cooked, cubed chicken
• ½ cup chopped onion
• 1 tsp. chili powder
• 2 cups tomatoes, undrained
• 2 tbsp. unsweetened cocoa
• 3 tsp. sugar
• 2 tbsp. flour
• ¼ tsp. oregano
• ½ tsp. cinnamon
• 1 10 oz. package Chocoholics Chocolate Pasta
• ½ tsp. cumin

Heat oil and sauté onion and garlic until tender but not brown. In a small bowl combine sugar, flour, cocoa and spices. Gradually add chicken broth, stirring after each addition. Stir in tomatoes, bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer 1 ½ hours. Stir occasionally. Add chicken. Cook pasta as directed. Serve sauce over hot cooked pasta.