Today’s the day of the big Foodie Pen Pal Reveal! If you’ve read my blog before, you’ll know that once a month, I participate in a Foodie Penpal group, where I send off a box of food goodies to someone and I receive a box of food goodies from someone else. Earlier this month, I shipped a box of handpicked goodies off to Renee’ in Alton, Illinois. I worked hard to surprise Renee, and I think I succeeded!
This month my goodie box was from Casey in Pennsylvania. Casey is the brilliance behind the blog Salted Plates. When I visited Casey’s blog, I knew I would be in for a treat! Casey is a vegetarian (who sometimes cooks meat), but more importantly, she writes about great food and posts great recipes! I became an immediate fan! Anyway, Casey put together an awesome Foodie box for me! Here ya go! The only thing not pictured is the chocolate bar, which I stuffed away so quickly that ONLY I would know where it was! Seriously though, It was wrapped so nicely in tissue paper, I almost missed it….I retrieved the box and found the chocolate bar after this pic was taken.
Casey’s package couldn’t have arrived at a better time. All day I had been working in the garage hanging my super Craiglist cabinets, not even thinking about dinner. When the package arrived it was like magic, I had a dinner idea and it didn’t involve eggs! Yay!
Casey sent some Pomodoro sauce from Greensgrow Farms, local to Lancaster PA. I’m not kidding at all if I say that it tasted like I just picked the tomatoes and made sauce today! Extra nice on top of the whole wheat ravioli my daughter and I had found last week and had tucked away in the freezer. That, some steamed broccoli, a salad and freshly grated romano cheese and dinner was on the table in 20 minutes! Woohoo!
The next extra special treat Casey sent was a (Huge) jar of homemade Jersey Blueberry Jam! I’ve never canned anything, so getting something home made and canned is a real treat to me! Loved it! Yumm! 
The next goodie was a package of Farro, Casey said it was new to her and ironically, I had just discovered Farro myself. Casey’s farrow was different though, it only needed 18 minutes to cook. If you haven’t tried Farro, you’re in for a treat. It’s whole grain goodness, a little crunchy, and definitely delicious!
The curry sauce, can’t wait to try!. I LOVE Curry…omg, the beautiful mixture of spicy and sweet, that’s what curry is to me! I don’t usually get packaged mixes, so it’s fun to have one to try! I noticed it doesn’t have msg in it, thank you…..
I LOVE my goodies, thank you so much! I’m doing a happy dance! 🙂
So thank you to Casey of the blog Salted Plates for putting together a box any foodie would love. Be sure to check out her blog for some fantastic veggie ideas (love her pizza recipes)! Also need to shout out a huge thank you to Lindsay of theLeangreenbean for starting the Foodie Penpal group, what fun! I love foodie adventures, love surprise packages and this adventure adds mystery, so it’s all good!
Cheers!
Karen
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