Hey everyone! Yes, Lisa did so very right by me. I spent about two hours on Sunday with Google translator going through the recipe book. I quite enjoyed trying to read the recipes on my own and then plugging them into the translator to see what was what. Some great recipes in this book most definitely. Lisa thank you for the translation for the text on the bag. I love my swap goodies:) Again the timing on when I received it was no problem. Ann kindly emailed me to let me know I would probably receive my package last and gave me a rough time frame. Worked out perfectly. Lars on the candies I have not yet made it through the wonderful pile to Happy Cola yet. I've tried the lemon ones that kind of taffy like and really scrumptious and yesterday had the little licorice bear guys. My husband has been helping himself to the gummy bears. All good. Riverrat I'm excited about using the condiments also. Such beautiful little bottles, I'm sure the contents are just as great. Thank you bizzo on the photos. I wanted to really show how wonderful my swap loot was. Lars if you want me to take pictures of a few more of the recipes I would be glad to. There are some wonderful ones in this book. Excellent pictures and a nice diverse selection of types of salad. Just to give you a hint about my salad addiction I grow my own lettuce and all summer long that's what I have for lunch every day. Since we had friends over this weekend yesterday I had leftover spinach salad with chevre, mandarin oranges, toasted almonds, craisins and a light balsamic dressing with leftoever Meditteranean Quinoa Salad and whole wheat toast. What's not to like right?:) Thanks all. Kate

This is cool. I think we're on to something. Maybe next swap should be a roving box...somebody starts it, maybe puts in two things and sends it to the next person. That person chooses one and replaces it and sends it along to the next...hmmmm.... Anyway, Ann, that's definitely not a screw up. I think it worked out very well. I'm a big fan of biscotti and almost sent some in my package. These look good. I know you'll enjoy that cookbook, and hopefully you've already enjoyed the wine. Jazzed, that was super sweet of you to add something and send it along.

I'm so glad it made it all in one piece! The bean pots didn't have boxes, so I was concerned that between those and the glass maple syrup bottles we might have some breakage, and a mess!! Glad the mess was avoided :-) So, no, I didn't cheat! Really. My your choice category was "New England Foods" - so Indian Pudding and Maple Syrup. That's one item. (Let's pretend you eat them together LOL!!! ) The grades of maple syrup are: Vermont Fancy Vermont Grade A Medium Amber Vermont Grade A Dark Amber Vermont Grade B you can get more info on the Vermont grades (which I guess are different from other maple syrup grades?) at this link: Vermont Maple Syrup Grades and Jessy, I thought about the beano, but I figured Gina could take care of that herself... or use one of the non-bean recipes in the cookbook! Indian pudding is a baked custard with milk, butter, molasses, eggs, spices, and cornmeal. Here's more info and a recipe for it... Indian Pudding. I've only had this canned variety... cooked in a double boiler. and if I had a dog, I'd want those bowls, too. Target, can you believe it?? The rest of the goodies came from the Mystic Seaport Museum Gift and Bakeshop.

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