Now that is taking regional to the 9s!!!!!
Those syrups are gorgeous..Gina, give me a "Grade" to color key please..
Those bean pots are cute!!!!!

Lucky Odo...those do look like great bowls!

Great job! Love it all, particularly the beanpots.

Enjoy.

AM

I like the beanpots, and I love baked beans, but my favorite is the collapsible dog bowls, what a great idea.

Maple syrup. I'll bet the darkest is Grade B, the others are Grade A Light Amber, Grade A Medium Amber and Grade A Dark Amber?

I've never actually seen any of the Dark Amber, I thought maybe it was a myth!

Annie

Wow, that package is over the top! The bean pots are just too cute, and I love the syrup sampler.

Linda

Baked beans and maple syrup - yum - and something for your doggie too! Nice!~ maria

Love the theme of your swap package. Those bean pots are adorable, and I love the maple syrup sampler. Indian pudding is yummy and looking forward to seeing some recipes from your new cookbook. Bizzo how thoughtful to include something for Odo too! Great package.

Shelley

What a great swap box. Those little bean pots are so cute. And one can never have to many bottles of maple syrup. Cute doggie gift. I'm sure the bowls will come in handy when you travel.

Well done Elizabeth.

Ann

That's a lovely swap package! I've never seen so many types of maple syrup in one place. I'm lucky if I have two options to choose from in the stores around here. :) Enjoy all the taste testing!

Bri

The bottles of syrup look like sparkling jewels. What is in Indian Pudding? I've never tried it. Boston Baked Beans -- yum. And lucky Odo.

Only one problem -- poor Bizzo can't count! Well, maybe the cookbook was packing material ;)

I have the same question as Carol -- WHAT IS INDIAN PUDDING?? I have to assume that it means "American Indian" as opposed to East Indian, since NE has little to do with Asia.

Although I don't eat syrup, as a rule, dark maple syrup would be a real treat. I do cook with it however, and I can think of wonderful candies that can be made from those syrups. Today a woman at work showed me some mushrooms she picked in Northern California that smell exactly like maple syrup!!

I've never had Boston Baked Beans, but the pots are really cute. I would use the pots to store dried beans, since my beans right now are in ugly jars.

How thoughtful to have the doggie bowls! Great package and a great theme!

Lars

What a great package! Whoda thunk, collapsible doggie bowls. Love that!

The bean cookers are so nice.

Gina,Grade B...lucky you! Enjoy!

What a great swap box! I'm another who wants the low down on the grades of maple syprup. I use to be a fake syrup guy...until I had the real deal. The doggie bowls will come in handy....the water one for sure with all of the walking Gina does with Odo. Bizzo, ya done good!!

David

Love the regional theme! Hope you can share some of the recipes, it looks interesting. Good job Bizzo.

You forgot the Beano (darfc)

I bet that Indian Pudding would be great drizzled with some persimmon sauce. I first heard of it through one of Jeff Smith's (Frugal Gourmet) books. I haven't been cooking with cornmeal the past decade or so; time to introduce it to the kids. Hey Arabella send me one sheet from your notepads, 'you'll eat it...you'll eat it and like it' LOL

I knew Annie would zero in on that maple syrup, it does look wonderful. And the two bowls are perfect for you and DH!

I like regional packages too. It brings us closer as a virtual community doesn't it. Having been born in the New England area with family still there, I have a fondness for things NE.

I really enjoyed the syrup samples that I received in a swap. It helped me make a more informed decision.

Lucky, lucky Gina-- there's liquid gold in those bottles!

Love the bean "pots"-- that special shape is suppose to make the beans bake up tender & flavor infused.

Great pkg.

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.

Holy shmoly what a great swap. I just love the theme and I know Gina you are going to really enjoy using those syrups....very special selection.