This cheese has a very strong flavor since it is aged very long. Almost too strong for my taste, but otherwise a very excellent cheese, as you would expect an imported cheese from Holland to be. So if you like aged Gouda then give this a try.
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Prima Donna Cheese (8oz or 1lb)
This cheese has a very strong flavor since it is aged very long. Almost too strong for my taste, but otherwise a very excellent cheese, as you would expect an imported cheese from Holland to be. So if you like aged Gouda then give this a try.
Vino By The Slice Bread Mix
This mix is a must-try! It takes 3 minutes to prep, 30 minutes to bake, and some butter to enjoy. I highly recommend this treat to anyone who loves wine and only has 33 minutes to make baked goods!
Coastal Red (Vintner's Reserve)
The Coastal Red wine kit from Winexpert produces an excellent wine at a reasonable cost. Retailing at under $70, it yields approximately 30 750ML bottles, which works out to less than $2.50 per bottle. The finished product is a wine that would retail at several times that amount. The Coastal Red is very similar to a French burgundy. While it can be consumed shortly after bottling, some of its more subtle overtones come out only after several months. I would suggest letting it age at least six months to get the full benefit of the fruity flavors that develop over time.I have been making wine from kits for more than six years now, and I almost always make a kit put out by Winexpert. I do this because the instructions are easy to follow and explicit. Also, making the wine is a breeze. Generally speaking, the total time I spend from the initial mixing to bottling is somewhere between three and four hours (and this includes sanitizing the equipment and cleanup). The process takes somewhere between six and eight weeks (depending on the wine) until the wine is ready to bottle. So, once you purchase a kit it won't be all that long before you'll be enjoying excellent homemade wine.
This Coastal Red was the first kit I tried. I have done more than a few since then, many are still in the aging process, some are coming into their full flavor and those bottles seem to be getting emptied quickly. Which is why I have bought a few more kits and have those fermenting right now.
Most of these kits need at least 6 months of aging to really bring out the flavor and character. One year is even better. So basically you need to start a kit and then a few weeks later start another, etc. Do this so you have a few different kits bottled up and aging. Then before you know it 6 months has passed and you can start drinking the wine you made. If you like a really young wine, you can start drinking this after about a month in the bottle. But have patience, it gets even better.
One thing I have noticed is you really need to address the CO2 levels before you bottle this wine. Actually any kit wine. It needs to be vigorously stirred for about 2 minutes to release the CO2. Test it, then stir again if needed. I found I needed to stir it a number of times before it was perfect. Then I read an article about stirring it at the right temperature. 75 degrees is where you want to be. My homemade fermentation chamber is kept at 72 degrees. So I had to up the temp to 75 a day before I want to degas and found it degases much better. I have since stopped stirring to degas and now I use my brake bleeder to pull a vacuum on the carboy. That works much better! Not necessary, but if you have one, use it.
You only need to address the CO2 levels if you plan on bottling it per the instructions. The kits instructions have you bottling it within 6 weeks. If you decide to go the old school route, you can leave the wine in the carboy for 6 months, taste it, if its ready bottle it then. If not, give it a couple more months. By leaving it in the carboy for all those extra months the wine will naturally degas itself. But in today's society we like to rush, so we manually degas the wine, then bottle it and let it age. If it ages in the carboy then nature gets to degas it for us. I know I was in a rush to get the first couple of kits bottled. Now I just leave them in the carboy until it tastes the way I like it.
These kits are great because you can and should experiment with them. Want more body? Top it off to 5 or 5.5 gallons instead of 6. Like an oakey flavor? Add white oak blocks to the carboy while aging. Want even more kick? Add some sugar in the proper amounts to ferment to a higher alcohol level. This kit fermented to 14% for me, so that worked out just right in my opinion.
While I currently have a few kits going, I definitely see more in my future. I like the taste and it is truly cost effective. This kit makes 30 bottles of wine, so including the cost of the bottle that means you are spending about $3.50 a bottle. Then since you will reuse that bottle, the next batch will only cost you about $2.25 a bottle. Not too shabby.
After you do one or two of these kits, you will want to change things up. This kit makes 6 gallons of wine. After the primary fermentation was done, I split it up into two 3 gallon carboys. Added oak to one, left the other un-oaked. I am now aging them side by side and I can really taste the difference between the bottles. Its good without oak, but the other batch tastes really good too. Its almost like two different wines.
The next step is to start making homemade wines. I currently have some carrot wine fermenting. A blueberry-pomegranate. And a strawberry wine. Then I started to read more and decided I needed to make mead. So I have a few gallons of mead fermenting at the moment. There are plenty of books that detail the steps and also a number of winemaking forums so you can easily find the information you need.
Good luck.
Blue Star Farms Organic Stoned Ground Rye and Flax Crackers, 5-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 6)
I gave these 3 stars because I really like the flavor of these crackers, but as stated in many of the other reviewers' comments, they don't hold up in shipping, so for the packaging, I would only give them about 1 star. I actually purchased 18 boxes (3 cases), 6 each of the 3 flavors and I had to open all 18 boxes to just get enough "whole" crackers for my guests (8 people) for Thanksgiving appetizers. I could only get about 6-8 crackers per box that were not broken literally into crumbs. I did, however, contact the factory and they were very apologetic and said they will address the problem and offered to send me additional boxes. Hopefully these will arrive in better condition and they will get the problem resolved, because I would love to keep purchasing these crackers.
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I got a huge box of organic stone ground wheat crackers/stone ground rye & flax crackers combo deal from Costco, but apparently they don't carry the brand anymore, which is too bad. These crackers taste great, and the best thing about them is that they don't seem to get soggy once the bag has been opened. They also pack smaller individual bags in one box, so you don't have to try to finish one big bag all at once. They seem to stay fresh and crunchy for quite some time after the bag has been opened, and the taste doesn't seem to change much, either.I just got these crackers in a sample pack from blissmobox and WOW they are really really good. I don't like rye flavor so I thought I wouldn't like these but my husband said I had to try them and he was right, I don't taste the rye hardly at all and they are really tasty. I plan on buying them off Amazon now.I love rye. Several years ago I always purchased rye crackers in a grocery store and they were discontinued. I thought these might be similar and they are not. They do not even taste like rye. Also they are very very hard. Do not waste your money. I am giving them away or throwing the other boxes out.
Briannas, Dressing Ff Lemon Tarragon, 12-Ounce (6 Pack)
One of our favorite dressings for 10-15 years. Can not find it these days in our local Harris-Teeter, Kroger, etc., grocery stores....
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Chef Tom Douglas Rub With Love Seafood Rub, 3.5 Ounce
always loved this product, an although it says seafood rub, it is great on meat, the best rub I've ever tried, that is why I came back to it.
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I've used the Rub with Love seasonings and purchase them repeatedly. They make my food taste real good.Recommend it highly.
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My friend turned me on to some of Tom Douglas rub for a meal I was hooked , so I ordered some and it's almost gone already, Love it. GaryWant Chef Tom Douglas Rub With Love Seafood Rub, 3.5 Ounce Discount?
I ordered this to try it on fish. It was very good. I love their spicy tokyo rub so I decided to give this one a try and I am glad I did. Very good rub.
Blue Star Farms ORGANIC Stoned Ground Multigrain Bite-Size Crackers, 5-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 6)
I gave these 3 stars because I really like the flavor of these crackers, but as stated in many of the other reviewers' comments, they don't hold up in shipping, so for the packaging, I would only give them about 1 star. I actually purchased 18 boxes (3 cases), 6 each of the 3 flavors and I had to open all 18 boxes to just get enough "whole" crackers for my guests (8 people) for Thanksgiving appetizers. I could only get about 6-8 crackers per box that were not broken literally into crumbs. I did, however, contact the factory and they were very apologetic and said they will address the problem and offered to send me additional boxes. Hopefully these will arrive in better condition and they will get the problem resolved, because I would love to keep purchasing these crackers.
Bar Harbor All Natural Herring w/ Cabarnet Wine Sauce, Cans, 6.7 oz
This was a wonderful product with great taste. I highly recommend this for anyone whom doesn't think pickled Herring is all that great, as it will change your opinion.
Mantova Balsamic Vinegar of Modena 5 Liter
Flavor is equal to other good balsamic vinegars, but the price for this quantity sold me as I'm using it to make a large amount of reduction.
Grey Poupon, Dijon Mustard made with White Wine, 10oz Sqeeze Bottle (Pack of 2)
A lot better than the standard Heiz, but no where near the quality of their mustard in the jasrs or the coarse grind mustard. They make it too creamy for my tastes would they put it into a squeeze bottle.