Feb. 22

CoolCanucks Blog Contest ~ Cocina del Mundo Herbs & Spices Review & Giveaway!!

Posted on February 22nd, 2012 by roxxyroller in Giveaways Canada.

 

 

I’ve always been a spice kinda girl. I love most all spices, and they cer­tainly make food taste won­der­ful, what­ever you may be cook­ing! A lit­tle bitta’ this and a lit­tle bitta’ that is usu­ally my idea of cook­ing and/or bak­ing — and I throw in just enough to sat­isfy the tempt­ing taste­bud. I’ve always got a cup­board chock right full of assorted spices, and on hand at all times when needed.

It is really hard to imag­ine what cook­ing or bak­ing would be like with­out the unique fla­vors pro­vided by herbs, spices, and the many sea­son­ings available.

For cen­turies Herbs and Spices have been an inte­gral part of many of the world’s great cuisines. Today we take for granted black pep­per and the other spices over which wars where once fought. At one time only kings and other wealthy peo­ple could afford such a del­i­cacy as cin­na­mon. Today all super­mar­kets and most small gro­cery stores have well-stocked spice shelves offer­ing an enor­mous selec­tion of mostly all herbs and spices.

The term “spices” is often used broadly to include all sea­son­ings. Spices come from the bark, roots, leaves, stems, buds, seeds, or fruit of aro­matic plants and trees which usu­ally grow only in trop­i­cal coun­tries. Pep­per, all­spice, cloves, nut­meg, mace, cin­na­mon, gin­ger, saf­fron, and turmeric are spices.

Herbs are soft, suc­cu­lent plants which usu­ally grow in the tem­per­ate zone. Until recently cooks have had to make do with very few fresh herbs, such as sage, pars­ley, and thyme. Nowa­days you can also find fresh basil, corian­der, oregano, tar­ragon, rose­mary, and dill. 

 

 

 

I was really ecsta­tic to find the World’s Best Spices, and that is at Cocina del Mundo Herbs & Spices! They sell just about every herb and spice going, and then some!!

Based in North Lib­erty, Iowa,Cocina del Mundo Herbs & Spices sells fresh ground spices to order. They’re what gives the food life and makes the fla­vors dance!!

 

 

“Cocina Del Mundo (The World’s Kitchen) Herbs & Spices is about edu­cat­ing peo­ple on the var­i­ous ways to put var­i­ous tastes at their dis­posal. The world has much to offer and the diver­sity of fla­vor can be explored with the help from Cocina Del Mundo Herbs & Spices. 
 Our cui­sine has grown to include most of the worlds cul­tures. Fruit, veg­eta­bles, and spices can be com­bined to exper­i­ment with all the exotic fla­vors our planet has to offer. Meats rubs have been used for cen­turies to pre­serve and to enhance nat­ural fla­vors.
Kristina Arnold grew up in the Mid­west, from a Ger­man fam­ily, with a true enjoy­ment for home style cook­ing. Meals are treated as a time for the fam­ily to come together, and to eat their favorite foods. 
 20 years of restau­rant expe­ri­ence and a love of herbs helped Kristina down the path of exper­i­men­ta­tion for fla­vor­ing com­mon foods with spices from all over the world.
Herbs and spices are a pas­sion to be explored by every­one. Herbs add del­i­cate fla­vor, spices can define a dish. These fla­vors can be sub­tle. Cocina Del Mundo Herbs & Spices offers Recipes and sea­son­ing blends for any­one who wants a lit­tle change, some extra fla­vor, or to give some spice to their life. 
Open your eyes to the world’s kitchen!
Know what is in your food!”

 

 

 

The fab­u­lous Kristina Arnold of Cocina del Mundo Herbs & Spices sent me a whack of phe­nom­e­nal FRESH herbs and spices, and let me tell you — the smell was HEAVENLY when I opened that big enve­lope!! Fresh Basil Pesto Sea­son­ing, Ital­ian Rome Blend, Tus­can Herb Sea­son­ing, and many more were included!! All were sealed in their pack­ets as to remain fresh, and were all wrapped so ele­gantly inside of a really pretty bur­gandy bag! Very impressed with these awe­some spices and seasonings!!

 

 

Shop­ping at Cocina del Mundo Herbs & Spices is really easy, as every­thing is so neatly orga­nized to make shop­ping a com­plete snap! Every­thing that they sell is com­pletely fresh and very rea­son­ably priced! They even sell extra vir­gin olive oil, soup mixes, bean mixes, rice mixes, as well as cheese ball mixes & salsa mixes!! And how about sweets? Well look no fur­ther, as Cocina del Mundo Herbs & Spices also sells Gourmet Fudge Sauce, and delectible Fine Eng­lish Tof­fee!!

You will even find a neat glos­sary of spices on their web­site, as well as a really cool easy recipe sec­tion! How about a quick find spice list? Per­fect!

I give this com­pany a huge thumbs up, and rec­om­mend them to everyone!!!!!

 

Buy It!! These great spices are avail­able online at Cocina del Mundo Herbs & Spices
Win It!! Enter my sweep­stakes give­away below for a chance to win some of these great spices as well! SWEET!! Open to Cana­dian and US Residents!

How to enter: All entries must be sub­mit­ted using the Raf­fle­copter form below. After you com­plete the easy manda­tory entry, you can do as many bonus entries as you’d like to increase your chances of win­ning. I will be check­ing for dupli­cate entries to make sure it’s fair, and no cheat­ing will be tolerated!


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