Evelyn's Blog - Taste of Gourmet

Fried Peach Pies....

We had a great time at the B.B. King Museum on Tuesday night, cooking my grandmother's Fried Peach Pies for Taste in Music!  If I do say so myself....they were scrumptious!  Everyone got into the act...cutting out the rounds of pie crust...spooning the filling on the round...sealing the half-moon pie and putting it straight into the black iron skillet to cook!

It was just the way I remember...standing right by the stove while Momo turned the pies over in the skillet..then waiting very impatiently for the pie to cool so I could eat it right then!  Memories don't get any better than that...well except Tuesday night....when we all got to eat those pies again!  

New Recipe Sharing Page..........

I'm calling the new page..... Customers and Consultants Cooking at Home!  I want all of you who have a favorite Taste of Gourmet product...to let me know how YOU use it!  

Maybe you make the Curry exactly like the directions on the box...but instead of chicken broth, you use beef broth, take the chicken off the bone and stuff it into a pita pocket with shredded cabbage!  (Actually that sounds really good and I'll have to try it!) 

But you get the idea......twists and tweaks and recipes and one sentence explanations of how YOU use our foods...like April Savell, MS, has said to me many times......"My family loves a 5 lb. beef roast cooked whole in the crock pot with the New Orleans Style Beef...with the tomato and broth of course. That's Clay's favorite and it cooks while I'm at school."  Simple things.....just sharing how YOU enjoy Taste of Gourmet! 

You can email your "cooking" ideas to me at evelyntog@yahoo.com or use the comment section of the website or write a comment on this blog page and I'll transfer it!  Even give your Consultant your ideas and she'll pass them along to me!   Hope you'll enjoy reading the page and check it often for new ideas.  I'd love to have some pictures of ya'll too....cooking withTaste of Gourmet...or just enjoying our good food!  Look forward to hearing from you!   Have a Delicious supper tonight!

Discount on orders for the end of Summer...

...or the beginning of Fall!  Either way it is time to stock your cupboard for easy, simple and deliciously healthy meals!  And the Half-Price Specials for customers are a great way to stretch your "dollar" even further!  The Soup Collection for just $27.50 or the Dip Collection for just $14.98 or the Super Sauces for just $16.50!  What a bargain you can get when you purchase just $40.00 at regular price! 

The 10% Discount Code to use on the our website  www.tasteofgourmet.com  is WHFZN  and you can order with it through August 31st!  (Put the code in the box that asks for Hostess Code when you are ordering!)

Or you can call your Consultant who will take your order for you!  Or call our office at 800-833-7731....we just want you to take advantage of the savings AND enjoy a lot of wonderful meals!  Remember that Taste of Gourmet is NOT just for company or special events!  Taste of Gourmet is there to use every day...for every day meals!  Besides... there is no one more special than your own family! Right?

Let's Look at the Numbers...Dollar Value that is...

Is ANYONE you know pinching pennies and watching everything they spend?  Of Course!  Taste of Gourmet products can actually help people "Pinch" those pennies and get great value for the money they spend with us!

Let's examine the economics of our Main Dish Meals!  

The Soup Collection:  Seven Main Dish Mixes are included (two Delta Bisque mixes are in the box.)  At full price ($54.95 for the Collection) each mix costs $7.85. A family of 4 to 6 will get at LEAST two meals from each of those mixes (Southwest Soup and Black Bean Chili could be only one meal)

So that is FIVE mixes providing the consumer two meals each and TWO mixes providing just one meal (unless the mixes are stretched using our Suppers Made Simple Ideas.)

That’s TWELVE meals for a basic cost of $4.58 each. 

NOW think....when you buy the Soup Collection at Half-Price the basic cost comes down to just $2.29 for each of those 12 meals!  Of course you have to buy the meat and broth or tomatoes - but that is a given cost with ANY meal - even one prepared from scratch when you have to cut up your own onions!  Our Half-Price items are a huge savings in time AND in money!

In the grocery store yesterday, I saw a woman with EIGHT Hamburger Helper meals in her basket!  I wanted to cry for her family!  Same old - Same old with artificial flavors, additives, etc...... When she "could have been serving a Taste of Gourmet meal!" 

 

I am so very proud of all our mixes....flavors are all distinct...value is there with CONVENIENCE and the TIME SAVED in the kitchen is just unbelievable!   When you spend $40.00 with Taste of Gourmet…you can buy the Soup Collection or the Super Sauces or the Dip Collection at Half-Price!  Now that is a Value for Money! 

Dessert First?

Our guests at The Crown are just wonderful!  So full of smiles and excitement (and hunger!) They seem to really enjoy being in our restaurant!   We certainly enjoy their visits every day!  It's just like welcoming "old friends" back home when we see each individual or group who come in!  Jen and I just love that part of "work" at The Crown! 

Recently, we've had a family fly in from Jackson to eat with us and go to the Museum!  A family of 8 came in from St. Louis who were "doing the Blues Trail!"  Six young men from Chicago were at the Museum, eating with us and then going to play at Ground Zero in Clarksdale on Thursday night for open mike night!  Yesterday a jewelry designer from New Mexico came by for lunch on her semi-annual trip to the South - she loves the Catfish Allison!  And a retirement party....and a "Welcome to Town" party and an 88th Birthday Party.....and some girls from an office who were just hungry for a great meal!  We love them all!

But back to Dessert First....A sweet, sweet guest came in last week (for the first time) with a printout from our website...showing the Dessert on the Home Page and some other pages too!  And she did ask for that exact picture to be duplicated for her!  (It's the Praline Pie with cream and Caramel Pecan Sauce)  Of course I fixed it for her and she did eat it FIRST - before her Gumbo and Bayou Beer Bread! 

I loved that!  Y'all come see us and we'll make you feel special too!

Mississippi Mud Cake for Dessert..

Bite-size pieces of Mud Cake...."dusted" with powdered sugar will be on the Nibble Table for Art After Hours on Thursday night!  And they are luscious - densely chocolate and so easy to make. 

All you do is melt butter, add eggs and a tablespoon of cold water (I always use coffee with chocolate) and mix it all up with a spoon!  I baked the Cake in a pan about 8 x 10 inches.  (One of my antique baking pans from England.)  It's so rich that my bite-size pieces were at least 50...even allowing for all the "crumbs" I enjoyed myself while I was cutting! 

We also served the Mississippi Mud Bites yesterday at a luncheon at the B.B. King Museum...the group had a working lunch and needed a high energy pick-me-up about 2:00.  My Mud Bites filled the "void" perfectly!  Be sure to come Thursday night to "nibble" with us!  Art After Hours is from 5 to 7...ya'll come to The Crown!