It’s Super Bowl time again which means Sunday evening parties, wacky commercials, awkward musical half-time shows, and tons of tasty food. Oh yea, and football.
Since the best gift for your host is a delicious addition to the smorgasbord, we thought we’d help you out with recipes from some of our favorite food blogs. Happy eating!
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Don’t let the blizzards and biting cold get in the way of a sunny disposition. Komforte Chockolates combines the uplifting properties of chocolate with the crispy, salty crunch of corn tortillas and the zing of a lime—you’ll be poolside in your mind in no time.
As we inch closer to a certain love-stricken holiday (which MUST have something to do with the season’s cuddly sweaters), chocolate that’s meant to share, as Komforte Chockolates is keen to say, is a fitting choice for your margarita-lovin’ chocoholic sweetheart.
Sold in a pack of 12 at Amazon. To buy individual bars at around $3 each see retailers listed here.
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Last minute doesn’t have to mean lackluster.
Whether you’ve been too busy or you procrastinated, here’s two great ideas that pack more punch than a gift card, will keep you out of the stores, and are sure to make your recipient very merry.
Both can be given in a box, a card, even an email, just seconds after your purchase.
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Made-to-order, design-your-own options are popping up all over the place reigniting established brands with a fresh opportunity, and jump-starting a wide assortment of new ones smart enough to hatch a killer idea.
While a handful are decidedly gimmicky, many new companies on the customization bandwagon are opening up a whole new world of truly personalized goods and customer-focused services. From where we sit that means we win (bonus that the new company wins too).
One such clever customizer is MixMyGranola who lets you pick and choose from over fifty all-natural ingredients (nuts, fruits, gummies and more) to create your own granola, and then they ship it to you in a nifty tube for gifting, breakfasting, road-tripping—you choose.
Where this simple idea goes from good to great is through execution of the details. The most significant of those is the site’s ease of use. Bright colorful photos, three simple steps and your custom mix is on its way.
Our favorite feature is the nutrition calculator that updates on the fly as you add ingredients. Know the calories, carbs, sodium, protein, etc. of your concoction as you make it—a mathematical feat the bulk bins can’t do.
When you create your mix, a Mix-ID is automatically assigned to it, and then comes printed on your tube when you receive it. The ID can then be used to reorder your mix when you (or a friend) come back for more.
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We first encountered TCHO (pronounced: cho) while attending a conference for web start-ups nearly a year ago. A welcome (and delicious) snack after a morning of presentations, we’d been given a piece of chocolate wrapped in plain brown paper. Stamped on the outside was the company’s name, a marked check-box next to its flavor: fruity, chocolatey or nutty, and across the top, the words “beta batch”.
We were, in fact, beta tasters and TCHO was collecting feedback at their booth outside the auditorium.
An unexpected approach for prepping the launch of a chocolate company—there was nothing unusual about the software analogies or the 1,000+ iterations of chocolate prior to launch to company co-founder Timothy Childs, an internet entrepreneur and former NASA Space Shuttle technologist, or TCHO’s CEO, Louis Rossetto, co-founder of Wired Magazine.
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The weather has gotten all summery. The parks and breezes are stealing our attention—the temptresses that they are, beckoning from out the window.
I resolve to picnic. And I wish I had one of these. It’s a Shopnic basket (shopping+picnic, for the obvious-impaired).
Not only is it collapsable, machine washable and springs open like a magician’s hat (watch this video on flickr to see for yourself), it’s also super strong. We’re talking seventy granny smiths from the farmer’s market strong.
The frame is made from ABS plastic, a recyclable and durable plastic (think Legos), and wrapped in a mesh nylon cover. Basically it’s made to last a very long time, which for the price is what we’d expect.
The thing just screams spontaneity. Stash one of these in the back of the car, and one day when she least expects it, swing by the market and then head to the park. The resulting smile and moment of speechlessness will be well worth it.
Who couldn’t use a slow afternoon on a blanket in the grass with nothing to worry about but the ants?
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