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Ultimate Easter Chocolate Covered Strawberries. The strawberries are hand-dipped in an assortment of delicious milk, decadent dark, and heavenly white Belgian chocolates.

Easter Berries are delicately rolled in an Easter theme topping of sprinkles, and artfully decorated in a signature purple and yellow confection drizzle. Each assortment is carefully packaged in a beautiful gift box and delivered fresh, right to your special someone’s home or office. Each boxed set of chocolate dipped strawberries includes 12 delicious strawberries.

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Evelyn Vincent Evelyn Vincent

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Spring Chocolate Covered Strawberries. These fresh strawberries are hand dipped in an assortment of delicious milk, decadent dark, and heavenly white Belgian chocolates.

Spring Berries are artfully decorated with Butterflies and a signature pink, yellow, and purple confection drizzle. Each assortment is carefully packaged in a beautiful gift box and delivered fresh, right to your special someones home or office.

Choose from: 1/2 dozen, 1 dozen or 2 dozen assortment in our classic single, double or triple dip options.

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Evelyn Vincent Evelyn Vincent

Native Plant Landscaper, Gardener, Labyrinth Design, Feng Shui Practitioner,  Aromatherapy / Essential Oils, Big Fan of Nature and Living Simply.

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."
~ R. Buckminster Fuller

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Wow! Vital Choice Seafood is having a sale during February, save 15 percent – be sure  to use the code HAPPYHEART12 when checking out to save 15% off your order of; seafood, salmon sausage and burgers, oils and vinegar, soups and meal kits, nuts and dried fruits, wild berries and vegetables! And they even have Salmon Skin dog chew treats!

We discovered Vital Choice Seafood about six years ago and I’m glad we did! Many years prior to then I had stopped buying seafood because the quality was so bad, in my mind, there’s nothing worse than low quality food – and there’s so much of it around today! There are also many studies (delay dementia and preserve memory) on the benefits of wild seafood which gives us more reason to include it in our diets Needless to say, we’ve been buying all of our seafood from Vital Choice ever since. We usually get the sampler called ‘Wild Pacific Seafood Medley’ (#FSA002), this sampler includes: Sockeye Salmon, King Salmon, Sockeye Burger, Hot-Smoked Sockeye, Pacific Albacore Tuna, Alaska Halibut, Smoked Sablefish, Wild Organic Blueberries (everything is fresh frozen, not canned).

This is the same seafood company that both Christiane Northrup, M.D. and Dr. Andrew Weil recommend buying your seafood from – I agree with them entirely!

Below is one of our favorite recipes and links to others… Bon Appetit!

Pasta/Bean Soup with Smoked Sablefish (or Salmon)

The combined cook and prep time is about 30 minutes

Serves 4

  • 3 tablespoons organic extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1/4 teaspoon organic cayenne pepper (we like fresh grated)
  • Leaves from one sprig fresh rosemary (or 1 teaspoon chopped organic rosemary)
  • 1 large yellow onion, diced
  • 15 oz can navy beans, drained
  • 1 quart chicken or vegetable broth
  • 2 cups ditalini (or other small) pasta
  • 8 oz (2 fillet portions) Smoked Sablefish (or Smoked Sockeye Salmon)
  • Sea salt and organic black pepper, to taste

Heat a large saucepan to medium, and add the oil, garlic, cayenne, rosemary leaves, and onion. Sauté onion about 8 minutes (do not burn). Add the beans and broth, bring to a simmer, and cook for 5 minutes.

Transfer half of the soup to a blender or food processor. Pulse until the soup is chunky smooth, return to the saucepan and stir well.

Add the pasta and return the soup to a simmer.

Break the Sablefish (or Salmon) into bite-size chunks, discarding any bones. Add the fish to the soup and simmer until the pasta is cooked and the fish is heated through, about 5 minutes.

Other favorite fresh fish recipes:

Grilled Wild Alaska Halibut on Tabouli

Thyme-Crusted Sablefish

 

Evelyn Vincent Evelyn Vincent

Native Plant Landscaper, Gardener, Labyrinth Design, Feng Shui Practitioner,  Aromatherapy / Essential Oils, Big Fan of Nature and Living Simply.

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."
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Indulge your Sweetheart this Valentine’s Day with what they want the most-chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate! Ghirardelli’s chocolates to be specific!

This beautifully designed Valentine’s Day gift box comes filled with the finest Ghirardelli chocolates; milk, dark, mint and caramel, chocolate squares and bars packed in a Valentines gift box.

The Ghirardelli collection of Chocolate Bars features Ghirardelli’s signature intense, slow-melting chocolate in an irresistible range of unique and delicious flavors.

The Ghirardelli Chocolate Company is a manufacturer and marketer of premium chocolate products.

Incorporated in 1852 and in continuous operation since then, Ghirardelli has the richest heritage of any American chocolate company. Ghirardelli continues to honor its heritage to this day.

Ghirardelli is one of the few companies in America that controls the entire chocolate manufacturing process, from cocoa bean to finished product. This control over the manufacturing process, combined with Ghirardelli’s proprietary bean blend and unique methods of roasting and processing, ensures that you are rewarded with the highest quality and richest products.

Say Gear-ar-delly to correct pronunciation of the Italian name “Ghirardelli”, which has long stumped even the most avid consumers of Ghirardelli Chocolate.

Make this Valentine’s Day Sweet, give Ghirardelli chocolates.

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Ghirardelli’s is one of very few American manufacturers that make chocolate starting from the cocoa bean through to finished products. Throughout the process, we take special steps to ensure that our premium chocolate delivers our signature intense, smooth-melting chocolate taste.

  • Intensive quality assurance in the selection of cocoa beans means that Ghirardelli accepts only the highest-quality beans. We reject as many as 40% of the beans that are offered to us. Beans that are not selected are sold to other manufacturers.
  • In all of its chocolate product, Ghirardelli uses a proprietary blend of cocoa beans that has been refined over the company’s 150-year history to provide the company’s distinct and intense chocolate taste.
  • Ghirardelli roasts the cocoa beans in-house to ensure the company’s signature flavor profile is consistently maintained in all chocolate products. We also use a different roasting process whereby we remove the shell first and then roast the small nibs inside. Because the nibs are fairly uniform in size, we have more control over the temperature and time, so we can get a more specific flavor. Other companies roast their beans before removing the shell, which requires over-roasting the outside portion of the bean in order to roast the inside. This could impart a burned flavor to their chocolate.
  • Finally, Ghirardelli uses an intensive refining process to ensure that its chocolate truly melts in your mouth! Ghirardelli has no grainy feel because we refine most of our chocolate flakes until they are 19 microns (human hair is 100 microns in diameter). Other mass market chocolates are refined to only 40 microns.

Evelyn Vincent Evelyn Vincent

Native Plant Landscaper, Gardener, Labyrinth Design, Feng Shui Practitioner,  Aromatherapy / Essential Oils, Big Fan of Nature and Living Simply.

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."
~ R. Buckminster Fuller

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Unique Valentine Heart, a Valentine’s Day collection of indescribably delicious chocolates topped with four unique holiday designs will delight your love. This all-dark chocolate selection includes, Omega (olive oil & Fleur de Sel), Meyer Lemon infused olive oil, Creme Fraiche ganache, Calvados (apple brandy) and Strawberry vodka ganache. Box design may differ from that shown in picture.

Click on the box to purchase this box of Unique Dark Chocolates…

Evelyn Vincent Evelyn Vincent

Native Plant Landscaper, Gardener, Labyrinth Design, Feng Shui Practitioner,  Aromatherapy / Essential Oils, Big Fan of Nature and Living Simply.

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."
~ R. Buckminster Fuller

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Chocoveda truffles offers more than any other chocolate. They are the offspring of a magical union between one powerful healing system called Ayurveda and one lifelong passion for delicious chocolate. Julia Lungin, Founder, has a purpose in life – to inspire you to live to your highest potential of heath and happiness.

The Chakra Box, Chocoveda inspires you to indulge in sacred practices of love, meditation, and positive thinking, such that balance is achieved.

Each box includes a beautiful 20 page booklet that guides you to bring balance to the 7 energy centers of the body through 7 delicious truffle flavors – its a “chocolate expirience” unlike any other.

Chocoveda chocolate truffles are handmade from the finest, purest and simplest of organic and sustainable chocolate and ingredients. Each truffle is infused with an Ayurvedic herbal tonic and positive vibrations. These truffles contain no preservatives or any unnatural additives and are absolutely dairy free and vegan certified.

The inspiration for Chocoveda is influenced by the principles of the ancient Indian healing system, Ayurveda.

Each of Chocoveda’s core ingredients has amultitude of health benefits. A few are:

  • Anti-depressant
  • Alleviates insomnia
  • Promotes healthy a complexion
  • Increases energy
  • Enhances fertility
  • Promotes longevity

In essence, Ayurveda seeks to empower the individual to know oneself so that a balanced state of living can be achieved.

Our natural state is one of health, happiness and other inner senses of peace. Chocoveda aspires to bring you to your natural state through these divinely delicious herbal chocolate truffles.

Click on one of the Chakra truffles to purchase…

Evelyn Vincent Evelyn Vincent

Native Plant Landscaper, Gardener, Labyrinth Design, Feng Shui Practitioner,  Aromatherapy / Essential Oils, Big Fan of Nature and Living Simply.

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."
~ R. Buckminster Fuller

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THE original Woodstock Buddha created by Oliver Kita inspired from the Cat Steven’s 70′s record album. Buddha would want you to bite the head off so he could laugh from inside your belly.

The Tao of Cacao

Oliver Kita Chocolates, acts locally, carefully choosing what they do in business. They seek out organic and sustainably grown cacao, choose organic fruits and flavors, and work with local talents and farmers whenever possible to reduce their carbon footprint, following environmental daily operations guidelines.

Free of harmful chemicals, Oliver Kita Chocolates ‘Green’ collection represents delicious products that promote biodiversity, and are organic and Fair Trade/Direct Trade.

All of Oliver Kita Chocolates ingredients are organic, no artificial ingredients or artificial colors, no preservatives, and no GMO (Genetically Modified).

Organic chocolate is also known in the industry for its magnificent taste, silky texture and fine finish.

Truly Magical

  • Fair Traded/Direct Trade chocolates mean fairer prices for farmers, gender equality, diversification to promote economic health and NO CHILD SLAVERY.
  • Money from the sale of cocoa beans goes directly to the farmers bypassing corporate middle-men and women.
  • Farmers who are paid and treated fairly are proud of their work, harvesting gourmet cocoa.

To purchase the Organic Vegan Woodstock Solid Chocolate Buddha;

Click on the Buddha’s tummy!

Evelyn Vincent Evelyn Vincent

Native Plant Landscaper, Gardener, Labyrinth Design, Feng Shui Practitioner,  Aromatherapy / Essential Oils, Big Fan of Nature and Living Simply.

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."
~ R. Buckminster Fuller

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Sterling Sliver Locket with White Topaz stonesThis beautiful aroma therapy locket is sterling silver with your choice of Rhodium or 18K Gold tarnish-proof plating. Aglow with 25 handset stones in a starburst pattern, this special locket comes on a double-faced extra long tie ribbon in a flattering blush color.

The Royal Radiance Locket, in White Topaz (shown) is sure to make it your time to shine!

Choice of Rhodium or 18 K gold tarnish- proof plating. Clip bale for easy attachment to chains. NEW magnetic closure and custom wicks.

Aromatic vapors, from your essential oil, gently diffuse though the fine wreath of leaves on the sides of this locket.

Just place a fresh wick inside, add a few drops of your chosen essential oil or fragrance and breathe.

This locket measures 1” X 3/8” and includes five 100% wool fiber wicks, and an embroidered pouch and gift box.

This item is special order so order early and allow 4 weeks for delivery.

Designed by jewelry-maker Cathy Gins, founder of Aromawear – Aromatherapy Jewelry  provides the life enhancing benefits of aromatherapy wherever and whenever you need it. Elegant jewelry and accessories contain and diffuse your choice of therapeutic essential oils. Just place a few drops of aromatherapy oil on the disposable wick inside will support your body, mind and spirit.

Evelyn Vincent Evelyn Vincent

Native Plant Landscaper, Gardener, Labyrinth Design, Feng Shui Practitioner,  Aromatherapy / Essential Oils, Big Fan of Nature and Living Simply.

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."
~ R. Buckminster Fuller

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