FOODIE PEN PALS NR 3 ALL THE WAY FROM SUNNY GREECE

This time my Foodie Pen pal parcel came all the way from sunny Greece :).

Look at those amazing food products from Greece. 

Olives from south Greece - Kalamata

Chamomile tea 

Sesam snack

My favorite - Fig confiture with seeds. Yum Yum Yum

And  something I have never ever tasted - Gum Mastiha. 

It is sap from lentisk trees and was the original chewing gum.

2. FOODIE PEN PALS MAIL - GREETINGS FROM REBECCA IN BARNSLEY

My second Foodie Pen Pal package came all the way from England, Barnsley( I had to actually check it out on the Google maps).

This is what Rebecca sent to me:

Chai Tea - I am big tea lover and always happy to receive some more for my collection. It is also perfect with this rainy and cold weather we are having here in Switzerland.

Little gingerbread man - sooooo cute.

Scotish shortbread - love this. So british and yum. Tried to do my own shortbread last weekend. Turned out pretty good but it was a scotish recipe and put way too much whisky in the dough :D. 

And last - english mustard. Wooo hooo. Have not tried it yet but will be perfect for the soon coming grilling season.

Thank you again Rebecca.

1ST. FOODIE PEN PALS MAIL : FOOD GREETINGS FROM GABIJA IN LITHUANIA

I am part of the european Foodie Penpals club. It is an awesome idea, really. It is a way for food bloggers to get to know each other via a lovely parcel in the mail every month.

This was my first time and I received a lovely food package from a young lithuanian girl called Gabija.

So exciting.

She sent me a package with traditional lithuanian products. 

The most interesting part of the package was a hard yummy cake called Sakotis. I have it on the picture above. Sakotis means branched tree.

 I have been to Lithuania but never tried this one. It is a lithuanian-polish cake that came popular during Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth. It is popular celebration food. I was curious to do it myself but reading the recipes on internet I realized that you need to have special equipment and skills in order to bake it.

She also sent me 2 different chocolate bars, Vilnius and Karuna candies, herbal tea and honey.

Thank you again, Gabija.
You can check out her website here: http://myeternityisnow.wordpress.com/

This time I sent a package to Katy on Isle of Wight. You can read about it and check out her page here: http://birdwrites.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/foodie-penpals-2/
She has some really great photos on her website.