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Poke Bowls + Good as Gold Giveaway

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Poke Bowls + Melissa’s Produce Giveaway

By Erin

It’s Labor Day, and it’s like 10 million degrees outside! Normally I’d be all about being outside and grilling up something delicious. I originally had wanted to make something else for this post out on the grill. But that was before I knew it was going to be an oven outside and the thought of going out in the backyard and melting in this miserable heat isn’t at the top of my list of things to do. I just wanted something easy, cool, refreshing, and delicious to enjoy on this day. When my friend told me her family had just caught some Bonito out near Catalina and if I’d like some, I knew then exactly what I wanted to make for this heat wave. POKE! The bonito mixed with some rice, tropical fruit and other veggies from Melissa’s Produce would make for some amazing poke bowls!

Poke Bowls and Melissa's Produce Giveaway

Poke bowls are super easy to make and are very customizable to each individual persons tastes. It can be inventive. You can use different fish and lots of fruit and vegetables or you can also use shrimp or other seafood instead. Just make it colorful!! You eat with your eyes first! 😉

Ingredients

  • Sushi grade bonito, tuna, salmon or other fresh fish. Cut up into cubes. If you want to make a vegetarian or vegan version then you could use some tofu.
  • 3 Tablespoons soy sauce
  • 1 Tablespoon sesame oil
  • 2 Tablespoons sweet chili sauce
  • Jasmine Rice
  • Avocado
  • Mango
  • Pineapple
  • Cucumber
  • Green onions
  • Purple onions
  • Jalapeno
  • Melissa’s Produce Rainbow Peppercorn–Spice Grinder

Other ingredients you could use: grated ginger, sesame seeds, sriracha sauce. You can add pretty much any other fruits, veggies, or sauces that you think will add to the flavor of the bowl that you like.

In a separate bowl, take your fish that you have cut into cubes and mix it with the soy sauce, sesame oil and sweet chili sauce. Then get your bowls and serve the amount of rice you want into each persons bowl. Then add your poke, fruits and veggies into the bowl. Season to taste with the pepper and other sauces you like and enjoy!

Poke Bowls

To celebrate Labor Day I am giving away a ‘Good as Gold’ Basket from Melissa’s Produce! You can use a the mangos and pineapples from it to create your own poke bowls and enjoy these last days of summer and first days of fall! I cannot wait to make some fall recipes with the apples and pears.

Enjoy the gift of specialty fruit and premium snacking! Send this exciting basket to friends, family or just as a gift to yourself to enjoy! Items it includes: Baby Pineapples (2) or 1 large pineapple, Mango (1), Ambrosia Apples (2), Butterscotch Pears (2), Dried Mango (2 packages, 3 oz. each), Dried Blueberries (2 packages, 3 oz. each), Clean Snax (2 packages, 2 oz. each), and Yogurt-Covered Almonds (6 oz.) for a unique taste of the stadium and the tropics.

Enter for a chance to win your own Good as Gold basket from Melissa’s Produce. Must be +18 years old to enter and live in the 48 continental United States. Ends September 18th at 12AM PST. See sweepstakes tab on blog for more info about giveaways. Good-luck!

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Grilling with Melissa’s Produce for Father’s Day + Giveaway!

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Grilling for Father’s Day!

By Erin

 Father’s Day is just around the corner and it’s time to start grilling! Get grilling with Melissa’s Produce. There’s nothing like a backyard barbeque for those warm summer months. Why not add some refreshing Melissa’s produce to your plate this Father’s Day? 

Melissa’s Produce has the perfect gifts to give to dads too! Like this Grilling Basket! It comes in a beautiful woven basket holding a bountiful array of freshly picked vegetables, making it easy to incorporate more produce to your outdoor barbeque.

Grilling Basket for Father's Day!

Also included is a gourmet grill-wok topper to prevent your veggies from falling into the fire. I’ve used this so many times already and it is a total game-changer! It is a MUST-HAVE for BBQing all those veggies!!

Based on availability, you will receive Red or Yellow Bell Peppers, sweet onion (Maui, Perfect Sweet, or Cipolline), Plantain, Portobello Mushroom, Chayote Squash, Asian Eggplant, Fennel, Elephant Garlic, Anaheim Peppers, Baby Dutch Yellow Potatoes, and our Garlic and Herbs Grinder. A set of four circle kabobs (which fit most plates) are also included to complete this popular gift!

Grilling Basket Melissa's Produce

Melissa’s Grilling Basket contains everything you need to make grilling veggies almost effortless.

This item is perishable and must ship at least 2nd day.

Grilling Ideas

Here are a few ideas on some yummy things to grill! From veggies, to fruit, you can basically grill anything you can think of!

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Melissa’s Produce: For My Love Basket Valentine’s Giveaway!

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Melissa’s Produce Valentine’s Day Giveaway!

By Erin

Are you ready for Valentine’s Day? Melissa’s Produce has some perfect gift baskets for Valentine’s day, like this “For My Love” Basket ($96.79).

Melissa's Produce For My Love Wine Basket Wine Fruit

I am partnering with Melissa’s Produce to giveaway one of these special baskets to one of our readers to show our love and appreciation for all of you! Will you be our Valentine? 😉 

Melissa's Produce Fruit & Wine Gift Basket Giveaway
Giving your loved one a beautifully wrapped basketful of Melissa’s premium Butterscotch Pears combined with decadent Chocolate Toffee Almonds and Chocolate Bridge Mix, and finally a bottle of sparkling 2013 Schramsberg Blanc de Blanc, you will surely win their heart.

Schramsberg Blanc de Blanc was the first wine Schramsberg produced in 1965 and was America’s first commercially produced Chardonnay-based brut sparkling wine. It gained international recognition in 1972 when then President Nixon served the wine at the historic “Toast to Peace” in Beijing, China.

The Schramsberg style of Blanc de Blancs is dry and crisp. Small lots of malolactic- and barrel-fermented wines are added for complexity. With its vibrant, fruitful and crisp nature, this sparkling wine will maintain its freshness, structure and refined finish for many years, even decades following its initial release.

“The 2013 Blanc de Blancs has bright and fresh aromas of grapefruit, mango, apricot, lemon, and white peach. The fruitful fragrance intermingles with hints of fresh bread, vanilla cream pie, and rose petals. Freshly sliced Gravenstein apples, zesty citrus, and bright pineapple flavors carry vibrant length on the palate.” – Winemakers Keith Hock and Hugh Davies.

Deliciously paired with Melissa’s premium Butterscotch Pears and combined with decadent Chocolate Toffee Almonds and a Chocolate Bridge Mix, you can’t go wrong with this winning combo for you and your Valentine to share!

Note: How to enter for a chance to win!
 Open to US Residents in the 48 contiguous states. +21 years of age and older where wine can be shipped as the signature of an adult 21 years of age or older is required at delivery. No purchase necessary. Must enter for a chance to win. Ends 2/12 at 12AM PST. For all contest rules please see the Sweepstakes tab on my blog. Good-Luck everyone!! Enter below through the Rafflecopter.

For some extra entries be sure to check us out on instagram too and mark that you did that in the rafflecopter as well. 😉

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The following prohibit the shipment of any citrus into their state: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, and Hawaii

Melissa's Produce Valentine's Day

Good-Luck and Happy Valentine’s Day!!