Music and Cats

A few weeks ago, I discovered that Stephanie at Dispensing Happiness was resurrecting Blogging by Mail, the bloggers’ food exchange started by Nic of Baking Sheet. So what that I didn’t have a kitchen; I wanted to play. So I signed up, and got the name of the blogger to whom I’d be sending treats, and planned what to send her, and where to bake… (more on that later)…

In the midst of my thinking about the contents of the package I was sending out, a package arrived at my front door from Pam of Pam’s Pantry. Silly me! I didn’t photograph the package, though that appears to be part and parcel (as it were) for these posts. Nor did I manage to photograph some of the contents… specifically the yummy peanut butter brownies (of which Pam has a nice photo) and the spicy Cajun plantain chips. (The package arrived on a Saturday afternoon, and I hadn’t eaten lunch, and those darn chips just kept calling my name in their Caribbean-meets-Bayou accent.)

I did, however, manage to take pictures of the crunchy, cinnamon-and- clove-scented cappuccino-hazelnut biscotti, chewy savory-sweet sesame candies, and jar of crabapple jelly (from her local farmers’ market!) that Pam also included in my package. That jelly will be sampled as soon as we make our way through the other open preserves in our fridge.

The enclosed card describing my treats had on its cover a beautiful photo that Pam took of a waterfall in eastern Tennessee where she hiked last year. Sadly, my photo of Pam’s pic didn’t begin to do it justice. And, in reading my blog, Pam discovered some interesting serendipity: we both went to architecture school, and we’re both in the middle of big, dusty home remodeling projects! It is indeed a small world.

Thank you, Pam, for a lovely BBM package. And thank you, Stephanie, for doing all the work. When can I sign up for the next one?

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