Product Review: E is for Easy Epicure!

Don't all moms struggle with dinnertime? We've got no time, kids attached to our legs and our dinners, well sometimes they lack a little flavour and pizazz? Maybe more often then sometimes?

My spice cupboard was a little bare, mostly because I wasn't sure what to buy outside of the basics and when I'm racing through the supermarket the spice aisle is not a mandatory go-to section when kids are melting down.

Enter in Epicure Selections and a lovely consultant named Sheri who caters to us busy moms and even sends us weekly "Meals in Minutes" meal plans (!!) to help the dinner hour become less stressful and more delicious. Doesn't that sound good?

I wasn't too familiar with Epicure (it's a Canadian company) and then I looked at the inspiring catalogue and it's full of spices yes, but that doesn't describe it enough. All the flavour that seems to be missing from my ordinary cooking but that is in restaurant food -- I found it in these Epicure bottles. Saying "spice" isn't enough - the products livened up my regular cooking in a meaningful way.

I started playing with the different ingredients - making the Lemon Dilly Dip like the recipe said for veggies & crackers but then tossing it into a tuna sandwich and making it sensational. Throwing the Italian seasoning into much more than pasta sauce and the Mulling Spices with cider made my house smell heavenly and tasted darn good too! Don't even get me started on the quantities of their Red Pepper Jelly I am enjoying --on just about everything!

I have a feeling Christmas stockings in my family (well, the adults anyways!) will have jars of Epicure in each toe! And maybe they won't mind sharing....