Boxwalla Food Subscription Box Review-June 2016

Disclosure: This box was sent to me for free for my openly hubristic opinion. 2 points if you know what hubristic means. I will be honest, I didn’t until recently. I learned the meaning from the show The League. I do however now try to use it frequently. 

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This is a review of their food box. You can watch my June review of their beauty box here.

Here is the box deal-io:
Ships: Bi-Monthly with free US shipping
Categories: Books, Beauty, Food and Film (These are separate boxes)
Cost: $49.95 per box

The theme for the June food box was Wandering Woman. Take a look at their info card included with the box:

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One of my great aunt’s loved to talk about her travels to Italy and she would always make sure to mention that she started at the bottom of the boot and ate her way to the top. I thought her traveling priorities were spot on as food is such a huge part of experiencing a place and culture. These tastes and smells of far away lands can sometimes create much more vivid memories than walking through a museum for hours.

Eat my way around the world? Yes, please! Grab your passport and let’s go!

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McCrea’s Caramels

First stop on our tour, is a warm up to the diversity of flavors in this McCrea’s Flavor Family as it contains 9 different caramel flavors combinations. Here they are: Dark Roasted Mocha, Ginger Fusion, Rosemary Truffle Sea Salt, Highland Scotch, Black Lava Sea Salt, Tapped Maple, Cape Cod Sea Salt, Classic Vanilla, Deep Chocolate.  Ok so I really want you to go to their website and read their story. Seriously, they would fit right in here at Subscriptionista. They are hilarious passionate people who love caramel and are committed to making the best darn caramel this world has ever seen. And after devouring the entire container, except the one piece I gave my husband, I can say that they have succeeded. First off, it doesn’t stick to your teeth. Second, it not overly sweet as it maintains the perfect butter/sugar ratio. Thirdly, in 9 flavor combinations, I did not find one piece I didn’t like. I mean, they mixed in rosemary and truffles and I still thought it was delicious. I am not gonna lie, hands down the best flavor was the Highland Scotch mixture.

You had me at caramel. . . 

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Would you have liked to see a picture with lots of caramels? Sorry, this was all that was left at photo time and it took a lot of restraint not to eat these two as well (and yes, they got devoured the minute I snapped the pic).

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Auria’s Lime Leaf Sambal

Next, without ever having to stand in a security check line at the airport, we travel to Malaysia! This is a condiment unique to Malaysia. The first ingredient is green chiles! So yep, you know it is good. It reminds me of the Central American condiment Lizano Salsa because the flavor profile is diverse so it will taste pretty good on anything. Also with the flavor of green chiles and limes, it brings a saltiness to food that can be a savior to anything bland. So you botched the chicken dish for a dinner party? Sambal to the rescue!!  Auria the creator recommends it on Avocado Toast. We opened it on a night that we got pulled pork burritos and slathered it all over the beans and rice and then a little sour cream got mixed in there and hmmmmm it was sooo yummy.

It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s Sambal to the rescue. Seriously, if your cooking skills are questionable, invest in this stuff and never fear a potluck again!

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Tomato Achaar by Brooklyn Delhi

All aboard for India! This is an Indian Relish made in the exotic locals of NYC. When you open the jar it has oil pooled at the top and already you can smell the spice.This has all the makings of yum including tomatoes, garlic, red chili powder, tamarind, turmeric and black mustard seeds. I enlisted my husband to sample this stuff. He is an expert on spicy things (including me). I spooned some on his hard boiled eggs before he left for work and when he got home he immediately grabbed it and some chips and fled to the corner in the kitchen. It is times like this, as he devours subscription box spicy goodness, that keep his comments on my subscription box activities at bay. As I was typing this, he said, “Make sure you give that stuff a good review because it is really good”.

My husband endorses this product wholeheartedly. He likes his relish and his woman spicy! 

 

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Primo Preserves Berry Pasilla Preserves: 

Next stop: Mexico! I purposely tucked this baby in the middle because I didn’t want to come right out and say that this is my favorite item. It combines the flavors of pasilla chile and habanero chile with raspberries and blackberries making it the best friend for goat cheese. The taste is sweetness with a touch of spice. If you have never heard of the pasilla chile it is one of the chiles used in Mexican mole. The story of Primo is pretty cute. The founder Victor Papazian, is just a boy who loved to tinker with spices and flavor combinations. These preserves are made in Colorado and most of their fruit comes from their family farm.

They say sharing is caring but um does it count if I am just sharing this with my log of goat cheese and my tummy?

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TreeHouse Chocolate Co Cherrywood Drinking Chocolate 

The last stop on our wandering tour is Peru! Crafted from organic cacao in Peru, it is then mixed cherrywood sea salt from Jacobsen’s Salt. Drinking chocolate? Yes! They recommend mixing with water or milk. I chose milk as I had plans to make it into a mocha as how could I miss an opportunity to combine my great loves, coffee and chocolate.  This stuff is savory and rich. I liked that it was not overtly sweet and the rich flavor of earthy chocolate shown through.

The only thing better than drinking chocolate would be bathing chocolate. . .

Survey Says:

This was such a delight. As someone who does not see any exotic travel in my future anytime soon, I loved tasting flavors from exotic locales I can only dream about. I also appreciate that Boxwalla’s food boxes are immediately accessible. I personally didn’t need to go out to purchase anything extra to enjoy it as I always have milk, chips, and goat cheese on hand. I liked that even though these were tastes of the world that they were all made right here in the good ol USA. On this fourth of July weekend, I can’t think of anything better than celebrating America’s diversity!

 

 

  5 comments for “Boxwalla Food Subscription Box Review-June 2016

  1. Ake
    July 3, 2016 at 6:54 am

    Oh, cheers! My father’s birthday is coming up and I’ve been stuck on what to get him. The Primo preserves are exactly the kind of thing he likes but would never discover on his own. Thanks!

    • July 3, 2016 at 1:48 pm

      Yay! they have a ton of flavors that all sound yummy. Dads are always the hardest to shop for!

  2. CeciliaA
    July 3, 2016 at 10:48 am

    So many good looking noms! The more reviews of the Boxwalla boxes I see the more tempted I am to get them. The only one of theirs that isn’t for me is the film category. I may be a highly educated thirty-something professional woman but I like explosions and fast cars in my movies (bonus points if they’re set in space and have no basis in reality what-so-ever).

    I 100% agree that sambal can fix almost any meal and now want to put it on avocado toast.

    • July 3, 2016 at 1:53 pm

      Yes to the space movies. Hubs can get me to watch any movie set in space. Have you seen deadpool? I want to try it on Avocado toast but I want to save it for my burritos! I think you need to try out one of their boxes. As far as subs go, they are the only box I know without a doubt I will like what they send. The curator is our age (35-ish) and she just puts her heart in these boxes.

  3. July 3, 2016 at 2:31 pm

    Funny/Nommy review 😀

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