“Seasonings Greetings ” from Simply Organic!

All our spices, extracts, gravies and baking mixes are on sale this month! We are delighted to help spice up all your holiday recipe traditions! Download coupons prior to your shopping trip to save even more this season!

On Sale Now
Spice Bottles & Grinders – 15% off
Mulling Spice – 15% off
Extracts – 15% off
Gravies – 15% off
Pepper Tin – 15% off
Baking Mixes – 15% off

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What's New? — Holiday Website

This holiday season Simply Organic is teaming up with its sister company, Frontier Natural Products, to offer a bounty of holiday recipes, cooking tips, coupons and product specials on a special holiday website. Check it out.

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Holiday Products

Let’s talk turkey! Simply Organic Turkey Brine and Family-Size Turkey Gravy mix ensure all your turkey needs are covered this holiday. Brining is a cooking technique that seals in flavor and moisture resulting in a succulent bird. Our gravy mix is a quick and convenient way to make gravy. Our family size packet serves 12 with less fuss and muss.

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Seasoning Spotlight — Cinnamon

Last month Rhonda S. from IL suggested we introduce a feature highlighting a specific seasoning – uses, facts, complimentary spices and the like. Great idea! We’ll start with Cinnamon, given its many holiday uses.

Background
Cinnamon comes from the bark of an evergreen tree. Simply Organic cinnamon is sourced from Vietnam and has a minimum oil content of 4%. The higher the oil content, the more flavor the spice impacts. Four percent oil is well above the norm for most brands sold – thus the excellent flavor!

Uses
Cinnamon is the world's most popular baking spice. You'll recognize its familiar taste and aroma in cakes, breads, cookies, pies, dumplings, puddings, pastries and ice cream. It's common in savory dishes, too — soups, chutneys, catsup, pickles, squash, vinegars and meat glazes — and hot drinks such as cider, coffee, tea and cocoa. Cinnamon complements fruits like apricots, cherries, apples, blueberries and oranges. Vegetables, too — especially carrots, spinach and onions — are enhanced by cinnamon's pungent sweetness.

History
The history of cinnamon is laced with legend, exotic trade routes and struggles for monopoly. The ancient Chinese believed that the cassia tree — which flourished in the Garden of Paradise on the Yellow River — was the "Tree of Life." Eating its fruit, they said, led to immortality. Ancient Egyptians used cinnamon for medicinal purposes and embalming, and the ancient Romans enjoyed it in wines and as a fragrance, beauty-salve and aphrodisiac. In 1760, all of Holland was scented when Amsterdam's cinnamon supplies were burned in an effort to keep prices up. At the same time, the penalty for the illegal sale of a single stick of cinnamon during Dutch control was death! Yikes.

Complementary Spices
Cinnamon blends well with cloves, nutmeg, cardamom, ginger, allspice, and black pepper. It can be found in blends such as Pumpkin Pie and Apple Pie Spice, Mulling Spice, Five Powder blend and some curries.

Next month we'll learn about vanilla – another key ingredient used in holiday cooking and baking.

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Recipe of the Month - Savory Sweet Potatoes

Tradition improved! Our Savory Sweet Potato recipe helps a time-honored recipe evolve organically with fresh flavors from Simply Organic.

Ingredients
2 lbs sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into wedges
1 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp maple syrup
2 tbsp butter
1 tbsp lemon juice
1/2 tsp Simply Organic cinnamon
1/4 tsp sea salt
1 tbsp Simply Organic parsley

Directions
Toss sweet potatoes with olive oil and spread in roasting pan. Roast until just tender, about 40 minutes, turning once with a spatula after 20 minutes. Melt together remaining ingredients and pour over potatoes in pan. Return to oven for an additional 5 to 10 minutes, until nicely glazed. Serve immediately.

Nutrition Facts
As prepared, each serving contains 180 calories, 4g total fat, 10mg cholesterol, 220mg sodium, 35g total carbohydrate and 3g protein.