The Seafood Brand you Have to Know includes All of Your Grilling Favorites

Mahi Mahi in a Red Wine Sauce

Fresh seafood is one of life’s pleasures, and flash frozen seafood delivered quickly to your doorstep can often be almost as good. One brand that we love is Vital Choice Wild Seafood.

Their premium sustainably-caught seafood tastes so fresh and delicious that it is hard to believe it wasn’t just caught. Not only does it taste fresh, it also looks and smells fresh. As many seafood lovers know, fish that smells fishy is often not in good condition. As far as looks, Vital Choice’s Mahi Mahi and salmon both look and feel firm — neither soggy and gray nor hard and dry — and have enticing colors that are a bit surreal.

Vital Choice GrillBox

Vital Choice has a combo package called the Limited Edition GrillBox. The GrillBox includes seasonal favorites and grilling planks — everything a seafood grill master would want — including:

  • Wild Alaskan Sockeye Salmon, boneless, skin-on
  • Sockeye Salmon Burgers, four 5-oz patties, gluten free
  • Wild Mahi Mahi, skinless, boneless
  • Wild Artisan Blue Shrimp from the Gulf of California
  • Alder Grilling planks

Salmon Fillet

The GrillBox portion sizes are perfect for long or short term storage and use. It’s not practical to want to make a serving for 1-2 people and have to thaw out an entire fish and just use half. The Vital Choice GrillBox sizes are therefore a good fit for various meals, plus don’t dominate available freezer shelf space. Fortunately, the GrillBox does come with several pieces from which to choose when it’s time for your next recipe.

Jerk Salmon and corn with cheese

Interestingly, among our reviewers the fan favorite was the Wild Mahi Mahi (dolphinfish), while the ruby red Wild Sockeye Salmon was a very close second. Once you start cooking with the Mahi Mahi, it’s clear that the sweeter but more neutrally flavored fish is much more versatile than the salmon, whose flavor is more robust and recognizable. The Mahi Mahi can be used in pasta, soups, bouillabaisse, or even in fish and chips and grilled or fried fish sandwiches. We tried the fishery raised Wild Sockeye Salmon with various marinades, jerks, and rubs, and were never disappointed.

Mahi Mahi with a batter crust

The one area for improvement with the GrillBox is possibly the addition of a larger package size of shrimp. The single packet included is great for 1-2 diners but not extendable to 3 or 4.

⇒ FIND THE GRILLBOX HERE

About Vital Choice:

Known for high quality, sustainable seafood delivered straight to your door, Vital Choice has thoughtfully curated our version of an ultimate grilling sampler with their launch of the Limited Edition GrillBox.

Vital Choice believes that healthy, delicious food shouldn’t harm the planet. Initially focused on wild Alaskan salmon, they’ve since expanded to provide customers with sustainable seafood from around the world. Today, Vital Choice is the trusted source for fast home delivery of the world’s finest wild Alaskan seafood, whole-food supplements, and organic fare. Vital Choice foods are the purest available, always sustainably harvested from healthy, well-managed wild fisheries and organic farms.

www.vitalchoice.com

Your Next Porsche will be this Awesome Set of Luxury Chefs Knives

A great chef needs great tools, and the same is true for home chefs as well. If you are the kind of person who likes the finer things in life, plus a very sharp edge, then take a look at these Porsche design knives.

Inspired by F.A. Porsche, the genius behind the iconic automobiles as well as the Porsche Design line of products, these Chroma Type 301 knives are fantastic for both professionals and serious home cooks. The razor sharp Japanese Chroma Type 301 comprises the entirety of the blade, while the handles are made of an entirely different material (18/10 stainless steel) to promote durability and ease of use. A pearl button is raised on both sides of the handle to the note the demarcation line between the two area, as well as to give tactile notice for where to hold the knife.

The tactile aspects of the knife rival the visual ones. Holding it in your hand is a very pleasant experience, not just because of its shape, but also because of the various metals used.

The blade requires a special Porsche sharpener so as to not dull or damage the edge. (pictured here is the Type 301 Design by F.A. Porsche 2 Knives Set P2 + P9, 7-inch Santoku + Paring Knife). In our experience, you are going to want to get the extra gear, because this knife is SHARP! Like, don’t run it across your finger, use a piece of paper instead.

On many items in the Porsche Knife product line the handle is created with a unique wedge shape, which promotes firmer grips, greater balance, as well as the ability to display it in a way that generates envy and lust in everyone who sees it.

No, you should not have a knife just because people think it looks good. But if it works incredibly well, is super sharp, AND it looks good, then that’s a win-win-win situation.

Find it here on Amazon

 

Montegrappa releases tasty new Cognac Hors d’Age Luxury Writing Pen

COGNAC HORS D’AGE  Limited Edition | Edizioni

Montegrappa has introduced its new luxury writing pen, the Cognac Hors D’age, based on the classic wood of a cognac barrel.

Using natural Limousin oak, the Montegrappa Cognac Hors d’Age has been carved to mimic the curvature and stave construction of the cognac barrel, with sterling silver trims mimicking its hoops. Pyrogravure detailing lends cellar character to the pen’s barrel and cap: both have been engineered to align perfectly.

In keeping with the traditions of the oldest, rarest cognacs, this new Edizioni release is destined to be owned by very few. Only fifty examples have been produced: each is a cartridge/converter fountain pen with an 18K white gold filigree nib – available in grades of Extra-Fine, Fine, Medium and Broad. A luxurious wooden presentation case is a place to store your rare acquisition and watch it age gracefully.

While the Montegrappa Cognac Hors d’Age’s all-oak body will have no discernible effect on the ink within, its natural grain is organic and responsive. It will develop a gentle patina over years of use.

Find at: www.MONTEGRAPPA.COM

Cat-Inspired Catstooth Clothing has Huge Betabrand Fanbase

Betabrand has the fun business model of crowdsourcing its designs by vote. Recently, a cool cat pattern won by a huge margin, and is a hot seller.

Betabrand, a San Francisco-based online clothing company, has received an incredible response to its feline-based designs. “We all know that cats basically power the Internet,” says founder and CEO Chris Lindland, “but damn …”

According to Lindland, not only have Betabrand’s new Catstooth Dress Pant Yoga Pants and matching blazer shattered crowdfunding records, the company cat (see below) has topped Reddit’s homepage, been posted by the likes of Ellen DeGeneris and Kirsten Bell, and is surely on track to surpass total Grumpy Cat and Lime Cat memes any day now.  Still, Lindland says, “we didn’t anticipate that this product would tap into a cat-news-hungry network of millions.”

One of the top sellers is this frisky edition of Dress Pant Yoga Pants.

After any product becomes a hit, Betabrand quickly polls its fanbase on related design ideas. So only a week after its Catstooth pants debuted, the company launched a Catstooth blazer.

As this print’s popularity grows, the company will continue to crowdsource new Catstooth prototypes, with concept scarves, skirts and shirts now queueing up in the pipeline. Says Lindland, “If companies are seeking a revenue catalyst during the quarantine, look no further than felines.”

Betabrand has open-sourced Mr. Fred for meme developers.

About Betabrand:

San Francisco-based Betabrand gives consumers a voice in design, inviting them directly into clothing’s creative process. From a product’s first sketch to the last pixel, Betabrand’s fans decide what’s next.

#catsuitnation

Put some Sparkle in your face coverings with Glitterati Masks

Putting some glam into the drab surgical masks that people are using, two Burning Man fans were inspired by the dusty playa and a splash of creativity while quarantining at home, determined to make lemonade out of lemons

Thus came the idea of Glitterati Masks.

Made from sequins, which are reversible in color, you can choose the shade you want to flaunt depending on your outfit, all while staying safe. Feel the comfort on the other side of the mask, which is lined with soft jersey t-shirt material, which will not slip off the face. The masks are fully padded, comfortable for a bike ride, walking, running, or other activities, all held together with neon elastic, which wrap around the ears.

Check them out on Etsy

6 Refreshing Low Cal Brands for Lemonade Fanatics

Citrus juice contains Vitamin C, which is good for your health and immune system. A great place to find it is in lemonade, but you might want a lighter, lower calorie, less sugar, option if you drink a lot of it.

Here are 6 reduced sugar/lower calorie drinks where you can have your lemonade and drink it too

  • Poppilu Antioxidant Lemonade, the original tart and tangy line of all-natural lemonades, contains 75% less sugar than leading lemonades and is packed with 150% daily value Vitamin C plus polyphenol antioxidants from aronia berries (which turn the lemonades pink).  Poppilu comes in three mouth-puckering flavors: Original, Blueberry Lavender and Passionfruit and has just 9g sugar and 45 calories in each 12 oz bottle.

 

  • Suja Lemon Love – Lemon Love™ is an organic offering with lemon, stevia and a little cayenne. It has 1g sugar and 10 calories in each 12 oz. bottle.

 

 

  • Simply Light – Coca-Cola’s light product is made of filtered water, lemon juice, sugar, stevia leaf extract and natural flavors.  It has 8g sugar and 40 calories in each 11.5 oz. bottle.

 

  • Esse Lemon Water – Made from just water, lemon juice and lemon oil, Esse provides the light essence of lemonade with natural ingredients and only 3 calories per 14oz bottle.

 

  • Dirty Lemon – A new kind of lemonade infused with functional ingredients such as charcoal, chromium, and retinol. Dirty Lemon contains no added sugar and has 15 calories in each 16 oz. bottle.

 

  • Minute Maid Light – Made with real lemons and ingredients include pure Filtered Water, Lemon Juice from Concentrate, Less than 2% of: Vitamin C, Natural Flavors, Citric Acid, Potassium Citrate, Glycerol Ester of Rosin, Modified Corn Starch, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Aspartame, Acesulfame Potassium and Phenylalanine.   It has 5 calories in each 12 oz. can.