Christine Sanders Blog

It might be early November, but here at CSC it is feeling like Christmas already. The site has been ‘Christmas-ified’ and oh, it looks so pretty and so…. Christmassy…
Stocks are coming in and your delicious delights are duely tasted and tested just to ensure the knee-buckling continues with gusto!
There has been a slight change to the range …… Lemongrass is no longer available. I know, it’s really sad news and it was such a yummy chocolate. However the good news is that the every popular and much loved Spiced Ginger Biscuit has stepped up the mark and now is a fully fledged member of the range. It won Great Taste Gold in 2009 and is a real and true knee-buckler! Wow!

How come we are in November already? The year has flown by so very quickly!
Here at CSC we are getting ready for that wonderful time of year where we can indulge without a trace of guilt, and shower our loved ones with delicious yummy treats. Not forgetting yourself of course!
Yes, Christmas is a-coming!
And if (unlike me) you are the organised type, you can place your order early, pop in a note to say when you’d like them posted, and sit back and relax….
Our first Christmas show is on 19th November Little Luxuries at the Queens Hall, Narberth.

It’s all getting busy at the Christine Sanders Chocolates right now!

New deliveries on their way and just had a very productive meeting with Ian from Outhaus.

Don’t forget – Little Luxuries Queen’s Hall this Saturday and then Cardigan Food Festival on Saturday 6th August.

Well it’s all happening in the little world of chocolate bubbling away here in the depths of Wales…
We’ve just had a new delivery of Champagne Truffle – I know, the very favourite of many.   To be honest, it isn’t usually one of my absolute favourites, but it has such a dedicated following and loved, no, adored by so many fans, it had to be in the range.   And the Champagne Truffle doesn’t usually make my knees sink to the floor following by moments of swooning and crooning…  But oh, this was different.  Oh yes, by gum it was yum!  Delicious, scrumptious and mmmm, mmM, MMM!!  Infact, one just wasn’t enough – I just had to munch through another and oh, just one more just to be sure…….
We’ve also just had a delivery of Rose Creme and Violet Creme, and for these two, Cathie from our Tasting Team steps up to the mark.  These are Cathie’s absolute favourites and Cathie, I have to tell you, is very demanding.  No if’s or but’s , they have to tickle her taste buds in just the right way to get past her, I can tell you.  No ‘perhaps’ or ‘maybe’s ‘ with Cathie. Unless they knock her off her feet and send her to heavenly places of ecstasy, Cathie won’t accept them.  Simple as that.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Lovers of Chocolate and wobbly knees, I can proudly announce that YES!,  the Rose Creme and the Violet Creme passed the testing with flying colours, they ARE knee-buckling,  and they were accepted!  Cathie for her part, is a very happy and contented girlie indeed.  Smiling and with a sparkle in her eyes, she is very satisfied and very happy. Thank you Cathie, you have, as always, dedicated yourself to the cause of demanding only the true knee-bucklers, and have done an absolutely sterling job!

We’ve just had a wonderful weekend at the West Wales Food  Festival held at the Botanical Gardens, Carmarthenshire.

There are so many wonderful aspects doing a 2 day show.
Yes, there are negatives…. working till the early hours the night before is not a moment of joy (!), followed by 2 full days being  stood on your feet….    but there are so many positives.  And as we all know, a little G and T on the Sunday evening can work wonders for the tired body!

What I really like about the shows, are the people.  As it’s my first year of trading, I’m the new kid on the block as far as exhibiting at Food Festivals and to be honest, I hadn’t ever thought about the atmosphere behind the scenes – but it’s lovely. What a fabulous and friendly bunch traders are!  And yes, we taste each others samples, and you don’t need me to tell you how scrumptious, amazing and utterly yummy, food is at these festies! Soo many heavenly delights!

And of course, it is always truly lovely to meet so many people.  I met people from all over the uk – some on holiday, some local.  And always, without exception, all really friendly and having a fabulous day going from one delicious deight after another.  It’s also just wonderful to introduce people to CSC..   Oh, yes, we hear the word Wow! quite a few times in these parts,  I can tell you! One man became such a massive Orange Marmalade fan he sent all his friends (and possibly some strangers too!)  to my stall to taste them for themselves.  And I’ve just had an email from someone who wants to buy some more to share with all his friends!  Now that’s what I call a Very Best Friend Indeed!
Yep, I guess that’s the fantastic thing about Food Festies – it is just a delightfully delicious to be in a place, where food and gastronomic delights abound with utter abandonment!

Hello to anyone I met, and a big thank you to everyone – the organisers, the traders and most important of all, to all the very wonderful, lovely lovers of chocolate!

Well those of you that have read previous blogs before, know that I probably don’t mean a handsome young man or even ugly old man stood on my doorstep!
No, what I was really interested in was what he was holding in his hands!!
It was, as some may have guessed, a delicious and scrumptious delivery of the most yummiest of chocolates.
As usual, I grabbed them off Mr Delivery Man and rushed upstairs into The Chocolate Room.
Straight into quality control with every taste bud on full alert, ready and waiting.  Ooohhhh, we were impressed! Oooohhhh they hit the mark.
Moments of utter delight and magic abounded.
Yes, Yes, Yes!  Serious knee-bucklers await all!