As you may know, I recently took part in (AND WON!) the #OGBChallenge. During the Challenge, I shared a couple of shots during the “prep” phase of the recipes, including this bowl filled with beautiful spices:

spice bowl

I just love the smell of fresh spices, especially when they come together properly in a recipe! Today I wanted to share an online source that I recently discovered for some of the amazing spices I used to create two of my BBQ Challenge recipes (the Pulled Pork Pitas and the Masala Chicken Drumsticks) – the Spice Sanctuary.

Founded by Trusha Patel and based in Canmore, Alberta, Spice Sanctuary is a 100% Canadian owned company, “born from a passion for good food and healthy cooking and eating using the finest of ingredients…our purpose is to offer quality grade, full-flavour organic spices and spice blends and rubs across Canada. Delivered directly from premium growing regions around the world using the shortest possible supply chain, our recently harvested, top grade, small batch spices are packaged only the one time, in Canada.”

Spice Sanctuary spices

Several months ago, Trusha was kind enough to send me a few of her spices to try out (she personally picked out spices she thought I’d enjoy after we emailed back and forth about my own preferences, any food allergies, etc). I used all three of the spices that she sent (Tellicheery Black Pepper, Ground Nutmeg and Ground Red Chili) in my winning Masala Chicken Drumsticks recipe.

Packaged in resealable pouches, the spices smell intensely fresh and are nicely labeled in front with the spice name, plus where it falls on the ‘hotness’ scale – mild, sweet, pungent or hot. Each package comes with information on each spice, include the fact that all three were non-irradiated and non-fumigated.

Black Peppercorns are a staple in our kitchen and I loved the smell and taste of both the nutmeg and the chili were amazing (a little goes a long way!). But enough about how much I enjoyed the spices – how would YOU use these?

~ THE GIVEAWAY ~

Trusha sent me a duplicate package of the spices I received so that I could share it with one lucky reader! The winner of this giveaway will receive a 50g package each of Tellicherry Black Pepper (hot), Red Chili Ground (hot) and Nutmeg Groung (sweet), plus a Spice Sanctuary Pairing Chart.

Spice Sanctuary spices

To enter:

  • (Mandatory) Leave a comment telling me what your favourite spice is and what you love to cook with that spice (don’t forget to leave me a way to contact you – email, Twitter handle, etc – if you win!) (1 entry)
  • (Bonus entry!) Follow me (@kitchenfrolic) on Twitter and tweet the following (you can do this once per day – 1 entry per tweet): Get spicy with @kitchenfrolic & @SpiceSanctuary – enter to win a spice prize pack! http://wp.me/p4kwK2-EM
  • (Bonus entry!) Follow me (kitchenfrolic) on Instagram (1 entry – leave a comment here with your Instagram handle)

Contest starts: Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Contest ends: 11:59 pm EST on Tuesday, August 26, 2014.
Open to: I’ll be mailing the spices to you via Canada Post, so this giveaway is open worldwide!
Prize value: approximately $25

Disclosure: kitchen frolic received product samples courtesy of Spice Sanctuary in order to review the product. In addition, kitchen frolic received this prize package courtesy of Spice Sanctuary in order to hold this giveaway. All opinions we shared in this post are sincere and belong to us alone. Please read our disclosure policy for more information.