Let’s revisit Zoitsa Homely Produce’s- Pumpkin Spice Mix.
Our Pumpkin Spice Mix was the third thing I ever made and had originally put on our website back in November 2022. Don’t know about you but bloody hell that feels like a lifetime ago. Our Pumpkin Spice Mix was a huge seller, but I recall pulling it off our website as there was a massive delay in getting cardamom in.
Today was what I call a “Zoitsa” day where I spent hours locked up in my office going through everything Zoitsa. From bookwork, to GST, to recipes. Our Pumpkin Spice Mix popped up and I thought why not? Why not bring this beautiful mix back!
The background to this spice mix was back in November 2022 when I had contacted the darn Covid I was going through old photos (what does one do when they are confined in solitary confinement?&^!&?) and there was a photo of me and The Hubster sitting in a coffee shop in Japan and there I was sipping a Pumpkin Spiced Latte.
Even now when I look back at that photo, I remember the smell and the flavour racing through my brain and taste buds. I recall coming back home to Melbourne and making up my own version of Pumpkin Spice Mix. I recollect that a lot of time when into our version of Pumpkin Spice Mix as I wanted to replicate that exact same flavour from my latte in Japan.
I decided to go into my kitchen and play around again with the original recipe (honestly …my bum got numb from sitting for too long), but this time I decided to add a touch of coconut sugar into the recipe so I could make a comparison. Well, Good Golly Miss Molly! This new version is indisputably soooo much better.
Pumpkin Spice Mix is seriously a very versatile mix than can be used not only in lattes but added into almond milk, oat milk, pumpkin pie, cookies, muffins, bread, ice cream, custard, yoghurt, soup…yes soup! as well as in your pancake or waffle mix, chia puddings, muesli, oatmeal/porridge, into toasted nut and seed mixes, in smoothies, in savoury dishes yes you read that right, teas, and in bliss balls. This is just to name a few.
I always aim for all our products to be purposeful. To be adaptable and to be able to be added to lots of different foods, not just used in one recipe.
From my kitchen to yours!
Bon Appetit
