164 Briar Bush Road, Canterbury, NH 03224

www.foxcountrysmokehouse.com

Fox Country uses a centuries old tradition of curing and smoking, and offers a wide variety of quality country-smoked products including ham, bacon, beef jerky, turkey, and sausages. They also have nine varieties of smoked cheese and much more.

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Granite State Candy Shoppe

Granite State really is a business about very good chocolate candy. But they take ice cream seriously as well. My kinda people.

A “small” is about a pinto of ice cream. It is very good ice cream. Plan this course as the “big meal” of your day.

Until this year, they ran a two for one coupon in the The Hippo each week. I guess the economic downturn hit them hard, too. But it’s still worth it, and we stop in whenever we’re in Concord on a summer day and the timing works. [I willingly claim ice cream as lunch or dinner, but I hardly eat breakfast let alone making cold dairy the focal point.]

Roger’s favorites include: Coconut Snowflake (not the Coconut Dream), Toffee Coffee Crunch, and Burgundy Mocha Chip.

I scream for Butter Pecan, Raspberry Chocolate Chip, and Master Rip. Oh, and surprisingly the Coffee Oreo.

We both love the Pistachio. A nut recall has spoiled this season. Overall, Granite State does a better job with the nut and coffee/chocolate flavors; not so great with fruit-based flavors.

They keep scooping until all the tubs are empty, sometime mid-September. You still have a month.

Trade supper for a cone!

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70 North Main Street, Concord NH 03301

www.buttersfinefood.com

Hours:
Mon-Weds & Sat – 9am – 6pm
Thurs & Fri – 9am – 7pm
Sun – 11am – 5pm

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13 Warren Street, Concord, NH 03301

www.nhchocolates.com

Granite State Candy Shoppe features wonderful chocolates and candies made right on the premises. The old-fashioned peanut brittle is a favorite of Roger, who loves all things peanut. And not to be missed is their homemade ice cream—available in season from spring through late summer. The portions are tremendous—at a tremendous value—and the quality is hard to beat anywhere. Andrea favors their pistachio, while Roger is a recent convert to coconut snowflake (coconut icecream with dark chocolate chips).

Regular Store Hours
Sunday: 12-5:00pm
Monday thru Saturday: 10-6pm
Thursday & Friday: 10-8pm

Summer Store Hours
Sunday: 12-5pm
Mon thru Saturday: 10-8pm
Friday: 10-9:00pm
In effect thru Labor day 2009

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Anyway, we chose to stop of our own volition reading in the weekly electronic newsletter that there was to be a chocolate tasting. Mmmmm.

A very pleasant couple, Sally Cornwell and Jonathan Walpole, together run Winnipesaukee Chocolates in Wolfboro. I was thrilled to talk with them, as I spent several weeks every summer for thirty-five years up the road in Tuftonboro. During my childhood we’d drive “into town” for diversions like ice cream and grocery shopping. As an adult, I often walked the six plus miles into town and then would have my ex-husband (current at the time) pick me up for the return trip.

Anyway, if was fun to talk all things Wolfboro – the Mt. Washington, the backroads, Camelot (another post for creamed cheddar) having been sold — and share a bit of fondness for the area.

Each bar is named after an island situated in Lake Winnipesaukee. Each bar has the history of each island printed on the back of its wrapper.

The Little Bear Island bar was Roger’s favorite. Dark chocolate melded with crushed coffee beans (Black Bear Micro Roastery in Tuftonboro is the source of the slow roasted beans) offered a nice jolt of flavor yet smooth and a nice after dinner taste.

I enjoyed all three we picked up that day, but my favorite was the Cow Island bar. Milk chocolate with Cinnamon and Pecans reminded me of Viennese coffee and all manner of decadent things. Sitting in a chair with a book snarfing down bites of creamy comfort or serving pieces after an elegant dinner party would both be reasonable options to me.

The big surprise was the Whortleberry Island bar: white chocolate with native wild blueberries. The sharp bit of berry cut what often is cloying sweetness of white chocolate. I suspect the quality of their product is several pegs up from the typical white bunny, my only other remembered white chocolate experience.

You’ll find the bars sold in shops around New Hampshire, but if you are in Wolfboro stop in (across from Camelot on the hill headed up out of town in the Tuftonboro direction). They are very nice and easy-going with encyclopedia-like knowledge of chocolate. And their chocolate is wonderful.

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