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Artist Bryan Randa at M.Brann

Artist Bryan Randa makes beautiful glass animals for our "Fall for the Arts" demo


Stop by to see the fun animal creations!!!!

Fall for the Arts

Don't forget this weekend at our Mashpee Commons Store...
Fall for the Arts - We will have artist demonstrations all weekend, discounts, raffle drawings, and extra VIP stamps!!!!
Please join us this Friday, Saturday or Sunday!!!!

HOTTEST NEW TRENDY WATCHES!!!!

STAMPS WATCHES
Hottest New Watch From Germany!!! Now @ M.Brann & Co
We are the exclusive location on Cape Cod to find your creative, fun, personal new STAMPS watch!!!

STOP BY TO CHOOSE YOUR HOT NEW WATCH!!!!
Mention you saw this BLOG and receive 10% OFF your new watch!!!

Development.

In 1996 the former brand manager of Citizen Europe, Mr. Andreas Schweneker and the former promotions manager of Swatch, Mr. Peter Gschwind come up with an idea for a watch resembling a stamp that would be available in a wide variety of designs and would have the ability to stick on multiple surfaces. Once settled on this idea they then recruit Mr. Elmar Mock one of the inventors of SWATCH for the technical development of this new idea.

After many prototypes and designs the first STAMPS watch emerges in the form of a vertical strip of 4 connected watches. Each watch has the ability to be snapped of the strip and used individually. The initial STAMPS line-up comes in 36 different designs.

ROLF FISH GLASSES

ROLF FISH GLASSES
"One of our favorites... and selling off the shelves as we speak!!!"
Shop early for the holidays, they sell out very fast!

One of our most popular new lines of glassware, featuring several small fish circling the glass, each one diamond-wheel cut and sparklingly polished. One fish lost its way, or maybe he knows something the others don't. Dishwasher safe.

Putumayo Cds - Limited Time
2 for $25.00
orig. $15.99 each

while supplies last

We are having a great sale in store coming up July 12th - 16th...
20% Off our fabulous line of spanish recycled glass. Great for weddings, showers & housewarming parties!!!!

mariposa party

Introducing "Celebrate" New Line From...

Brand New Series From Mariposa

Join Us:

Friday, June 11th

4pm - 8pm

For an in-store event to introduce Mariposa's newest series "Celebrate"

• During event register to WIN a celebrate photo frame...
• Order a "Celebrate" salad bowl and get the matching servers for FREE!!!($47 value)
  
• Order a "Celebrate" cheese board and receive the wine & pate' knife for FREE!!!($46 value)

Don't Miss This Great Event... Stop by to register or send us an email: mbrann@mbrann.com

Email us: your name and address and how many will be attending the event.

316 Traditional Remedies

Come see our wonderful new line of Whole-Body care we have introduced in-store @
M.Brann & Co. Mashpee Commons...

"If you or a loved one are undergoing cancer therapy and need some special treatment, we have made it our goal to help you by providing you with gentle skin care products. Our products are 100% natural from the traditional remedies around the world.

Specifically, indigenous communities from rain forests are active participants for product development and you will feel so loved as you use them! Even people with sensitive skin and allergies have found our products enhance their skin quality without any negative effects.

Our products have a greater mission than just providing high-quality herbal care. We also provide health and science education with the communities involved in giving us our ingredients." (316 Traditional Remedies)

NYC GIFT SHOW

Hi All...

We have just gotten back from the NY Gift Show.
We made some great "finds", lots to see and take in. But with all of us (Danny, Cecily, Lauren, and I) energized and focused, we scouted the best that the show had to offer!!!

As always we were drawn to smaller companies and fair-trade groups. There were many more to chose from than in past years, as more and more people are coming to the M.Brann mentality of hand crafted, well-priced offerings with many re-purposed materials.

We are looking forward to spring and your excitement as new items start appearing on our shelves!

Hope to see you soon,
Maria and Company

More Himalayan Salt Tips and Ideas

• Arrange thinly sliced Carpaccio or sashimi on a cool salt platter and serve. Watch as the food literally salt-cures while at the table, gently cooking the edges and bringing on just a smidge of mineral-rich saltiness.

• Place a large tile of Himalayan salt under the broiler. Wait 30 minutes, then remove the tile with a kitchen glove. Set on trivet at table, and saute fish, meats, and veggies while your guests or family look on with awe, disbelief, and dawning admiration. While cooking, your food will take on a light saltiness. Note that The Meadow’s larger Himalayan salt tiles will often hold heat long enough for repeated grillings before needing to reheat, but that batches will be successively saltier.

• For an out-doorsy variation on the above, place a large platter of our Himalayan salt on the backyard grill, and plank grill a fennel-and-lemon stuffed monkfish, a lime-and-ginger marinated flank steak, or a balsamic and garlic rubbed Portobello mushroom.
  

• For a variation on the wilder side of the out-doorsy, do what our two boys clamor for day in, day out, day in, day out (be forewarned). Heat a large Himalayan salt platter on an outdoor gas grill (best) or an indoor gas stove (use extreme caution). Lightly butter the salt platter, toss on firm bananas, grill 20 seconds on each side. Turn off the grill (important), douse with grappa or bourbon, ignite with a long match, and watch the flambé! Blow out last flames and serve with scoop of vanilla bean ice cream.Barely salted and seductively caramelized, the bananas spring to life against the cool silken contrast of the ice cream.

More Salt Ideas and Recipes

1. Be sure the salt block is completely dry. If wet, allow to dry at least 14 hours in a warm, dry place before heating.
2. For gas ranges, place your Himalayan Salt Block on the burner over low flame. (For electric ranges, place a metal spacer—such as wok ring or pastry tin with a removable bottom—on the stove so that the Himalayan Salt Block is at least 1/2 inch above the heating element.)
3. After 20 minutes (allow more time for plates larger than 8" x 8" x 2"), increase heat to low-medium. After another 10 minutes, your salt plate will be hot enough to cook on. If extremely hot temperatures are desired, as for searing duck foie gras, or scallops increase flame to medium for another 15 minutes.
4. Verify the plate is hot enough by flicking a drop of water on top and noting a brisk sizzle.
5. Toss on the protein or vegetable of your choice. No seasoning necessary.

Himalayan Salt Plank Ideas

Easy Steps to Cooking on Himalayan Salt

Heating Himalayan salt slabs requires following some basic steps. Allow between 30 to 45 minutes to achieve the desired cooking temperature. Your Himalayan salt plate will crackle slightly while heating, especially the first time, as micro-fissures appear, giving the pink salt the elasticity it needs to expand as it increases in temperature.

Heating will change the appearance of your Himalayan Salt plate, so if you are in love with your salt plate just the way it is, you may wish to buy a different block especially for heating and cooking. We offer Cookware and Tableware Grades of Himalayan salt plates so you can have a beautifully fractured Tableware Grade salt plate for serving at room temperature or chilled, and a structurally robust Cookware Grade salt plate for cooking on.