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Hotel Chocolat Christmas Selection

by Andrew on December 20, 2011 in Online Retailers, Specialist Shops with 2 Comments

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Christmas really isn’t Christmas without at least one box of chocolates; a fail-safe gift or a little private indulgence for you alone. This seasonal selection from Hotel Chocolat is £22 or 2 for £40. Pick up in store or order online – still plenty of time for delivery before Christmas Day itself! Billionaire Shortbread anyone? Or perhaps a Christmas Mess followed by a Cinnamon Praline?

Brimming with sparkling seasonal cheer and the gorgeous flavours of the season – in melt-away pralines and soft caramels, truffles with warming chilli and creamy coconut, cherry florentines, gingerbread, cinnamon and more. There’s something inside to make everyone feel Christmassy all over.

Christmas Gifts from Interflora

by Andrew on December 12, 2011 in Online Retailers with 1 Comment

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Flowers, right? Damn fine flowers admittedly but that is all that Interflora deals with, right?

Well no, as it happens. Interflora offers a whole gamut of products including plants such as a £22.99 Poinsettia with chocolate or a £27.99 Yuletide basket. There is also a range of Gifts for Her from a £19.99 single red rose with vase to £29.99 Personalised Heart Biscuits.

There is also a range of rather delightful Christmas Hampers. These range in price from a Christmas Tray at £29.99 right up to a £200 Christmas Ottoman Trunk. Pictured is the Taste of Christmas Basket at £100. This contains a mix of savoury and sweet food products plus two bottles of wine and a small bottle of port –

• Border red berry rascals 175g
• Border Biscuits Blackberry & Apple crumbles
• Grandma Wild’s Milk chocolate coated cranberry cookies 200g
• The Original Cake Company 5.5″ round cherry & almond drizzle cake 600g
• Lily O’Briens chocolates 190g
• Bromley’s spiced peach chutney 200g
• Paddy & Scott’s after dinner coffee 56g
• Just fudge cranberry fudge 125g
• Orchard preserves raspberry jam 227g
• Orchard preserves marmalade 227g
• Walkers 6 Luxury mincemeat tarts 372g
• The Dormen Chilli & lime cashews 130g
• Olives Et Al Moorish olives with Cumin, coriander & cardamom 150g
• Bromley’s Cranberry sauce 200g
• Twinings winter edition mulled spiced tea – x 20 40g
• Matthew Walker Christmas pudding 454g

Christmas Meat Box from Langley Chase Organic Farm

by Andrew on December 5, 2011 in In Search Of..., Online Retailers with No comments

Turkey too traditional? Drumsticks too humdrum? Give our yuletide feathered friend the day off and entertain your friends and family with the finest organic lamb and mutton in the country this Christmas from Langley Chase Organic Farm.

They have created a new Christmas meat box that provides a fantastic range of dishes perfect for Christmas and the New Year and also provide the recipes and the required fresh herbs with every order. This box of tasty delights also makes a great gift – you can even include a personalised note.

Each box contains:
• One 375gram stick of Langley Chase chorizo picante salami – with smoked paprika, spices and chilli, this unusual and tasty lamb and mutton Salami is so good we sell out every time we make it. Great for canapés, starters, rough diced for cassoulets or finely sliced with plum chutney, cheese and a glass of red wine.
• One lamb shoulder – perfect for slow roasting with onion sauce, roasted vegetables, and makes wonderful cuts when cold.
• Two 500gram packs of diced Mutton – enjoy this fantastic meat as a tagine; cooked with lemon, saffron and cinnamon for the perfect festive fragrance.
• 12 Rosemary and Garlic Lamb sausages (two packs of six) – quite possibly the best bangers for a New Year’s Day breakfast. Also excellent as part of a main course and cooking up quickly for hungry children.

Prices: Pick up from the farm: £75.00. Delivered direct to any UK address: £88.50. Click here to order

Ocado Launches Hand-Picked ‘fruit, Veg And Salad Boxes’

by Andrew on November 28, 2011 in Online Retailers with No comments

Ocado Fruit and Salad BoxTucked inside Ocado’s new Organic Fruit, Vegetable and Salad Boxes you’ll find the freshest ingredients – everything from rainbow carrots and red Robinta potatoes to succulent Conference pears and juicy apples, all available to order now from just £17.99.

Ocado is passionate about organic produce and is working with a family-owned organic produce business, based in the South East, to bring you a selection of the highest quality, and most readily available, seasonal groceries.

Ocado’s Veg and Salad Box includes 11 healthy vegetables and salad ingredients that will feed your household’s weekly ‘five-a-day’ needs for just £17.99. Even hungrier households can opt for Ocado’s bumper Fruit, Veg and Salad Box, offering 13 of the freshest fruits, vegetables and salad items for £24.99.

All of Ocado’s produce, grown to strict Soil Association standards, has been personally selected and packed to perfection. Upon ordering, Ocado’s friendly drivers will whisk them straight to your kitchen table in a handy one-hour time slot.

Visit Ocado’s website to find out which delicious weekly items are up for grabs in each organic box, and to take a sneak-peak at what’s expected inside the following week’s offerings too.

Bake The Perfect Panettone This Christmas

by Andrew on November 25, 2011 in In Search Of..., In The Basket, Online Retailers with No comments

panettone aromaStart or indulge a passion for artisan baking this Christmas with all the baking essentials needed for a truly authentic Panettone from online specialists, www.BakeryBits.co.uk.

Add a twist to this traditional Italian sweetened celebratory cake with BakeryBits’ special Aroma Panettone essence. The essence contains the exquisite Fiori di Sicilia but adds to it further flavours and aromas suited specifically to Panettone dough – like candied fruit, vanilla, honey and spices – so that the quantity of those ingredients can be kept lower. The benefit of using the authentic essence is to avoid these ingredients slowing or even stopping the fermentation, this ensures a cake which is dark on the outside yet moist and fluffy on the inside.

By adding essential oil that contains these flavours the texture of the Panettone crumb will stay very light and open. Supplied in a 100ml dropper bottle, the essence can be used in Panettone, custards and puddings. Recommended usage is 1-2 tsp per kilo of dough.

To bake your special Panettone, BakeryBits offers a variety of cases for individual Panettone. The special tubular Panettone cases range from 70mm diameter suitable for approximately 100g or 4oz dough, to 170mm diameter suitable for approximately 1kg of dough and are designed to free-stand in the oven while the Panettone bakes, and for presentation of the baked cake.

Panettone cases (known in Italy as Pitrottini) originated in Milan. A homemade Panettone, using a good recipe that follows the authentic long proving and contains quality ingredients is incomparable with the supermarket versions.

Available from www.BakeryBits.co.uk, the Aroma Panettone is priced at £6.99, plus a delivery charge of £2.95 + VAT. Panettone cases are priced from £2.99 for a pack of 25, (100g or 70mm) to £4.49 for a pack of 25, (1kg or 170mm).

Orders can be made online up to the 22 December for next-day delivery. Delivery is available anywhere worldwide.

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