YO! Sushi Christmas Box
Our beautiful centrepiece serves two and is very festively
presented, as you can see. includes all your favourites, like tuna
nigiri, salmon, crunchy prawn ISO, cucumber maki... plus soy,
wasabi and pickled ginger. Love it!
£11.50
yosushi.com
Jamie Oliver's 'A little bit on the
side'
With sweetness, tang and a little hit of spice, these three
condiments (hot pepper jelly, red onion pickle and fig jam) will
give your cheese boards, cold meats and pork pies a whole new
dimension.
Seriously delicious!
RRP £10
Stockists
Olive Wood board with Cheese from cheesemonger Paxton
& Whitfield
A cheese collection that includes St Eadburgha, Montgomery's
Cheddar, Cornish Blue and one of Paxton & Whitfield's branded
Olive Wood Boards. The board is made from Tunisian olive wood that
has been pruned from the trees during the olive harvest in October.
It has the house roundel logo engraved onto it. A brilliant gift
for cheese-lovers.
£45
paxtonandwhitfield.co.uk
Joe & Sephs gourmet popcorn
Planning to watch a few films over Christmas? Joe & Sephs
have a few new Christmas popcorn flavours, including a lovely
Auvergne Cremeux, walnut and celery. Also available in mince pie
flavour! Check their site for more info.
From £2.99 a bag
joeandsephs.com
Wonderful Pistachios
With a perfect mix of sweetness, crunch and tangy chilli
peppers, Wonderful Pistachios Sweet Chili has a warming kick to set
taste buds tingling and off-set the freezing weather
outside.
Perfect for sharing at your Christmas party or while watching
those classic Christmas blockbusters, with just three calories per
nut, Wonderful Pistachios are easier on the waistband than most
snacks! As well the Sweet Chili flavour, the Wonderful
Pistachios range includes tasty Roasted Salted, Salt & Pepper
and Roasted Unsalted variants. So, if you want a healthier
snack this Christmas, pick up a bag from Tesco, Sainsbury's,
Holland & Barratt or Julian Graves.
£1.99 (150g) and £3.19 (250g)
Olives Et Al range
Under a tree and under a tenner, Olives Et Al's best-selling,
award-winning olives will do very nicely for a food-lover this
Christmas.. The two best selling marinated olives made in Dorset by
Olives Et Al; Pistou Olives and Classic Olives have been nicely
packaged together as a duo (£9.95) and for nut nibblers, there's
also Bayou Nuts and Sienna Nuts & Seeds - a very nice couple of
nuts to invite round for drinks (£8.29). Each of the new duo
and trio packs have been chosen from Olives Et Al's top selling
recipes and each neatly packaged box holds products made by the
dedicated team of roasters, mixers and oliveers at Olives Et Al in
Dorset.
A neat little trio pack of dressings and marinades for every
occasion in 100ml bottles includes Shallot & Orange, Pink Mojo
and Chilli & Ginger all lined up and ready for pouring,
drizzling, marinating and dipping (rrp £9.95) - stand to attention
the cold sausages and drumsticks on Boxing Day!
Olives Et Al's products are available in good food retailers,
delis, farm shops, food halls and on line at olivesetal.co.uk
Peppers stufffed with tuna
These delicious antipasti are the perfect light hors d'oeuvres
to whet your appetite before you wade into the Christmas turkey. We
love the fact that the secret recipe for these tasty morsels has
been passed down through the generations of the Zoccola and Arcari
families who now run Valentina's.
RRP £5.95
www.valentinafinefoods.com
Fondue.....for two & Blacksticks Blue
Fondue... we all love tucking in from the comfort of a ski chalet
or those rare Swiss restaurants that serve up the melted cheese
classic. Now, thanks to Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses, you can enjoy
the Alpine favourite at home without digging out the fondue
set.
Simply heat the little pots in the microwave for 30 seconds to
create two, instant fondues, each in its own little ramekin.
Butlers has been making cheese for four generations now, creators
of the lauded Blacksticks Blue - a blue cheese that Simon Rimmer
called the "daddy of all blue cheeses".and now with over 400 awards
to its name, the artisan cheese making family is passionate about
making Lancashire cheese famous.
Fondue for Two is available in Sainsbury's and Booths for £3
Parma Ham
Parma Ham is a jewel in the culinary tradition of Europe. It is an
all-natural product, steeped in tradition, and used in a wide range
of modern cuisine. By law only hams produced and cured in the hills
around Parma (Italy) may become Parma Hams; the unique conditions
of this region make it possible to produce a very special ham, that
has been appreciated since Roman times. The pigs used in production
must have been bred in ten northern and central Italian regions.
Parma Ham is an all-natural product made from only four
ingredients, pork, salt, air and time.
Available from all good supermarkets and delis, for examples of
price: Tesco do 88g of 14 month ham at £2.69, Waitrose do 83g for
£2.99
Parmigiano-Reggiano
Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese is enjoyed the world over. Its
distinctive flavour and versatility means that it can enhance the
flavour of almost any dish and is the perfect addition to cheese
boards. The cheese is handmade by craftsmen using traditional
methods handed down for more than eight centuries. It's great
stuff.
Available from all good supermarkets and delis, for examples of
price: Tesco do 200g of cheese for £3.24, Waitrose do 220g for
£3.89
For more information, visit discovertheorigin.co.uk
PHOTO Rose Phillips
