Hear ye hear ye! I feel like I’m Mrs Claus sometimes! Here is the second of our Twelve Days of Christmas competitions. And today I have a lovely hamper of goodies for you! Here is a hamper with a bit of a difference. In this hamper, which can sort out any sort of corporate or personal gift, this is full of hand picked artisan goodies from the NSW region. Yep artisan products, not a mass of supermarket items.
The Artisans of NSW hamper
Now I know I have a tough job as I had to taste test every one of these products and I happily did so. The slab of Rochford chocolate dotted with cocoa nibs was delectable, the award winning Crooked Creek cheese biscuits were crumbly and moreish, the Lomondo Extra Virgin olive oil was delightfully fresh and the Lakelands sun dried olives (made the proper way without any shortcuts) were of course appropriated by olive loving Mr NQN.
Then there was the delicious rhubarb and raspberry jam by The Jammery, the Honest to Goodness tamari roasted almonds which proudly proclaimed “no nasties added”, the gorgeous Nicholson wild hibiscus flowers and a lovely Cuttaway Creek raspberry sauce. And after dessert I finished off with the petit fours: chewy rich caramel bon bons from Sweetness and some amazing Leppington Farm Chocolate coated figs which had a crunchy almond in the centre. And the best thing about these apart from the taste is that when you flip the packet over and have a look at the ingredients, there are no numbers, preservatives or nasties added, just real food!
Thanks to VictorsFood, we are giving away one of these hampers worth $150 to a lucky NQN reader! For a chance to win this delicious hamper, all you have to do is tell me which item in this hamper tickles your fancy the most and and why. Simply add your answer as a comment to the story. The competition ends at Midnight AEST 5th December, 2010. You can enter this once daily. This competition is open to anyone in Australia as delivery can only be made within Australia.
***The winner is Ariel M. of Victoria***
Best of luck!
Love,
Lorraine
xxx
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All you had to do was mention cocoa nibs and you had me hook, line and sinker!
Any chocolate is good, but when you add crunchy cocoa nibs it takes chocolate to a whole other level! yummmmmmmm!
Ooh!! I would love the chocolate covered figs the most, since I can put them out to share with friends and family with the Camembert that I’ve made for them!!
Sorry for double posting, I had a mistake in my web address.
I would love the chocolate covered figs the most, since I can share it with my friends and family accompanied by camembert that I’ve made.
:)
How nice, it is feeling like Christmas already! What a great hamper! I loved the little cheese biscuits, they look really yummy and unlike anything commercial. Also the comment on the packaging saying “freshly made by hand with unhurried care” is such a homey sentiment it won me immediately.
I am going to be completely predictable and say that chocolate! It looks soooooooooo delicious! x
Those figs look glorious! They would be the first to go in my house!
I buy those crooked creek cheese biscuits all the time. They are absolutely fantastic and possibly responsible for my pudgy tum tum! They would be my favourite item – a wonderful balance of sharpness and saltiness makes them the perfect pre-dinner snack!
for me everything sounds lovely but the slab of Rochford chocolate dotted with cocoa nibs sounds like its the one to try, ive always been wanting to try cocoa nips but never had the opportunity present itself
I think it would have to be the Leppington Farm Chocolate coated figs – good chocolate is amazing at the best of times but add figs to the equation and you have an unstoppable force of pleasure and delight – hopefully my pleasure and delight!
i would love the rhubarb and raspberry jam. yum! would love to swirl it ontop of a lemony fresh cheesecake
What a wonderful prize….how to choose just one item….
But as a fig lover those oven roasted chocolate covered figs sound amazing yum…..!!!!
I’d love to win this hamper just to taste the chocolate dipped oven baked figs. They sounds divine!
WOW!…You make things hard NQN, everything looks so yummy, your comments on each product add to the desire to try them all….Initially I was thinking the Lakelands sun dried olives were tickling my fancy but when I saw the Rochford chocolate my “fancy” took a flying leap and said “pick chocolate pick chocolate”…so I guess I must follow my “fancy” and say the delectable Rochford Chocolate…..
My partner is an absolute fiend for olives (just like yours, from the sounds of it!) so I would score some major brownie points if I had some of those to share.
I’ve always wanted to try chocolate with nibs. I keep hearing about it on various food blogs but have never come across it in shops. I like the thought of having more chocolately goodness to chew on after the main part has melted sweetly away…
My husband, like Mr NQN, would definitely steal away with the sundried olives!
How delightful, my favorite would be the slab of Rochford chocolate cause when no one is watching and all is quiet in my crazy house I like to eat beautiful chocolate.
Rochford chocolate. I eat healthy everyday, but saturday is my treat day, so if im going to eat chocolate it should be the best!
The Caramel Bon-Bons would be a decadent way to start the day – who said you can’t have dessert with breakfast. Yum – I can almost taste them now.
Figs. Almonds. Dark chocolate. Happy Christmas indeed!
Cheese biscuits; I LOVE cheese biscuits. Good cheese biscuits that is. I can’t believe that I can fall in love with a hamper because of the cheese biscuits!!
Cheese biscuits are my thing.mmm
The rochford chocolate looks scrumptious.
I am totally intrigued by the chocolate figs. I have never thought of having chocolate on a fig, this is going to obsess me all day,…
The Rochford Chocolate has been on my must taste before I die list, forever. This is that opportunity I hope.
Lakelands sun dried olives – my parents have insisted I am not allowed to buy them any Chrissy presents this year (as they already have everything they need!). This may be my one opportunity to spoil them with a lovely hamper for Christmas and still remain true to their wishes. They are absolute foodie lovers and my mother having spent her school years in Rome loves all things Italian – we all love olives and have often been told we have been eating them since we were in nappies. I would love your help Lorraine to spoil them with this gorgeous Artisan hamper. Many thanks M
It all looks amazing. Real food from real producers,not full chemicals and preservatives like much of the supermarket food.
What really caught my eye were the chocolate coated figs. I’ve never tried figs with chocolate but I love figs and I love dark chocolate, so how can you go wrong?
The dark chocolate covered oven baked figs with almonds is making my mouth water just at the thought. I love dark chocolate, love figs, love almonds, what a heavenly mix! And they’d be just the perfect nibbley for the festive season.
Crooked Creek cheese biscuits – cheese in anything works for me ( i think i was a mouse in my past life )
The chocolate coated figs sound too good to be true. Yum! I spent my whole childhood hating figs and now I can’t get enough of them in every form!
Are you kidding?…..’oven baked figs…almond…chocolate’ all in one mouthful?? Sounds too too good to be true.
Sweetness Caramel Bon Bons as they are made from real food!
oh yum definitely the rhubarb and raspberry jam as they are my other half’s fave 2 “r&r”!
Mmmmm …. chocolate covered figs. 2 of my favorites and what a combo.
Lately I’ve been smelling the gorgeous aroma of fresh toast at the office (someone’s breakfast!) and secretly salivating at my desk, so the raspberry and rhubarb jam sounds DIVINE and would be the perfect excuse for me to make toast for myself! I know, I know, it’s not rocket science to make toast, but when you’re busy you get distracted…
ooooohh the chocolte dipped figs sound wonderful!! Actually it all sounds scrumptious but I’d open the figs and taste them first :0)
love to try oven baked figd
Oooh, what a lovely treat to try and win! Personally I’d like to try the oven baked figs. After many years of my mother saying ‘figs are delicious’I finally took the plunge and tried them again. I didn’t enjoy them as a kid and now I can’t get enough! I only wish they were freshly available all year around. I do believe I’d like to try figs from the oven…….:)
Alix
Those figs look like I’m going to need to be hunting them down regardless of whether I win them or not! I love figs… the best are of course the ones we bring in from the inlaws in Greece…
Oh NQN, you are so selfless, taste-testing these goodies on our behalf. For me, the Rochford chocolate would be irristable. I’m not a huge chocolate lover unless it is really good quality choccie, and it sounds like Rochford chocs are the real deal.
I’d love to win, as my big brother and his wife are hosting Christmas Day this year, and being broke, I would like to contribute something. I can just imagine their eyes lighting up if they received something like this!
Mudgee olive oil … Nuff said nom nom nom
Yum…was just looking in the fridge for a spot of jam for my crumpets…so I would say the Rhubarb and Raspberry jam would be right up my alley!!
It is difficult to pick a preference out such a delectable selection, but the rhubarb and raspberry jam is what I’d like right now on some toast!
…all wonderful items but the chocolate covered figs is the winner for me & would certainly tickle my fancy!!
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Hard to choose…but the Rochford Chocolate intrigues me the most. I’ve never come across cocoa nibs before and my curiosity is piqued.
Where do you enter the competitions
some have taken my fancy
Rochford Chocolate with cocoa nibs tickles my fancy for sure! Do you know how hard it is to find that sort of thing in Brisbane???
It’s gotta be the cheese biscuits – I am a sucker for anything baked, and these look so tempting!
It’s the chocolate. I love the subtle complexity or artisan chocolate and the addition of cacao nibs is perfect as they add a completely different chocolate note. Yum.
I think the raspberry sauce on my vanilla bean ice-cream would really go well… yum. You made me want to eat ice-cream for breakfast instead of cereal! haha
Don’t you just love the word hamper? It conjures up a cornucopia of hidden tastes and delights….
Chewy rich caramel bonbons…I can “almost” taste their luxurious lushness now…Mmmm!
My Mum has just been diagnosed with Coeliac disease and she’s been in a bit of a pickle lately trying to find gourmet goodies which don’t contain wheat, rye, barley and oats. From the looks of the hamper it’d be perfect for her – minus the petit fours and cheese biscuits, but i’m sure i could dispose of them nicely!
The olives as salty greasy delicious olives and beer are one of the greatest ways to spend your time in summer or in general.
The chocolate – without doubt. I am on the biggest choc binge lately – so long I was all “meh” about it – but omg I want SO MUCH of it these days
Figs on their own are positively unctuous, oven baked makes them seem even more exciting but the thought of the Leppington Valley dark chocolate coated figs is the type of food dreams are made of.
The chocolate coated figs would be the perfect addition to my Christmas biscotti. Teamed with toasted walnuts and some extra chocolate chunks and we have have a winner.
Such a great giveaway Nigella – your Australian readers are lucky!! xo
The reality is, I need a reason for my family to come to me for Christmas – they think I live too far away!
I think the ‘Honest to goodness’ roasted tamari almonds are the best each way bet for my household.
My dad will come over and share them if he is not out working on the bushfires, and if no one shows up for Christmas they will certainly ‘love me back’ as the packet says !
Yum those Crooked Cheese biscuits look the best! I eat so much sweet stuff that sometimes a nice quality savory biscuit revives my tastebuds
I’ve been to Mudgee for a wine tasting tour and loved it so I’d pick the extra virgin olive oil!
I use extra virgin a lot in my cooking, it’s healthy and full of flavor.
YUM! Of course, it is so hard to choose and really I would LOVE all of it, but if I had to choose one…..
the hibiscus flowers.
What better way to spend Christmas day than sipping on a yummy champagne with a gorgeous flower smiling up at you from the bottom of the glass. (well, maybe nibbling on yummy cheese biscuits while sipping the champagne would make it perfect!)
I cant be the only one coveting those figs. I have visions of them dancing through my mind
Would Love those figs yummy
Oooh, I just had another idea to do the hibiscus flowers justice….
how about a hibiscus flower jam! YUMMY.
i would love this hamper!the lomondo extra virgin olive oil would do wonders as im going thru a salad phase ( getting ready for summer, getting rid of all the stubborn winter fats) olive oil would be a light and tasty dressing for a refreshing salad! nomnom
the raspberry sauce had me…. anything with raspberry is always a winner but… the colour of this one just screams *quality* and Lots of raspberries… its the flavour of the gods….
The rochford chocolate I would like to sample,i am a chocoholic and the hamper looks so delicious and full of interesting products.
YUM! The whole idea of having goodies that are completely natural is a big winner with me. The Rochford chocolate and cocoa ribs sounds like a must try.
Wow! Beautiful hamper! The item that grabbed me the most is the “oven baked figs”. Both hubby and myself love figs and have never tried oven baked. The hamper is packaged beautifully. Jane
I think cheese biscuits would be the perfect addition to a lazy Sunday afternoon tea, coupled with a sweet tomato relish. Yum!
The caramel Bon Bons really made my mouth water, I am a real sucker for caramel can’t deny!
Oh I love hampers! I would fancy the olive oil the most because I love drizzling it all over my meals just before serving to ‘finish’ it off!
Rhubarb and rasberry jam for sure! My husband has a new found love of baking sourdough bread (awesome!), and this jam would be the perfect accompaniment. Yum!
Crooked Creek Biscuits are the yummies for me,
The’re scrummy, satisfying -making me smile with glee,
Send me the hamper so I can share it at tea,
Nothing but the best for all to chomp and see.
The oven baked figs! I have an idea for a muesli that I’d like to make with it if I win of course.
the jam! Finding jam that is beyond the standard raspberry/strawberry/apricot/etc is my new quest.
Oh I really need to get out more.
A plethora of tastes to make any foodie weaken at the knees! I can see myself enhancing so many Christmas treats by using a drizzle of the Lomondo extra virgin olive oil.
Cheese biscuits for hubby and me, they bring back such fond memories!
Oven roasted figs would be a treat,
If I won I’d be sure to Tweet:
‘Victors Food will make Christmas totally sweet,
So hosts can relax and rest their feet!’
Crookers Creek Cheese biscuits surely tickle my fancy as I would be enjoying them in good company with a nice bottle of crisp white wine.
Ooooooh! Yum! Got to be the choc covered figs for me!!
Is this even a question?! The chocolate with cocoa nibs, of course!
AS SOON I CAME DOWN TO THE LEPPINGTON FARM CHOCOLATE COATED FIGS WIH ALMOND CENTRE I WAS SALIVING YOU GOT ME HOOKED MY THREE FAVOURITES CHOCOLATE FIGS AND ALMONDS WOW WOW I NEED A FIX NOW.CAN WE BUY THEM IN MELBOURNE I HAVE TO HUNT AROUND, ONE DESPERATE FAN.
Hi Lorraine…it’s easy for me…I would go for the olive oil to have in a salad and also with dakha!!!
I really couldn’t think of anything else to say about EVOO apart from “DIVINE”???
Thanks so much for the great give away- I hope I win!
Best wishes and happy week,
Natasha.
I’ve just been tossing between the rhubarb & raspberry jam on fresh baked bread and oh, the chewy caramel bon bons … but everything sounds so wonderful.,
The chocolate coated almond stuffed figs would have to be the highlight of an absolutely divine Christmas hamper. I tasted something similar about 15 years ago, thought I had died and gone to heaven and have been on the look out ever since (far north Queensland can be tricky).
Oh the Cuttaway Creek raspberry sauce sounds and looks so yummy! I can just imagine it on Christmas day with my home made mini meringue’s and topped off with fresh berries. That’s Christmas to me!!
Well it’s all Real Food, so it’s got to be guilt free? Sounds wonderful! I love figs and I love chocolate – but I’ve never tried them together, so that’s the one I most want to try.
Dear Mrs Claus (a.k.a. Lorraine),
What would tickle my fancy more than the gorgeous Nicholson wild hibiscus flowers? Having just returned to ‘earth’ from my wedding and four week honeymoon in Fiji and feeling thoroughly spoilt by the Fijian’s warm hospitality and lovely hibiscus food offerings (hibiscus flower iced tea, Cassava pudding served with wild hibiscus syrup, traditional honey cakes drizzled in sweet, velvety hibiscus sauce… yum!), I’m determined to recreate that special ‘hibiscus’ food experience and share it with loved ones (who unfortunately missed out on our Fijian wedding) this Christmas. While researching your fabulous recipes at NQN, I came across your Hibiscus Flower cupcakes made with Bethonga Pineapples (March 6th, 2008). What a really creative and easy recipe, I thought. However, making the flowers has so far proven to be a very delicate and painstaking process, the end result did not look quite like your presentation (mine looked a bit burnt unfortunately). I do really admire your patience in making this gorgeous looking dessert work for the guests at Tropfest!
I hope you see the plight I’m in right now from your North Pole headquarter, and understand why I’m desperate to get my hands on the Nicholson wild hibiscus flowers for my desserts, with only less than 6 weeks to go before my lovely guests arrive.
Warmest regards,
Ariel
If I had to live on one of those for the rest of my life, it would be the Jammery’s strawberry and rhubarb jam. Not only do I adore the combination of rhubarb and strawberries, I am completely and utterly obsessed with all types of jams. I could literally eat it straight out of the jar…and it is having an impact on my waistline, I’m afraid.
Those tamari roasted almonds sound pretty amazing!
I’d LOVE to sample the Rochford chocolate as i’ve never had the pleasure of tasting chocolate scattered with cocoa nibs! sounds delicious!
Definitely the Leppington Farm Chocolate coated figs. I love figs, chocolate and almonds! I have never tried chocolate coated figs and I think these three flavours would complement each other so spectacularly, with the almond providing great texture.
The though of the Raspberry Sauce on vanilla ice cream has got my mouth watering !
Would love to win the chocolate coated figs.I promise to put some out for santa christmas eve.
Cheese biscuits! Sitting here with a pear cider, I think I would realllly love to munch on a bag of those, love the slogan ‘made with unhurried care’, this thought may slow down the scoffing pace.
of course the cheese biscuits because it combines my two favourite things! Ah together at last!
The Nicholson Wild Hibiscus Flowers would add more zing to my Christmas champagne or more zest to my Christmas desserts!
The Lomondo Extra Virgin Olive Oil sounds devine. A good olive oil can make a nice meal delicious. I would love to dip my Zia Grace’s home made bread in this oil, or perhaps make an oil, dried chilli, rock salt and dried oregano roll as it comes straight from the oven – heaven… Or perhaps drizzle it over a home made pasta…. Oh dear, I drifted off there for a moment, but you get what I mean.
Leppington Farm Chocolate coated figs the taste will remind me of Nana’s fig tree and all the summer fun we had and games we played with the tree as the main focus
Oh, the EVOO would be my pick. I love dunking nice bread into it.
Much to the dismay of my personal trainer (okay, okay, my WiiFit!) I just can’t go past the Rochford chocolate. Bliss!
xx Kit
Oh Miss NQN,
You are better than Santa…
Yummy hamper, which would look great on my table a christmas…
My New Zealand Parents are coming for Xmas in Melbourne, so lets cross my fingers that it ends uo with me!!
I love your blog, I have been wanting to find a foodie who can show me around the best places to eat in Melbourne and you have done just that and more.
Thanks
definitely the rhubarb and raspberry jam. I recently came across rhubarb jam when i was staying at a b&b in the blue mountains and have been looking everywhere for a jar of rhubarb jam to satisfy the cravings!
I could come to Australia and be your “taster.” After all, why should you have all the fun.
I don’t know what cocoa nibs are but they sound tantilizingly good! More please!
ooooh the Lakelands sun dried olives sounds fabulous! terrific post Lorraine.
5pandas
The Rochford Chocolate would be a treat but race to open it, my wife I must beat. I have tried Rochford Chocolates before and talk about melting in your mouth. Would definitely have to hide it from my wife.
As I am Dutch from origin I love everything with cheese, would love to try the cheese biscuits.
There’s not a thing in the hamper that I wouldn’t love to try. Can’t decide between the Raspberry Sauce and the Figs.
Didn’t even know you could buy chocolate coated oven roasted figs with a crunch almond in the centre … oh, I will be searching out these. yummy yummy.
chewy rich caramel bon bons
My wifes favourite
If I feed them to her
It may be a cracker of a night
i have to say cheese biscuits are the pinnacle of sophistication for me- raspberry jam topping or not!!
The Rochford cacao nibs chocolate, for sure! once I went to a chocolate shop (which shall remain anonymous) and the shopkeeper didn’t know what cacao nibs even were!
The cheese biscuits. I don’t actually enjoy cheese very much, but the crumbly texture of biscuits like these gets me every time. My sister and I used to make crackers like this when we were younger (an alison holst recipe), so there’s a good dose of nostalgia in there as well
The rhubarb and raspberry jam tickles me and my Nana’s fancy because we both LOVE rhubarb especially at Christmas where we have it in trifle with custard, jam rollettes and whipped marscapone. Perhaps I could substitute this yummy jam for the stewed rhubarb! Yum! Merry Christmas!!
Dear Nigella
so much in it that would tickle my taste buds but the one i would really go ape over is the The Rochford chocolate a taste of real cquality chocolate sends me into raptures
ALL I HAVE 2 SAY IS YUMMY, I WOULD HAD A GREAT XMAS WITH THIS HAMPER. PLEASE
I can just imagine the Baked Figs on a cheese platter to enjoy after our Christmas meal. Fitting end of Christmas day I feel.
The Rochford Chocolate for sure. I love cocoa nibs! Yum!
mmmm the Leppington Valley Farm chocolate coated dried figs with almonds would take me on a heavenly journey of decadence!
Adore the Crooked Creek cheese biscuits topped with Meredith Goat’s cheese and a dab of Maggie Beer/s Fig Jam. Could eat a truck load!
Oooh, rhubarb and raspberry jam! I love the old fashioned rhubarb! Our chooks used to eat all the rhubarb leaves, which are poison to people. We were always a bit too scared to eat the eggs after that!
Thank you for your selflessness in trying all the goodies. It’s a tough job, but somebody has to do it!
I would like the Leppington Farm Chocolate coated figs the best. It brings back my youth working under the hot sun in Israel and living of what the land produced. Fresh dates and sun dried figs were a staple for me.
Then of course there is the fact that it is combined with my other most favourite delicacy: CHOCOLATE!
the figs…the figs…every time i eat a fig my partner relishes in the telling that ‘wasps had sex in that fig’…’and?’ is always my repsonse
The Cuttaway Creek Raspberry Sauce sounds divine. My husband is not a fan of raspberries so it would be mine, all mine!
Oh darn. Another great comp I can’t enter
. This looks a goodie too. Lorraine you are Mrs Claus but you need more elves so we all get pressies!! I’m not ungrateful honestly!
I’d love to taste the Lomondo Extra Virgin olive oil – it looks so fresh; I have never tasted Australian EVOO – I’d love to drizzle it over salads, over toasted cabatta slices and use it as a dip
My taste buds are tingling at the suggestion of Cuttaway Creek Raspberry Sauce drizzled generously over homemade vanilla ice cream.
I love,love, love food hampers in any shape and form and this one certainly has some very special treats. Oh Lorraine, this is soooooooooooo hard but I’ve decided on the Lomondo Olive oil as you can never go past a truly special olive oil and the way it enhances a dish. “On the twelth day of Christmas…….” Lalalalalalaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Crooked Creek cheese biscuits. They sound divine and just the sort of thing for me who loves savory treats a tiny bit than the sweet ones. And cheese is a particular favourite.
Once each year I get to spend a few weeks in heaven, when my 82 year old Italian father in law brings me the most luscious figs from his garden every couple of days….who knew it could get better than that?? Figs AND chocolate…I WANT THEM NOW!!
The Cheese Biscuits, I’m extermely attracted to a Cheesy Little Number!
Figs are beautiful just they way they are,
But covered in chocolate they have to be the best thing by far.
With a nice strong coffee and shared by friends,
A day out on a picnic couldn’t have a better end
Oh wow, I’ve never tried sundried olives but I would love to! I love the intensity of flavour of naturally sundried food!
Oooh, the item that most tickles my fancy is the oven baked, chocolate coated figs with an almond in the middle – I like the exotic, lush fig, and when paired with dark chocolate, what could be more decadent?
It all sounds good but the chocolate figs in particular- with nuts and figs included they really can be considered a health food right?
The second I read Lomondo Extra Virgin Olive Oil I thought of spaghetti with anchovies, garlic and parsley.
Ooh, I might have to go and make some now with my regular evo.
It would have to be the Rochford chocolate with cocoa nibs. It would be worth breaking the diet for.
Those figs covered in chocolate sound from a different world. I bet it would be the star of any X-mas party. Make sure you do not get filled up with the turkey then!
Oh… Ohhhh…. OH! Lomondo Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
A couple of months ago I went on an Olive Oil tasting adventure, I literally consumed Olive Oils from all over Australia by the glass full.
The gorgeous chilli like spice at the back of your tongue, a mild fruity taste with a hint of pepper, the flavors & aroma – AMAZING.
I learnt that the little bit of spice is actually a sign that the oil has been freshly produced, and hasn’t been sitting on a shelf for years.
Oh yes…. Just divine!
The Lomondo was ‘Hands Down – Bottoms Up’…. THE WINNER!
Oh yummo! It would have to be the Crooked Creek cheese biccies, and if I won it my 86 year old Grandma who I am seeing at Chrissy would love the chocolate! Great prize NQN!
I love cheese, and I love biscuits…so the cheese biscuits gets my vote! I lvoe how its also made unhurried and with care…Im sure that would make me savour each bite even more!
The chocolates. Perfect pick me up at 3pm!
I’d LOVE to try Cuttaway Creek raspberry sauce!… THAT’S how you glam up icecream from ho-hum to decadent!
The Crooked Creek Cheese Biscuits look absolutely AMAZING! Perfectly golden brown crunchy– mmmmm. When I scrolled through the post, I was already wondering how I could get my hands on those!!
I’m very interested in trying the extra virgin olive oil, as I’ve been looking for a local one that has a sharp peppery flavour that meets up to my favourite Chilean olive oil.
I would loveee to try out the rhubarb and raspberry jam! Especially on scones!
I can’t resist anything chocolate and I would love to try out the Rochford chocolate dotted with cocoa nibs… it sounds amazing!
The raspberry sauce for me – this would be a nice change from Cranberry Sauce to go with Christmas dinner.
The oven baked figs, its hard to get good tasting ones, and with Christmas coming Im expecting to put on more weight so, may as well start a bit earlier
I’m thinking the Rochford chocolate looks awesome but i’m going to go with the Rasberry sauce as i am already formulating a duck recipe for it.
I’d really dig the chocolate figs,
and the rasberry sauce, I could eat like a horse,
the biscuits from Crooked Creek
give my tastebuds a tweak
and the Olive oil really sparks my ignition coil,
but the Caramel Bonbons, will be delightful finish upon
WOW, so many comments already! My choice would be the chocolate figs, I think it would be an absolute taste sensation, and one that I would never have thought of ! I am partial to the cheese biscuits though as well, they do look VERY delectable and think the whole bag could be consumed without much trouble in one sitting with a cold glass of unoaked chardonnay !
Oh my goodness Dark Chocolate oven Baked Figs my 2 most favorite things to eat. My mouth is watering so much I have been good this Year Santa .
wow what a gorgeous selection..!
I am personally won over by the cheese biscuits… i cant go paste a crumbly buttery cookie, and these cheese ones look delicious!
It’s got to be the the Rochford chocolate. I used to be a chocolate a day person – couldn’t live without it, but now I eat it on the odd occasion and I try to make it the “good stuff”
Definately the Jam! Good quality Jam just makes a breakfast!
wait wait wait… figs… stuffed with an almond… and then all coated in chocolate??
heavenly!!!!
Crooked Cheese biscuits would make me happy and thats not being sappy… it would make me jump for joy even better than a toy!
Love and Merry Xmas
Rozzie Kaye
Hard decision, but I will have to choose the chocolate with cocoa nibs. I mean, how can you beat chocolate with more chocolate in it??
Raspberry Rhubarb Jam – two of my favourite things!
Nicholson wild hibiscus flowers – because they make your drinks pretty – very festive!!!
I think for me the Crooked Creek Cheese.
When it comes to cheese I’m easy to please.
Then again,oven baked figs, chocolate coated;
I could devour the lot & not feel bloated.
Lakeland Olives, Lomondo oil;
I really feel I could have it all.
So dear (NQ)Nigella, I feel ’tis me you should pamper;
I would love to take delivery of this wonderful hamper!
the raspberry sauce looks absolutely mouth-watering. i’ll have to have it with vanilla ice-cream coated with the almonds! it be a family favorite!
The raspberry sauce would be to die for! Now I just have to decide which Christmas dessert to team it with: White chocolate ganache pudding, Vanilla + pistachio souffle, Raspberry shortcakes w basil cream or Coeur a la Creme
The figs sound amazing!! We are mid kitchen renovations and I am having cooking withdrawals – seeing all those lovely goodies makes me impatient.
I love this hamper! The packaging for each item is fantastic with the cute saying like freshly made by hand with unhurried care etc… so therefore my favourite is the Crooked Creek Cheese biscuits! Too cute!
Oh, how good do those Leppington Farm Chocolate coated figs sound!! Yummy Yummy!
I probably will choose the rhubarb and raspberry jam by The Jammery. My father in law loves jam and I’ve been buying him different type and brands from around sydney. So far the review was pretty average. I wonder if the Jammery will get a rave review
Oh, seriously, it has to be the choc almond figs… chocolaty gooey fruity nutty yumminess, that not only tastes delish, but good for you too….eat more..!
I would choose the Cuttaway Creek raspberry sauce. Raspberries are my favourite fruit, but the season is so short that you need to have other forms of the delectable berry throughout the year, and this sauce would do it for me. My other reason for wanting it is that I was in hospital for the whole of October and was not able to eat for a month apart from IV fed calories, and even now my diet is restricted. The upside is I lost 12kg, and now I have been told to eat high calorie, high protein and fat food, and ice-cream with raspberry sauce would fit the bill nicely!! Yum.
Wooo hoo – thanks for the giveaway Lorraine! I think I’ll go for Sweetness the Patisserie, I’m such a big fan of their fresh fruit marshmallows, so moreish…
Oooh so much to choose from, I can’t pick a favourite but my top 3 are the tamari roasted almonds as the flavours and roasted goodness are a quick healthy snack; the Leppington Farm Chocolate coated figs with almond in the middle sounds so different I’d love to try it and the picture of the Rochford chocolate has me sold in a heartbeat. Chocolate is running through my veins, need it to survive and get through the day!! That rochford slab looks divine and good enough to die for … so that’s my choice.
This hamper would be perfect for me to take to Mum and Dad’s for under the tree. I always bring a basket of goodies and Mum always “forces” us to take something home with us… It’s kinda the gift I give myself. We always end up fighting over the cheeses and olives – so I’d have to say the fight would be for the Lakelands Sun-dried Olives if I win this one…
Thanks Lorraine
-xx-
Oh my lord Lorraine …. those choc covered figs would be the pick for me …. never had choc covered figs …love chocolate love figs and love almonds …. wow what a combo ticks all my boxes
actually though all these goodies look fab
Dark chocolate covered figs….yes please. I need to eat much more of these!!
A hamper filled with christmas cheer, would really help to make my year!
Cheese and biscuts, salty olives are so much better than a bowl of porridge!
So pick me Nigella, and I will promise that we can share these yummies together!
Chocolate coated figs to leave out for Santa and tamari almonds for his reindeer!
ahhh, cheese biscuits, how I love thee!
I can & will eat these until I can eat no more.
My family spends so much time making everything from scratch because when you buy something from a packet it’s always got so many nasties in them! But making everything from scratch can be so time consuming so it would be wonderful to grow our knowledge of products that are made with love and taste good and aren’t filled with hidden evil ingredients! The Choc coated figs sound amazing! and I think they would be extra good being made with such dedication to quality!
You had me at Dark Chocolate coated figs. Not only due to the fact that roasted fruits and chocolate are my current weakness but also so I can think of different ways to eat them! On their own for pop-in-your-mouth deliciousness, slightly melted and topped with icecream,at room temperature with some nice smelly cheese, stuffed inside a chicken breast with some brie… (I love mixing sweet with savoury)… the possibilities are endless!
I really don’t think I can go past the oven-baked chocolate covered figs. I just drooled all over my keyboard. I love these sort of hampers – love the fact that the products are Australian and unusual.
Ohh… chocolate covered figs really tickle my fancy!
You had me at the first item: the chocolate slab with cocoa-nibs is the most appealing by a long shot. Chocolate (and it does look lovely and dark) with a lovely crunchy texture – what more could you ask for?
Whats not to love here??
Chocolate with nibs…hmmn, but I think I go for the additive free figs, with little almonds…hello heaven!
Crooked Creek cheese biscuits brings to mind a summer picnic!
Love to have one by a babbling brook and this hamper seems to have everything I would need to OVER-INDULGE…….
I may just move to Australia to participate, lol!
Gorgeous hamper, Lorraine!
Rhubarb and raspberry jam for sure! And because jam is one product that is absolutely always better in an artisan version. So many brilliant ways I could use the jam. Maybe cute Christmas present butter cockies with jam splodges in the center!
I’d most like to savour the Jammery Rhubarb & Raspberry Jam.
It would go nicely on my homemade oat & blueberry muffins that I presently have an obsession with for breakfast! Yes, please- yum!
Mmmm Lorraine – what a lovely time you must have had sampling those goodies!
It’s the rhubarb and raspberry jam that most appeals to me. I can imagine N and I as we wind our way to Melbourne for Christmas, camped somewhere overlooking the water, drinking tea and eating fresh bread with that delicious jam – divine!
Hmmm – it would be a toss up between the chocolate and the rhubarb and raspberry jam…
While I do love me some chocolate, I am a sucker for all things raspberry…
you had me at chocolate dotted with cocoa nibs…
But you knew that already.
Definitely the chocolate coated figs! An intriguing combination of two of my favourite things!
I would love the raspberry jam by The Jammery. There is something about quality Raspberry Jam that is like heaven on earth!
I grew up with a fig tree, and at 78 can still remember the taste. Chocolate coated figs would take both to another dimension.
Since my partner became a vegetarian – who does not eat fruit or, indeed, vegetables – I have never enjoyed so many cheeses! He is a cheese-i-vore and I have become a cheese connoisseur. Yet I have never tried the Crooked Creek cheese biscuits. I would very much like to, but most of all I would love to add another item to the list of foods that he will gladly eat. It is Christmas, so I shall spoil him and respect his dietary dogma. And, you never know, looking at all the other wonderful ingredients in this luscious hamper I may be able to convert him to a number of other foods he has never dreamed of tasting. Such an arduous task introducing him to them one by one, but it is the season of love and goodwill is it not?
The Crooked Creek cheese biscuits sound wonderful, I love all things cheese and these would make a lovely nibbly for when my family comes round for Christmas lunch!
I am a breakfast fiend. Love toast and Jam, so the rubarb and rasberry jam sounds just up my alley. Plus, I’ve never tasted that combination before.
Everything looks good, especially the chocolate… what’s a hamper without chocolate!
the Lakelands sun dried olives, olives just gets my heart-a-thumpin’
It would have to be raspberry sauce – for all my summer ice-creams of course!!
Wild Hibiscus Flowers added to a glass of fine champagne – they open wide and release a heavenly flavour! Go on,try it for yourself!
The Cuttaway Creek raspberry sauce because tis the season to be naughty and nice.
Crooked Creek cheese biscuits – they sound so delicious & I’m always looking for something different to put out with cheese’n'dips.
Cheese biscuits!!! They’d be so bad for me, but I’d be so good in order to eat them all!!!
Leppington Farm Chocolate coated figs – seeing them is not only tickling my fancy, but making my arm hair stand on end in absolute anticipation of eating them. Am I weird, yes I am!
The Chocolate – i’ve been ‘Trying to Diet’, now I’m ‘Dying to Try It’!
Lakelands sun dried olives, the mere thought of these is taking me back to my youth, with Mum & Nonna drying olives. To this day no commercial products have even come close, and it’s tickling my fancy with enormous hope that these will hit the spot. Fingers crossed, I desperately need to try these now.
Extra Virgin olive Oil – reminds me of a time (many years ago now) when i was also so pure!
The cheese biccies! I love a gourmet cheese biscuit. I have been known to eat a packet of those things for breakfast on the weekend…
I dont want to be naughty, but…. it would be nice to have a nibble at all of them….
Rochford chocolate with cocoa nibs, i’m a chocoholic and this choc looks and sounds droolingly yummy
The cheese biscuits – just to see if there were actually 40 (give or take 1-2) biscuits in there and if not, I will be very cross!
OMG, choosing is the stuff nightmares are made of!!! (this is why i can’t go near markets if i’m low on cash, no self control darn it…)
Ummm the Choc coated baked figs look awesome though, mum used to get us something similar when we were kids and i loved them – we used to “steal” them from the kitchen as a snack when she wasn’t looking lol!
I’ll take the choc coated figs with almonds! Dark chocolate is filled with antioxidants, figs are a great source of fibre and almonds are high in protien and lower cholesterol levels. Who ever thought so many health benefits could be wrapped in such a deliciously devilish package?
What a beautiful hamper – the chocolate covered figs look devine – I’d definately be up for tasting those
The Honest to Goodness tamari roasted almonds sound interesting and Im guessing are gluten free.
Thanks once again for introducing us to all the wonderful produce that is available.
my favourite would have to be the ‘lamondo extra virgin olive oil’ because i do a lot of cooking and i love to use good olive oil
although the chocolate is so tempting I can’t go past the raspberry sauce! In my eyes anything raspberry wins automatically.
The Leppington Valley Oven baked Figs.I’ve been a figa-holic since way back and have been suffering withdrawal symptoms since my house with the Adam fig tree sold.
Umm The Figs ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ My behaviour would not be in the spirit but I would hide them and eat all of them, yum yum yummo!
The Crooked Creek cheese biscuits, because I don’t think I’ve eaten a cheese biscuit since my youth. That’s bringing back memories!
the olive oil! i just love a good olive oil eaten with just some fresh bread. yum
Crooked Creek cheese biscuits topped with Lakelands Sun Dried Olives, drizzled with a little more Lomondo EV Oil, a good novel and glass of a lively Rose and I would be blissed out!
Oh my the Rhubarb and Raspberry Jame sounds divine!
I would just love the extra Virgin Olive Oil. I am always looking for a good quality olive oil and especially if made in Australia. There are so many on the market these days that just have no flavour or colour. I believe olive oil can make or break and good dish
I can’t choose but I love the fact that this hamper looks so delicious and all comes from our back door. It’s great to see the hard work of Aussie’s trying to make difference in the food world pay off!
gorgeous produce! i would have to say that we would enjoy the rhubarb and raspberry jam or raspberry sauce over here in Perth. Mainly because its so dang impossible to get fresh raspberries here
The Rochford chocolate dotted with cocoa nibs sounds so nice! Do I have to share though??
anything with figs captures my heart!
Oooh this is gorgeous. I’d have to say I’d be tickled to try one of those chocolate-coated almondy figs followed by the yummy cheesy biscuits as sugary sweet usually leads to a craving for something savory and both sound delicious!
olive oil and bread especially fresh bread there is nothing like it just love it
Not just Nigella likes yummy things,
Delectable treats make my tummy sing.
Dark-choc figs at just one glance,
Make my whole mouth and tastebuds dance.
I can’t go past the Leppington Valley Farm dark chocolate figs with almonds! Some special to serve to friends and family for Christmas.
Oh, the sun dried olives look fantastic, would love to try them!
the cheese biscuit looks absolutely delectable.. yummmm
I love extra special, earthy items during the holidays. I would love to try the wild hibiscus flowers. I can only imagine all the ways they could be used!!
xo
What tickles my fancy is the Cuttaway Creek raspberry sauce.
It is soooo yummy that I’ll have it with every Christmas Day meal course.
Such a versatile ingredient for both savoury and sweet.
From a smear on cheese, as part of salad vinegar dressing, use instead of cranberry sauce, to a sprinkling on trifle or pavlova – what a treat!
Definately the Cheese Biscuits – Fat, Salt, Cheese – their like chips but healthy! I can eat twice as much.
Lorraine, I have never tried hibiscus flowers so I would have to say the hibiscus !
I would love the Rochford choc but alas I am on a heart smart diet after recently suffering a heart attack at 54
Thanks for this fab giveaway!!
I’ll have to disqualify myself up front, but would just love to see how long it would take to devour the whole basket at say an afternoon picnic at the beach!
Not sure what the product actually is, but you can’t go past the name “Honest to Goodness, Real Food that Loves You Back” (sums up what its all about really).
The Raspberry Dessert Sauce excites me most as I fancy having a different twist for rosemary-thyme grilled chicken instead of the boring gravy. This dessert sauce could also be a gourmet chicken side dip by adding a half cup of the raspberry and mixing in a jalapeno or green chilli chopped into bits. Now, THAT’s a fancy-tickling twist!
Yep, that ice-cream tonight would have been soooo much better with THE RASPBERRY SAUCE drizzled on top!
The Rochford Chocolates – no doubt! I’m a total chocoholic. They look delicious even on the screen, bet they tasted even better.
You had me at the sundried Olives… no shortcuts in the making of these… mmmm
oh i’d love to try the rhubarb and raspberry jam! sounds unusual and delicious!
The Crooked Creek cheese biscuits look delicious. I’m addicted to cheese biscuits because they are so crumbly and cheesy. Couldn’t help eating the whole pack
Well I think I will choose the Chocolate Coated Figs as am about to buy a fig tree so will have something to aim for when the tree starts producing those beautiful fruit
Wow those figs sound gorgeous. Hamper or no hamper I will be getting some of those!
Cuttaway Creek raspberry sauce tickles imagination and tempts my tastebuds. I’m off to google just what I can use this for.
Oooh, very hard to choose, but I think the hibiscus flowers, because they’re so different and I’d have to explore recipes to come up with something delectable to do with them.
Oh!Rochford chocolate, chocolate is my weakness but there is so much to delight in this great big Artisan Christmas Hamper from Victor’s Food .
Being a chocoholic from way back – the Rochford chocolate dotted with cocoa nibs sounds like it was made just for me!
Decadence in a hamper Chocolate! Chocolate coated Figs! Olives! mmmmmm I’ve died and gone to heaven yummm
Dear Lorraine,
Let me explain…
This would be such a treat,
There is no food I wouldn’t eat,
Add exquisite wine, this delicious fare
Is a perfect way for anyone to share.
This hamper just can’t be beaten,
With Rochford Chocolates to be eaten,
There’s no denying I’d love to win this prize!
To make my Christmas such a surprise!
Sincerely,
Steph
Omg to be able to get that good olive oil…so expensive… and that chocolate… heck everything sounds wonderful!
Who can resist the combination of biscuit and cheese, better yet, combine them both and make them into cheese biscuits! YUM! Crooked Creek cheese biscuits would be my pick.
Leppington Farm Chocolate coated figs with crunchy almond in the middle… and no numbers – yay! (Although I may need numbers to count how many I eat!)
Hmmm..decisions decisions! Soo hard to choose just one, but i think i’m gonna go for the Nicholson Wild Hibiscus Flowers, because i’ve never eaten hibiscus flowers, and i love to try new exotic things
Sound so gloriously summery too!
It’s a well known fact that i’m a little,no,a big chocolate addict!And i’m not talking your average addiction here,this is weak in the knees,water in the mouth,can’t think clearly kind of addiction!!So basically i NEED this amazing pack!!NEED it!!
Raspberry Sauce for me. As soon as I saw it I felt the saliva start to flow! I have a tiny weakness for cheesecake and raspberry sauce is just the thing to dressing it up perfectly.
Tamari roasted almonds! I mean lets face it,everything you mentioned sounded great, but these had my mouth watering!
I can see myself draped Cleopatra style on a chaise lounge being fed Leppington Farm Chocolate coated figs. Possibly add George Clooney into the mix doing the feeding and what more could I want. Of course Clooney doesn’t get any of the figs they’re mine.
It would have to the Dark Chocolate Coated Oven Bake Figs!
What more luscious indulgence will one want! It’s packed high with antioxidants from the dark chocolate and tremendous health properties in the figs itself!!!!
It all looks so scrumptious that its difficult to choose. But after careful consideration my inner chocoholic said it just has to be the Rochford Chocolates.
The Crooked Creek cheese biscuits are my all-time, want-more, tasty-treat favourites!
the cheese biscutes look awsome i love love savoury treats ,theres nothing better
Rhubarb and raspberry jam, my tastebuds just screamed! My mouth is watering. Yummy.
I would love the almonds to share with my father in law, who can’t have alot of the nasties found in food. It would be a lovely rare treat for him.
I know it might be a bit cliche, but who can go past the slab of Rochford chocolate dotted with cocoa nibs! Yum… I am salivating as I write this! A chocolate lovers dream!
Rochford Chocolates….I think I’m in heaven!This is the right way to this woman’s heart….need I say more….Yum!
I adore rhubarb and the tartness of the rasberries in the rhubarb and rasberry jam, the combination makes my tongue drool thinking about it.
The chocolate fig would go down big at all my family gigs, just couldn’t be fickle when your taste buds they tickle.
Everything in this hamper is my favourite, if I was really pushed for one though it would be the raspberry sauce. I can already imagine this sauce blended with my vanilla icecream, I would think all my christmases come at once
raspberry sauce mmmmmmmm
I gotta say the rhubarb and raspberry jam. Yum on hot toast with melting butter that would so make me weak at the knees.
What a wonderful hamper! The Rochford chocolate of course! It would be delish I’m sure.
Real food that loves you back? The perfect love affair.
The Rochford chocolate with cocoa nibs sounds enticing and unique. Am I the only one never to have heard of cocoa nibs?!
Rhubarb and raspberry jam would go great with smoked ham.
Rasberry sauce took my eye! I was imagining it on some icecream during hot weather. Heavenly!
Im salivating thinking of the cheese biscuits…Stop tormenting!!
Definately the olive oil….
there’s nothing like cooking with top quality oil, it changes the flavor of the food and has so many natural healing benefits. Yum!
Beef
The Lomondo Extra Virgin Olive Oil tickles my fancy (that sounds a bit naughty). I can down a fine drop of Olive Oil like wine!
The rhubarb and raspberry jam sounds delicious and I can knock up a mean bunch of scones that would really do justice to it.
The wild hibiscus flowers, because nothing says christmas like a hibiscus flower in the bottom of a champagne filled flute glass.
I am an absolute chocolate fiend and so to hear mention of the Rochford chocolate dotted with cocoa nibs, my mouth started to salivate! That would be the item in the hamper that I would most love to sink my teeth into!
rhubarb and raspberry jam,
generously lathered on toast,
a sweet morning treat,
far far better than most!
Chocolate – smooth and dark surrounding luscious dried figs with a firm crunch of almond…impossible to beat.
I Kelly Walker hereby declare i am a chocoholic that is totally drooling over the irresistable Rochford chocolate.
Do my eyes deceive me, is that really dark chocolate oven baked figs with an almond centre and really….no preservatives. OMG I’m sorry I cannot wait to win a hamper, I have to go and buy these right now, where is Leppington Farm anyway?
The rhubarb and raspberry jam. With hubbys Christmas holidays around the corner I could handle this on my toast every day for 4 weeks while he brings he breakfast in bed!Now that tickles my fancy!
Woohoo! Mudgee LOMONDO Extra Virgin Olive Oil! Purrfect for me,coz not only am I sizzling hot I am deliciously pure.
Cuttaway Creek Raspberry sauce is my favourite, I want to try it with my home made vanilla bean icecream, yummo
So without a doubt it is the Rochford Chocolate, not such a surprise from me but being 8 1/2 months pregnant this Christmas and almost ready to give birth! chocolate especially delicious, delicate Rochford chocolate is a pregnant womans dream! I am salivating thinking about it! All my pregnancy I have been craving sweet things and why not have the finest for the little one growing inside of me! NomNom!!!
It’s very hard to pick just one product from a range of gourmet goods that are made by local people with a passion and obvious love of good food. While the chocolate is tempting, I would have to choose the Olive Oil as I love to cook with quality products and Olive Oil features daily in my cooking fare. It’s particularly tasty used as a dipping oil for some very freshly made bread.
the rhubarb n raspberry jam, which i would give to my dad. they called him “rhubarb” at uni because he loved it so much.
Definitely oven bake Fig. I love anything to do with Figs
The mention of that slab of chocolate is enough to make me start salivating!! Yes, I am a chocoholic…
The Lomondo EV olive oil from Mudgee would be my pick, as I don’t think Mudgee gets enough recognition for the excellent olive oils that are coming out of the region. This would definitely be perfect in a salad dressing!
wow, how delicious! and all so good for you, especially chocolate dipped oven roasted figs with almonds, what a winner for a christmas treat x s
Dear Lorraine, It all looks so delicious but if i must choose i’d say:-
Poured over ice-cream, that raspberry sauce.
Sweet temptations, i have no remorse.
I need to win this hamper,
So my sweet tooth i can pamper.
It looks so yummy,
Would be great in my tummy.
Sincerely
Mandy
Are you serious..you want me to pick just one?? Come on, I live in Qld, I’d run around the house naked for any of them
Are you serious…you want me to pick just one?? Come on, I live in Qld, I’d run around the house naked for any of them
the raspberry sauce, i have a weakness for it
How yummy do those figs sound, can’t wait to get my hands on some to try.
Raspberry Sauce of course, I’m a real sweet tooth.
Raspberry sauce, what a dream,
So many options for this one it seems,
Ice cream, sponge cake, or I could be good,
Add to some yoghurt, I probably should.
What would tickle my fancy? Mmmmm, Lakelands sun-dried olives I think. I LOVE olives, and ones that are naturally and ethically produced? Mmmmmmmmmm! NOTHING like you’d find in the supermarket, a thousand times better.
The olive oil, to make some fabulous tasting dishes this Christmas!
Rochford chocolate would be my weakness! i”ll share this hamper with my family on christmas. It’ll be delightful opening each content and sampling them over a nice cup of tea!
Raspberry Sauce, do I need to say any more!! Yum
Well they all sound divine but I would love to try the Lomondo Extra Virgin olive oil the most.
I really love having a few different types of oils to hand so I can vary the tastes in dishes I am preparing. Also one of my favourite things is to be able to tell your guests a story about where some of the items you have cooked or served with comes from, and this hamper would be the start of many of those conversations!
Sun dried olives!!!!!!
Yummmmmmmmmmie!
My mouth is watering just thinking about them
Leppington Valley Farm Oven Baked Figs…. memories of my childhood with our fig tree come to life… sounds delish!
I have never tried figs and what better way to experience them I feel is with Nigellas chocolate covered ones – sounds like bliss!!!!
The lakelands sundried olives would not last long if I got to them, olive freak!
Rochford Chocolate – I am in need of CHOCOLATE. Just put it in front of me and walk away…very slowly!
oh, oven baked chocolate coated fig. Would it be inappropriate to do a jig?
The chocolate for sure because it sounds like it would be very delicious, delectable and delightful to eat. One bite I think i would be in heaven and chocolate bliss.
I’ve tasted figs.
I enjoy almonds.
Chocolate? Need I say more???
But, chocolate covered figs with an almond centre! I could tell myself that I need them because they’re full of antioxidants. Or, I could be honest and just say they sound amazingly delicious. Mmmmm
Imagine opening your bonbon at Christmas and instead of a silly hat and bad joke there is….a luscious chewy rich caramel surprise! Now, that’s my kind of Christmas bonbon. Yum!
The Rhubarb and Raspberry jam sounds delicious. Just the sort of thing to get my very fussy 2 year old eating breakfast.
The raspberry sauce, I think it would be divine smothered on crushed meringue casings and vanilla ice-cream!
Raspberry Sauce
the touch of delicious decadence that makes chocolate even more delicious, ice cream magnificent, pavlovas the best, well it simply does it for me and all of my guests agree
OOOOh the cheese biscuits of course…..I adore a little savoury crunch with a good wine and those little cheesy delights look like morsels of heaven.
Who would not want to win a foodie hamper at christmas! bring it on
It is so difficult to choose because everything sounds so scrumptious, but if pressed I would have to say the Leppington Farm chocolate coated figs, simply because they combine the goodness of fruit and the naughtiness of chocolate!Good for your body and for your mind! (Although if I won, I wouldn’t have to pick just one, would I?)
Rhubarb and Raspberry Jam for me, it would remind me of my late husband and would just be so versatile an ingredient
I’d love the chocolates and because my family have a sweet tooth I will be hiding the hamper and sneaking it out in secret.
Rochford chocolate, what a delight,
Tastes so heavenly with every bite,
With chocolate being my muse,
It’s something I can never refuse.
Hi Lorraine,
It’s me again…
I just can’t help it,
I’d like the biscuit,
No olives, it’s driving me nuts,
can’t decide,um figs, no jam, but…
It’s such a delectable collection,
AAAAHHHHH!!!! Can’t choose they’re all perfection!!!
Sincerely again, Steph
An aspiring poet and chef!!!
MMMMM…You had me at “The slab of Rochford chocolate dotted with cocoa nibs”… Yummo…
What a fantastic Christmas gift this would make!!
The Leppington Farm Chocolate coated figs really do sound Amazing!
I absolutely adore Rochford Chocolates!!!!
The rhubarb and raspberry jam would be lovely with vanilla ice cream
Chocolate with nibs for me for sure
I’m partial to home-made ice cream,
All fresh ingredients of course,
And to satisfy the sweet tooth,
Top with Victor Foods Rasberry Sauce!
Carmel Bon Bons…omg stop it how can you tease people like this..lol ok gotta go…shopping for Bon Bons…bye
Almonds, figs and chocolate, all the things I love, texture, sweetness, contrast in soft and crunch …..umph!
What to choose, what to choose -crooked creek cheese biscuits – just the name is inticing!!
Oh Lorraine you are such a tease.
Artisans Hamper all would please.
Choc figs would be may fav.
Wonderful hamper I must rave.
Seasons Greetings All.
Have plenty of festive fun.
The Rochford Chocolate, I mean who can go past CHOCOLATE!
the Rochford Chocolate because everyone who knows me knows about my chocolate obsession.
The Cuttaway Creek raspberry sauce sounds too good to resist. I cannot wait to spread this all over a warm crusty bread.
What a delightful Christmas Gift Hamper where everything looks so delectable and so my choise would have to be the Lakelands sun dried olives.
Lakelands sun dried olives is the one that makes me delectable.
The Raspberry sauce could be used to tickle lots of fancies!!
Lakelands sun dried olives
I want the Raspberry sauce because it will go beautifully over the home made vanilla bean ice cream I plan to make at Chrissy
Those chocolate coated figs sound amazing… I’d love to try them out!
I am right into good quality Olive Oils at the moment. I would love to Lomondo EVOO.
Oh my! The Leppington Farm Chocolate Coated Figs are absolutely magical… How do they get that crunchy almond in the centre?
The raspberry sauce fir me. Sweet delicious goodness perfect as a topping or dip for fruit
You’d think it would be the chocolate but no no no its the olive oil. There is nothing more satisfying that cooking with great australian olive oil, just love it.
Crooked Creek Cheese Biscuits, sound delicious!
They’d tastily complement savoury dishes!
Tickling my fancy, is the moreish name!
Eating these treats? ~my definite aim!
Tamari roasted almonds chocolate coated figs yum my mouth is watering at the anticipation -itis beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. Can’t wait to experience such culinary indulgences. Judix
It all looks sooo good – can’t pick one item – amaaazing – want it all!
I would really like to try the raspberry sauce. Raspberry is my favourite flavour and I love its tart biteyness.
Mmm mmm, the rochford chocolate “dotted with cocoa nibs” would be my pick – much better than the cheap and tasteless chocolate that my husband buys!!
I would love to try the chocolate covered figs. Ive never tried figs before.
“Lomondo Extra Virgin Olive Oil”
You have to use the best when it comes to olive oil. Gorgeous with a drizzle of balsamic and some hunks of artisian bread to dip.
I would want to nibble on the Leppington Valley Chocolate Figs while up in the middle of the night breastfeeding my baby – would give me something to be happy about when waking up at all hours of the night!!!!
I would love to try the Chocolate coated figs, it sounds delicious, something I have never tried before.
You’ve made it all sound so incredibly delicious that it’s hard to choose! I think I’d have to say the Raspberry Sauce tickles my fancy the most, because it makes even the simplest dessert look incredible!
I’m reading through the list of hamper products, drool at the rhubarb jam, but my knees go to jelly at the though of chocolate coated figs!
Oh to be blasphemous!… the raspberry sauce so elegantly drizzled over a sumptious chocolate ripple cake on Christmas day…delicious!
Most people admit to a sweet tooth but I have all sweet teeth and the chocolate bar sounds like just the thing for them.
How good is that, combine figs and chocolate together, now that sounds heavenly
Th olive oil smeared over me by my husband then he can lick it off.That tickles my Fancy.
The raspberry sauce could come in very handy on xmas morning. Ho Ho Ho !!!.
the Rochford chocolate for the cocoa nibs that embellish the blogging quills of NQN!
Tough choice… but I would love to try the Nicholson wild hibiscus flowers. I’ve heard of them before but never had the pleasure of trying them myself. A little bit exotic don’t you think?
The rhubarb & raspberry jam sounds yummy and I think it would go well with the turkey as a change from the traditional cranberry sauce, as well as putting it on crumpets and toast. And like everyone else I could easily tuck into the decadent dark chocolate coated figs with a surprise crunchy almond in the middle – wow, too bad about the wasteline!
The Cheese Biscuits sound divine. I simply add guests, cheese and wine for a great cheese and wine tasting evening with friends.
Lomondo EV Olive Oil. I love it use in cooking and beauty. Great for beauty inside and out.
I would love to try oven baked figs in one of Nigellas’ wicked Gluted Free Recipes. I watch Nigella religiously and know there is no holes barred delicous cooking. It makes your mouth water watching her cook.
Crooked Creek cheese biscuits as I love to snack and would keep a pack in my napsack for such days when only Crooked Creek cheese biscuits will do!
As a child of British parents it has to be Rhubarb and Raspberry jam to bring back that xmas feeling.
The cheese biscuits are the best ever.My mouth is watering at the thought. Just love cheese and crumbly biscuits
Those cheese biscuts look like they would taste so nice,make me want to go out now and buy them to try.
The raspberry sauce, perfect on my pavlova or just to add some decadence to my christmas pudding and brandy custard
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RASPBERRY SAUCE ALL STICKY AND SWEAT.
OMG Cheeze biscuits. Real biscuits with real cheeze. So much better than the wanna bes in the supermarkets. Would love try them out with the family on Christmas day
The Rochford Chocolate looks mighty fine, I’m sure it tastes absolutely divine.
Well, if push comes to shove.
It’s a good Olive Oil I love.
With a taste thats unqiue.
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Makes a pantry complete.
Nothing better then cracking open those cheese biscuits during a family movie night
The Lomondo Olive Oil is exquisite! It’s what every well-dressed salad is wearing these days.
they all look absolutley delsih but it would have to be the Lomondo EV olive oil, love a good drop.
Well I have been to Mudgee and tasted many a fine wine but never have I tried Mudgee olive oil. There is nothing more lovely than a great Australian extra virgin olive oil….. someone pass the dukkah! Wash it down with a glass of pinot grigio, aaah heaven!
I would love the jam! I’ve got many happy memories of cooking all sorts alongside my mother. Good times, great Memories! Merry Christmas everyone!
Sings “these are a few of my favourite things!” – chocolate coated figs with a crunchy almond centre. It is breakfast time and my mouth is watering for these gorgeous figs!
Crooked cheese bickies an awesome savoury treat as is or a base with pate, dip or an assortment of toppers Im drooling
Hi Lorraine, it would have to be the Leppington Valley Farm chocolate coated dried figs. Figs aren’t everyones cup of tea but I love them and combined with chocolate, who could resist !
I can see those saucy little raspberries sliding down a snowy moutain of icecream and forming a lake of pure summer flavour
Cheese bickies would do a fine treat with nibbles, the finest cheeses and wine for our christmas eve street function everyone loves good crackers
The Oven Baked Figs. I have a recipe for Dried Figs – they’re lovely but so messy to make. I couldn’t even imagine trying to get an almond in them and chocolate around them. Sounds heavenly.
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The rhubarb and raspberry jam Nigella looks delicious and I would love to entertain all my friends and family buy serving in a little china glass dish next to my fig scones with freshly whipped cream glazed ginger and a pot of freshly brewed arabic coffee..Thankyou…
Being a sweet an saucy kind of gal I’m in for the Strawberry Sauce – Tickelicous!
Everything looks amazing! I can’t choose! Rasberry sauce mmm chocolate mmm… cheese biscuits mmmm olive oil mmmm… I want all of it!!!
The Lomondo Extra Virgin Olive Oil would be my choice. Versatile of course! and with a bit of imagination and a few drops of essential oil – a massage to die for!
Picture this: Cuttaway Creek Raspberry Sauce drizzled over vanilla ice-cream, caressed over a meringue, or swirled through a milkshake. Oh yeah!
I like the sound of the “Honest to Goodness Tamari toasted almonds” cos I love savoury treats and nuts!
definately the Leppington Farm chocolate coated figs, an absolute taste sensation, a yummy treat and they are healthy too.
The Rochford Chocolate looks devine – can’t go past a good quality chocolate!
On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love said to me “Figs rolled in chocolate, with an almond in the centre” and I replied “forget the partridge and the pear tree and all the rest of it, you’ve got me with the figs!”
Cheese biscuits for me please. I’m hoping they taste like my Nana’s cheese biscuits that she used to make for our parties
The Leppington Valley Farm oven baked figs sound simply devine. My tastebuds are having a little party just at the thought of them.
chocolate figs – i havent ever eaten figs before but anything with chocolate has to be worth a try!
Ah! Enticing! Chocolate coated figs with a crunchy almond! And number-less!!
Fancy that, the rhubarb & raspberry jam took my fancy, on fresh scones.
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The slab of Rochford chocolate, sounds like I could taste it from here.
How spolt the winner will be!
lomondo olive oil would be a fantastic starter for my dinner party with some freshly baked bread for dippers
The Lakelands sun dried olives sounds devine. Perfect for an afternoon of cheese & bikkies.
The mention of a slab of Rochford chocolate dotted with cocoa nibs had my mouth watering, hmmm yummy.
The raspberry sauce has won awards,
So that’s what I’d want to explore!
Swirled into a cheesecake,
The senses will awake!
Like a wand granting my christmas wishes,the raspberry suace is the perfect companion to my sweet or savoury entertaining dishes!
Raspberry sauce sounds amazing & would be perfect over ice cream for a simple & amazing dessert.
Chocolate coated figs would be a great treat to leave out for Santa – and if he doesn’t eat them then I could indulge my passions.
the raspberry sauce, as I have an interesting way of tickling not just my fancy with it but my partners as well
Definitley the Crooked Creek cheese biccies! being a long term widow the only pleasure in life comes from good cheese and the right biccies! Yum!
Leppington Valley Farm
DARK Chocolate Coated
OVEN BAKED FIGS
with Almonds
Whoa! these are 3 of my favorite things.
Is that the sound of music I hear?
Yup! Music to my taste buds.
IM boring and plain and just love to cook for my family. I would love to try the Olive Oil, to bring extra flavour to our meals.
However the chocolate and cranberry sauce look very tempting as well.
Chocolate coated figs, as they’d be a marvellous dessert to have after Christmas lunch. The almond in the centre would make a lovely surprise!
Honest to Goodness Lorraine, I couldn’t possibly go past the Tamari Roasted Almonds, and I especially love that there are “no nasties added”. See, completely guilt free!
The Crooked creek cheese biscuits caught my eye as I love cheese biscuits and will have to try these. Hopefully they go nicely with a brie or stilton and red wine
How will you ever pick a winner.. perhaps you should divide all these yummy treat between us all.
Just make sure the sun dried olives come this way (after all it’s such a great suggestion) lol
How can you go past the chocolate coated figs. This Hamper is crazy good.
I love the Nicholson wild hibiscus flowers what a great way to celibrate xmas they will make the bubbly sparkle
It’s all so moreish but I’d have to say the Crooked Creek Cheese biscuits because I know I could eat a packet by myself and still want more!
Dark oven baked Figs for me. Crushed and served over ice-cream. Yummo
Love the surprize of hunting through a hamper..and squealing in delight at its wonderful goodies..especially the chocolate coated figs!
The rhubarb and raspberry jam sounds sooo delicious. Would love to try this with soft fresh bread and butter.
Raspberry sauce you have captured my eye how i would love just a liitle try past the chocolate and straight to you wow thats something completely new!
I would love to taste the cheese biscuits – I think they would be great on Christmas day with some delicious dips.
The figs sound particularly wonderful – three of my favourite ingredients, all in one!! I’ve been on a bit of a muesli-making kick lately, so I’m imagining cutting them up and mixing them in — nothing like a bit of figgy, nutty, chocolatey goodness to start the day!
The caramel bonbons are also sounding pretty damn good to me right now (can you tell I’m on a mid-afternoon sugar-low?! :p)… certainly wouldn’t say no to them in my muesli, too!!
I’d love to make my own version of Nigella’s ‘cheesecake in a glass’ using the Cutterway Creek raspberry sauce. Yum! “Not quite Nigella” I know but I’m sure she’d be impressed I’m cooking the ‘express way’!
Crooked Creek cheese biscuits, so yummy looking!
Leppington Farm Chocolate coated figs sound so devine.. OH how I wish I had them as mine!
The Raspberry Sauce caught my eye and I immediately wanted to look up recipes to find what I could use it with and in and on…
I love ice cream and that rasberry sauce looks like the perfect compliment to a make a delicious desert
One of my Mt. Everest recipes is vanilla souffle with raspberry sauce, but it’s sooooo tricky for me. The Cuttaway Creek raspberry sauce is divinely preservative free and might simplify my job….i.e. I would only have the souffle to conquer. Please take pity on me….I’m still working on my multi-tasking!skills!
The sun dried olives, I am sure they are bursting with flavour, that would be my top pick.
Im all for those cheese bickies. Mmmm… Im a sucker for savoury food. Especially the unhurried type!
Cutaway Creeks Raspberry sauce, a sensational saviour of any mum. Pour over icecream and hubby and the kids are in heaven.
There is nothing better then sharing a hamper with great friends at holiday time.. the hand dipped baked figs would hit the spot with my friend who has numerous food alergies!! Yay.
the chocolates is my favorite,i can eat it at any time of the day.yummmm!
The petit fours are calling my name.They sound delicious.
chewy rich caramel bon bons from Sweetness because I love caramel and this sounds delicious!
The raspberry sauce of course! It will add style to any dessert and give you good reason to flirt!
Rhubard and raspberry jam fom the jammery sounds oh so yummy!
The Cheese Biscuits look delicious. I need only add guests, cheese and wine for a great cheese and wine tasting evening with friends.
I can’t go past the hand dipped baked figs with almonds, O.M.G. just thinking of them, kissing my lips as they pass them, feel like falling to my knees, superb!!!
The chocolates of course what girl doesn’t love a good box of fine quality chocolates
the chocolates of course what girl can resist a beautiful box of fine quality chocolates
the chocolates do it for me.. girls best friend.. and christmas is the time of year you can eat what you want and not care about your behind getting any bigger.. hah
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