Dearest Darling readers…have you noticed what I have lately? You know those tell tale white, red and silver decorations that have been dotting the shop displays and aisles? Yes that’s right, it’s almost Christmas-eeek! And if you like to give food as gifts as much as I do I have something great for you!
I used to live in the North Side and I know a lot of people north side say that they don’t have as much choice as on the other side of the bridge. In Neutral Bay on Grosvenor Street there are wine bars, restaurants, cafes and of course Australian food providore Wild Basket is keeping locals “local”.
Wild Basket opened its doors in January this year but there is something different about what Wild Basket stocks. Until now the Sydney deli scene was very much dominated by European products, however more and more shoppers are becoming focused on buying local. Owners Kristy & Trent Robinson have carefully selected each product. The couple had a strong passion for Australian food and a vision to bring all their favourite producers together under the one roof, focusing on Australia’s finest. The store showcases small-producer wine, artisan cheese, fresh Sonoma bread, preserves and even organic eggs are delivered fresh from the farm every week. There is an abundance of unique products!
The shop has a well-stocked cheese fridge in the corner and a book case housing some of Australia’s best cook books (including some very collectible signed titles from Adriano Zumbo, Matt Moran, Neil Perry, Sheridan Rogers, Luke Nguyen & Christine Manfield).
This Christmas they have beautifully presented gift baskets. Each one is bursting with unique, hand-crafted products of the highest quality but it is all Australian produce-no more tired looking shortbread and jams! You can also build your own basket by browsing the shelves and selecting your own delights, then let one of their team put it together for you. After shopping, finish off your food pilgrimage with an espresso using Bills Beans from Orange!
Thanks to Wild Basket, five lucky Not Quite Nigella readers will each win a gift basket filled with hand-crafted Australian products valued at $100 and each winner will also receive a $20 gift voucher to use in-store!
Each box will include:
A Taste of the Bush – Saltbush
Kurrajong Native Foods – Lilli Pilli Jam
Kakawa Chocolatiers – Rocky Road
Long Track Pantry – Red Onion Relish
Near River Produce -Rhubarb Lime and Ginger
The Curious Chocolatier – Strawberry and Sichuan Pepper
The Grape Alternative – Monster Mint and Chilli
Frou Frou – Grapefruit and Hibiscus
Country Harvest – Bush Fire Sauce
For a chance to win all you have to do is tell me what you want for Christmas! Simply add your answer as a comment to the story. The competition ends at midnight AEST on the 10th of December, 2011. You can enter this competition once daily and it is open to anyone within Australia.
***The winners are:
Angela B. of Qld
Dale A. of NSW
Sarah H. of Qld
Leah S. of S.A.
Soph B. of Vic***
Best of luck!
Lots of love,
Lorraine
xxx
Wild Basket
17 Grosvenor Street, Neutral Bay NSW 2089
+61 2 9908 7868
info@wildbasket.com.au
www.wildbasket.com.au
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Open: Mon to Fri 8-5.30 Sat 8.30-5.00 Sun 9.30-3.00
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Why couldn’t I have been born Australian?
In any case, if I look at this basket much longer, it’s bound to turn me into one big, quivering puddle.
But, oh, it looks like a bit of heaven, right here on earth!
All I want for Christmas is some new furniture for my new apartment!!
What a terrific prize! Wish I lived in Australia. Don’t suppose the east coast of the US is close enough.
I want a Darrell Lea nougat pudding
weight loss with lots of chocolate!
For Christmas I would like a flight to an exotic destination.
I want a happy family. Presents are just icing on the cake.
This Christmas I don’t want anything! My boyfriend is finally coming home for the holidays and I’ll be spending Christmas day with my entire family – I couldn’t ask for anything better!
If I won one of these gift baskets, it would definitely be shared on Christmas day! Plus, what better way to share Australia with your American boyfriend than with food and an Aussie Christmas
The shops/cafes/restaurants in Neutral Bay just keep improving. My sunglasses are scratched to buggery so to find a new pair under the tree would be fabulous.
Quite simply to get through the day as we, like others have had our share of tragedy and xmas has lost it’s sparkle. Our main focus will be to ensure that the children enjoy the day.
Most of all I would love my whole family to share Christmas with me however this year my ‘children’ are heading off to spend Christmas interstate and overseas with their ‘inlaws’. It will be 2 Grandmas,my husband and myself so lets enjoy this time together with some indulgent goodies. Lobster tails with Murray River salt,Tetsuya’s smoked trout,relishes from Wild Basket and perhaps a zumba cake!!! We will relive the memories of all the children around the tree and enjoy the company of the 2 grand dames and it will be wonderful.
I would love to visit! I think I would put a real hurt on the wallet in their shop. But sadly I live in Texas and it’s a bit far maybe someday. It looks like you will have plenty of choices for Christmas gifts.
I don’t want anything but a relaxing time and smiles on my childrens faces for xmas. We moved into a new home a few months back and looking fwd to new xmas tree this year!
I want one of those little book lights so I can read in the dark without disturbing my little bub who’s too small to go into her own room yet.
If I win I’ll be spending the voucher on more lilli pilli jam. That stuff is so hard to find these days!
Peace and quiet except for laughter, with my family enjoying a lovely day of yummies and munchies and sippings. Merry Christmas to all. Colleen
For christmas I secretly would love a light pink kitchen aid : ) but I would be happy with anything food related.
Yum, love the look of the Kakawa Rocky Road. What a great competition and beautiful prize. This year is the first time since the late 1970s that I will be celebrating Christmas in my own home. When my parents were alive, I always had Christmas with them until they moved to the south coast; then my (now ex) husband and I took our children to his sister’s home on Christmas Day and we travelled to my Mum and Dad’s on Boxing Day (my birthday). For the last six Christmas’s Peter and I have travelled to Kiama to visit his dear old Mum. This year, we have decided to stay put and celebrate Christmas at our place and I’m really looking forward to it. This will be the first time in six years that my son and daughter can have Christmas and/or my birthday with me. So, in a nutshell, all I want is peace and joy, and have my loved ones around me in my little nest on Christmas Day.
Why thankyou for asking! I would like to receive one of those fast slow cookers for christmas. I love slow cooked meals but sometimes just don’t have the time.
Would absolutely adore a Paul Rand print. But either super rare, or super expensive. Here’s hoping Santa has a little cash.
All I want for Christmas is……
someone to come and prepare a beautiful meal for me and my family,or just some ideas for a great relaxing day
What a wonderful gift these baskets would be with their distinctive Australian flavour.
All I wish for at Christmas is my little hotel to be filled with happy guests, enjoying good food, wine and company!
Happy festive season, Juliet.
I want to put up my feet;
have loads to eat.
Have family around me,
and good friends too.
Swim in the pool;get some colour
and read some great books.
And if santa is real, can I enlist a good cook?
Therapy- to get me through the Silly Season with InLaws!
Just checking- I don’t have to give this away for Christmas if I win do I? Cause if I get my hands on that basket, it’s not going anywhere except my tummy!
All I want for Christmas is a lovely chauffeured limo to drive me around as we do Christmas day in Canberra with my boyfriends family, and boxing day with my family in Sydney! I also hope they put in their food requests soon as I need to pre make things as cant cook while driving!
all i want for xmas is a nice sunny day to have a lovely bbq with the family (& maybe with some lovely food from Wild Basket to share with them too!)
This sounds like a great store-Glad to see some people supporting our country produce. I would love a new bench mixer- I still haven’t got one and it’s been 2 years now. I would also LOVE to win one of these delicious looking baskets-thanks for the chance.
I would like lots for things for Christmas however I really would like a water filter system to be installed. Expensive I know but I just don’t like the taste of tap water (just in my head).
Thanks for the opportunity to win one of these baskets.
All my family wants for christmas is for Poppy to have a safe/successful operation on his heart and be with us to enjoy the day. Please Lord.
All I want for Christmas is…anything food-related, really! Home-made foodstuffs, especially my Mum’s jams and chutneys
All I want for Christmas is to see my 4yr old daughters face Christmas morning after she discovers Santa has been
OMG that strawberry and Sichuan pepper combination sounds so interesting!!
I would really like a new stick blender for Christmas. My 11 year old $10 Kmart version is on it’s very last legs (she has served me well though!) and I really want to upgrade to a Cuisinart or a Kitchenaid fancy one. Fingers crossed!
What I want for Christmas is to eat all the amazing food in the world, and to not gain weight!!! Haha, it is my struggle with being obese and eating the world’s best food! Can you bring me that ability Santa?
Hi Lorraine, hubby use to work on Grosvenor St many years ago and the area has changed so much now with new stores and restaurants, will definitely visit for Christmas food supplies. Whilst I am tempted to say I would love something from Tiffany after some tough times my only real wish is good health for my family and loved ones.
A gift basket from Wild Basket of course!
for someone to pay my rent for a while! How do you fit that in a stocking? lol.
Sleep.
I want sleep for xmas
Wow, what a fabulous basket of goodies Loraine. For Christmas I’d like chocolate, chocolate,and a Cuisinart ice cream maker with compressor…. Tell her she’s dreaming
For Christmas I am asking Santa Oli for a sewing machine. I would like to start making napkins and tablecloths as gifts…they are so expensive in the shops and the choice of material in the material shops is vast so am planning to be a good girl until then. Not sure about after though!
With an adorable but very active and noisy 1 year old, all I want for Christmas is a decent lie in! (Maybe followed by a nice brunch of smoked salmon, poached eggs, buttery toast and Bollinger:))
I want that basket of goodies! We are spending Christmas with my daughter and her family in Sydney this year,she is a foodie and her husband is an very good cook…..so you see it could solve all my problems.
I really would love a cuisine art ice cream maker for Christmas
All I want for Christmas is…
To wake up on Christmas Day and see my little nieces excited faces because Santa has been;
Drink fine wine and eat fine food with no guilt and loads of pleasure;
Spend time with my precious family.
some movie vouchers just so I can go see a movie with my family,I havent being able to afford to go in ages.
You know, I just sat here for five minutes thinking about what I want for Christmas and I came up with nothing. There’s nothing I really want for Christmas except good food, family, and no dramas.
All I want for christmas is…
-A lovely christmas meal
-macbook
-tiffany necklace
After seeing and sampling the demos at Grand Designs and stumbling on Tenina’s blog (and being a greedy girl!) I’m hoping for a steam oven from Santa!!
I would like a baby for Christmas, just about to start an ivf so fingers crossed.
all i want for christmas is love peace and happiness all around the world
What I really want for Christmas is for my whole family to be together, which is a rare event these days. To share the spirit of the season and enjoy each others company with great food and wine and a sobering espresso coffee to top it off. That’s what I want for Christmas.
There is really nothing that I can say that I want (or need) I simply wish that I could have both of my (adult) children, their spouses and my grandchildren with me on Christmas Day. Happily I will spend Christmas Eve, and Christmas morning with my daughter and her family, however my son and his family will be in Cairns, where my son (who serves in the RAN) will be on duty some of Christmas and so can not join his sister and myself!
Isn’t that what every Mumm wishes?
Yummy! How wonderful to stay so local, and the store looks so inviting? Is there a cafe attached? No doubt they’d serve lovely coffee if the is! Oh and I’d love a Kindle for Christmas!
I am absolutely thrilled whenever I see more Australian products in the stores: more abilities for all of us to develop not only the marvellous fusion cooking which is giving Australia a world-wide reputation as a ‘foodie’ nation, but an increasing number of ways to develop our very own style of cooking! What do I want for Christmas : Above all I want to click on the TV and hear of no war casualties, no boatpeople killed in another accident on the seas, no bushfires at Yule set up by a sick idiot, no streetwars by gangs, no old people or children raped or murdered. And the politicians could stop commenting and give us a bit of a break! I would just like a warm and quiet Yuletide each of us can spend in our own way, saying at the end of the day: ‘This was a good one’ . . .
I would love to win a hamper to impress my english foodie relatives with true aussie tucker while we celebrate with lovely hunter semillons and shiraz on our pokolbin christmas getaway
What I want for Christmas, so many things first to see my grandchildren i don’t see them much now i have shifted to care for my mother.next i would love my mother to get a bit more better .am i asking for the world.
I know you have limited the award gift baskets to Australians in Australia, but if I were to win, I would fly down and fetch it in person. What I want for Christmas is to meet Lorraine
Elliott, who introduced me to that most delicious of all condiments, Bacon Jam! With it, she could ensure world peace!
I love the concept of an Australian only hamper basket. I am sure they will be very popular. For Christmas I would love the Chritine Mansfield book, Tasting India.
I would love a family get together for xmas, not much, but hard to get everyone together!!!
thanks for a chance
I have had ‘it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas’ in my head all morning. It must be a sign!
What a wonderful idea. A similar deli opened here last month. I love the focus on local.
For Christmas I really want the pasta press attachment for my mix master.
I’m pregnant and will be until June, I would like a healthy pregnancy for Christmas and loads of hot fresh cooked ham, with ham stuffed with ham.
I really miss ham right now
As you get older, gifts at Christmas become unnecessary because you really have everything. This hamper looks like a wonderful treat though. Unnecessary but wonderful.
For there to be no more terrorists. Failing that, enough of these packs for every deployed ADF member to go around.
All I want for x’mas this year is to have a positive result from IVF program Im doing at the moment … Fingers cross
Someone to mind the dog!
One look at that jar of Lilli Pilli Conserve brought back memories of the jam my mother used to make more years ago than I care to remember. It’s been years since I tasted any so a jar of Lilli Pilli Conserve in my Christmas stocking would be a lovely treat.
All i want for Christmas is love, to still know i’m loved is better than any physical present i can think of!
all i want for christmas is to be able to go home! hopefully my visa gets granted and i can go home in time for the festivities!
I would love to get a voucher for a day spa. A little pampering would be heaven.
What a gorgeous looking shop and hamper! Fantastic to see some delicious and underrated Australian ingredients like lillipilli and hibiscus in the mix, too. I make a lillipilli relish and adore it – delicious with fruit mince pies at Chrissie!
Other than my usual Dear Santa fantasy that involves me inheriting some kind of deserted island in Bora Bora, a devastatingly handsome Sean Connery/George Clooney hybrid, and far too much lobstertail and butter than my cholesterol could take, this year I’d like pretty simple things for Christmas – good food and wine (maybe a bit of lobstertail after all), the family enjoying opening their pressies together, our homemade Christmas crackers (with rumballs and much better jokes inside), a post-lunch nap and a late afternoon swim at the beach. Oh, and I wouldn’t mind a new Mixmaster either.
P.S.: Am willing to bribe Rudolph and/or extort the elves to make this Bora Bora/Clooney thing happen.
What a beautiful hamper! It looks so yum!!
What I want for Christmas is one of those Cuisinart ice cream makers that can only be purchased online!
This basket along with a weekend away with the hubby. We haven’t gone away in ages and I really need a break.
Oh and maybe all my bills paid.
Can’t believe it’s nearly Christmas already!
All I want for Christmas is to be able to spend one day with my boyfriend uninterrupted and to do nothing but chat and watch movies all day long … possibly with a cheese and a fruit platter nearby because that’s all you need!
This sounds really great. I wish I found your blog when I still lived in Sydney but now I’ve moved back to Perth. The things you write about are so much fun and I love your writing style!
all i want for christmas is to find employment
I really want a stand mixer so I can bake all your creations
All I want for Christmas is to relax
Definitely hope to make it to this store .
I want… happiness. That’s all!
I WANT MY FAMILY TO BE RE-UNITED THIS CHRISTMAS, AS IT’S BEEN THREE YEARS SINCE I HAVE SEEN MY BROTHER, AND I MISS HIM VERY MUCH.
Recognition from all Australians that Asylum seekers are people too. I was going to say world peace but this one unfortunately seems more realistic.
An icecream attachment for my mixer. Just in time for summer it would be heavenly!
this christmas will be the first meeting of my parents and his parents. I am hosting christmas dinner and my wish will be for everyone to get on well and have a great day
I would love to see my Daughter baking in her new kitchen….unfortunately thieves broke in to their house (under construction) and stole her 2 ovens, hotplate and dishwasher…:O((
I would just love enough time and money to make the best Christmas feast ever to share with the people I love!
Happiness, rest and delicious food!
Lunch with Ms NQN!
What I would like for Christmas… laughter and cuddles from my children and a stick blender.
I would like Michael Buble for Xmas, but guess I will have to settle for his CD. Oh well.
I know what I want for Christmas is here with me… my gorgeous daughter. We have had alot (just way too many) of life changing events since 10th Aug 2010, our lives we knew or lived is gone and now everyday I count my blessing she’s still with me and I will keep counting my blessings… & =D getting one of this lovely gift basket would be a indeed an awesome gift for her …xx
A luxury hammock, a great new book and the time to enjoy both!
hi,
all i want is a peaceful family christmas,where no one starts a fight and that everyone behave’s themselves!
I would love for Christmas to enjoy it with close family and friends and be able to have enough to share with families who don’t have enough including new migrants that come to Australia!We have just become aware of a family that have migrated legally from the Phillipeans to melbourne with two babies they have nothing in their flat, no fridge, washing machine or comforts they are we all so spoit and used to in Australia. We are contributing with friends to give goods ect but would love to win this and give them this as a Christmas Welcome to Australia!
Yay!! I never received a hamper how exciting!!!!
What I want for Christmas is for health and happiness for my family and friends and to have all my family together for Christmas Day.
Hope Santa brings me a cake mixer!
This Xmas…I wish for anything that could put a smile on my face.
All I want for Xmas is my two front teeth and then I could say, MERRY CHRISTMAS.
So very nice!
We’re leaving Australia after Christmas to move closer to family overseas. Since I’m packing up and giving away all my possessions, there’s really nothing I want – it won’t fit in my bag!
Just a happy, relaxed and delicious Christmas with friends, family and favourite foods will do me. The scent of gum trees, some Aussie bubbly and no bushfires!
All I want for Christmas is for the family to get together whether it be Christmas Day or Boxing Day. Have to share the families around and take turns for Christmas Day.
im having a tumor removed a few weeks before christmas so i hope to home in time to celebrate with my children and the most supportive husband ever – hes my santas helper.
On feb. 2nd my granddaughter 18 killed, leaving a 1 year old. last week, before her 19th birthday her mother died. Her mum wanted to take ashes and scatter with help of granddaughter, we now have had to scatter both mother and daughter together, so just to get thru xmas would be wonderful, considering I have spina bifida. I love reading your p ages, and do some cooking from them as well.
All I want for xmas…
For my family: a newly renovated kitchen and bathroom for our house, which is starting to fall apart around us.
And just for me: a loop pedal for my music!
All I want for Christmas is for our continually noisy, rude, ill mannered renters next door to move out, so we can return to our once peaceful & safer lives.
I want my daughter to behave well all day! A big ask, I know!
This basket for Christmas. Yum yum! Oh and world peace!
A second PS3 controller, so I can whip my mans backside in combat. This way we can play nice together over the holidays, and not take turns or have one hog it!
I’d love a gourmet hamper (wink, wink, nudge, nudge). Not much luck though as my hubby only buys No Name products!
My wife to be fully recovered & recuperated from her surgery so we can get back to lots of good loving
What I really and truly want for christmas is for somebody to professionally frame a piece of photographic artwork that I did circa 1982, that now that I have matured and grown confidence some 29 yrs later, I realise was actually really good.
A relaxing time spent with friends and family – over good food and wine, of course!
sunshine, blue skies and my family
For Christmas I want the big family lunch complete with some Pavlova for dessert!
All I want for christmas is an air ticket home so I can visit my parents.
I have just laughed and cried thru’ some 110 comments this morning’s competition has brought forth so far. @ Loren K – I am hoping you will have a healthy pregnancy and the babe you desire; @ Isya – I’ll send all the vibes I can muster that your IVF treatment bears positive results; @ claire evans: hope it works out the way you hope it will [if not, please, please do not lose your positivism]; in laughter @ InTolerantChef: never realized you had a blog, and what an interesting one – guess what I did
!! Love to all!
All I want for Christmas is for Justin Bieber to impregnate me.
….or alternatively, not.
Unless he was to impregnate me with a litter of kittens. I would love a kitten or seven for Christmas
A PONY!!!
And the camera that my parents said they’d contribute to on my birthday (in May), which has never been bought because I’m too scared to pick one
For Christmas I want my retirement to finally come true. Three times I have retired and three times have gone back for emergencies that have extened to years, but no more – my garden and kitchen are calling me.
If Santa pleases – he could finish my kitchen with a lovely splashback behind my stove – I did plan on making a glass one myself – but yes you are right – who am I kidding!
NQN that basket has just everything uniquely Australian – a great gift for a new Aussie – or an old one !
Cheers to all from SueB
All I want for Christmas , is to sit down to a Christnas meal and have it look[and taste] like the ones you see in the magazines and on tv. Somehow they never seem to look the same , or I feel too exhausted to eat it, after days of preparation and cooking.
I want to be back in Perth with my fiance we’ve been 8000 miles part for 5 months too long
All i want for christmas is you! Not really, but i would love a clean house and some delicious treats to share amongst friends.
What an amazing looking hamper. The advantage of food hampers for Christmas is you eat your way through them and don’t have to find places to put Stuff. I’d really like one of these special gift baskets for Christmas.
One of these baskets will do me nicely thankyou! And a copy of your new book signed and pre-ordered please.
What do I want for Christmas?Hmmm.Just a morning which begins happily & continues til it’s time for bed.I guess family sharing that with me would be a bonus.With lots of Lorraine’s finest delicious recipes to eat & ice-cream at the end would top off the day with a blessing! A Cuisinart ice-cream machine would help too!! Hope everyone’s wishes come true!!
I’d like an extra week–before Christmas–please. so I have time to make all those yummy goodies I like to share with my friends.
All I want for Christmas…. hmm I would like one of these Wild Basket gift baskets! Otherwise, a day at the spa
What a great Gift Basket….
Wish I lived closer…
Is California too far dear? LOL
All I want for Christmas is some yummy things to eat that I can keep hidden from the kids and impress the relo’s with.
for christmas, all i want is to see my family, have my dad return from the UK, and not be troubled by my mental illness.
one day of peace would be lovely.
I want my licence. At 34, it’s about time.
to be loved by someone special… still need to find him… perhaps under the tree this year???
Always love cookbooks and cookware for christmas. I enjoy cooking and find it so relaxing.
To be your friend Lorraine as a budding food enthusiast to hang out with you over lunch would be a wonderful present indeed!
All i want for christmas is a fun filled day with my family. unfortuntaley this wont be the case so i would love to be able to send something beautiful and yummy to my parents.
I want BEAUTIFUL SUNNY SYDNEY WEATHER, THE ONES I LOVE MOST…. and of course GOOOOD FOOOOD!!!!
I love that the products they all look soo rustic! Way to Transport you back in time… everything looks so generic nowadays!
xx Michelle
My children to be happy and know they are loved, my partner to know he is adored….and a replacement Magimix for the one that ‘walked’ off my bench during bread making.
Christmas will be extra special this year. My immediate family migrated to Sydney early this year so we’ll be spending Christmas together after 8 years of being apart. My dad became a Christian last year too, so this year’s Christmas will have an added meaning to it. Can’t wait to show them what an Aussie Christmas looks like!
All I want for Christmas is a perfect day for my own little Santa’s Helper (my little girl) – it’s her first Christmas and our first Christmas as a family, so we’re REALLY excited. It will be a real family affair with lots of presents and fun and games from Santa. Can’t wait!
An invisibility cloak
I am dreaming sculpted French women’s figure on mine for Christmas, but seem it is not coming soon this Christmas yet
Hope I can get something special coming this Christmas instead and hoping your book coming out soon in year 2012…early?
I have just read a neat story about you visiting Hawkes Bay in our local Newspaper, Hope you enjoyed our lovely food.Please could you enter me into the food hamper would love to try some Australian artisan food.:)
I wish for my sister-in-law and her daughter, my beautiful niece, to come to the dinner table without blame or shame, without malice or contempt, with the love I know is there, even though it is very deep down and neither likes to bring it to the surface. If that wish could come true, then I know there WOULD be peace on earth.
All I want for Christmas are big laughs with family and a giant piece of pavlova!
I would love to have a clear internet connection with my sister so that she can be part of the family dinner, and (I know, slightly on the greedy side) for the orange gelato dessert I’ll be making to turn out (orange gelato on a base of chocolate biscuits, with a brown sugar crisp and pistachios).
All I want for Christmas is for my sister-in-law to be well and never have to have chemo, or radiation treatment again. That would make her husband, young children, brothers, sister, parents and extended family happy. Stay strong hon xxx
Yay! More yumminess for us on the wrong side of the tracks/bridge haha! For Christmas I want one of those itty bitty bbqs so I can put it on my balcony and avoid sweltering in the kitchen during summer. Some deliciousness from wild basket to go with it would also be delightful
A gift of Wild Basket’s goodies would make a wonderful and unusual Christmas present. All those interesting jar of new tastes. Yes please.
can’t wait til I’m in Sydney next!
All I want for chrstmas is for my flight not to be delayed so I will get home for christmas.
all i want or christmas is a life-sized unicorn made out of rainbow ice-cream, fairy blood, glitter and tickles. <3
All I want is a sunny day for some “sun worshipping” and I want to find a shop open for some fish and chips and a beer later…is that too much to ask??
i want a white christmas!
ooh christmas is so soon! i would love to have the annual christmas picnic with a twist! dessert picnic!
christmas is family time so extra days off to spend with them would be awesome.
chocolate is my best friend can i get a chocolate house pls?!?
I’d like a Breaking Bad DVD boxset for Christmas!
I want to go back to Paris and visit Laduree, Fauchon, the Ritz and at least one 3 michelin star restaurant
great little read and i love entering and most of all having a chance to win a basket at wild basket!!!
DD – I know that story. My nightmare rental neighbours took 5 years to move out, but at least they’re gone now!
For Christmas, I would like…to be able to bake a good stollen:)
My wish list consists of an e-reader. That’s all I want. To have a world of books just leaping through cyber space directly to me. Bliss!!
Some munchies to go along with the reading is a given of course.
I want a lovely family christmas watching my kids smile all day
Ahh food glorious food! Fabulous offer thank you one and all.
For Christmas I fancy a scroll saw… Think I might just get I too!
Time away from work, good food and good company!
Ahh food glorious food! Fabulous offer thank you one and all.
For Christmas I fancy a scroll saw…
What I want for Christmas is a whole week of cooking and creating a mind blowing Christmas lunch and a mouth-watering desserts. And to create these yummy meals I would love to experiment with new and exciting products like World class range of oils, Native Australian Ingredients and of course a great cocktail maybe I could use Frou Frou Cordial to bring on the christmas spirit
Time in the kitchen with my 4 yr old daugher making delicious gifts for our family members. That’s enough:)
Usually by the time Christmas day arrives i’m a stressed-out ‘basket case’- this year i finally want to master the art of OoooooooooMmmmmmm and chill out in a hot season
I want my house back! (renovation from hell currently underway – enough said….)
To spend Christmas with my boyfriend. After 6 months of living in different states we’ll finally be living together by Christmas!
Mmm they look so nice =) Well what i would want for christmas is just to be able to spend a whole day with close friends and family, chatting, playing, and enjoying wonderful food together.
For Christmas,the family all around,the lunch on xmas day,the awe of the kids after santa has been ,the excitement,the mess! all very special,a memory to tuck away,that is the greatest gift of all.
I can barely wait for the kindle I know Santa is getting me
I’m also very excited about Christmas morning with my 3 yo & 18 month old sons.
All I want for Christmas is to party, eat fabulous food with family and friends and not gain any weight!
Xmas is arriving early! My fiance and I are heading to Tassie to sample its amazing food, a bit of art, history and nature of course. I wouldn’t mind an organic T-shirt from Sosume – the special design one where profits go to the Black Dog Institute
Food, Food and more food!
For the kids to not get up before 5am.
I’m not eligible but you have the best giveaways! And I can’t wait for the holidays!
Strawberry and Sichuan pepper chocolate? Very curious. For Christmas I’m hoping for tickets to see Annie (which is on the cards, given that my dad has just realised he actually likes musicals
), and a good solid fortnight back home at my parents’.
I would get wild if i had such a basket !!!We take adv
I have a list of food related books as long as my arm (everything from Heston to cuisine specific to dessert/baking to RAW recipes).
I’d also love a new handbag and wallet – mine were stolen earlier this year and I haven’t found replacements yet. I’ve been using a plastic ziplock bag as a purse since then!
My point and shoot camera was in the handbag when it was stolen…a replacement would be handy too. I have my eye on the smallish cameras with changeable lenses – I really want to start a food blog and need something better than a point and shoot but not a huge slr!
I don’t expect to get anything though – we struggle a bit around christmas so don’t go crazy with gifts. The chance to spend the day relaxing at the beach with my husband with some delicious food would make me more than happy!
oh shoot my message was cut I was just saying that paris was gorgeous with an indian summer type of weather !!cheers Pierre
Wow what a response already! Such a wonderful gift box – who wouldn’t want to give or receive one of these instead of a no-brand hamper of stuff you’ll never eat…
I’d love to enter please! For Christmas I’d like a new pair of slippers, and the Rockpool Bar & Grill cookbook
All I want for Christmas is a helping hand to make dinner a winner !
Don’t buy me gifts, just give me big buckets of laughter and happiness with everyone feeling loved and valued!
A new set of saucepans to go with my new induction cooktop! Can’t wait to start cooking!
All I want for Christmas is an iPad, so I can buy cookbooks without having to worry where I am going to store them.
I want a Wonder Woman Kitchenaid! Just google it- I promise you won’ be disappointed!
Christmas is the best time of the year – just need all the family in 1 place tho
All I want for christmas is good food, wine and company – and that’s all looking sorted with an ‘orphans christmas’ picnic at Sydney park for me and all my Sydney friends whose families are overseas.
The gift basked would be good too!
x
I would like to go back to my childhood and sit on santas lap!!
All I want for Christmas is my family around me and loads of good food!
Can I please be materialistic and say money. However, I would share it with my family.
I want a signed copy of Adriano Zumbo’s cookbook for Christmas seems to me with that I can have endless fun
@ Christine: I have such fun returning to these sites to see what others have written – OK, I would really like to be materialistic too and, at last, win just s’thing on the Lotto. A financially bad marriage years ago left me up the creek without a paddle: it would feel unreal not to owe heaps to the banks . . . Santa, listening
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All I want for Christmas is…
A beautiful hamper of culinary goodies that can be savoured the festive season long.
I’d like a non-commercial Xmas, without so much emphasis on spend,spend, spend. With 2 kids it won’t be easy but it’s amazing how they love playing with the boxes the toys come in so maybe this year I’ll just give them the box! lol
all i want for christmas….is a cardboard box
Oh man, those goodies are the business!
For Christmas, I’d love a top notch picnic rug so I can properly enjoy a picnic lunch in Central Park with my boyfriend in NYC next year.
OMG! Amazuing! I would buy te shop out!
I want a new beach towel. The dogs chewed holes in all our other ones!
Would really like this hamper!!!!
I lost both my Dad and Stepdad this year, so all I want for Xmas is for the rest of my family to be safe and happy. Ok, and a copy of Philippa Sibleys PS Desserts,…..
Sooo much more impressive than the standard Christmas hampers you see around with stuff that nobody really wants to eat anyway. I love this push for exploring & utilising native & local produce. Australia has so much to offer that is unique to us
For Christmas I want a macro lens for my DSLR & an orange handbag
All I want for Christmas is to wake up with my kids on Christmas Day, and spend the day with them. The family law court has given them to my ex this year (I’ll have next year). I know we’ll make our own Christmas but it will still not be the same.
I planted a Lilli Pilli tree years ago in the hope of making Lilli Pilli Jam but that never really eventuated, would love to win this Wild Basket hamper to taste it and all of the native food delights.
This Christmas , I’m requesting cooking, pastry or anything relating to food classes from my family. I know that they’re not cheap but my birthday falls on Boxing day so I’m happy if I receive it as a combined present!
I want a new bicycle please Santa!
To be surrounded by friends and family laughing and enjoying great food …. and a bit of time for me to hide in my favourite spot in the garden and read one of the books I’ve put on my Santa list.
For Christmas, as for the past couple of years, I’m really looking forward to giving my niece and nephew their presents, and watching their faces as they open them. Two years ago I gave them, each, a big jar of Jelly Belly jelly beans. It was priceless to see their mother’s face as well!
But anyhow, why are we talking of Christmas – it’s only November!!!
mmmmm, looks great! I would love a copy of all of David Lebovitz books, that way I will be everyone’s favourite person this xmas!! What’s not to love about sweets
What I want for Christmas is to spend time with my parents and little brother whom I haven’t seen for 3 years.
A fun-filled family day of board games, laughter and great food!
It’s such a pleasure to read so many warm and loving wishes of others here; along with those who wish happiness,peace,and love; I would like to be healthy as well. These things should be the best.Merry Christmas everyone!
Dear Lorraine
What a fantastic prize!
I’m spending this Christmas with my mum visiting my mum’s best friend and her son, a childhood friend who I haven’t seen for 15 years, in NYC! So what more do I want for Christmas? Some excellent food – I’ve been doing my research on NYC eats alright?
xoxo
Ravel
Ohh this looks so yummy! The thing on the top of my Christmas list is Chanel red lipstick, it’s so devine but I always think it’s too expensive to buy for myself so I’ve asked for it from Santa!
My new years resolution is to lose the 7 kilos I was supposed to lose this year and dismally failed at *sigh* pity I don’t enjoy jogging as much as baking!
A Puppy!!
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Oh, how Id love to be a little kid again – with no responsibilities, worries or cares in the world – just play with my friends (real and imaginary) and eat whatever I like whenever I like and never have to worry about weight gain haha!!
So for Christmas, Id like to be a little kid again!…………………
failing that, Id really like to try that Aussie Bush Fire Sauce, I’m a bit of a chilli fiend and would love to apply that sauce to my ham glaze this Christmas and spice things up a bit!
P.S. Seasons Greetings to all! (I cant believe it’s only 6 weeks till Christmas!! Eeek!!)
Hmm, I’d love a trip for Christmas. Nothing fancy – it can even be just a day trip somewhere. But yes, I’d love a trip for Christmas.
All I want for Christmas is:
some great books from my extensive wishlist
some summer outfits
a great hat
and lots of sunshine to enjoy the celebrations with my family
Would it be greedy of me to say I would like a Thermomix?
I would also like a Tea Cup Pig,the CUTEST pet in the world… but I promise that it would NOT be allowed anywhere near the Thermomix!
I’d also like a new lipstick. I don’t wear it a whole lot, but I’d still like some more.
I’d love my new tattoo. A white one on my right wrist in my new daughters name to match the one on my left wrist in my sons name. <3
The ability and skills to cook as awesomely as my mum!
Oh I miss being on the North Side. Everything was at our fingertips
I’d settle for his Quay cookbook lol
I’d love a cooking class with Peter Gilmore for Christmas!!! But if I must
Christmas hey? What I really want is a puppy! The husband has some “opinions” on this and remains the voice of so-called reason. Sigh.
I want spare time! Time for cooking, for singing, for reading, for *sleeping*. Sadlly, I’m pretty sure Santa can’t bring me that…
All I want for Christmas…. cheesey as it might sound, I don’t care… I want to be surrounded by great friends, family and food. And to compliment this, this year thanks to NQN inspiration, I have made vanilla essence to give to everybody. Happy days!
Assuming others already wished for, and were granted “world peace”, either the trip to Europe my wife and I are currently hoping we can afford when I retire or a nice new BBQ to replace the 15 year old one which needs retirement already.
For Christmas, I would love a new set of kitchen knives and a good sharpening stone.
digital gramaphone converter with speakers!
I like surprises but what I would really like is an old fashioned Christmas of my childhood – presents were few and simple and we looked forward to the Christmas Lunch all year – it was the only time we had chicken in those days. The men drank beer from large bottles (no cans then)and the wine was Orlando Sparkling Wine – I can picture the one bottle on the table. The kids had some home delivered soft drink – my mum saved all year for these simple treats and my dad grew most of the vegetables and raised our own chickens. Our christmas tree was real and the lights were made from saved coloured lolly papers (cellephane) in many colours and were wrapped around old torch bulbs all joined on wire and hooked up to a large battery – we felt very special. It was truly a time for family and not materialistic like today. These were Christmases that would never be forgotten. So as much as I would like to go backwards sadly I know I can not but I would really love to be able to revisit those days again with my family altogether once more.
After a terrible year health-wise and several trips to hospital for various family members, I would love a Christmas present of good health for me and my family (and anyone else of course).
I R
all I really want for Christmas is for my mum to get a new job – she has been out of work for ages but is so talented and lovely that I think there must be something perfect out there for her x
All I want for Xmas is a paid full time job!
All I want for Christmas is a fantastic basket filled with Wild basket produce!!! Oh and I wouldn’t say no to a pair of jimmy choos…
There’s nothing more I want than getting my health back, beating this 2-yr-old illness and life to get back on track again !
I would love to go on an overseas holiday for Christmas! Perhaps to somewhere like the USA so I could have a white Christmas
I just remembered that for Christmas I’ll really need a set of sharp knives so that I can de-bone the turkey, duck and chicken for our Christmas Turducken based on your recipe of course NQN!
i would love to have my family all together for xmas. and enjoying all the great food there is to offer..
Oh, I wouldn’t mind if the seven litres of icecream I’m making for our family Xmas lunch all turn out perfectly! That would be a pretty nice gift!
i would love to have my sister live in the same state as me and that would be adelaide we are both getting on in life and we would love to do things together some times
I’d loooove a basket of Wild basket produce…and then flights and accommodation in Sydney for New Years Eve…and after to shop at the Wild Basket store of course!
What I want for Christmas is a family reunion in Singapore…mum, dad and big brother.
I don’t live in Australia so I’m just commenting. I love spending time in this kind of store. While it’s common to send gifts online, I like to look around the store and pick and choose. This is a lovely gift store!
I’d love a chin up bar. A little random, but very true!
All I want for Christmas is to go home to Melbourne and spend time with family and friends (I’m only in Sydney!)
I’ve been coveting the Dior holiday palettes but I need to somehow ship them to Sydney! Other than that, I definitely hope for a nice Christmas party where I can celebrate with family and friends
I want to spend more time with my amazing and hard working wife and my two little girls! Quality family time!
Is it bad to wish that my friend holidaying in the USA brings back her luggage laden with Sephora goodies for me? Even though I’ll owe her, the amazing bargains feel like a gift!
For Christmas I would like people to be kind to each other, some nice smelling hand cream and all my family to be together. thank you.
All i want for Christmas is a beautiful new kitchenaid mixer… So i can run over my old one with a tractor like as I’ve threatened!!!
I would like to go WILD and have all Australian produce on my Christmas table and have a BASKET of a time with family.
Some gourmet choccies – YUM!!!
This would great to win this for Christmas because our Christmas is not going to be a every good Christmas this year because my dad always had us a big Christmas with alot of Presents and money for our kids and I but he past away so this Christmas is going to be a really different without my dad to spend CHristmas with. So this would be great to win this for our family to help us have a great Christmas.
Dear Lorraine
I heart gourmet food stores! So much that I’d make the trip to Sydney once in a while to get my gourmet food shopping fix :p
We do have a few good stores here in Canberra, like ones in the Fyshwick markets. But what I’d like for Christmas is for there to be more opening next year in Canberra! :>
Best regards
Ravel
I want Happiness and of course this beautiful, gorgeous, delectable looking Hamper!
When ever I am asked this question I always say “nothing really” I have everything I would ever need – so just my family around me is all I want BUT this year if anyone askes eg Santa I would say I would love an IPad. You see I love recipes and cooking and I have many many recipe books from the 1920′s to modern day, however I only seem to source my recipes now from the internet and particularly from sites like this one and David Lebovitz for example and to have my internet recipes on hand in my kitchen would be a real dream not to mention the 1000′s of novels I could access to read. This does sound very extravagent doesn’t it – Oh well I guess I can dream.
I would love to give this basket to a homeless shelter for Christmas. Jesus is the reason for the season. LOVE TO ALL.
Tragic as it sounds I would love to pass my green P plates test, I’ve been on my red P plates for an embarrassing long time…..
Laughter, love, happines… and 1 million dollars!
Dear Lorraine
I’d love to own my own home this Christmas! Having worked 3 jobs while studying at uni and after almost 1 year of full time work I can finally afford a city apartment – can’t wait to have my own kitchen and decorate and equip it into something amazing :>
I also would LOVE one of these lovely gift baskets – it’ll be such a nice decoration for the kitchen :p. I’m also a sucker for gourmet foods – the strawberry and Sichuan pepper combination sounds amazing!
xo
Ravel
A cake decorating class with my dear sister joss and best friend Allison, both of them inspire me everyday and the three of us would have a ball learning how to decorate. After the course I would love to sit down with them, this hamper and a glass of bubbly and celebrate friendship and sisterhood!
This basket sounds like an Aussie adventure that I so want to dive into and experience!!!
I don’t like my chances in winning this comp,but you have to be in it to win it! Christmas this year will be tough but I am resolved to make the most of it. I have had the privilege to have resided in Sydney and Singapore over the last two years supporting my two children through a four year divorce settlement that now finds me back at my roots in down-town Brisbane living with Mum and Dad. My wish for a family Christmas is a lost cause as all will be overseas…so this basket of aussie treats would be a lovely surprise for Mum Dad and I to share as we will most undoubtedly reminisce the memories of Christmases past and toast to a new year of new dreams and ambitions.
I want the harvest season to be over so i do not have to work 14 hours on boxing day. What a thought.
Peace but as i know it will never happen i will ask for my grandchildren to see instead
I would love the Lilly Pilly conserve to have as a compliment to the roast turkey/chicken.
All I want for Christmas is a an eternity ring – for my boyfriend to commit to me for life in a meaningful way!
I’d love to receive a massgae voucher for Christmas!
*massage
I’d like Santa to bring me a cooking thermometer so I can start whipping up some delicious dinners and desserts & make choc & toffee
I’ll be going overseas for my first mission this Christmas, so I would love to have this basket to give to my sweet little sister who also loves food as much as I do!
I want a netbook for Xmas. Please Santa!
All I want for Christmas is quality time spent with my family, friends and some alone time to relax with my beautiful boyfriend. Without a doubt all those times will be shared over some fabulous food because my whole family loves to cook, including me
I will be working this Christmas day and all I wish for is to see smiles and laughter from the residents at our retirement home, who are not lucky enough to have their family with them.
All I want this year for Christmas is to enjoy a quiet day with my husband and 9 month old daughter, celebrating her first Christmas, and ensuring it is memorable for us all! Such a special year for us, and the camera will definately make an appearance!
i want for Christmas is for everyone to b save n happy
All I want for Christmas is to enjoy the day without morning sickness, extreme fatigue or toddler tantrums…. maybe the third is asking too much
World peace & sunshine,
A home for every lost pet,
Smiles on my childrens faces,
and food for every mouth on the planet!
I really want a hamper filled with sweats and cheese.I’m pregnant. I have craving for these.
All I want for Christmas is to find a lost plane and what happened to the pilot out in Bass Strait.
All I want for xmas is to win lotto then we can pay all our bills get the kids whatever they want and have a fat time!
I love this blog and read regularly. I love the recipes and reviews but what I love the most is that it always makes me smile/laugh.
What I would love for Christmas is just peace for my kids and I. After a tough 2 years of divorce and ongoing property settlement issues, I just want us to be able to spend Christmas day knowing that whilst their lives and mine have turned upside down, the one constant we can rely on is the love we have for each other. Christmas is a time of hope :O)
Is to have a christmas with my whole family.
I just want to be happy, my kids to be healthy and to not be in need of anything.
I have booked a family holiday to Vanuatu in December to celebrate my daughter completing her HSC – so that will be a perfect early Christmas gift to us all (and that wonderful gift basket for my extended family to share….!)
I really, really, really want a kitten for Christmas.
Then I could stop living vicariously through all the cat You Tube montages on the Hamster Wheel!
all I want for xmas is to win this competition so I can raffle these beautiful goodies off at work and raise money for RSPCA
I’d definitely love some fresh produce for Christmas. Homemade jam’s and bread
Prolonged health for my 10 month old son, who was conceived and born against the odds and had a few hiccups at the start of his life. Now everything is fine, but we want to keep it that way…Oh and lots of toys too for him!
With a couple of brushes of ill health in the family these few weeks, I wish for happy and healthy family members!
A peaceful family dinner with a side of my Mother in Laws roast lamb
I want lots of love and cuddles from my family for Christmas.
All I want for Christmas is to share good food, a few drinks and have a relaxed day with my Husband, as we’re all alone this Christmas. A new puppy would be awesome also….
I’d love a hamper of gluten free gourmet goodies, they’re sometimes hard to find and it’d be a real treat at Christmas!
If the North Sydney people, think they are starved for choice, try rural Queensland. Now there’s a challenge, delightful Christmas gifts you decide, I will just say thank you.
I would love for my hubbie who is 60yrs old to find employment closer to home so we can be together.
This great Aussie produce is impossible to resist so A Wild Basket has gone to the top of
my list.
I would love to have a great-looking, well-equipped kitchen this Xmas! Fingers crossed, if all goes well I’ll be able to move into my new home before Xmas, and I’d love to spend hours and hours decorating the kitchen :p would love to have a sneak peek into your kitchen Lorraine!
And I’d love one of these gorgeous hampers :>
This looks awesome! For Christmas I want an iPhone, so hopefully Santa will be nice this year
In a dream world, a new apartment, kitchen, coffee machine and mixmaster. In the real world a camera or hiking boots would be helpful
But chocolate always works!
I would love the Miette cookbook!!
To have a wonderful day with my family, thats full of love and happiness, no meltdowns and a meal with no complaints. My wish!
My dream present – a kitchenaid mixer!
i would dearly love to find employment
Just to sit down to a great meal with my loving family is all I ask for.
To watch my Nigella Feast DVD so I don’t have to talk to my relatives
For Christmas I would love Christmas day with my family enjoying some beautiful food made from some of Nigela’s fantastic recipes.
I would love to receive some new books and magazines for Christmas from our local book shop.
All I want for christmas is to have a wonderful day laughing, eating great food celebrating christmas and the meaning of christmas with my family. With our new baby girl Mia, her 1st christmas creating life long memories.
Merry christmas everyone may all your dreams come true.
I would love there to be no flight discruptions this Christmas so every passenger could get to their destination in time, whether they are going home, visiting family or going on an amazing holiday! :>
I would really love to be given a chance to tag along with YOU and visit a nice cafe or restaurant and discover new food ideas and products, but then i I will be getting 2presents not one!!!!!!!!!!
All I want for Christmas is cheese. Delicious, soft, creamy cheese.
Ok, I am going to be straight with you, I WOULD LIKE TO WING THIS GIFT BASKET☺
All I want for Christmas is a nice family dinner with yummy food and yummy wine.
What I want for christmas is to win the wild basket gift basket
All I want for christmas is for my mum to get better. She loves things like this so it would be a dream come true to win a basket for her.
I’d love to spoil my mum this Xmas as we live in different countries and I’m the only daughter :p So as we are going to NYC together I’d love to take her to afternoon tea at St Regis NYC followed by a show at Broadway!
All I want for Christmas is for my daughter to feel the magic of the day, to get excited about the gifts santa has left and spending the day with loved ones, sharing a delicious meal.
Hmmm, where do I start and how long have you got?! A nanny, maid, butler, masseuse, chauffeur, pool boy – oh wait I’d also need a pool, oh and a nice home to match, so then I’d need all the trimmings that come with a large home, um, while we’re at it world peace and an end to world hunger would be right up there near the top. But hey, I’m not greedy, I really would be happy with a gift basket. Very happy!!!!
an ipad and chocolate!
The enjoyment Gracie and Alexandra as they help me prepare Christmas lunch and decorate the table!
* All I want for Christmas is some MUSSELS/MUSCLES preferrably on a man who looks great in my apron and nothing else.
I’d really like a new sense of humour for Christmas, mine has taken beating lately?
Fun, Music, Food and the People I love.
I am going to get my dream come true for Christmas – I just have to get there! . Going back to England to reconnect with someone who has been looking for me for 12 years and who in turn has reconnected me to someone who was like my mum. Haven’t seen her since 85 – so its going to be emotional.. I am going on my own -very out of character for me but I figure its time to take a risk!
For christmas I want to relax and nibble on good food that I don’t have a regular basis.
This Christmas all I really want is some time off work and a festive Christmas dinner with the family
can’t wait! So far food is all I have planned… haha 
For Christmas, I want just one day when I can set my worries aside and just relax.
to hear the laughter and see the smiles of my grandchildren and have a stress free day no hassles
I would love to find a new stereo under the tree just for me
Music makes my heart sing and my body dance!
I want a kitchenaid mixer please!
Time with my family, laughter, great food. A beautiful day.
A peaceful relaxing day with my beautiful family and taking time to say a prayer and make a toast to all those hardworking souls in the Defence Forces and Emergency Service Personnel who are away from their loved ones at Christmas.
for christmas i would love a bottle of poem perfume by lancombe.
Health, happiness and a juicy Lotto win would be nice, otherwise peace on earth for my family and close friends!!
A relaxing day…..but full of good food and exciting surprises!
Yep, I am contrary Santa!
Nigella
To be honest all I really want for Christmas is a day filled with love, laughter and togetherness with my children and the rest of my family because to me Christmas is about spending time with loved ones.
All the right things.Love,peace on earth
All I want for Christmas is lovely weather to enjoy a delicious lunch with my family.
A wild time with great food, friends and family
What i want for Christmas is a Kitchen Aid Mixer in bright Red! They are amazing and I wish i could have one… maybe i should start saving.
All i want for christmas is to finish putting together our christmas tree that looks every so bare in the corner beside the piano. Maybe this year the kids might actually be able to dance around it
Excuse me while I just wipe the drool off my chin. That basket of goodies would be an impressive delight to add to my christmas this year. Christmas is always about family, love and laughter, and much indulgence!
I want my husband to get a fantastic job offer- that would make a brilliant Christmas for us all.
All I want for Christmas is some peace and quiet. No arguing kids!!
I’ve got to be honest, rum balls! I only ever make and eat them at Christmas and I LOVE them – so rich, fragrant, smooth and luxurious…it’s Christmas!
Love a new perfume:-)
What I want to is to go back in time to when Christmas was waiting for Santa to fill my stockings. Opening presents on Christmas morning before a log fire with snow lying around outside. To experience the vivid smell of roasting turkey, crisp skins on roast potato, baked parsnips and thick gravy. To hear the laughter and idiotic giggles of my siblings watching grandad fall asleep in the middle of filling his pipe. The sounds and the smells of Christmas as a kid, how I miss them so.
I just want my family to be happy.
For Christmas I would like to see my mum, scoff mince pies, and laze in the sun, hopefully with the sunglasses I asked for
They all look so yummy in my tummy
Would love to try & support our local.Cheers!
I would love one of these gorgeous baskets for Xmas
the more I stare at the pictures the more I want one :p
All i want for Christmas is to spend the day with my beautiful son….
A new book and two uninterrupted days so i can read it!
Love, laughter, lots of sun
Time off work, have some fun,
Simple things mean the most,
But I would like a holiday along the coast!
I have just read thru every one of of some 300 ‘wish lists’ for the forthcoming holiday season. I wish to God I could be the proverbial Santa Claus
! I am certain more than 90% of those writing would be more than ‘worthy’ to receive this particular wonderful parcel of ‘goodies’ – OK, I’ll put up my hand up also . . .
A break from the city!
: Is to see my lovely 96 year old grandmother with my round and cute as a button 18month old niece Allegra together on Xmas Day…both are such treasures!
Dear Lovely Blogger,
I would like a box of lychees for Christmas, and a guide as to how on earth to turn them into cocktails.
Thank you very much,
A
The latest Janet Evanavitch book-explosive eighteen:-)
I would love to give my partners family this basket in appreciation for everything they have done for me and accepting me with love.. They even came to the hospital while I was there for 3 weeks with the most gorgeous Tulips(they are Dutch)… They are the family I don’t have xo
All i want for Christmas is …
a nice dinner with my family and a hassle free christmas
A perfect summers day! So we can continue our Aussie Christmas tradition of spending it at the beach!
chocolate!!!
a outside lounge chair so i can sneak some me time by sitting under the shade reading a good book in comfort
Estee Lauder Perfume,flower on a womans skin.
Reading the above wish list has put a smile on my face, such lovely comments. All i want for Christmas is what most other aussies would like, world peace and an end to the European economic crisis.
Happy festive season
Lorraine, you know the song “All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth” – well that is just what I got!! My teeth were a mess after a year on antibiotics
They had yellowed and been affected by my illness, an operation and hospital stay on i.v. so yes, that is what I wanted and just last week got ‘my two front teeth’!
how gorgeous and yummy-we have survived cyclone yasi and fixed up our place again-so a safe and happy christmas in our own home is all I want!
I want my family to have a great time on Christmas Day with lots of festive cheer! We have had our share of sadness during the holiday seasons and I just want to see smiles on everyones faces again…I think a Wild Basket gift would definetly help to lighten everyones day!
All I want for Christmas is a box of chocolates and a gooey Christmas movie to watch with my loved ones. James Stewart, It’s A Wonderful Life….
A nice family day:-)
I would love my husband to surprise me with a trip to Hawaii for Christmas.
The ‘inlaws’ to be somewhere else!
Champagne. chocolates and a pamper session!
Tickets for the Olympics in London – still have withdrawal symptons from 11 years ago!
I would love a gift from Wild Basket Gifts. That would be an awesome present.
For xmas I really want a beautiful sunny day to have a bbq with the family (& some lovely food from Wild Basket to share with them would also be lovely!)
Two first class return tickets to Italy and Greece for myself and my 6 year old daughter…that’s what I would like for Christmas..to give her a cultural and food holiday extravaganza…
I’ve never been a big present fan, but rather an amazing spread of food, good company, enlightening conversation and lots of laughs
I would like for Christmas, to take my small family on a food themed holiday to Margaret River.
I would like more hours in the day to be able to try out all the amazing cook books I seem to accumulate! Work really gets in the way sometimes!!
All I want for Christmas is already here in the shape of my beautiful 5 week old daughter! Perfect!
Happy Aussie farmers
That saltbush would be delightful to dress some ice lamb loin chops delicately but well grilled with some of Bill Granger’s Cheat’s chips, and butter beans and costata zucchinni fresh from the garden grilled in peanut oil and dressed with garlic salt!
hehe. what a lovely basket, filled to the brim with even lovelier foods~!
so what i’d love for christmas this year, would include:
*being able to eat the biggest, most decadent pavlova (i LOVE my pavs!! ^^) everyday
* a cute, zippy little car, like a hot pink and white mini cooper
*a sexy pair of hot jimmy choos
* something wonderful from Tiffany’s in a lovely pale, blue box
* a signed copy of luke nguyen’s indochine to have for my very own
*a copy of NQN’s book as well!!
=)
Merry Christmas, NQN !!
<3
A happy sharing xmas realising what we have not what we dont:-)
A nice fat little free range piggy lovingly reared on sour milk. Oh, I’d need a weber too with some hickory chips!
All I want for Christmas is to see and hold my husband who has been in Africa for 2 months. I miss him so much.
Bills corn cakes and French toast cooked by boy for Christmas breakfast is always very special
Jicky perfume:-)
someone to do the housework for a week!
Celebrating it with my family, as we rarely get together this year. So it’d be fun to enjoy it with them too.
World peace perhaps? That sure isn’t going to happen, so maybe an Adele CD & a bottle of ouzo please Santa.
I want a maid for Christmas so I don’t have to pick up after my family for another year
Christmas? Not much I’m wanting this year when my wish list is unfurled…
New sunglasses, clear mammogram and a ticket around the world!
Good weather. I need my specifically xmas-bound backyard vegies to have grown by the 25th.
I would like my mum to get a new job – that’s all I want this year! She is so talented and hard working and just needs some luck
I want fresh seafood from the Pyrmont fish market – we haven’t always been bothered to make the trek from our house, but I miss having lovely lobsters and oysters for lunch!
Gorgeous looking hampers Lorraine! I would love to win one.
I’d love a KitchenAid mixer so I can make delicious food for the family.
I’d love the opportunity to cook, bake, cook, bake and cook and bake more! :p I love spending time in the kitchen and Xmas is the perfect excuse for me to spend heaps of time there :p
Sunny, warm weather and an Ice Cream Churner…I’d love my first batch to be Kakawa Rocky Road Ice Cream! I wonder where I could get Kakawa Rocky Road from?…oh, I know from Wild Basket..hehe!
Just our usual xmas-family lots of food the pool-goodtimes:-)
Food is the glue that holds us together at Christmas.
Food is the gift that we give to all our family & friends.
To cook for those you love is wonderful.
Dear Lorraine
I’d love to make weis bar ice cream using the recipe you posted to test out the ice cream freeze and mix bowl that I bought with my new Breville mixer, on Xmas day, for my family and friends. The mango and cream weis bar is my fav flavour (the mango, cream and macadamia to be exact :p)
Thanks for sharing such an awesome recipe!
xo
Ravel
For Christmas I’d love to feel content…
no matter the gifts or money spent…
just time with family, laughter, love…
watched over from angels above.
I’d love to win your Zumbo giveaway pack for Xmas Lorraine! Would love to try out some of his recipes
I’d love Nigella’s latest book for Christmas iv’e dropped enough hints for ideas for my kids to get me for Christmas.
I’m dreaming of a Christmas vacation to unwind and recharge for 2012!
just enough time for my champagne breakfast for the storm of the family dinner.
This Xmas, I would love to share a Gift basket from Wild Basket with my family. The products must be delicious and I have never tasted them before. My family and I would certainly consider buying any that we enjoyed. Merry Xmas everyone.
Friends, family and food.
What i want for christmas is to be united with all my family again to enjoy the day together and to share my grans beautiful roast lunch and christmas pudding with everyone
My Christmas Turkey to turn out well & to win the family Monopoly challenge (that would be a first!).
yep same-family good food and sharing:-)
I would actually love to find a soft patch of grass, under a big gum tree, by a running stream. I’d park myself down on a cozy blanket with a good book, a bottle of Rose and a devine picnic for one. I would rest and enjoy, knowing my wishes for the health and comfort for all were being delivered.
I’d love to discover more awesome recipes this Xmas!
Peace, happiness and love!
Dear Lorraine
I’d love to win a gift basket from Wild Basket! The strawberry and Sichuan pepper chocolate sounds divine! What a genius combination…for those who get a kick from eating Sichuan pepper :p
xoxo
Ravel
All I want for Christmas is a meal cooked for me. A gift hamper full of goodies would also do the trick
Spending it in hospital with bubs no. 3 so I’d just love him to be healthy and hungry! And a day for dad with the other two behaving!
What a perfect xmas!
Have safe one everyone!
To win lotto so I do not have to work Christmas Day, I miss out on a drink as well
@ annette prout – would you consider going halves on the lotto: as long as we both got the same numbers, that is?
I’d like to keep it simple – just watching my children open their presents, and enjoy giving to others is enough of a present. But if you must indulge in presents for mum, a pasta machine, so that my 2 little helpers can enjoy the thrill of home made pasta, made by us!
What I’d really like for Christmas is quality time with family, which would include lots of laughter, love and an abundance of memorable moments. Thank you…..
I love Cookbooks and more Cookbooks…. I just love to touch the smooth cover and enjoy the pictures!!!
All I want is to see huge smiles on my kids faces when they open there presents from under the tree!!
A big leg of christmas ham, from Victor Churchills, prepared and glazed with his yummy recipe!
I’ve no idea what Lilli Pilli jam is, but, having now seen it, can’t imagine how I’ve managed to have so many Christmases without it!
i would like to be back with my girlfriend overseas, though i’m having to settle for a visit in january. but some of the gourmet aussie fare on offer will no doubt go a long way to impressing her folks (if i don’t eat it all before going that is!)
The same thing as my previous comment .. for this mysterious illness to take a hike and never appear again!!
OooOoO, I totes wanna be swept away on a romantic getaway! Just once I dream of my husband being overcome with emotion and making wild crazy plans that involve masses of rose petals, oozing liquid filled chocolates, open fires, shag pile rugs, sparkling wine and one of those ridiculously amazing beds with all the adorable netting… Super sigh tho as I know I’ll be lucky if my man wakes up before midday and even remembers where he hid my present – which I have already discovered in the clothes dryer – I guess it may be an inventive hiding place for those of us who do not actually participate in any household chores…
Anyway, I can always hope for that grand gesture but I do know that I will enjoy that late morning Christmas Day snuggle and open that gift voucher to Bras ‘n’ Things with surprise and just continue to love my most unromantic husband just as he will continue to love me.
I’m going to visit some friends in the US this Xmas and I would love for them to enjoy the food I’ll be cooking for them on Xmas day! (including the Aussie Pavlova) :>
My family good weather and good food:-)
Kitchenaid mixer, can’t justify spending the money on it but would love to have one to bake with. one of those things that you always look at in great details at the shops but never end up buying for yourself…
I’d love for my whole family to go on a holiday in the Philippines. I miss christmas there, the lights, the food, fireworks, my family and friends.
I’d love to win one of these gorgeous gift baskets!
A lot of people seem to want a KitchenAid mixer! I just bought a Breville one (I got sucked in by its pretty silver colour) and I’m hoping I’ll love using it!
I would love everyone to be happy and healthy and spend a great Christmas day with family and friends making memories.
Something different such as a fun family day without the usual squabbles and pettiness
I would love a KitchenAid mixer yes…and one of these awesome gift hampers
I would like to know where to get some good lilly pillies to make jam with. I would also a bottle of rum to make some rum balls with.
all i want for christmas is to win the lotto! lol
Some sunshine – only been in Sydney from the UK for a month but it seems to have rained most days!
For everyone to be in good health, especially my girlfriend who suffers a chronic illness
A lovely man to throw himself in my pathway and say “I’m the one you’ve been waiting all your life for!”.
Oh, and a new blender.
pie weights as I currently use a lot of rice and it seems like such a waste
All I want this Christmas is a donation to charity for someone who REALLY needs it.
There are many families who cannot afford a proper Christmas dinner, let alone presents for their children. They may be living in your city or even in your street.
Don’t get me wrong – I love presents like most people but I realise Christmas is also an opportunity to care for others.
All I want for Christmas is have my daughter home from outback QLD (where she works), my son to regain his eyesight and for us all to share Christmas dinner together.
I wanna win the $9000 badge draw at my local RSL. They’re calling it tonight and I have all my fingers and toes and arms and legs crossed!
a new perfume would be wonderful:-)
A homemade trifle for me to eat..thats it!
What I want for Christmas is my son to get accepted into the university course that he has his heart set on.
Ohh, and I forgot to say that I would love your hamper as well.
I would love all the Christmas cooking and preparations to be finished before midnight on Christmas Eve for once!
just something really simple. for my bub to sleep all through the night. please
World peace and tolerence for all. If thats not possible family peace and tolerence for all.
Heyy these hampers look amazing would love to win one to add to my christmas table.
An Atomic coffee maker
All I want for Christmas this year is to skype my son and see his excitment as he “opens” his trampoline (Im currently serving overseas).
I would love to have my cast off my leg so I can go SHOPPING! Getting desperate.
Eating prawns for christmas – it’s the first one in a while I’m not pregnant so I’m looking forward to joining in on the feast with my family
Nothing, I’m all good
I would LOVE a concrete driveway for my new house that I move into on 13/12. I swear – I’d give anything. Being a single woman is empowering but it’s hard at the same time!!
The mortgage paid off but saving that I’m happy with a box of chocolates.
What i want for Christmas peace at my table
Not quite the cook;
and not quite the cleaner
for Christmas I’d like a personal chef and a housekeeper!
What I want is to spend quality time with friends and family. Oh wait! That’s what I’m getting and also cross one off my bucket list; Christmas lunch at a restaurant. Can’t wait.
world peace and happiness for all cures for illness to be free of charge and instead of receiving gifts just give out love and all what we have to offer and of corse to win something i can give to my family to enjoy this christams dinner
I want to relax catch up with family and enjoy a quite glass of wine.
all I want for christmas is peace and time to relax
For everyone to have a wonderful day:-)
Just want to spend the day surrounded by great food and my family.
We’ve been scrimping and saving for ten years to build our house and it is going to happen next year!! All I want for Christmas are the architect’s plans for our house!!
A visit from George Cloony would be nice..
Don’t think Santa can arrange it THIS year, so choccies under the tree will suffice!
Just a couple weeks ago a family that was involved with our local hospital lost their brave 4yo girl, who faught so hard to stay with her family this xmas. Now she is an angel, and they deserve a glint of happiness.. I dont know them personally , but would love win this basket and have it sent to them.. Knowing that someone has thought of them.. would be my idea something great for xmas
All I want for Christmas is to win a gift basket of goodies.
What do I want for Christmas?
I would LOVE for my four children to behave like little angels when we visit the inlaws in the morning, and then again when we visit my Aunts in the afternoon. That would make my day! ( a lot less stressful!!)
I would like a fishing rod for Christmas that comes with a 100% guarantee to catch a fish with every use.
All I want for Christmas is a FRIDGE! Fitting out your first home is tricky, and expensive! Need to keep ice cream pudding cold somehow!
I would love to receive a holiday (to any destination) for Christmas!
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