Jun. 28, 2021
Cooking In Season
Salad Meals to Beat the Heat
In this recipe round up, I have gathered my best and most delicious summer salad meal recipes in one post, for days when itโs too hot to cook!

This past week has been pretty nuts at my house. And I mean that literally.ย On Friday, I received a delivery 475 pounds of nuts and dried fruit, which some friends and I spent the evening sorting out and sharing amongst ourselves.
It sounds pretty nutty (read: mentally unhinged), doesn’t it? Well, once you have tasted a “new crop” nut delivered from Rancho Vignola, you will understand that the only intelligent thing to do is to order a direct shipment to your house so that you never have to eat another flavourless or rancid supermarket nut, ever.
I now have squirreled away enough freshly-harvested and delicious almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, cashews, etc etc, to last our family the whole year. And, believe me, even after a year of storage, these nuts are still way fresher than most of what you can buy in the store. I have been using Rancho Vignola nuts and dried fruit exclusively for the last 6 years and I have loved every minute of it!

So, being such a huge fan and supporter of Rancho Vignola (and for more than just the freshness of their nuts), I am thrilled to announce my first blog giveaway! Rancho Vignola is offering a basket of mixed dried fruits and nuts valued at $150 to one of my blog readers!!!
To qualify for delivery, you must have a Canadian shipping address. Enter the draw in one of three ways:
(1) comment on this post
(2) post to my facebook fanpage
(3) tweet with the hashtag #chefheidisnuttygiveaway to @chefheidifink
Giveaway ends by midnight, Saturday, December 7th, and a winner will be announced Sunday, December 8th. That’s one week, folks!
(Non-winners will be very happy to note that this giveaway is running simultaneously with Rancho’s December online Harvest Event. No minimum order required! So, if this has piqued your interest, you can order some to try.)
In the meantime, keep checking the blog this coming month for recipes and ideas for some the amazing products I get every year from RV. It may be the baby pecan butter cookies, or the sour cherry chocolate pound cake, or the hazelnut flour torte, or….
Jun. 28, 2021
In this recipe round up, I have gathered my best and most delicious summer salad meal recipes in one post, for days when itโs too hot to cook!
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Mmmmm, my mouth is nearly watering with your description of the nuts and fruits RV carries….thanks for the info! My family would delight in winning this giveaway.
I am scared of buying nuts from the grocery store as I have tasted many rancid nuts in the past. What a pleasure to try fresh products.
yummy sounds nice to have to eat
My daughter and her family buy Rancho Vignola products every year and they love them
yummm love fruit and nuts
Great prize… would love to eat it!
Yummmm, This would be great for snacking. I just started adding more nuts into my diet.
These look delicious and would go down well with my family over Christmas.
Hi Heidi! Thanks for sharing info about this company! Just yesterday, I was excited to find a ziploc bag of almonds and dried apricots in my purse, but sadly they tasted like my purse (a mixture of mint gum and floral lotion), and I had to throw them out. Tragic! I’ll have to check out the Rancho Vignola site.
P.S. Perhaps your fruit & nut stock could be the genesis of a new cooking class? ๐
What a great contest! Fingers crossed!
We love snacking on nuts and dried fruits! Would love to win!
Please Enter Me In The Great Rancho Vignola Giveaway!
It Would Be Great To Win The Basket Of Mixed Dried Fruits And Nuts.
I Have Liked Your Chef Heidi Fink Facebook Page Just To Say
Thank You For Having This Giveaway!!!!!!