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December 1, 2012
The Great Rancho Vignola Giveaway!
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This past week has been pretty nuts at my house. And I mean that literally. 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….
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Hello Heidi from Malina in Prince George, BC!
First Thanks for your blog on Italy tour! Much enjoyed and keep up the good and bad comments. They are all well written and illustrated. And God we need both sides of the coin too. How we are going to differentiate good from bad if we don’t learn to deal with both. Could have been a longer blog for how much I have enjoy it.
Second Thanks for promoting through own example how much we appreciate having a family business dedicated to bring fresh and yummy goodies from around the world and I mean fresh every year. Hopefully all this feedback will stimulate their desire to lengthen their list of offerings. And hopefully Natalia and Simon will follow into the footsteps of their parents full-time. Thank you guys at Rancho Vignola!
Thanks again for sharing your Italy experience and keep up sharing with good writing and more beautiful pictures, please!
Best regards,
Malina, a seasoned traveller too
I have tried these nuts and dried fruits before and they are fabulous. New to your blog and looking forward to exploring it!!
I love getting my rancho viniola order in november. Heidi is right, you can keep things for a year and they stay wonderfully fresh. Everything has fantastic flavour. I too would love to win the basket for Christmas.
These mixed nuts look awesome! I know they would be thoroughly enjoyed in this house!
Thanks for hosting this awesome giveaway.
love this idea and i too love rancho vignola ~ amazing quality and my kids can’t get enough!
I Love this idea for your first give away! I love nuts and fruit!
Cheers, Lauree
We love Rancho Vignolia too and shop there every year when they come to Kelowna! We’ve just discovered the on-line ordering – oh boy! We would love to win the contest – with 5 kids we go through a lot of fruit and nuts (even thought two have flown the coop now!)!
Yummy its all good ! <3
I was just about to place our annual group order when I saw your contest. We absolutely love Rancho Vignola’s product. Our once a year get-together armed with ziplock bags, jars and scales have always been a lot of fun. The quality is just unbeatable.
And then I saw that you were also Executive Chef at the ReBar. Whenever we make the 15 hour drive down to Victoria, the ReBar is one of our fav places to eat. The Almond Burger….Yum. Even got the cookbook for Christmas.
Happy Holidays, Evereyone
As a complete nut (fan) myself, I have also been impressed and addicted to Rancho Vignola products! And now they have led me to Heidi Fink’s blog. After a quick look through, I beleive it will bring Aloha to my cooking (just got back from Maui). Thanks so much!
Anut
Love all the nuts and fruit, especially good for gluten free, fresh ground hazelnuts, almonds… must be time to bake more cookies.
Sounds great, I will check it out.