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 it’s too hot to cook!
For regular blog readers, you already know all about Rancho Vignola and my love for their exceptionally high-quality products and their values as a company. I have been a regular customer of theirs since well before we started running a giveaway on my blog.
Rancho Vignola is a direct mail-order company based in BC. They sell freshly harvested nuts and dried fruit, as well as chocolate and confections. The company owners, Sue and Richard Vignola, work directly with farmers to ensure that they buy only crops of nuts that are ethically grown and harvested, and are at the peak of freshness when they are delivered to my (or to your) door. And believe me, nuts at the peak of freshness are something most of us rarely, if ever, experience, and they are a GAME CHANGER, folks!
If you want a chance to taste peak-of-fresh nuts (the kind that made my almond farmer friend cry with joy) come to the Harvest Event this weekend. Customers can sample most of Rancho Vignola’s many products, enjoy live music and cooking demonstrations, and decide what they might like to order. The Harvest Event on the Island is coming to Sidney on November 24th and 25th at Mary Winspear Centre. Less than one week away!!
I will be at the Harvest Sales Event on Saturday (25th) doing a few cooking demos and handing out samples. I hope to see you there! In the meantime, please enter the giveaway to win a gift basket of Rancho Vignola products valued at $100 (rules below).
The winner of the blog giveaway can pick up their basket at the Harvest Sale on the 24th or 25th, or have it mailed to their home.
To qualify for delivery, you must have a Canadian shipping address. Enter the draw in one of four ways:
Giveaway ends by 3 pm on Thursday, November 23rd, and a winner will be announced by 9 pm that evening. That’s five days, folks!
(Non-winners will be very happy to note that Rancho Vignola’s December Online Harvest Sale is coming Dec 1st to 15th. No minimum order required! So, if this post has piqued your interest, and you can’t make it to any of the Harvest Sales locations, you can order some products to try through the December online sale.)
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 it’s too hot to cook!
Oct. 25, 2020
Quince have a wonderful flavour, but an almost impossibly hard texture. Read on for a quick kitchen tip that makes quince easy to peel and cut!
Sep. 27, 2020
Pumpkin spices scones are a perfect fall treat; not-too-sweet, fragrant with spices, with a full complement of rich pumpkin flavour.
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Love Rancho Vignola! Please pick me!
As always, thanks to you and Rancho Vignola for hosting this fab contest. I look forward to their filberts !!! every year. I’d love to win their gift basket and I’ll see you in Sidney on the 25th.
Thanks for doing this, Chef Heidi. I’d love to win some of the most delicious fruit and nuts ever!
Would love to make all kinds of holiday treats with these high quality ingredients! 🙂
Wow! The company and nuts sound wonderful!
What a nice giveaway! Perfect for the holiday season 🙂
Can’t wait for the Harvest Event!
We have been enjoying Rancho Vignola’s products since 1990! Hard to believe it has been that long!
I would love to try Rancho Vignola’s products! I have heard about them for years. This is the year to eat them!!!
I enjoy Rancho Vignola products. The products are fresh, delicious, and of the best quality!
Ohh just imagine the yummy goodies I could make and share with friends and family!!! I love the concept of a box mailed to me full of nuts, dried fruits and more…who wouldn’t!
Pick me! Good to know about the online sale.
Thanks for the recipes.