Co-op Gift Guide: For the Foodie
We’re kicking off the holiday season with a special series of Gift Guides for everyone in your life from the Foodie to the Makeup Lover to the Party Host and everyone inbetween. All the products in our guides can be found here at the Co-op and we’ll be posting them throughout the month on social media and in our blog.
First up, it’s our Gift Guide for the Foodie. That person who is always on the hunt for a new restaurant. The adventurous one who is always willing to try something new. The one who loves to spend time cooking or collecting the perfect ingredients for a dish. The one who goes shopping without a list and is always in search of something exciting to share with their taste buds.
To the true Foodie, there is no better gift than food itself.
Cobram Estate 100% California Select Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Produced here in the Sacramento Valley, this 100% California Select Extra Virgin Olive Oil is one of our favorite olive oils. It's clean with medium levels of bitterness and an aroma of fresh-cut grass with a hint of tropical fruit. This award-winning olive oil is excellent for sautéing, roasting, or drizzling on just about anything!
Community Grains Pasta
Made in small batches from small-scale harvests, these whole-grain pastas highlight the grains' full flavors. The pasta is made of extra-fine flour milled with uniform granulation, extruded through bronze dies, and then slowly air-dried at low temperatures, creating a satisfying texture and a surface sauce clings to.
These pastas are:
100% Whole Grain & Whole Milled
Certified Organic & Non-GMO
Grown in California
Identity Preserved (100% Traceable from seed to table!)
Made of just 100% Whole Grain Organic Wheat Flour & Water
Specialty Jam, Jelly & Spread
Divina Fig Spread
This Mediterranean spread is great when paired with your favorite cheese or baked atop Brie. Rich, full notes of caramel, honey and molasses are the perfect balance to savory meats, baked goods, veggies and more.
Rutherford & Meyer Fruit Paste
These fruit pastes are an excellent addition to any cheese board and can be added to glazes, sauces and stuffing for an inspired meal.
Kelly’s Marionberry Habanero Pepper Jelly
Oregon’s very own Marionberry (an indigenous blackberry) combined with the warm heat of the habanero. Wonderful for snacking, sharing and using in recipes.
Hummingbird Organic Trail Mix, Seeds & Snacks
Hummingbird is a Eugene, Oregon based bulk food and ingredient wholesale distributor and manufacturer specializing in sourcing farm-direct Organic and Pacific Northwest-grown products.
We have a variety of their snacks available to buy in bulk or already packaged to-go including Paleo Trail Mix, Sprouted Almonds, Sprouted Pumpkin Seeds, Crystallized Ginger, Dried Mangos, Dark Chocolate Trail Mix and more.
Tinned Fish
Matiz Wild Sardines
Matiz Gallego sardines are harvested off the coast of Galicia, known for its exceptional seafood. Once harvested, the sardines are prepared by hand using old master cannery know-how and then packed with the highest quality ingredients to produce a sardine that is moist, tender, and uncommonly flavorful.
Ortiz El Velero Bonita Del Norte Tuna
The exquisite flavor of the finest white tuna is enhanced by olive oil, which gives it a silky texture. The Bonito Del Norte tuna, known in the United States as Albacore, is individually line caught off the coast of Spain. As with good wine, cheese or ham, it is possible to create a "cellar" of Bonito del Norte preserves whose quality and flavor will improve with age.
Da Morgada Portuguese Mackerel Sardines
These mackerel sardines are preserved in extra virgin olive oil and sourced from Portugal which is known for it's high-quality seafood.
Hot Sauces
Zab's Hot Honey
A sweet, slow burning drizzle for your cheese boards, marinades, pizza, and anything in between.
Truff Hot Sauce
TRUFF’s Signature Hot Sauce is the pinnacle of heat experience with an intricate blend of ripe red chili peppers, real black truffle, organic agave nectar, and savory spices.
Prescribed Burn Ghost Flames Hot Sauce
This hot sauce is not for the faint of heart. It features ghost, pasilla, and guajillo chili for a spicy scale of 11/10.
Wynn's Kitchen Saté Asian Chili Sauce
Experience the fresh flavors of lemongrass, shallots, garlic, and citrus with a zingy but not overpowering heat level. Perfectly pourable and drizzable, you can use it as a marinade, cooking sauce, or condiment.
Giuseppe Giusti Gourmet Balsamic Vinegar Glaze
This gourmet Glaze with Balsamic Vinegar of Modena is creamy and delicate, rich of woody and spicy notes. An excellent addition to caprese salads, bruschetta, grilled veggies, pizza, your favorite veggies and even ice cream! Drizzle it on everything!
Savannah Bee Company Raw Honeycomb
Enjoy the miracle of honey in its most natural state with a gorgeous hunk of raw honeycomb sourced from Hungary. Spread it on warm bread, plop into salads, or just dig in with a spoon—yes, you can eat the wax!
Specialty Salts
Maldon Sea Salt Flakes
These soft, crunchy sea salt flakes contain the perfect balance of natural minerals, offering a fresh intensity and clean taste to enhance any dish. They are a staple in every kitchen.
Sal de Ibiza
This gourmet salt, handmade in the French style of "Fleur de Sel" (Spanish: "Flor de Sal"), is a natural salt particularly rich in minerals. SAL de IBIZA's "Fleur de Sel" tastes noticeably milder and fresher than regular table salt.
Omnivore Salt
The blend of organic black pepper, red pepper and fennel gives this unique seasoning a bright, herbal, peppery, spicy, earthy flavor. It comes in a handy 2 oz. tin which is great for camping or vacation trips.
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