Reviews of our favourite products you can find on the shelves at Blake Family Grocers. Of course, we always strive to have all our favourite products always in-store - but, life isn’t always that neat and tidy! Sometimes supply is affected by production, transport or simply that it is so popular that we have sold out. So please, if you desperately need a particular product, please feel free to call us to make sure we have it on the shelf and we can pop it aside for you.
Up in the Highlands of Scotland, in Cairn O’Mount in Royal Deeside, Duncan’s of Deeside baked their first shortbread three generations ago. The family continue that tradition of baking beautifully short biscuits that crumble when broken but are as smooth as silk when eaten. In many households, shortbreads are a Christmas tradition and these raspberry and white chocolate Scottish shortbread are as good with a good cup of tea as they are with a neat dram of whisky.
Read MoreDo you like it hot? Do you like it smooth? Do you like it French or good old English style? You can’t have a Christmas table without good mustard. And we have loads.
Read MoreThey grow great garlic out Springmount way, between Daylesford and Creswick, and the team at Springmount Fine Foods know how to turn it into delicious black garlic. It is a slow process of heat and humidity that transforms garlic into a dark, sweet and delicious product perfect to add to dishes for complexity and flavour.
Read MoreIf you love classic Italian pasta dishes you will love Bottarga Australia’s dried, grated bottarga. It is great sprinkled over pasta to give a deep, delicious slightly seafood flavour. A little goes a long, long way and releases its aroma and flavour when warmed. It is not an ingredient to cook with as it destroys its delicate nature.
Read MoreIt’s rich, fruity, nutty, delicious and good for you. Rolada is a range of what could be called sweetmeats in old-fashioned parlance - but it is really just logs of dried fruit and nuts. Slice off a piece and pack it in a lunchbox for a snack. Put some fine slices on a cheeseboard where it is a dead-set match for blue cheese.
Read MoreThis unique combination is Chef Luca Ciano’s take on the famous Italian Pumpkin ravioli. The filling is turned into a flavoursome pasta sauce combo. The sweetness of the pumpkin matches perfectly with the subtle, nutty flavour of the Amaretti. Italian Grana Padano cheese is then added.
Read MoreCuca sardines can be eaten straight from the can or put on hot sourdough toast and seasoned with sea salt. They are rich tasting, have a great texture and are incredibly delicious with an ice-cold beer, glass of Alberino white wine or even a Spanish sherry or vermouth.
Read MoreWow! This is new. This is good. This is healthy. This is delicious. It is a salad dressing made from fermented tea leaves from Burma. The sauce is made here in Victoria in the Yarra Valley from fermented tea leaves, sesame, soy sauce and a load of other delicious natural ingredients. It is thick, tangy, smooth, clean tasting, not at all sweet and incredibly mouth filling and delicious.
Read MoreRepeat after me. “Spanish food is not spicy!” As a rule, Spaniards hate hot food (except for padron peppers). But they love spice and fragrance. Cinnamon, lemon rind, bay leaves and Pimenton or Spanish Paprika - this is powdered dried red peppers that are like aromatic capsicums. The red powder, which is also called Spanish paprika, yields a delicious back note to Spanish dishes like stewed vegetables, sausages and, even eggs fried in olive oil and served with chips.
Read MoreIf you loved the way the Fancy Hanks team in Bourke Street Melbourne, perfected the American barbeque and loved the way the food is perfectly seasoned, then you will love their chicken salt. Based on their lip-smackingly good recipes, this chicken salt is: 1) salty, 2) extremely delicious in a sexy umami way, and 3) packaged in a super cool yellow tin.
Read MoreThese are probably the best potato crisps on the market anywhere in the world at present. They are from Spain and the brand is called Quillo (pronounce Key–Oh) and the flavours in the range include such truly Spanish flavours as a fried egg.
Read MoreIf you have never had single variety, single estate organic Canadian maple syrup then spoil yourself with what we consider to be extraordinary syrup from a single farm in Quebec called Escuminac, named after the Canadian region, where syrup maker Martin Malenfant founded the business in 1987.
Read MoreThe pasta is so bloody good – slowly dried bronze die extruded fine spaghetti made from Italian wheat - that it makes unwrapping these beautiful packs worth it. They make brilliant gifts and even better pasta!
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