Ca’ Momi Enoteca has romance ready to go with heart-shaped pizza, schiacciata, ciambellina, and ciambellona for Valentine’s weekend, plus two irresistible takeout specials featuring all-organic bignè pastries. Love On the Run ($45) includes the pizza of your choice, one dozen assorted organic bignè, and a bottle of Ca’ Momi Ca’ Rosa Sparkling Rosé. For sweethearts with sweet tooths, Bubbles & Bignè (1 dozen assorted organic bignè + 1 bottle of Ca’ Rosa) for only $28. Let your love be heartcrafted!
Don’t think there is a cheese that out there that is perfect for Valentine’s Day? Guess again! Oxbow Cheese & Wine Merchant will have Coeur du Berry, a lovely, fresh goat milk cheese from the Poitou region of France on hand for your special someone. In the shape of a heart, this succulent cheese is from Fromagerie Jacquin, and its name is a nod to the neighboring commune named — most appropriately it seems — St Valentin. Add a crisp white wine or refreshing bubbly and you will be all set!
Warm up winter by showing someone you love that you care. Hudson Greens and Goods has a wonderful selection of Valentine cards from Ghost Academy hand-printed in the USA. A highlight for the holiday will be an exquisite selection of flowers in various size vases and bouquets from The Monkey Flower Group. Staff favorites for February include Little Apple farm shrubs to make delicious cocktails and spritzers, and Teance teas will warm anybody’s heart. Locally grown loofahs from Hudson Ranch are a complement to any luxurious bath. Be sure to also check out the primo selection of butter marshmallows handmade in British Columbia. The decadent treats are now priced to move. So stop the store and take advantage of all the ways the HG&G can help warm the hearts of the ones you love.
This Valentines Day, send the gift of sweetness to your special someone! Surprise them with a dozen of their favorite #karascupcakes, cakes, artisan treats, cookies and more, now available with festive heart shaped pink and red fondant. The perfect treat to send the message of “I love you.” Call 707-258-2253 or email today to place your order. Kara’s delivers throughout the Napa Valley.
For those who need to avoid gluten and even those who don’t, you can put together a praiseworthy snack spread from Cate & Co. Start building your noshing offering with any of their nitrite-free salamis, then add a tapenade (green olive, or fig shallot), a selection of crackers, crisps and crostini, a baguette, and don’t forget their White Truffle Kennebec Potato Chips—now you’re ready for the big game to begin or a weekend gathering of friends.
The Olive Press’ milling season recently came to a close after a record 525 tons of beautiful California olives! Pay The Olive Press a visit today to learn about the milling and production process that takes place in order to create all of these fantastic oils! To expand the learning experience, be sure to taste all of the flavorful extra virgin olive oils, citrus crushed oils, and balsamic vinegars they have to offer! Enjoy!
Kara’s Cupcakes is sweetening January and the Napa Valley Vine Trail with a chocolaty chocolate vanilla chocolate chip cupcake — a chocolate cupcake with a chocolaty chocolate chip sweet vanilla frosting. A portion of the proceeds benefit the Napa Valley Vine Trail, an in-progress multi-use path connecting the entire Napa Valley for families to share. Available at the bakery or pre-order by calling (707) 258-2253.
Say “Happy Holidays” with Kara’s Cupcakes holiday cookies! These festive treats make stocking stuffers, holiday and hostess gifts too! Christmas mitts, holiday tree and sparkle snowflake cookies are available for your holiday bash. Available in bakery and large orders too. Call 707-258-2253 to place your order today.
It’s beginning to look a lot like the holidays around The Fatted Calf. The kitchen is in full swing preparing all of of their favorite seasonal delights from creamy boudin blanc with chestnuts to decadent foie gras terrines with Sauternes. Gift baskets are being filled with holiday treats: locally made jams and syrups, freshly pressed new olive oil, heirloom beans and grains, foraged wild mushroom goodies and more. The sales staff is ready to help you choose a succulent roast for your holiday table, prepare a party perfect charcuterie platter for your celebration or find just the right gift for all of the curious cooks and meat aficionados on your list. Pop in to the The Fatted Calf today and let the holidays begin!
Don’t forget to include Five Dot Ranch beef on your holiday menu! They are still taking orders for prime rib roasts, dry-aged bone-in striploins and dry-aged Porterhouse steaks. Orders can be placed over phone or in person at the butcher shop. The Cookhouse will also have a special New Year’s Day brunch menu from 10 am to 4 pm featuring smoked brisket and sweet potato hash, pumpkin waffles, the original Five Dot Ranch burger, oxtail chili and much more! In addition to stopping in to look at the meat case or enjoying a delicious meal from the Cookhouse, consider getting some Five Dot Ranch gift cards to give to all of your meat loving friends and family. Happy Holidays from your local Five Dot Ranch Family!
Christmas is only ten days away… Give the gift of the most highly awarded olive oil in the nation! Shop the diverse olive oil and balsamic gift pack selection, as well as pantry, bath and tabletop items that The Olive Press has to offer. They grow it, they mill it, they bottle it, and they’ll send it! Small batch, Sonoma grown and pressed olive oil, infused with unique flavors for all to enjoy! The Olive Press wishes its customers a Happy Holiday season!
‘Tis the season for holiday parties, open houses, neighborhood gatherings — the list goes on! Fret not, Cate & Co. can help with their appetizer offerings! Choose from fig kalamata tapenade that is divine with goat cheese on crostini, or green olive tapenade that is bright and tasty spread on crackers, or a colorful curried pumpkin hummus that is lovely with pita chips or fresh vegetables. If bubbles are on your menu, you can’t go wrong with the house made Kennebec potato chips or the decadent white truffle version — sour cream and caviar are optional.
Beat the holiday countdown with Ca’Momi’s all-denomination Gift Certificates, sparkling Ca’Rosa and Ca’ Secco wines, and those irresistible bignès. These heartcrafted Italian treasures were born to be shared, and make perfect hostess or holiday gifts for Italophiles, and anyone with a sweet tooth. While you’re stocking up, grab a quick piadina or pizza lunch and put your order in for organic Holiday Tiramisù … luscious layers of espresso-soaked ladyfingers, mascarpone and chocolate that are sure to pick you up.
Yep it’s back! Oxbow Cheese & Wine Merchant got its first batch of Rush Creek Reserve in this week. This decadent, luscious cheese is produced by Uplands Cheese Co., an artisan farmstead cheese producer in Wisconsin. Rush Creek Reserve is inspired by the French Vacherin Mont d’Or, and is bound in spruce bark, which gives shape to the soft round and imparts a sweet, woodsy flavor to the cheese. Combined with the savory flavors born from the rind, this gives the custard-soft paste a deep but delicate richness, reminiscent of beef broth or finely cured meat. Perfect for any holiday party, this cheese will certainly be the the star. Only available in small quantities and for a limited time, get a wheel while you can! Also, talk to any staff member at the cheese counter to have a custom cheese platter put together for your special party or event you may have this holiday season.
Let the Model Bakery make your Christmas celebration that much easier with fresh home-baked treats for your holiday table! Choose from a variety of freshly baked breakfast pastries, breads, and incredible desserts — all to help make your holiday feast easy and yummy. Pastries include panettone, cinnamon rolls, pumpkin loaf, and, of course, the famous Model Bakery English muffins. Bread for the table? That’s easy with their signature pain au levain boule, cranberry walnut levin batard, dinner rolls, ciabatta and focaccia, and plenty of other options. And don’t forget dessert…iced cookies, Buche de Noel, peppermint cake, pies of all sorts and more! Orders must be placed by 12 noon on Monday, December 21 to pick up on Thursday, December 24 between 6:30 am to 4 pm. Call 707-259-1128, or email to place your Christmas order today!
2015 Christmas Specials
Breakfast Pastries
Panettone (with golden raisins, dried cranberries, candied orange and lemon peel) – $25
Cinnamon Roll/Sticky Bun Ring (5) – $18
Danish Braid (Serves 8-10) – $30
Morning Pastries – $3-$4
English Muffins (6) – $14
Pumpkin loaf maple glaze (Serves 8) – $25
Gingerbread Loaf or Cranberry Orange Nut Loaf – $8
Organic Artisan Breads
4# Signature Pain au Levain Boule (Organic European style country sourdough) – $9
Cranberry Walnut Levain Batard (sm/lg) – $3.50/$6.25
Walnut Sage Batard (sm/lg) – $3.25/$5.95
Pain de Mie Dinner Rolls (12) – $8
French or Sourdough Rolls (12) – $8
Ciabatta or Focaccia Rolls (12) – $8
Cookies
Iced Christmas Sugar Cookies – $2-$3
Christmas Trees, Snowmen, Snowflakes, Mittens, Stockings, Stars
Gingerbread Cookies – $1.75-$3
Men, Houses, Bears
Small Assorted Cookies – $1.75-$2
Apricot Rugelach, Raspberry Linzer, Chocolate Krinkles, and Coconut Macarons
Cookie Platter (Baker’s Dozen) – $35
Wrapped with cellophane and Christmas Ribbon
Model Bakery Cookbook & Cookie Platter – $60
For the coffee lover on your list, be sure and stop by Ritual Coffee Roasters for a really nice selection of holiday gift sets, complete with free gift packaging to boot! Get a cup of coffee, fuel up, and get your shopping done — all in one go! Ritual’s making it easy this season.
Let Napa Valley Distillery (NVD) take you on a journey of gift sets, premium craft spirits, and bottled cocktails where you are sure to find the perfect treat for that special someone (or yourself!). They have the perfect solutions to make your holiday shopping quick, easy, merry, and bright. Can’t decide? NVD Gift Certificates are always a great option, it’s the gift that lets them choose.
Perfect Holiday Gift ideas:
A 1 Year Distinguished Bar Club Membership
This is truly the gift that keeps giving the whole year. Every quarter (March, June, September, December) get all the newest, best and most unique that Napa Valley Distillery has to offer. Whether it’s limited release brandies, seasonal spirits, bottled cocktails, fabulous bitters, or expertly crafted syrups, gums and mixers – each shipment will contain only the best we make and have to offer!
Choose from a selection of preselected gift sets or create your own.
Here are just some of the gift sets available from Napa Valley Distillery:
Best of the Holidays
For the person who likes the best of the best! Our “Best of the Holidays” are three of our favorite spirits all in one convenient gift set. Each Best of the Holidays gift set contains one bottle each of our award-winning Napa Valley Neutral Brandy, Old Hollywood Ginn and the product that started it all… our Meyer Lemon Variety- like we said, simply the best!
NVD Start (or finish) Your Collection
Collect them All! Want to introduce anyone to NVD’s classics, best of the best, the cr?me de la cr?me? Do you know any enthusiast of fine crafted spirits? Then this is the gift pack for you! Get one bottle each of the finest NVD had to offer in this premium gift set! Each gift set contains one bottle each of: Old Hollywood Ginn, Brandy Cordial, Neutral Brandy (Vodka), Meyer Lemon Varity, and Manhattan Cocktail.
Warm and Cozy Gift Set
Oh the weather outside is frightful, but this cocktail is so delightful. Let it snow! Stay indoors and snuggle in deeper to your slippers and enjoy these warm and cozy spirits! Or! Share the cozy experience with someone you love. Each gift set includes one bottle each of: Old Hollywood Ginn, Brandy Cordial, Cherry Brandy.
The Manhattan Gift Set
Let’s hear it for New York! The timeless Americana cocktail that has been perfected with the traditional maraschino cherry. Send the gift of age-perfected drink that takes less than a New York minute to make. Don your best top hat, plop a cherry, pour the drink, and settle in your lounge chair by the fire before the frost can nip your nose. You’ll be king of the hill when you give the gift with the namesake of the world’s most famous island. Each gift set includes one bottle of NVD’s Brandy Manhattan Cocktail, and a 12oz jar of Luxardo Premium Maraschino Cherries.
Click here for additional gift sets and ideas.
Celebrate a sweet and joyful Hanukkah and Christmas season with cupcakes and cakes from Kara’s Cupcakes! Kara’s also caters beautiful events and delivers too! Don’t forget to pre-order your Hanukkah celebration cake — a seasonal holiday favorite creating sweet celebratory moments. To place your order, stop by the bakery, call 1-866.554-CAKE (2253), or order online.
There is nothing as enticing as the smell of a pie baking. New this year: frozen Cate & Co pies — they make and you bake! Enjoy the heartwarming smell of a delectable g-free pie baking in your kitchen. Pies include old fashioned pumpkin, pink lady apple and maple walnut pecan. Each pie comes with instructions for baking, and no one needs to know you didn’t make it yourself!
Do you know anybody whose birth year is 1931? Or who simply wants to do a little vinous time travel? Oxbow Cheese & Wine Merchant has gotten its hands on a few bottles of 1931 Chateau Mossé Rivesaltes. This an extraordinary “Vin Doux Naturel” from the Roussillon region of France, only bottled in 2013. It is sweet but in no way cloying, with incredible length and complexity. A “vin de meditation” as the French would say, a wine to savor and contemplate, as words simply can’t do it justice. $173 a bottle, or have a taste at the Wine Bar, $26.
The Olive Press has the prefect gift for everyone on your list this holiday season! They grow it, they mill it, they’ll wrap it, and they’ll send it! Give the gift of small batch, Sonoma-grown and pressed olive oil…the most highly awarded in the nation! Explore their gift packs with an array of unique varietals and combinations of olive oils and balsamic vinegars. Or, let your loved ones choose with a gift card from The Olive Press.
Ca’ Momi Enoteca is making the shopping season sweeter with organic holiday tiramisu — a heartcrafted, show-stopping, family-sized dessert for $35. Ca’ Momi’s desserts, bite-sized bigne included, are made to order, so please give 24-48 hours’ advance notice. Add some Neapolitan pizza and salad, and you’ve got a full family dinner ready to go. Gift certificates in any amount are also available.
Treat yourself or someone special to the Bath & Spa Collection handcrafted in California, delicately scented, soft, and velvety, all made with fabulous extra virgin olive oil! The Olive Press featured oil and vinegar of the Month: ascolano olive oil and cranberry balsamic vinegar. In time for the holidays, start enjoying or sharing this flavorful and colorful pair!
Napastak has an extensive selection of baked goods and bakeware, to help you make delicious bread, pies and cookies. Here’s a simple but delicious recipe for muffins, using Haulin’ Oats and pumpkin spice emulsion, both available at Napastak.
“Yes, I Am The Muffin Man” Recipe
Ingredients:
1 sm. can (15oz.) pumpkin
1/2 cup applesauce
2 large eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 3/4- 2 cups flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. pumpkin spice emulsion or 2 1/2 pumpkin pie spice
1/2 tsp. salt
1 16 oz. mason jar of Haulin’ Oats, Chai a Little Tenderness, or Cinnamon Girl
Directions:
Heat oven to 350. Grease bottom only of muffin pan. Combine all ingredients in a bowl and mix together. Pour into muffin cups and bake until muffins are slightly puffed and golden brown, about 25 minutes. Makes approximately 10-12 muffins, depending on tin size.
Author David Sedaris once said, “We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort, it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well-made cocktail.” With the holiday season upon us, Napa Valley Distillery (NVD) has everything you need to make an endless number of cocktails to delight the senses, and to enhance quality family time.
NVD’s specially priced Turkey Day Favorites collection includes a bottle of holiday spice bitters from Napa Valley Bitters, and one bottle of each of Napa Valley Distillery’s most popular premium bottled cocktails, the Brandy Manhattan and the East India.
All of NVD’s signature cocktails are handcrafted in small batches by NVD’s Chief of Cocktail Officer, Arthur Hartunian, using his own award-winning craft spirits and all-natural ingredients.
The Brandy Manhattan is a variation of the classic Manhattan cocktail, and is crafted from NVD’s own bourbon barrel-aged premium California brandy, sweet vermouth, and bitters. Classic and timeless, the end result is an extraordinary taste and character that no amount of shaking or stirring can give.
The East India is a classic cocktail that dates back to the 1830s. Crafted from California brandy, orange curacao, real blackberry syrup and blood orange bitters, it is oak infused to achieve a vintage flavor reminiscent of an era long since passed.P
Napa Valley Bitters holiday spice bitters are made with apple brandy, tons of dried apples, holiday spices and traditional herbs for bitters. An excellent addition to a Manhattan, Old Fashioned and other classic winter drinks.
Of course they will also be offering other holiday specials, but this special will ease you into the holiday spirit. Cheers!
Olio Nuovo or “new oil” in Italian, is the first pressing of extra virgin olive oil. An olive oil aficionados dream—unfiltered, vibrantly green, highly herbaceous and lusciously viscous! Savor the health benefits of this fresh oil as it contains the highest levels of polyphenols and antioxidants. Now available in the Daphne 350ml bottle, or bulk, at The Olive Press.
Thanksgiving is here and everyone at Hudson Greens and Goods is thrilled to service you for all your holiday needs. The new location has made more space to stock specialty grocery items. Stop in to browse the selection of the latest items hand-selected to show off on your holiday table. Plus, Hudson Greens and Goods is owned by one of the best grape-growing families in the region, Hudson Vineyards, and their wine is sold exclusively in the store. So remember to stop in and grab a bottle to share with family and friends while giving thanks this year. The staff at Hudson would like to take this moment to thank all of its wonderful Oxbow supporters! You have helped them to grow and enable them to continue to give the community fine, locally grown organic produce and specialty foods. They are of the philosophy that they are in business to keep farmers in business. None of that is possible without your continued support. Thank you and happy holidays.
Want to add that special touch to your gift? A chocolate box from Anette’s Chocolates will a sweet gift — whether it be Anette’s 15 pc, 24 pc or 30 pc chocolate box. Add a holiday charm for just $2.95. A lovely reminder when the chocolates are gone, Anette’s has grapes, Christmas trees, wreaths…the perfect charm for every gift.
Thanksgiving is the perfect excuse for friends and family to gather and enjoy the flavors of the season. Napastak has a great selection of products, made locally and across the globe, and the staff at Napastak has lots of ideas and recommendations to enhance your Thanksgiving dinner. For example, pumpkin spice tea from Napastak is the ideal complement to any meal, including Thanksgiving. Simply the best!
Local Mixologist, Aaron Lahey, watched Nightmare on Elm Street and decided the goofy, yet terrifying, Freddy Krueger deserved a signature cocktail. The green and red color palette and float of bitters on top of the mottled foam, are reminiscent of Freddy’s grubby sweater and screen scream visage. The spine-chilling inspiration for this drink resulted in a wonderfully refreshing Halloween libation. With spices from the Old Hollywood Ginn, a raspberry note, and a touch of cocoa, this is a perfect cocktail for a warm fall night. Stop by Napa Valley Distillery, or click here for the Nightmare on Ginn Street recipe.