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Valentine's Day 2021
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Valentine's Day 2021

Take the time to celebrate your love with gourmet food this Valentine's Day 2021 and plan out a special meal with our finest gourmet ingredients. This Valentine’s Day we thought we’d make dinner a bit easier by coming up with some exciting recipes and food ideas for you to try out. Scroll down for our best recipes to impress!

summer truffles in glass jar
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The Fine Food Specialist Guide to Truffles

Here at Fine Food Specialist we take the greatest care in sourcing the finest produce from around the world to deliver straight to your door, and there is no exception when it comes to truffles. Our fine selection is imported from Italy, France, and even further afield for more niche varieties of truffles...

Vegetables and Fruits in Season in February
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Vegetables and Fruits in Season in February

During the month of February we see lots of earthy, wintry produce and many beautiful fruits too. Roots and citrus are the main types of fresh produce in February, but there are plenty of other exciting varieties available too. Our selection of root vegetables is diverse and exciting, and will provide ample reason to tuck into many hearty roasts and warming stews. Equally you’ll find that certain fruits such as oranges are hitting their peak flavour. Read on to explore all the vegetables in season and get inspired to try something new.

Chinese New Year 2021
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Chinese New Year 2021

Let's get ready to celebrate Chinese New Year 2021! Everything you need to know about the Spring Festival, Chinese New Year recipes, traditions and more. We take you through all our best-selling foods and favourite dishes to ring in the Lunar New Year in style!

Top 10 uses for Truffles
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Top 10 uses for Truffles

There are plenty of exciting ways to make the most of your fresh white and black truffles and truffle products. Truffle and truffle-infused products such as our truffle butters and truffle oils will impart a wonderful aroma to your dishes, as well as a touch of luxury. These are our top ten ways to implement truffle into your cooking.

raw wagyu on marble with rosemary
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The Fine Food Specialist Guide to Wagyu Beef

Wagyu is widely regarded in the beef industry as a luxury food thanks to its high standards of production, creating a beautiful end product that is enjoyed by many around the world. Wagyu beef has been featured on the menus of many high-end restaurants and is consistently favoured by purveyors of fine food.

Happy New Year from Drogo's Kitchen
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Happy New Year from Drogo's Kitchen

Here's a round-up of our favourite recipes from Drogo's Kitchen for you to try out!  Featuring our best-selling ingredients...You'll want to delve into these! Level up your cooking in 2021 with us.

New Year’s Eve Canapé and Snack Ideas
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New Year’s Eve Canapé and Snack Ideas

An update about Christmas 2020
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An update about Christmas 2020

To our valued customers,

Christmas may be a little different this year, however we will endeavour, as always, to guarantee that you receive the finest ingredients and fresh produce. I want to be transparent as we try to make the best of these strange times and have as normal a festive period as can be possible!

Vegetables and Fruit in Season in October
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Vegetables and Fruit in Season in October

October brings a selection of comforting autumnal flavours in earthy mushrooms, sweet pumpkins and heartier greens such as chicory and watercress. We stock some of the most exciting varieties of fruit and vegetables available including hard to find Vitellotte purple potatoes, fragrant Muscat grapes and a pumpkin that’s nurtured, heat-cured and stamped with a special marker of quality - definitely not one for carving into a Halloween lantern!

Various cuts of raw meat on baking paper
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The Fine Food Specialist Guide to Game

Autumn means game season and the arrival of lots of new and interesting meats to play around with. The word ‘game’ defines a group of birds and wild animals, which are hunted by game specialists and prized for their full, rich flavour. Our wide selection of birds, venison, rabbit and hare are just what you need to bring some interest and excitement to a weekday meal or dinner party. 

 

caviar on mother of pearl plates
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The Fine Food Specialist Guide to Caviar

We have sourced the finest varieties of caviar from Russia to Italy, farmed using innovative techniques to achieve the best taste. Peruse our comprehensive collection and you will find we cater to every occasion, from finding your personal favourites to impressing dinner party guests to treating a friend with a beautiful caviar gift. Here we will take you through all your questions about caviar and how to best enjoy this luxury foodstuff!

seasonal mix of mushrooms
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The Fine Food Specialist Guide to Mushrooms

Mushrooms are the perfect way to add depth of flavour to a dish with very little effort, and at Fine Food Specialist, we stock a wide range; from earthy, meaty morels with their distinctive wrinkled caps to delicate golden chanterelles and skinny, silken enoki. Here’s our guide to working with one of nature’s most versatile ingredients.

How to use Edible Flowers and Micro Herbs
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How to use Edible Flowers and Micro Herbs

Sometimes it’s hard to know what’s missing from a dish to give it the wow factor, which is where garnishes such as edible flowers and micro herbs really come into their own. 

These flowers and herbs are just coming into season in the spring, and you’ll find an exciting range available in store to transform your dish into something special. 

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Choosing and Cooking the perfect Wagyu Steak

There are certain food items that seem to go beyond the effect they have on your taste buds. 

Certain foods resonate with us in new and unexpected ways. It may be the location we eat them in, or the people we share them with. Or it could be that the taste is so impressive and memorable that it truly lingers in our minds.

Anybody who enjoys high quality meats will likely have a favourite they go to when they can. And for many people around the world, that favourite will be Wagyu beef.

A variety of exotic fruit available from Fine Food Specialist
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Discover new Fruit and Vegetables this spring

Making positive additions to your food selection is what we are all about here at Fine Food Specialist. We love sourcing wonderful culinary items you’re unlikely to find in your local supermarket, and make these easy for you to enjoy. 

Providing you with the chance to try something exotic, hard to find or completely new is part of our charm we feel. This applies across our range, but with spring here, we wanted to focus on our fruit and vegetable range in our latest blog.

seasonal vegetable box
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Eating healthily and storing food properly

Generally in our lives, we need to do certain things and live in a certain way in order to be healthy and happy. This is a good mantra by which to live life generally. But there are times when we need to take extra special care of ourselves and ensure that the right things are going into our body. 

With the current health situation we are finding ourselves in, making sure we are eating healthily can help give our bodies a better chance of staying in a good shape. This means carefully picking and choosing the food we eat is an important thing to do. 

romanesco salad
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A message to our customers regarding Coronavirus

In light of the uncertainty we all face in our daily lives with the outbreak of COVID-19 (Coronavirus), I wanted to write to you directly to keep you informed of the steps I’ve asked my team at Fine Food Specialist to take to ensure we are prepared for all scenarios. My absolute number one priority is the safety of our customers and staff.

mixed edible flowers
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How to use Edible Flowers and Micro Herbs

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Honeyed Ricotta with Blood Orange Coulis