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We have something a little different this week. These are new to us, Solo Garlic, also known as Snow Garlic or Kashmiri Garlic. This is one single clove about the size of a small pickled onion. It has the flavour of garlic, but milder. Easy to peel and delicious roasted whole in their skin with roasted vegetables.
£4.50 250g (approx 20 cloves)

If you need some inspiration for a quick but special meal why not try our mixed mushroom risotto. You can add a complete recipe bag for £9.00 or go to our Recipe page to see many more recipe bags we can assemble and have ready for you to collect or have delivered. (£15 minimum applies for free local delivery). Or you can also add a punnet of our Mixed Mushrooms for £4.00

Looking for a quick delicious dinner why not try our range of La Tua Pasta.

Spinach and Ricotta ravioli £5.50 250g serves 2 – Spinach & Ricotta Ravioli is the most traditional and well-known Italian variety of ravioli. The delicious and creamy filling is made from scratch in the La Tua’s London kitchen by cooking whole spinach leaves with a bit of garlic and then adding fresh ricotta cheese and Italian grated cheese. This filling is a firm favourite which is only reflected by the number of awards it’s acquired. We suggest serving up with olive oil and Parmigiano Reggiano or gently coating of Sage Butter.

Pumpkin Tortelloni £6.00 serves 2 – This filling is made by oven-roasting pumpkin, then add delicate ricotta cheese, Italian grated cheese, and a touch of nutmeg. Try this Pumpkin & Ricotta Tortelloni with Village Sage Butter  and Parmigiano Reggiano for a restaurant-quality dining experience! Suitable for vegetarians. Suitable for freezing.

Beef Ravioli £6.50 serves 2. – This filling is made with fresh full-cut beef slow-cooked in red wine and vegetables. Try them with some béchamel and mushroom,  Tomato Sauce, sun-dried tomato pesto or just with olive oil and Parmigiano Reggiano or with some Village Greens Garlic Butter.

Tomato and Mozzarella Tortelloni £7.00 serves 2 – These Artisan Tortelloni are hand folded one by one to incorporate more filling. The pasta has a very high Free Range egg percentage (30%) and La Tua use a special blend of 00 and Durum Wheat flour so that the pasta holds the cooking very well. This filling features a classic taste combination that combines tasty marinated tomatoes with premium Fresh Italian mozzarella and basil: fresh and full of flavour, this is a simple and truly beautiful Italian filling and an all time favourite!

Suitable for freezing

Burns Night Wednesday 25th January

Just an early reminder about Burns Night and the fact that our haggis delivery has arrived.

We only have a few 200g serves of MacSweens vegetarian Haggis still available.

Enjoyed by vegetarians, vegans and meat-eaters alike, this Delicious Every Day vegetarian haggis is a mix of healthy fresh vegetables, pulses, oatmeal, seeds and spices. Convenient to cook with for a variety of recipes.

If haggis isn’t your thing why not try our Cullen Skink recipe – serves 4 as a starter or 2 as a main £9

We have just received our delivery of LillyPuds traditional Luxury Christmas Pudding.

This pudding has a Two Star Great Taste Award and is made from the finest vine fruits, apples, apricots, almonds and ginger blended with ale and brandy.

• Minimum 50% fruit
• Naturally sweet – less than 5% added sugar
• No mixed peel
• Suitable for vegetarians
• No dairy ingredients

We also have Devon Clotted Cream an absolute to serve with Christmas Pudding.

Fresh cranberries are still available for a very short time, so it will be your last chance to make our yummy Cranberry Muffins. Just ask us to include a copy with your purchase.

Our olive pick of the week are Nocellara del Belice, whole Sicilian olives, naturally vibrant green in colour, these olives have an amazing nutty, buttery taste! £4.50 per pot

Fresh cranberries have arrived, perfect for freezing ready for Christmas, £3.20 for 340g, fresh from Wisconsin USA, Cranberries are grown on 21,000 acres across 20 counties in Wisconsin. The sand and peat marshes in central and northern Wisconsin create the perfect growing conditions for them.

Cranberries are one of the few Native American fruits, they have not always been called cranberries! Indigenous American people called this fruit ibimi which literally means “bitter berry”. German and Dutch settlers renamed the fruit “crane berry” because they thought flower and vine looked like the head, neck and bill of a crane.

Cranberries grow on low running vines in marshes and sandy bogs. They need acidic peat soil, and to be near fresh water. Contrary to popular belief, while cranberries need to be near water, they do not actually grow in water. There are two primary methods to harvest cranberries: dry harvesting, and wet harvesting. In wet harvesting, the fields where the cranberries grow are flushed with water, and the growers come through with machines to dislodge the berries from their vines. The machines are nicknamed “eggbeaters”.

Once the cranberries are dislodged, they rise to the surface of the water, are collected, and taken to be processed. Wet harvesting is very efficient, but it also damages the berries more than dry harvesting. This method is only used for cranberries which are going to be processed. Our cranberries are dry harvested so they reach you in peak condition.

Our cranberries come from Ocean Spray, a farmer-owned cooperative, which gives all the profits back to it’s farmers. It is made up of over 700 growing families in North and South America. Seven out of ten cranberries that are sold in the world today come from Ocean Spray.

Not only for cranberry sauce, you can add to cocktails or champagne, delicious in cakes and muffins, add to apple crumble. We have 2 great recipes one for cranberry sauce and the other for cranberry muffins.

At village greens we have a great selection of food gifts

We stock a large range of Tracklements preserves and condiments, their Le parfait jars of Christmas Chutney and cranberry port and orange sauce make lovely gifts £6.50 each

Our very popular Little Doones balsamic vinegar gift packs are now in stock. Little Doones is a small Scottish company who take great pride in only using fresh produce to flavour their balsamic, which comes from one of the oldest and longest established balsamic houses in the Modena region of Italy.
This years gift pack contains 4 x 100ml bottles of Orange, Original, Raspberry and ginger, £11

From award-winning coffee roastery Dark Woods, based in Marsden in the West Yorkshire Pennines. This special coffee make a great gift for a coffee lover we have beans and ground. The depth of flavour makes for an extra special cup of coffee, roasted in Marsden and packaged in the most beautiful recyclable packing £9.50

The finest new season Medjool dates have arrived these are grown In the fertile soils of the Jordan Valley – they are absolutely delicious 454g pack £7.00