What are your favorite gourmet Food/treats?

[Anonymous]

Hi All,

I want to put together a basket with delicious jars of jam, honey, chips, chocolate, cheese etc. I want really good artisanal goodies for a foodie friend. What are your favorite things. I may not use all the ideas but I am interested in goodies that I may buy for myself as well, so please tell me all the things you love or love to indulge in. Thanks to you all for your suggestions.

[Anonymous]

Lately my chocoholic relatives have been into Toney's Chocolonely bars, but make sure to check the dates - some stores don't sell much of it, so what's in stock is old. Freshly roasted coffee beans from a local roaster would be nice.

[Anonymous]

Thank you!

[Anonymous]

I buy local jam, honey , cheese, etc. Farmers markets are great for this.

[Anonymous]

I like Recchiuti's chocolates.
Cheese - Murray's cheese has lots of great gifts you can order. But if you're building a custom basket and looking for cheese you can buy in any WF/ Wegmans, I like Cowgirl Creamery's Red Hawk and Jasper Hill Farms Harbison.

Vermont Creamery has delicious cultured butter.
Coffee - Compass coffee and Vigilante are local roasters.
Jams - Frog Hollow and Jam (welovejam is the website) are great

[Anonymous]

Great idea's!

[Anonymous]

Caviar and a nice bottle of champagne.

[Anonymous]

Good olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Find a small specialty shop, not from a grocery store.

[Anonymous]

https://peppercave.com/

[Anonymous]

Go to the Italian Store. You can’t turn around in that place without seeing 10 things that would be great for this.

[Anonymous]

Knudsen’s caramels. From Wisconsin and the best ever.

[Anonymous]

Marcona almonds.

[Anonymous]

Believe it or not, Trader Joe’s has a lot of high quality selective products for a small price. Their cheeses are quite good, they have different flavors of Marcona almonds, their biscotti is good.

You might consider some good quality teas as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like Recchiuti's chocolates.
Cheese - Murray's cheese has lots of great gifts you can order. But if you're building a custom basket and looking for cheese you can buy in any WF/ Wegmans, I like Cowgirl Creamery's Red Hawk and Jasper Hill Farms Harbison.

Vermont Creamery has delicious cultured butter.
Coffee - Compass coffee and Vigilante are local roasters.
Jams - Frog Hollow and Jam (welovejam is the website) are great

Are you from the Bay Area? I'm in SF, and Cowgirl Creamery and Frog Hollow are local here.

[Anonymous]

Virginia peanuts. They are completely diifferent than regular peanuts, a different species actually.