2 results for month: 11/2013


Christmas Pudding: The tradition of Stir Up Sunday (And an early Day 1 of our 12 days of Christmas!)

So today is ‘Stir Up Sunday’, the day you should make your Christmas Pudding. We have been thinking about Christmas for weeks already, due to the release of our 2013 Natural Scotland Hamper range (have a look if you haven’t seen the range), and it feels great and wholly acceptable to really start talking about the festive.With various Christmas themed Scottish artisan food tasting events in the diary and no doubt a few too many bottles of Cairn O’Mohr Scottish fruit wine tested before the events have even started (for quality purposes naturally) we do love Christmas.The question I am regularly asked is what is 'Stir Up Sunday?'. Tradition ...

2 festive gifts – 1 luxury package: The launch of ‘Natural Scotland’ hampers 2013

The Champagne has been popped! Today, we launched our 2013 luxury festive hampers in tribute to Visit Scotland's 2013 'Year of Natural Scotland'. But how did we set about creating that perfect gift for your friends, family or clients?It certainly helped that when I sat down with our partners for this project, the supremely talented floral designer Nicole Dalby of Glasgow based 'Flowers and Design' that we were most definitely choosing from the same menu.  For starters we both wanted to create a unique collection that hadn't been offered before; a fusion of fine foods and floral design, giving great value by presenting 2 gifts in 1 luxury package.Â...