Just in time for the season, we now have our very special dark mint chocolate shortbread, made with Belgian chocolate and hand-crushed candy canes that sparkle in the fairy-lights like diamond-crushed jewels! Available from our stall at Sunset Valley Farmers’ Market, and also at Live Oak Market (Manchaca and Ben White).

And as if that wasn’t enough, we are also offering hand-made English-style grapefruit marmalade, the perfect stocking filler at an amazing bargain of only four dollars a jar! If you are wondering why grapefruit jam would be traditional in the UK, it’s all down to our famous historical passion for international travelling and collecting worldwide treasures, including citrus of all varieties, which we use for many recipes (eg. lemon curd), even though they do not grow well at home. Luckily, Texas produces fabulous pink grapefruit by the bucketload, which is how we can make this delicious preserve so reasonably compared to what you would pay in an import store for a much less fresh, more mass-produced marmalade: which is why we believe that local, hand-made, real, unadulterated food doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg.

So whether you celebrate with all the trimmings/ fixin’s, or whether you are completely fed up with all the shops still playing, “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!” everywhere you go, we wish you good eating for the month of December and a stress-free last few days of this decade. (At this point, feel free to imagine the sound of sleigh bells fading in the distance, bringing our blog post to a peaceful close…)

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