 Fine Food NewsWelcome to The Good Food Network French food specialists, where you can buy an award winning selection of French gourmet food, French food gifts, luxury food hampers,choclates, French cheeses and speciality cooking ingredients. We are one of the most reputed online gourmet French food shops and delicatessens and send gifts, hampers and food parcels UK wide via mail order .
Looking at our best selling gourmet foods and to begin with our French fine food specialities ... our online French food shop offers high quality traditional French food specialties from all over France. Favourites include award winning duck confit, foie gras, our gourmet French food hampers and gifts, cassoulet de Castelnaudary, Perard fish soups, pates & rillettes as well as French cooking ingredients and chocolates.
Looking first at our hampers, you can either order your own wicker basket to create your own bespoke French gourmet food hampers or instead buy our ready prepared hampers, which include a French gourmet food hamper, our luxury French food hamper and others besides.
You can also buy foie gras de canard (duck foie gras) from South West France and foie gras d'oie (goose foie gras) from Strasbourg. The excellent foie gras d'oie range (goose foie gras) by Edouard Artzner includes foie gras d'oie with black truffles, goose foie gras mi-cuit and bloc de foie gras d'oie. Our duck foie gras is prepared by La Belle Chaurienne and includes a bloc de foie gras de canard with armagnac as well as a range of whole duck foie gras in kilner jars. We also stock a prestige foie gras de canard from the Landes (prepared by Castaing foie gras) which is exquisite. A popular range to send as French food gifts and include in luxury French food hampers.
Looking now at our duck confit, customers can buy award winning confit de canard from Castelnaudary, South West France. Our duck confit is available in several sizes and includes confit de canard aux lentilles, confit de canard pommes Sarladaise and gesiers de canard confit. You will not find better and feedback has only ever been positive.
Other well known French fine food specialities include a reputed range of cassoulet de Castelnaudary prepared by La Belle Chaurienne, which include cassoulet au confit de canard (duck cassoulet), cassoulet au confit d'oie (goose cassoulet) and pork cassoulet. All our cassoulet are prepared by La Belle Chaurienne and made with confit, toulouse sausages and haricots lingots. We also supply lingot beans (haricots lingots) cooked in goose fat.
Other typical French food specialities available in our online shop to enjoy at home include French pates, terrines and rillettes from Toulouse and Strasbourg. Our pates from Toulouse are prepared by La Belle Chaurienne and include a traditional French country pate, French chicken liver pate (terrine de foie de volaille), wild boar terrine, duck terrine (pate de canard), Guinea fowl terrine, duck pate de foie gras with Jurancon wine and a delicious goose pate de foie gras with truffle juice. Our pates and rillettes from Strasbourg are prepared by Edouard Artzner and include hare terrine with Pinot noir, French country terrine with Riesling wine, duck mousse with kirsch, delicious rillettes de canard (duck rillettes) and rillettes d'oie (goose rillettes). We have more recently complemented our selection of French pates with a range of French fish terrines and rillettes.
Remaining with the seafood theme, customers can buy the renown French soupes de poisson Perard from le Touquet, which include Perard fish soup (soupe de poisson Perard), Perard crab soup (soupe de crabe Perard)and Perard lobster soup (soupe de homard Perard) as well as Perard croutons and rouille. For those of you who enjoy these soups, we stock the Perard soup gift pack, which contains two each of the fish, crab and lobster soups.
Turning now to French chocolates and confectionery, we stock a very high quality selection of French chocolates and high class confectionery. Our current range includes hand made French chocolate coated walnuts from Perigord, fresh chocolates, Brittany biscuits and salted caramels.
Firstly our hand prepared, French chocolates coated walnuts & chocolate coated coffee beans. These French chocolates are made by lightly grilling various nuts & coating them with cocoa butter, fine dark chocolate, and dusting them with cocoa powder. Delicious and beautifully presented, these make ideal French food gifts and work well in gourmet food hampers. We cannot over-emphasize just how good these French chocolate coated specialities taste and these are just as good as chocolates from a French or Belgian chocolatier. They are wonderfully presented and make perfect French and gourmet food gifts for Valentines Day and Mothers Day.
Moving on, our fresh, artisan chocolates made from the most imaginative and inspired ingredients. These award winning hand made chocolates are made from the highest quality chocolate blended with fine and rare teas, herbs, fruits, flowers and spices from around the world. Totally fresh handmade chocolates from the finest, ethically sourced ingredients. We have now developed this range of chocolates to include chocolate gift sets and special dark chocolate selections.
High quality all butter biscuits sables au beurre from Brittany as well as the delicious Quign Aman butter cake and salted caramels. A very attractively presented fine food range which also have the virtue of adding tremendous impact to French food hampers.
Lastly and only in season, we stock the finest marrons glaces Clement Faugier, individually wrapped in gold foil to ensure maximum freshness and presented in smart gift tins. Clement Faugier have a worldwide reputation as market leaders in all chestnut related specialities and these marrons glaces are exquisite and the finest available.
Remaining with the theme of food gifts, we also have a webpage dedicated to French food hampers and gourmet gifts for Christmas, where customers can buy a high quality selection of pre-prepared French gourmet food hampers as well as fine foods frequently used in hampers for those of you interested to prepare your own bespoke hampers and French gourmet food gifts.
Turning to French cheeses, we stock a quality selection of well known French cheeses, which include French cow's milk cheeses, French sheep's milk cheeses and French goat's cheeses, reflecting the best from every cheese making area of France. A popular selection to include in French food hampers and as part of cheese boards when entertaining.
For cooking enthusiasts, we stock a large selection of quality cooking ingredients including black Winter truffles and truffle oils, dried wild mushrooms, fleur de sel de Guerande & Camargue, More Than Gourmet demi glace cooking stocks, vanilla pods, saffron stamen, salted capers, goose fat, piment d'Espelette and a new selection of dried herbs, chillies and spices.
Looking first at our black Winter truffles imported direct from France. Our range includes black Winter truffles, black truffle peelings, black Summer truffles, truffle oils (black Perigord truffle oil and white Alba truffle oil), white truffle butter, truffle salt, black truffle juice, truffle honey,and truffle paste. As we are in full Winter truffle season, we currently import fresh black Winter truffles weekly from France and Italy and also have a limited range of truffle slicers and truffle gift sets.
Also by the same supplier, we stock Grade A French dried wild mushrooms, which include dried wild forest mushrooms, dried porcini mushrooms and porcini mushroom powder, dried morel mushrooms (morels), dried yellow chanterelle mushrooms (girolles) and dried black trumpet mushrooms. All our dried mushrooms are particularly good and together with our truffles, used by several top chefs.
Turning to salts, Sel de Guerande is the most reputed French sea salt and comes in two varieties, gros sel de Guerande and the finer fleur de sel de Guerande. We stock both types of French sea salt as well as Fleur De Sel De Camargue.
A selection of typically French ingredients, which include the reputed piment d'Espelette chilli powder, cooked chestnuts, a variety of well known mustards. We also feature less well known ingredients including citrons confits, walnut oil, harissa, agen Prunes and pine kernels.
Customers can also buy high quality French goose fat (graisse d'oie) and duck fat (graisse de canard) from South West France. Both our goose fat and duck fat are presented in re-seal-able jars and hugely popular with home chefs.
Moving now to cooking stocks and sauces, we stock the work renown More Than Gourmet range, founded in 1993 on the singular concept of producing Culinary Grade stocks and sauces for the home and professional kitchen, founded on the authentic recipes, culinary tradition, and the teachings of the great French Chef Master, Auguste Escoffier. These include glace de poulet gold roasted chicken stock, jus de poulet lie gold chicken demi glace, glace de veau gold, glace d'Agneau gold, glace de gibier gold and glace de fruits de mer to name a few ... we also feature in this section some stocks from Essential Cuisine, which can be added at the last minute and also a superb quality selection of French ready prepared stocks and sauces.
Other cooking ingredients include high quality saffron stamen and organic saffron powder. Capers in salt from the Island of Lipari. A superb range of handmade, freshly prepared ground spice blends, which include ras el hanout, Egyptian dukkah, Lebanese Zatar and more besides! Freshly prepared dried herbs. A large selection of chillies, paprika, pepper jelly and speciality peppercorns.
Finally, turning to our Meditteranean fine foods, we stock quality balsamic vinegar from Modena and extra virgin olive oils including and excellent Greek organic extra virgin olive oil. Of special mention are our very high quality traditional aged balsamic vinegar from Reggio Emilia and Modena. These superlatively good balsamics for the connoisseur are really a taste experience and fine food at its very best. Beautifully presented this range is a natural to send as gourmet gifts.
The Good Food Network French food specialists, where you can buy an award winning selection of French gourmet food, French food gifts, luxury food hampers, French cheeses and speciality cooking ingredients. We are one of the most reputed online gourmet French food shops and delicatessens and send gifts, hampers and food parcels UK wide via mail order .
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