Well Seasoned December Newsletter

CREATE DELICIOUS MEMORIES THIS HOLIDAY SEASON WITH WELL SEASONED

The holidays are here! Its time to celebrate the season and what better way than with fabulous gourmet food! This Christmas, bring your friends and family together to create lasting memories with indulgent treats and decadent meals that YOU’ve prepared!

At Well Seasoned, we believe making festive holiday food doesn’t need to be fussy or take days to prepare. Whether you’re cooking for an office potluck, cocktail party or Christmas dinner, make sure to plan ahead, use quality, fresh ingredients and stick with a simple recipe that ideally you’ve made at least once before. And most important of all, don’t forget to enjoy yourself, because that’s what the holidays are all about!

Visit us at Well Seasoned to pick up all your holiday ingredients and specialty food items. We’ve got tons of new holiday stock in store to help you create the perfect special occasion or give the ultimate gift of good taste. Don’t forget if you need help planning your holiday menu you can always drop us a line at askachef@wellseasoned.ca.

Happy Holidays!
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A bit more than you were expecting.

Wish you were getting a bigger Christmas bonus this year? Well now you can at Well Seasoned!

From now until December 21st we’ll be giving out bonus envelopes with your purchase of $25 or more. The envelopes will contain one of a number of gift certificates for free cooking classes, cookbooks, large discounts and gourmet food and ingredients. The only catch is you can’t open the envelope until next year! That’s right, bring in your unopened envelope from January 4-31 and you can claim your prize.

And remember, you’re welcome to re-gift your bonus envelope or keep it for yourself.

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GIVE THE GIFT OF GOOD TASTE

Our Well Seasoned Gift bundles are the ultimate gift that will keep on giving all year long.

Each gift bundle includes a gift certificate for a cooking class with a cookbook from the chef teaching that very class!

Choose from these four delicious options:

Chef Dez on Cooking Volume 2 + $50 gift certificate to a Chef Dez cooking class = $65.00
Simply Indian with Tahera Rawji  + cooking class  on  Friday January 29th, 2010 = $75.00
BBQ Secrets Deluxe, 2 bottles of Natural Champions BBQ Sauce + a cooking class with Rockin’ Ronnie Shewchuk on Friday January 15th, 2010  = $99.00
The Main with Food Network Chef Anthony Sedlak + cooking class on Monday January 25th, 2010 = $89
Don’t forget to pick up your holiday gift baskets at Well Seasoned!
Baskets starting at just $25. For gift basket ideas and pricing visit http://www.wellseasoned.ca/gift_baskets.html

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MEET THE PRODUCERS CONTINUES!

Every Saturday now until Christmas, you’re invited to meet our favourite local food suppliers and try something new and get inspired for holiday entertaining and gift giving. In store sampling Saturdays from 11 am- 3 pm. Click the links below for details on each producer.

December 5th  – Rockin’ Ronnie Shewchuk signing books and Sampling Natural Champion Sauces and Simply West Coast
December 12th – Nonna Pia’s, House of Q an d 49° Organics
December 18th – Aji
December 19th – Spice Works and Chef Dez signing books and sampling a recipe from the new book Chef Dez on Cooking Volumes 1 & 2

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FAKE YOUR CHRISTMAS BAKING WITH OUR HELP.

Don’t feel guilty for not having time to bake! We’ve got delicious Christmas cookie batter ready for you to take and bake in your own oven. No one will ever know you didn’t make it from scratch!
$9.99 per dozen.

6 amazing flavours are now in stock;

  • Dark Chocolate Sour Cherry Pecan
  • Tina’s World Peace Cookies
  • Lemon Black Pepper Shortbread log – just slice and bake, pure heaven
  • Double Ginger Cookies
  • Hermits
  • Savoury Herb Shortbread

Also available, are Well Seasoned’s infamous Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies, as seen in “Vancouver Magazine’s” 100 Things to Eat Before You Die issue.

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WELL SEASONED DISHES CELEBRITY CHEFS

Thanks to everyone who joined us in welcoming Canadian celebrity chef Ken Kostick to Well Seasoned on December 1st. Ken brought his wealth of culinary experience and colourful character to the Well Seasoned kitchen for a fun night of recipes from his latest cookbook “The $10 Gourmet”.

Seats are still available in upcoming classes with Grilling Guru Ron Shewchuk on January 15 and Anthony Sedlak on January 25.

COOKING CLASSES

Our last cooking class before the holidays will be on December 21st and we’ll resume on January 13. The complete Well Seasoned cooking class schedule through to March is now available online. Here are a few upcoming highlights:

  • KIDS CAN BAKE with Chef Georgia Morley – December 21
  • BBQ SECRETS DELUXE with Grilling Guru Ron Shewchuk – January 15
  • RESTAURANT 62 with Chef Jeff Massey – January 18
  • MORE FROM THE MAIN with Anthony Sedlak – January 25
  • WHAT DO I DO WITH THIS STUFF with Chef Angie Quaale – January 26
  • FLAVOURS OF INDIA & PAKISTAN with Chef Tahera Rawjit – January 29

To view the full class schedule visit our website at
http://www.wellseasoned.ca/calendar.html.

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RECIPE OF THE MONTH
Honey Roasted Pears with Chocolate Pate

Click here for your copy of this recipe.

FEATURE OF THE MONTH
David’s Chocolate Pate – $6.99
David’s Chocolate Pate is the ultimate chocoholic’s indulgence. With a Belgian Milk Chocolate outer layer and a creamy fudge centre, you’ll want to keep this treat all to yourself!

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WELL SEASONED IN THE NEWS

Well Seasoned’s Angie Quaale will be hitting the airwaves again with tasty advice for your holiday entertaining.

(image: Angie on CBC radio)

Dec. 8 – Shaw TV’s “The Express”
Dec 11 – STAR FM Morning Show 6-9 am
Dec. 13 – CKNW’s Weekend News 6-9 am
Dec 18 – QMFM Mike and Tara Show 7:30-8:30 am
Dec 21 – CityTV’s Lunch TV

And if you missed Angie’s demonstration of her award winning Jack Daniels Maple Pecan Pie Cinnamon Bun Bread Pudding on Dec 3 on Breakfast TV, click here to watch it!

EXTRA NIBBLES

Don’t forget to book your private party quick. Space is limited for our fabulous kitchen parties!

Check out Angie’s Food for Thought column which continues to run twice a month in the Langley Times. Her next columns will appear December 16th & December 30th.

Don’t forget about the Langley Community Farmers Market for on day only this month on Saturday December 12th at the Kwantlen Greenhouses (north side of Langley ByPass) from 10 am – 2 pm
www.langleycommunityfarmersmarket.com

Don’t forget to check out Angie’s blog which is regularly updated and now includes guest bloggers!
Well Seasoned Blog

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