Austin 360
It s a busy time of the year for buying gifts and supporting local food businesses. There s a little time left to buy some of those nifty gift boxes and kitchen gear we wrote about recently, but here are a few more ideas, as well as some news about local food brands.
Easy Tiger has long sold its holiday breads and cookies in the Austin area, but this year, it s announced nationwide shipping. That means you can send a loaf of stollen or a holiday cookie tin with pfeffernusse and lebkuchen to your relatives. Find the menu at easytigerusa.com.
Surely there’s
an image accompanying this post, so you can see for yourself, yes? But we’ll just note that these Cookie Rich delights are a sort of cross between a cookie and a cakeball –
a sort of moister, fluffier macaron, almost – and that’s because each one consists of two small cookie hemispheres with a delectable filling that seals the whole thing together.
And everything’s made from scratch, of course.
So you look at these things, and you taste them, and you’re like, “Whoa, what did this Chef Peters do? Work at The French Laundry?” And when the answer to that question is “Actually,
Local restaurants where you can get holiday meals, special treats
By Donny Wong
Here s a list of some of the festive treats you can get.
Aba
Chef CJ Jacobson has created a menu for a feast perfect for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. Specials on the menu include wild mushroom hummus, stracciatella with persimmon, grilled chicken kebab with lemon dill rice, braised short rib with gunpowder spiced potatoes, barberry glaze and tamarind jus, crispy Brussels sprouts, thyme roasted carrots and labneh, and Isot double chocolate cake. All items are served cold with reheating instructions.
Orders should be placed by
December 22 at 3 p.m. with pickups and deliveries on December 24 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Details here.