With the deliciousness of Easter just around the corner we are excited to share with you all the yummies you can give your family, friends and team during this special celebration time.
Let us help you Hop into Easter with peace of mind!
Easter Gifting from our Gift Concierge Special Gifting Partners
Hey Tiger
Hey Tiger is a premium, handmade, Australian chocolate brand and social enterprise, on a mission to make change in the cocoa industry and partner with the Hunger Project to positively impact cocoa farming communities in Ghana, one choc block at a time. Not only is it amazingly delicious they are also stepping forward to bring change. Visit our Gift Concierge to order your Hey Tiger Easter Happy Hoppy Treats.
Paloma Candy
For the Candy lovers, Paloma Candy Shop have the sweetest goodies in town! A gorgeous box with 6 small boxes filled with candy! Visit our Gift Concierge to order your Easter Candy treats.
Beauty’s Got Soul
Send a gorgeous vegan bag of goodies to those you love from Beauty’s Got Soul, select from Chocolate bunnies, pamper hampers or wine and crackers – something for everyone. Visit our Gift Concierge to order your Easter Hampers or to custom design your Easter treats.
Snowgoose
Our Gift Concierge partner Snowgoose have the most chocolicous hampers for you send to your family and friends a beautiful display of the most delectable treats. Visit our Gift Concierge to send your Easter Hampers delight.
New Farm Confectionary
Hop into Easter with the sweetest treats by Jodie and her team at New Farm Confectionary with their artisian inspired chocolate and confectionery that is handcrafted with love in the heart of Brisbane. Visit our Gift Concierge to hop into Easter in style.
Easter Entertaining
Curatif
Our friends at Curatif make the most delicious cocktails in the coolest cans, ready to drink. Perfect for a pre-lunch cocktail or just to enjoy when you have a lovely little moment to yourself. Visit our Gift Concierge to order your Easter Cocktails.
Cooking for Easter
Bring family and friends together to feast on Danielle Alvarez slow cooked ocean trout with peas, Meyer lemon and fennel salsa.
Ingredients
½ small fennel bulb, coarsely chopped (reserve other half for salsa)
2 lemons, thinly sliced
1 ocean trout fillet (about 1.2kg), skin on pin-boned
1 bunch bronze fennel (see note)
For drizzling: olive oil
180 gm sugarsnap peas, trimmed and sliced diagonally
120 gm podded peas (about 350gm unpodded)
Meyer lemon and fennel salsa
½ small fennel bulb, finely chopped, fronds reserved
1 golden shallot, finely chopped
1 Meyer lemon, cheeks removed, finely diced (see note)
Juice of ½ lemon
100 ml olive oil
Method
For salsa, blanch fennel until just tender (1-1½ minutes), drain, refresh and set aside.
Combine shallot and lemon in a bowl with lemon juice and a pinch of salt, and stand to soften (8-10 minutes).
Add fennel and olive oil, season to taste and set aside.
Preheat oven to 135C. Line a large baking tray with baking paper, scatter with fennel and half the lemon slices, then place fish on top skin-side down.
Season to taste, scatter with bronze fennel and remaining lemon slices, drizzle generously with olive oil and roast until cooked medium-rare (15-20 minutes; because of the low temperature, the flesh will cook and flake, but still appear a deep red colour inside).
Meanwhile, blanch peas (2-3 minutes) and sugar snap peas (1-2 minutes), drain, refresh, drain well and transfer to a bowl.
Serve peas with roast trout, all scattered with a generous amount of Meyer lemon and fennel salsa.
Note
Bronze fennel and Meyer lemons are available from specialist greengrocers and farmers’ markets. Meyer lemons are sweeter than regular lemons; if they’re unavailable use the zest only of a regular lemon – the flesh will be too tart for this. If bronze fennel is unavailable, use fennel fronds.
Table Styling Inspiration
Shopping for your Easter Tablewares
William and Sonoma always have a lovely selection of table ware to celebrate the special occasions.
Why not give them THE GIFT OF TIME.
Essential Solutions has the perfect solution for that person who just doesn’t have enough hours in their day to get Easter ready.
Or treat yourself to a little luxury so you have more time to do the things you love this Easter. You will have your own Dedicated Lifestyle Manager with 20 requests, equivalent to 6 hours, 40 minutes.
