In fact she’d be wasting her time; the place sparkles and the kitchen area alone is envy-inducing to a serious degree. Up at the large work area, Masterchef 2011 winner Tim Anderson is turning out food based on the myriad choices offered by Unearthed and it’s all good.
His demo of how to make goat’s milk cheese marshmallows on biltong twigs went down well, if the number of people holding mobile phone cameras out toward him was any indication. It looked like they were taking geiger counter readings of his radioactivity.
The Unearthed range is perfect for gatherings, all you mostly need to do is unwrap and serve. BIg green Kalamata olives flavoured with orange, an excellent pork rillete pate, mixed olives, sliced meats were all served up in profusion before Tim’s big dish, Finocchi on a salami wrapped around a loin of lamb served with Bombay potatoes and a very zingy fennel and orange salad.
Unearthed have the right idea about food; profusion, simplicity and quality and they really do have their radar set on finding more and more good things from places as diverse as Greece, Italy, Iberia, China, New Zealand, Ecuador and South Africa.
Their new barbeque range of sausages – Tuscan Cooking Sausages, Toulouse Cooking Sausage, Spanish Smoked Cooking Chorizo, Spanish Chistorra Cooking Chorizo, and German Bratwurst are all available 2 for £5 at Waitrose and solve the boring burgers BBQ issue. I’ve tried the curl of Chorizo and it was lush, blistering up nicely on the coals and being a circle it didn’t try and fall through the grill.
The Unearthed range gets better and while I find some things don’t work, the mozzarella and tomato platter for example, there are far more hits than misses and the people behind it are genuine and committed to good supplier relationships. Their conscience is as clean as Aggie’s house.