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Unearthed® dips and meat platters

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I was hosting my Book Group’s Christmas bash at my place, so thought it’d be the perfect time to road test the unearthed®  range of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern treats.

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The dip selection

They sent me over a selection of dips and meat platters and this is what we thought…

The Mediterranean platter was a delicious mix of olives, mini chorizo and spicy cubes of cheese – very nibbletastic and moreish.

The salami and wafer thin slivers of ham went down very well, but it was the dips that were the real heroes of the night.

The broad bean houmous was the most dipped-in dip, hotly followed by pomegranate houmous with green harissa – so refreshing and a real departure from the usual shop-bought dips.

As well as devising super delicious foodie treats for their customers, they’ve also got a conscience. In Summer 2010, unearthed® became the first national brand to partner with Action Against Hunger.

Donating one penny per pack sold, half of the unearthed®  donations will go forward to the Zambia project supporting grandparent-headed households where older generations are left to care for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS.

It will provide households with nutritional support for families and longer-term sustainable income-generation activities. The additional money will go to other Action Against Hunger projects and emergency response.

So if you like the sound of unearthed® and their tasty morsels, then enter my competition to win the lot!

***This competition is now closed, no more entries please***

WIN WIN WIN!

One lucky Feeding Boys reader will receive one each of the following unearthed®  items:

mediterranean platter

Mediterranean platter

Pomegranate Houmous with Green Harissa Dip – an Eastern Mediterranean taste with sweet pomegranate molasses and fresh coriander. (RRP £1.49, 170g)

Yoghurt & Green Harissa Dip – coriander, parsley and chilli flavours are gently stirred through a light refreshing yoghurt.  (RRP £1.49, 170g)

Broad Bean Houmous Dip – a nutty flavoured twist on humous made from broad beans and given a subtle kick from spicy paprika. (RRP £1.49, 170g)

umbrian meat platter

Umbrian meat platter

Umbrian Cured Meat Platter – includes Italian Prosciutto Crudo and Perugian Salami.  (RRP £2.99, 65g)

Tuscan Cured Meat Platter – contains dry cured ham and Finocchiona Salami with fennel.  (RRP £2.99, 65g)

Mediterranean Platter – includes olives, semi curado cheese and mini chorizo. (RRP £3.99, 166g)

***This competition is now closed, no more entries please***

How to enter

There is one main way to enter and several ways to get bonus entries.  You must leave a separate comment for each bonus entry otherwise they will not be counted.

1. Mandatory. Leave a comment below telling me your favourite nibbles to serve at a party

2. For a second chance to win tweet a link to this giveaway as follows: Win  unearthed dips and meat platters @cookingkt  http://wp.me/pU5T8-15S #win #prize
Then leave a second comment saying you’ve done so telling me your Twitter ID.

3. Follow me @cookingkt on Twitter and comment to tell me you have done so.

4. And finally you can get another bonus entry by liking the Feeding Boys and a Firefighter page on Facebook too, not forgetting to head back here and comment to tell me you have done so.

Good Luck!

***This competition is now closed, no more entries please***

GIVEAWAY RULES

This giveaway is open to all readers with a UK postal address.  The winner will be chosen using an online randomiser and announced in a subsequent post.

I am running this competition on behalf of unearthed®  who will be sending the prize out to the lucky winner. Their decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

In the event of circumstances outside its control, the promoter reserves the right to substitute an alternative prize of equal or greater value should the prize be unavailable for any reason.

Closing date: 10pm Sunday 29th January 2012
To view the full product range and for inspiring recipe ideas, visit www.discoverunearthed.com.
***This competition is now closed, no more entries please***

Comments

  12. Laura Scott says

    For parties, I like to serve home made mini pizzas topped with Parma ham & rocket….easy but impressive 🙂

  18. Emma Cella says

    I like to make ham pinwheels. Use either ham or hot ham, spread a layer of vegetable cream cheese along with regular cream cheese (to help it hold together better) and then place a stalk of asparagus, roll up and slice. I generally make them the evening before and store in tupperware. They always go fast!

  22. Linda Revell says

    Mini pizzas, lots of dips with carrott sticks, crisps, crab sticks, prawns, breadsticks – all the old favourites that my family love!

  25. angiesandhu@yahoo.co.uk says

    I shouldn’t really enter as I have only just won a wonderful hamper! But I couldn’t resist!

    My favourite party food is anything with puff pastry!

  26. azra dedic says

    Ohh lovely!!
    I like to serve bruscheta, so easy to make and can put anything on it! I love peppers, onions goats cheese and finely diced bacon yummy!

  43. Juls says

    My favourite nibbles to serve are a mixture of homemade breadsticks with dips however I always enjoy when people serve me up something cheesy – I just can rarely be organised enough to keep cheesy nibbles appropriately warm myself!

  44. Emma Johnson says

    I like to serve chicken and tofu satay, that way it pleases both my veggie and non-veggie friends!

  47. Christine Ball says

    I like to serve Dry Roasted Peanuts as they are wholesome, nutritious and taste quite delicious

  49. M Goodwin says

    I follow you on twitter PSG1968
    my fav party snacks are the tiny pitted couchillo black olives, antipasti,crisps and dips 😉

  54. elinor fisher says

    Favourite nibbles are cream cheese topped with red pepper jelly served on toasted baguette slices-yummy!

  70. Fran Light says

    My favourite nibbles to serve at parties are mini samosas, kebabs and onion bhajis … with LOTS of paper napkins on hand (for the wiping of greasy fingers!)

  71. Fran Light says

    I’ve tweeted the competition message and I’m following you on Twitter as @LoveWinning 🙂

  76. Maya Russell says

    My favourite nibbles to serve at a party are crisps because I only have to open a packet, I don’t have to cook or heat anything and everyone always goes for them!

  92. suzanne cooke says

    I serve good old fashioned pickled onions, hotdogs and cheese on sticks, mostly because they are my favs.

  101. katie rushton says

    Adult versions of the kids party classics – chorizo sausages on a stick, brie on a stick with an olive, pate sandwiches with no crusts with whole meal bread, iced shortbread biscuits in the style of a party ring etc.

  103. Luisa L says

    Pickled onions and cocktail sausages on sticks, and cheese and pineapple also on sticks and they have to be stuck into a little baked potato wrapped in foil hedgehog… ahhhh god bless the 1970’s and 80’s x

  107. Samantha Deakin says

    My favourite nibbles to serve at a party are anything covered in pastry. Prawns, fish, sausage meat, cheese and onion. You name it, I’ll cover it in pastry!

  121. hoops120 says

    I like to serve homemade vegetable “crisps”, olives, and veg and dips (aubergine, hummus), and sometimes for a laugh cheese cubes and pineapple (we are all of an age to appreciate retro!)

  125. JAN says

    I serve raw celery sticks, carrots,bread sticks, dorito type snacks etc with a selection of different dips such as hummas, salsa etc

  134. Tim Bain says

    i have to have cashews preferably (black peppered), twigets, halved scotch eggs with various things under the egg (mustards, mayo, brown sauce, wasabi, tobasco etc.) the normal run of the mill butties and stuff…and pickled walnuts which most people don’t recognise but are ace with any buffet type meats.

  140. Julz says

    Nibbles don’t really cut it in our house so we serve a wide variety of food and lots of it so everyone finds something they like! Last summer though we did do a minature afternoon tea as part of a whole day of celebrations – mini filled rolls, mini sandwiches, tiny scones and gingerbread men – fiddly to do but what fun!

  141. Hilda Wright says

    My favourite nibbles if I’m keeping it basic would be french stick with alioli, olives and crisps. Yum!

  147. Melanie Edjourian says

    carrot and celery sticks with various dips
    different kinds of olives
    ritz crackers with philladephia cheese and smoked salmon
    ritz crackers with philladelphia cheese and parma ham
    cheddar wrapped with parma ham
    meatballs
    sausage rolls made with Greek sausages (loukanika)
    pigs in blankets
    chicken goujons
    mini cumberland sausages
    mini quiches
    pimms jelly shots (alcoholic)
    chocolate shots (alcoholic)
    assortment of mini desserts

  152. Kathryn Casbolt says

    I always serve lots of different dips and ‘dunkable’ nibbles – nachos, veggie sticks, bread sticks etc

  178. Anna Bevan says

    Cheese and pineapple on sticks. Preferably stuck into a cucumber…with 2 olives at one end, and 4 blocks of carrot underneath…. that’s right, a cheese and pineapple crocodile never gets old!

  179. beverley says

    I love a selection of chorizo, Marmite cheese straws, vol-au-vents, cheese and pineapple sticks, sausage rolls, pigs in blankets and so on. An odd mix but it works for me.

  185. Heather Freeth says

    I like making mini yorkshire puddings with rare roast beef and a big dollop of horseradish!

  189. jennie jackson says

    ive recently started doing mini prawn cocktails on a spoon and they seem to go down very well

  195. phillippa lee says

    love to serve a mix of pumkin, seseme, sunflower seeds and almonds cooked in the oven with shoya and a touch of pomegranate molasses until golden and crunchy. Great served in mini paper cones..

  201. sophia kearney says

    local sweet and hot mini sausages – sprinkled with my dads magic dust – special recipe! they always go like hot cakes

  206. Mike Ambler says

    Liked on FB

    Followed and Tweeted.

    Sorry traditional and boring. Spare ribs, Potato Salad, Prawn Marie Rose and Chineese chiken legs

  210. Anene Cee says

    Followed, tweeted @xcleocatx and facebook Anene Cee liked! 🙂

    I like serving butternut and chilli dip with some goats cheese with some toasted pitta breads, yum!

  224. Sue Warr says

    We are all mad for Hummous in this house!! We love it plain, and we also love it in any other variety (Broadbean, mint and asparagus being the most popular alternative at present). Serve with carrot sticks, celery, peppers or cucumber of course!!

  234. Emma H says

    I love serving different types of nibbles at parties and will usually go for a good selection of savory and sweet. Savoury will be olives, dips, veg & bread sticks and homemade crisps. Sweet – I love making homemade chocolates and flapjacks and always get great compliments for these! I like to see my guests eating well! 😉

  246. Emily Fowler says

    I like to make and serve parma ham and parmesan cheese twists at a party, perfect nibbles!

  248. MICHELLE BAMBER says

    I like to serve a selection of olives, hummous and strips of warm pitta bread for dipping.

  272. Laura Barrett says

    I love serving mini yorkshire puddings with rare beef and horseradish or with mash and sausages. Go down a treat!

  280. P Phillips says

    Sausage on sticks, cheese & pineapple on sticks, cheese and cheese wrapped in ham on sticks.

  293. Louise Allen says

    Chipolatas oven baked in honey and wholegrain mustard – they always vanish quickly. I’m afraid the other discovery this weekend was onion ring crisps and onion & garlic dip!!

  300. Denise Walker says

    i love olives and i make a mean sweet chilli and lime cocktail sausage lol – also love ham wrapped scallops – also do a wicked mini crab cake with a mango salsa – lovely

  311. Holly Green says

    I like to serve home made chorizo sausage rolls with sesame seeds on top, they’re really tasty!

  313. CRAIG JEFFERY says

    I love to serve up a selection of chicken – chicken satay, chicken dippers, chicken nuggets, chicken chicken – theres just so many options with chicken, even better when dipped: 🙂

  316. Jackie Rushton says

    My favourite nibbles are salmon blinis as they have such a wonderful smoky, salty taste and they always go down very well with guests!

  325. Romana Richards says

    Smoked Salmon or trout blinis – so quick to prepare and always eaten. I tend to put out a few at a time otherwise they go very quickly!

  326. Gloria Hartley says

    My favourite nibbles are fresh fruit kebabs but done on cocktail sticks not kebab skewers.= yummy

  329. Garry Chambers says

    I was born in the 70s so it’s cheese and pickled onions on a cocktail stick for me.

  335. liz ferguson says

    I ban all messy foods that could cause embarassment by dropping down dress/shirt fronts, or land with a plop on the floor!

    Mouth sized bites of canapes are a favourite!

  336. Kelly Padwick says

    It has to be the traditional cocktail sausages, triangle sandwiches and hula hoops 🙂

  337. Hannah Jayne Jeffery says

    My fave nibbles to serve other than twiglets (Mr Bean style!) are mini samosas with Indian dips, bring on the spice, the spice is nice! 🙂

  347. traceymp333 says

    Favourite nibbles to serve are humous with bread sticks and a salami meat platter. (Only recently discovered humous – at the age of 41. Now I always have some in the fridge for a late night nibble!!)

  354. Beth Bowdler says

    Favourite party nibbles are warm blinis, topped with a mixture of creme fraiche/horseradish, finished off with smoked salmon.

  359. Lesley Bain says

    As a family our favourite party food is a good range of dips, with lots of raw veg, breadsticks, puff pastry sticks and tortilla chips to dip….and not forgetting cake for after 🙂

  375. Samantha Atherton says

    oh i do love party food, one of my favorite things to make are little meatballs placed on a cocktail stick with a cherry tomato & a scrunched up bit of letuce.

  390. Diane says

    Hummus with pine nuts and olive oil, and a variety of cubed cheeses on cocktail sticks as well as good quality olives usually go down well.

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