From all of us to all of you 2022
Christmas is just around the corner, and we have, as per usual, found 24 delicious gift ideas that are either tasty and inspired or raise the standard in your kitchen from the first of December. You can follow our annual culinary calendar package by package - or just let yourself be inspired a little. Merry Christmas!
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1. ALCOHOL-FREE ALTERNATIVE TO CHRISTMAS WINE FROM ISH SPIRITS
No one should be fooled by a good glass of wine just because you are pregnant or thinking about keeping your alcohol intake down a bit. This is the idea of Château Del ISH from ISH Spirits, which is sparkling rosé or white wine without alcohol. Sparkling Rosé is made on Merlot and Pinot Noir, and it has notes of strawberries, cherries, and plums. Sparkling White is made from Pinot Blanc and Silvaner and tastes like a white wine with notes of citrus and green apples that most people like and that suit any occasion. If you pour the contents of the bottle into a wine or champagne glass, you are guaranteed a feeling of drinking alcohol, and you can take part in the celebration of anything, anytime – and avoid hangovers.
Guide price: DKK 99 per bottle.
Available at ishspirits.com, Super Brugsen, Kvickly, Irma, and Spar
2. THE SELECTED CHEESES FROM NATURMÆLK
“The Chosen” is a selection of exciting cheeses from Naturmælk, which is an organic dairy with roots dating back to 1994. Every day, Naturmælk works to create organic products with good taste – everything from milk and yogurt to butter and cheese. Dairy farmers practice ecology by heart, and they are passionate about animal welfare in their cows and calves. “The Chosen” consists of Povlsbro, an Emmentaler-inspired cheese that tastes cream with a touch of nuts. Next, RÅ Hathor, a colostrum cheese that has aged for 36 weeks, tastes slightly sour with notes of sweet fruits and nuts. Lille Tanghus, which is an organic soft white mold cheese that tastes great of heavy cream. The last cheese is Høost Natura, which is aged for a minimum of 12 months and has a taste of apricots and nuts.
Guide price: DKK 150.
Available at naturost.dk
3. BAILEYS RED VELVET CUPCAKE
How about letting the Christmas spirit move in with Bailey’s Red Velvet Cupcake? Baileys is a world-renowned cream liqueur for use in both the dessert kitchen and the cocktail bar. And the latest shot at the tribe proudly carries on the tradition. Bailey’s Red Velvet Cupcake is inspired by the small, iconic chocolate cake, and it may be the closest you get to a liquid dessert that can be served straight from the bottle. Bailey’s Red Velvet Cupcake is ideal as a calendar gift but will certainly also create joy if you use it as a host or hostess gift through December. But, of course, it requires that you can keep your finger off it yourself. The only bad news is actually that it is only being produced in a limited edition.
Guide price: DKK 144.95.
Available at Meny, among other places
4. CAST IRON PAN FROM LE CREUSET
This beautiful cast iron pan from Le Creuset is called Cerise and comes in both the color of love and Christmas. The frying pan has a cast iron handle and an inner, black enamel specially made for cooking, which requires high surface temperatures. It’s classic in red, but you can get it in a wide range of Le Creuset’s other familiar colors that match the kitchen and recipient’s personal Le Creuset collection. The pan can be used on all heat sources, including induction, and it can also withstand both oven and dishwasher. The design exudes coziness and lifestyle, and it is an obvious calendar gift for the discerning food door, as a gift under the tree on Christmas Eve or for serving at the Christmas table itself.
Guide price: DKK 999.
Available at Le Creuset dealers and at lecreuset.dk
5. CHIPS WITH SEA SALT AND BALSAMICO VINEGAR FROM KETTLE
Sea Salt & Balsamico Vinegar from Kettle is super crispy and taste like sea salt and balsamic vinegar. The chips taste great in themselves, but are also delicious with a creamy dip. Eat them, for example, with a soft feta dip with herbs. The Kettle Chips adventure began in 1978. It happened after American Cameron Healy, on vacation in Hawaii, spotted some large kettles where the locals were cutting potatoes out and frying chips on the beach. He was sold on the spot, and when he got home to Oregon in the United States, he started experimenting and soon made the first hand-fried Kettle chips.
Guide price: DKK 24.00.
Available in Føtex and Mad & Vin in Magasin
6. SPRAKLING WATER FROM PERRIER
Perrier Original is French quality at its best and probably one of the world’s most famous waters with soda. It is a delicate and pure mineral water with natural carbonation tapped from a unique geological French source. The unique taste and the nutritional properties come from the same source, where the water is filtered through a particular layer of the limestone underground.
Guide price: DKK 26.00.
Available at www.vinmedmere.dk
7. BEAUJOLAIS VILLAGES FROM 2020
Since the house was founded in 1880, Maison Joseph Drouhin has been one of the proponents of authentic Burgundy wines. That’s why Drouhin is very conscious of taking care of the environment that surrounds the vines. It is best to avoid spraying more than absolutely necessary and instead weed between the stems. Organic fertilizers are widely used to nourish the soil. The future is always focused on the family’s philosophy that there must also be something for the next generation. In fact, one is already so far in the process at present that the house’s Chablis wines are grown exclusively in an organic way. Here you get is light, fresh, and sour wine with notes of cherries and strawberries. Suitable for delicate meat.
Guide price: DKK 69.00.
Available at www.hjhansen-vin.dk
www.hjhansen-vin.dk
8. WHITE VEGAN CHOCOLATE FROM ICHOC
Ichok White Vanilla Choco is like the other chocolates in the series, completely free of animal products and therefore suitable for vegans. In addition, the chocolates in the series are organic. The chocolate has been made from rice milk, which helps to give it a taste that is very similar to regular milk chocolate. This variant is white chocolate with a twist of vanilla.
Guide price: DKK 22.00.
Available at www.helsebixen.dk
9. FOCACCINE WITH GARLIC FROM DELITALY
Delicious crispy Italian biscuits for snacks. You can either eat them as they are or with, for example, pesto, cheese, or pâté.
Guide price: DKK 15.95.
Available at www.nemlig.com
10. SØHØJLAND UMAMI FROM THEM ANDELSMEJERI
Søhøjland Umami is an organic premium cheese created in the beautiful Jutland Søhøjland at one of Denmark’s oldest remaining cooperative dairies with a proud tradition dating back to 1888. Today the dairy is owned by 13 local farmers who produce some of Denmark’s finest cheeses with their own cheese cultures, good animal welfare, and old-fashioned care. Søhøjland Umami is a solid parmesan-inspired cheese with crisp crystals and distinctive undertones of butter and salt. Ideal for the cheese table after the Christmas meal or for Sunday morning in sneakers and robes.
Guide price: DKK 44.95.
Available at Bilka, Netto, and Føtex, among others
11. SØD FINSK LAKRIDS
Sweet and greasy licorice, made according to original Finnish recipes. The texture is tough but soft to chew, and then the licorice has a great taste.
Guide price: DKK 29.95.
Available from Søstrene Grene, among others
12. ILLIADA ORGANIC SINGLE ESTATE VIRGIN OLIVE OIL
With Illiada’s organic Single Estate virgin olive oil, you get an exclusive oil from Greece, produced in limited quantities and in numbered bottles. The taste is fresh, solid, and with a peppery aftertaste. Single Estate olive oil is considered as one of the very best olive oils. And the taste is influenced by natural factors such as local soil, altitude, microclimate, and olive variety. The oil is produced on the Kostopoulos Estate, which is a traditional olive farm located on the slopes near the village of Lefkochora, where there are direct views of the Mani region and the sea. The olive trees have been in the Kostopoulos family for over 80 years. The oil made from the olive variety is Koroneiki, which is known for its low acidity and superior quality. It goes perfectly with salads, freshly baked bread, pasta, pizza, or as a base in a dressing or marinade.
Guide price: DKK 119.
Available at igourmet.dk and coop.dk, among others
13. BAILEYS COZY UP CUP FROM MK STUDIO
The well-known Irish cream liqueur Baileys has the same with the Copenhagen ceramics studio MK Studio created the perfect cup to enjoy his hot chocolate with Baileys through the Christmas month. The result is a unique piece of craftsmanship that adds a little extra style and ambiance to the winter coziness. They have chosen to call the cup the Cozy Up Cup, and together with a bottle of Baileys Original, you can hardly put together a more obvious host or calendar gift for December.
Guide price: DKK 300.
Available at MK Studio and hollygolightly.dk
14. FOAMY CHRISTMAS CANDY
Sweets and sweets are part of Christmas, and in Magasin Mad & Vin, you will find a delicious selection to sweeten life. Try the foamy Christmas candy (Juleskum) – suitable for both the calendar gifts or a treat for yourself.
Guide price: DKK 18.
Available at Mad & Vin, among others
15. ESPRESSO COFFEE FROM ILLY
It belongs with a cup of proper coffee after dinner – also at Christmas. Illy hardly needs any long introduction. A somewhat near-perfect coffee produced from 100% Arabica coffee beans from 6 different countries. The 9 distinct Arabica versions are composed as if they were a symphony. Beans from Brazil add intense chocolate notes, beans from Costa Rica add elegant notes of chocolate and fruit, beans from Ethiopia add delicate floral notes of jasmine. Those from India contribute with notes of cocoa and toast. Beans from Guatemala offer complexity with chocolate, caramel, and honey, the Colombian ones add notes of caramel and nuts. You can buy Illy as whole beans, ground coffee, or instant coffee. The Classico variety contains only the finest Arabica beans, which are purchased directly from the coffee farmers. When working with the whole beans from Classico, you have the opportunity to grind them in different ways, so you vary between coarse, medium, and finely ground beans, each giving their own options for coffee brewing. Classico is a solid example of a classic Italian coffee with delicate notes of caramel, orange blossom, and jasmine that you can grind into a tasty cup of coffee or espresso.
Guide price: DKK 79.95 for whole beans or ground coffee.
Available at Irma, Føtex Food and Føtex Convenience as well as selected Meny stores
16. TONICA CITRUS FROM SAN PELLEGRINO
San Pellegrino Tonica Citrus is tonic water with lemon and orange peel hints that leave the palate with soft, refreshing notes. This premium tonic has a balanced complexity that makes it easy to adapt to many different types of mixed drinks. And then it is a perfect partner for a wide variety of gins. Its sweet freshness of orange peel actually complements many other flavors in mixed drinks. It should be served chilled and preferably at 6-8 degrees. When you make cocktails with it, you can decorate with different citrus varieties. One will find that they each bring out different shades of tonic water. You should preferably add an orange peel if you want sweetness and lemon peel if you want a more sour finish in a classic gin and tonic.
Indicative price per. pcs: 20 kr.
Available at most well-stocked supermarkets or at sluktoersten.dk
17. LAVAZZA BIO-ORGANIC
The Italian food and raw material products are repeatedly highlighted for their high quality. And their coffee is no exception. The Italian coffee producer Lavazza started a small grocery store in Turin. But it was a trip to Brazil in 1895 that marked the beginning of the era of Lavazza coffee. Lavazza Tierra Bio-Organic is coffee that is produced in an old and classic way. It is an organic coffee, gently roasted in traditional Italian methods, so you get a coffee exactly as coffee should. Here you get sweetness and full-bodied taste, and the medium-roasted beans provide a coffee that can be enjoyed by all coffee drinkers at all times of the day.
Guide price: DKK 54.95.
Available at kaffekapslen.dk
18. GIFT CERTIFICATE FOR STICKS´N´SUSHI
Christmas offers heavy food in long lanes, so maybe it was something to pamper the recipient of your calendar gift with a gift card for a meal of food in the lighter and slightly healthier category? Sticks’n’Sushi introduced ordinary Danes to raw fish way back in 1994, but much else has been on the menu since then. Today, Sticks’n’Sushi is an international company with several restaurants outside Denmark’s borders, just as their profile has over time become both greener and with a greater focus on responsibility and sustainability. This means, among other things, that the majority of the vegetables you find on their menu come from the Seasons. But also that today you have ample opportunity to satiate yourself with dishes and ala carte sushi entirely without meat. Those who still love the old classics like a roll of Hell’s Kitchen, a piece of nigiri with flame-grilled salmon, or a whole simple Ebi luckily don’t go in vain either. You choose the amount on the gift card – it just has to be over DKK 100. And then you can order it directly online. It does not get any easier.
Guide price: minimum DKK 100.
Available at sticksnsushi.com
19. VERDENSKLASSE KOKKEKNIV FRA H.W LARSEN
At Copenhagen Food, we are very enthusiastic about the whole SENJEN family, but we think the PRO series can do something special. The PRO series is created based on the vision of creating the perfect knife. Cutting grinder Benjamin Jensen has built the prototype for the PRO series from scratch. The steel has been carefully selected, and the shaft has a shape that is both innovative and has explicit references to the more classic knives. It’s is vacuum-dried and then saturated with epoxy to withstand cracking as best as possible. These are knives that should be considered as fine-tuned race cars. They should be treated with love and respect, but in return, they acknowledge with spontaneous joy when you need to prepare your food.
Guide price: DKK 999 – DKK 2499.
Available at Senjen – H.W.Larsen A / S (hwl.dk)
20. PIZZA CUTTER
Let’s be honest. You get tired of fumbling with the bread knife, now that you have made an effort and baked homemade pizzas for the whole family. So who wouldn’t be happy with an utterly classic pizza cutter? It does not have to be expensive, and it makes it so much more fun and more manageable when the steaming hot pizzas are to be served.
Guide price: DKK 21.20.
Available from Søstrene Grene
21. PINOT NOIR 11 HOUR
Charming and elegant Pinot Noir made of grapes from selected fields in the San Joaquin Valley of California. This is an inviting wine with aromas of cherries, plums, and strawberries with soft tannins. Ripe red fruits finish off the wine, and it has a velvety aftertaste. It should be drunk lightly swallowed, and then it goes perfectly with poultry, light meat, and fish.
Guide price: DKK 109.
Available at hjhansen-vin.dk and at Mad & Vin in Magasin
22.ANNIVERSARY BOOK FROM TORVEHALLERNE
Torvehallene has been Copenhagen’s entire pantry for 10 years. And it celebrated the halls this late summer with the publication of a cookbook that contains 100 fantastic recipes and at the same time provides an insight into the stallholders who get up every morning and do their best to create memorable dining experiences for Copenhageners. The book is packed with good stories, appetizing pictures, and, as promised, inspiring recipes that throw the glove and challenge the quality-conscious home cook to strike a double knot on the thicket and get started. In other words, the book is the perfect calendar gift for those who love food.
Guide price: DKK 299.95.
Available at www.magasin.dk, at Bog & Idé and at the stadiums in Torvehallerne
23. A CUP OF INSTANT HOT CHOCOLATE
Most of us are busy in December, where the last work has to be completed before the holidays, and packages have to be bought for the whole family. And standing and making a cup of hot chocolate from scratch can be cramped. Then it’s good that you can cheat with GNAW’s chocolate stick with mini marshmallows. You just fill a large mug with steaming hot milk, add the bar of dark chocolate and stir until the chocolate is melted. Then, you can appropriately do it in your ceramic cup from MK Studio and round it off with a little bit of Baileys.
Guide price: DKK 22.90.
Available from Søstrene Grene, among others
24. SINGLE MALT WHISKY FROM DIAGEO LEGENDS UNTOLD COLLECTION
If the recipient of your calendar is a whiskey connoisseur with a penchant for the best single malts Scotland has to offer, there is only one way to end the gift rain. The world’s largest spirits producer, Diageo, has just unveiled their 2021 Special Releases whiskey collection called Legends Untold. Diageo’s annual single malt Special Releases release is an anniversary in every whiskey lover’s calendar, and this year the focus is on telling the unique stories of the various distilleries in new and exciting ways. It’s master blender Dr. Craig Wilson, who has carefully selected every single whiskey in the Legends Untold collection, which consists of specialty whiskeys from the distilleries Mortlach, Singleton, Talisker, 2 x Lagavulin, Cardhu, Oban, and Royal Lochnagar. So, for example, you could give a Talisker 8 that is lightly salted in taste with smoky undertones. Then there is really something to enjoy between Christmas and New Year for the lucky recipient when the snow (as always in Denmark) falls gently from the sky and the fire crackles in the fireplace.
Guide price: DKK 999.
Available at wood-assorted liquor retailers
