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Fine Italy – The Portofino Menu

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An exclusive giveaway in collaboration with Fine Italy.

Portofino from Shutterstock, copyright LianeM

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Portofino is a fishing village on the Italian Riviera coastline, southeast of Genoa city. Its famous pastel-coloured houses, high-end boutiques and seafood restaurants fringe its Piazzetta, a small cobbled square overlooking the harbour, which is lined with yachts.

You can bring a taste of this Italian territory into your own home with the Portofino menu from Fine Italy. With this menu you will find some hand selected dishes that the region is famous for; everything you need for a four course meal for four people.

Taggiasca Pate and Wild Boar Salami

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For starters, you’ve got Taggiasca olives, reknowned worldwide for the intensity of their flavour, prepared into a spreadable paté served on bruschetta. On the side wild boar salami, from animals from the Ligurian hinterland; a delicious, mildly spiced salami which makes a rather superb introduction to the rest of the meal.

Linguine and Ligurian Pesto

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For the first course Ligurian basil, which is universally recognised as the best basil in terms of balance and the richness of flavors in its bouquet, is used to create a pesto to delicately coat linguine, a pasta designed to be served with such a delicious green sauce.

The Fine Italy Portofino box comes with a 500 gram packet of linguine and two jars of pesto, so plenty linguine for a few other meals as well as two jars of pesto.

Ligurian squid

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For the second course: delicately spiced stewed Ligurian squid with potatoes, a very old recipe utilising seafood fished from the nearby sea.

Sassello Amaretti Biscuits and Cherries

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Soft Sassello amaretti biscuits served with black cherries in Freisa wine are a great end to this hearty Italian meal, and to serve along side, any time you wish, a delicate white wine made from the Pigato grape, a variety planted primarily in Liguria.

Pigato white wine from Fine Italy

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Fine Italy prides itself on sourcing the finest in Italian foods and creating delicious, authentic menu boxes for the discerning UK consumer. Prices start from £87.90 with free shipping in a classy wooden crate.

Visit their website to browse their other menus, and you can read my review of their utterly delicious Langhe Menu here.

You can also find Fine Italy on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

FINE ITALY GIVEAWAY

Fine Italy have kindly offered the Fine Italy – Portofino Menu Box worth £88.90, as a giveaway prize for one of my UK readers. To enter, simply fill out the Rafflecopter entry form below!

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This giveaway is open to UK entries only. Entrants must be age 18 or over. The winners will need to respond within 30 days of being contacted; failure to do this may result in another winner being selected.

The prize is offered and provided by Fine Italy. The prize is to win a Fine Italy – Portofino Menu Box worth £88.90. There is no cash alternative and the prize is not transferable.

There is no entry fee and no purchase is necessary to enter this giveaway. The promoter (Elizabeth’s Kitchen Diary) reserves the right to cancel or amend the giveaway and these terms and conditions without notice.

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Elizabeth’s Kitchen Diary received a complimentary Portofino Menu Box in exchange for hosting this giveaway. This is not a paid post and all thoughts and opinions expressed are our own.

Comments

  1. I have never had Italian food before,and this sounds so fresh and delicious would love for me and my family to taste a little bit of italy

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  4. I would loove to win this as I absolutely love cooking and my family really enjoy Italian food, thanks for the giveaway x

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  5. I love Italian and Mediterranean food especially pasta dishes. I make one pasta dish once a week for me and my little girl.

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  6. I would like to win as it sounds lovely, much nicer than the macaroni cheese, fish fingers and pizza that are my kids favourite foods. Would be nice to have proper grown up meal!

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  10. I would really like to win this prize, as I have never seen some of these ingredients in my local shops. The food in the photographs looks delicious and I would love to try it!

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  13. Looks delicious and coold be a great alternative for a Friday night when I have zero energy to come up with a dinner menu

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  14. Because a day doesn’t PASTA without me eating something Italian, it’s my favourite delight and fills my TUMMY with scrummy yummy. Thanks for the chance xxx

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  17. Portifino is on my Mum’s wishlist of places to visit but she’s just had heart surgery so will have to wait a while – this would be a great stop gap!

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  24. I’d like to win as although I like Italian food I’ve never really tried to many different ingredients and the pesto and linguine in particular sounds fab, as does the olive pate… yum!

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  25. I’ve just come back from a cruise around italy and this box would be perfect to take me back to the beautiful country

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  27. I’m going away to a romantic cottage soon with my fella, and we always cook on our holiday, and this would be perfection as we both love Italian food and this sounds beyond delicious. it would be such a treat for us.

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  30. Absolutely love Italian food. It would be great to try something a bit different from the usual. Although I could live on lasagne. 🙂

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  32. I love Italian food, this menu is pretty much what I’d order in a restaurant so it’d be perfect for a lovely night in!

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  34. I would love to win this Italian Menu box as I would use it for a celebration meal with the family as I kno it would be something we would all enjoy.

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  37. Pasta is the only family meal everyone will eat. And my youngest has a refined palate (fussy) so a chance to try quality pesto might be a winner for him!

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  41. Because we don’t get out very often, having 2 children, it would be fantastic to have a restaurant quality and style meal, without worrying about the children terrorising a babysitter!

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  42. I adore cooking and would love to give this menu box a go so I can cook for my grandad who moved over from Lake Como, Italy in the war. See if I can pass the authentic Italian taste test !!

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  56. Would love this prize to surprise my family with a delicious dinner, as I often get stuck in a rut, cooking the same old thing all the time.

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  61. Our family love Italian food but tend to stick to the same recipes so this would be great to try something new

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  62. I’d love to win as although we are familiar with most of the ingredients we’ve never tried this quality, particularly the boar salami – sounds delicious.

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  67. I’ve been to Italy a couple of times and I love their food. Sooo delicious and tasty too! The best pesto I ever had was in Cinque Terra many years ago – but I can still remember it like it was yesterday!!

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  70. Because i love Italian food as does my partner and this would be a huge treat! Thank you for the chance.

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  71. It looks like it has a variety of different tastes and some things that I have never tried before. Always up for trying something new! 🙂

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  75. I am going to Venice in December and looking forward to it – using this would make it seem so much closer. Thanks for a great blog.

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  94. I’d like to try this as I love Italian food, and love to try new things. The Ligurian basil sounds especially delicious.

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  95. One of my closest friends is Italian and she is always telling me about the meals she ate in Italy as a child and how good they were so i would love to win this and then invite her over to sample it for a special surprise.

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  99. I would love to win as it would make the perfect treat for the next date night for me and my hubby.

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  108. I like trying food from different countries and regions. This box sounds wonderful. It would be great to have authentic Italian food.

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  116. I would love this as we all love italian food in our family it is definately my favourite supper. pizza, pasta, rissotto , all great dishes simple to make and nutricious

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  122. I would like to win this for my husband as a lovely treat, he works hard and turns 40 next month so I think he deserves it 🙂

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  125. A truly authentic and fine Italian meal all delivered as one is an offer I just can’t refuse…to quote a famous movie line 😉

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  127. i love Italian food but particularly enjoy trying new recipes. This would be a fantastic treat for my hubby and I

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  143. My kids are going through an unfussy stage and trying new tastes so it would be ace to sample this with them – (not the wine though- that would be for my pleasure!! )

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  146. It was my 49th birthday last week and I was given a bucket list. It includes try eating a new food, and cook a 3 course meal. I could do both with this box

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  150. Those amaretto biscuits with the cherries look amazing! In fact, all of it does!
    The other half is a chef and I just know he’d appreciate this 🙂

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  151. We visited Porto find on our Amalfi trip last year and fell in love with the food and thd Scenery. It would be lovely to bring back the Italian tastes in our own home. My favourite dish was Pasta lemon & Courgette which I now make regularly.

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  152. It’s my daughter’s 21st this year- I’d love to cook an authentic Italian meal for the family 🙂

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  158. I love Italy and visited Lake Garda and Venice a few years ago and loved the Italian food so this food box would be a perfect way to reminisce about those good times

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  167. One of my favourite hobbies id cooking. I love experimenting with new foods and ingredients. If I won, I’d defimitely cook a meal for me and my boyfriend to enjoy on a special evening!

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  170. I would love to win as both me and my husband love Italian food and would love to share this with him x

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  186. we don’t get chance to go out often & enjoy a nice meal in together as our treat so this would be perfect!

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  188. I’d like to win because I looooove Italian food. I especially love olives! (used to hate them years ago and now I’m addicted!)

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  191. I would love to win this Fine Italy – Portofino Menu so I can spoil my Mum & Dad with a lovely meal 🙂

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