How to put Ballarat on your plate this Christmas

We’ve got your Christmas lunch or dinner all wrapped up with our Ballarat shopping list of homegrown produce and locally-made goods.

Starters

• Carboni’s Next Door‘s premium antipasti, charcuterie and cheeses
• Goldfields Farmhouse Cheese, made with Friesian Holstein and Jersey cow milk
• Salt Kitchen Charcuterie’s terrines and pates
• Cheer Box Ballarat’s savoury grazing boxes
• Family-run Ballarat delicatessen Campana’s

Main

• Black Cat Truffle‘s truffle oil
• Saltbush Kitchen‘s unique range of Australian bushfoods, including salt blends, rubs and native spices
• Carboni’s Next Door‘s roast porchetta, fresh pasta, gnocchi, pasta sauces, bread and Christmas boxes
• Mr Jones‘ crispy chilli condiment
• 1816 Bakehouse‘s artisan sourdough
• Salt Kitchen Charcuterie’s dry cured and smoked meats (including ham, bacon and pastrami)
• Sher Wagyu’s fullblood and crossbred Wagyu beef
• Western Plains Pork’s free range pork
• Springmount Fine Foods’ gourmet artisan products (including black garlic, vinaigrettes, drizzles and pastes)
• Tim Bone’s chilli jam, napoli sauce and onion jam
• Flying Chillies’ sedap chilli oil and sambal queen
• Yendon Gourmet Tomatoes’ hydroponic tomatoes
• The Mushroom Connection’s locally-grown gourmet mushrooms

Dessert

• 1816 Bakehouse‘s artisan pastries and cakes
• The Little Cupcake‘s Christmas cupcakes
• Carboni’s Next Door‘s freshly baked Italian pastries, including cannoli and bombolone
• Il Piccolo Gelato’s artisan gelato
• Payne’s Orchard‘s cherries and apricots
• Sovereign Hill‘s iconic raspberry drops
• Kittelty’s home-baked cakes and scrolls
• Mrs Browne Bakes’ homemade cookies
• Vegas & Rose brownies
• Sweet As El’s truffles and New York-style cookies
• Lucky and James’ handmade chocolate
• Backyard Beekeeping Ballarat’s multi-floral garden honey
• Enbom Honeys’ quality honey
• Naturally Berry’s artisan jam and marmalade
• Inglenook Dairy’s farm fresh milk, cream, yoghurt and butter

So you’ve put Ballarat on your plate, but what about in your glass?

Beer

• Red Duck Beer‘s traditional ales
• Aunty Jacks‘ award-winning brews
• Cubby Haus Brewing’s crisp lagers to dark, full flavoured stouts
• O’Brien Beer’s 100% gluten-free beer
• Dollar Bill Brewing’s Belgian-inspired ales, ciders, mead and barrel-aged beers

Wine

• Mitchell Harris‘ elegant wines which reflect the cool-climate characters of nearby wine regions
• Michael Unwin‘s sustainable wines which are processed and bottled on site from locally-grown grapes
• Eastern Peake‘s minimal intervention pinot noir, chardonnay and syrah
• LATTA Vino’s experimental wines
• Captains Creek‘s handcrafted organic wines and ciders
• Blue Pyrenees Estate‘s authentic wines that are truly representative of the Pyrenees region
• Mount Avoca‘s pure organic wines which are grown, made and bottled on the estate
• Summerfield Winery’s deep, hearty, bold reds

Spirits

• Itinerant Spirits‘ gin and vodka which is made locally-grown grains, botanicals and natural volcanic spring water
• Kilderkin Distillery‘s Larrikin Gin line-up
• Red Duck Distillery‘s premium gin and vodka
• Mrs Baker’s Still House‘s boutique gins and liqueurs
• Carboni’s Next Door‘s homemade limoncello, arancello and limonchilli

And to finish off…

• The Little Cupcake‘s hot chocolate bombs
• Grounded Pleasures’ exquisite drinking chocolate, chai, panela, and marshmallows
• Karon Farm Coffee’s roasted coffee blends
• Sun on Leaf’s small batch tea blends

Main image: Saltbush Kitchen