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From a Labubu cake to Thai curry flavoured crisps - here are all the items our food writer loved this month
It's a hard job, but someone has to do it!
With so many food and drink product launches every single month, we know it can be an overwhelming experience trying to find a food product that is unique and not to mention delicious, that's also worth spending your money on.
This is where our senior food and drink writer, Mel Giandzi steps in. As our resident foodie she gets, without fail, hundreds of emails every month about the newest products that have launched. Not everything makes the cut, so the following list has been carefully recommended as her top favourites for this month.
The following items have really blown her away and are products she will be recommending to anyone who listens and ones she'll also be adding into her basket to purchase again this month.
Expect top food, drink and cookbook recommendations, plus, her newest kitchenware item, gadget or appliance obsession, a hero ingredient and food inspiration for future meals.
She’ll be updating this page monthly, so keep it bookmarked to find out what the best products she tries next month are...
The best products our food writer tried this month:
If you're obsessed with everything bagel like we are, you need to get your hands on this peanut butter version from Butter Bike Co. They have combined their creamy, nutty PB with the delicious flavours of 'everything bagel' (that's a mixture of sesame seeds, dried onion, garlic, poppy seeds and salt). So yes, it does lean on the savoury side, but works perfectly on buttered toast and equally as good when used as a satay sauce.
Co-op are the undisputed champions when it comes to supermarket crisps and their innovative flavours always get us excited. Their newest flavour is inspired by a Thai green curry and these are absolutely delicious. They have the exact same creamy taste you'd find in a bowl of warming Thai green curry, perfectly spiced with aromatics and a lovely warming ginger kick. Don't skip these on your next jaunt to Co-op.
Don't tell me you never buy microwaveable pouches of rice because they are the most convenient invention since toast! I always keep a few pouches in my pantry and recently I've discovered Tilda's new soy & ginger sticky rice pouch and it has transformed my midweek cooking game. Sweet, umami soy with punchy ginger, plus perfectly cooked rice. I actually love using this to make our lamb with crispy rice recipe. It is heaven.
I have had my eye on a certain designer 'bubble' bowl for a very long time, so when I spotted this super affordable dupe on Made.com I knew I needed them. They are seriously chunky, but in a beautiful duck egg blue shade that softens them. They are sturdy, and perfect for saucy pasta or ragu's. Ultimately, they are the perfect vessel for all of the autumnal bowl food we're soon to be eating.
Maybe not exactly new, but new to me (and first time trying) is Breadstall in Soho, a pizza shop specialising in full, quarter or by the slice pizza! And boy are they slinging out some excellent pizza's here. Expect flavours like New York vodka sauce and candied burrata with jalapeno (both sensational, might I add) and with a lovely chewy yet fluffy dough. They've also had raving reviews from the likes of Jay Rayner and Sadiq Khan who claim it's the best pizza in London and we couldn't agree more.
Mindful Chef is on a regular rotation in my kitchen (particularly helpful on those long work days when I haven't even thought about what to cook for dinner) and they have partnered up with Côte brasserie for a limited time, to offer some French flair to your dinner menu. Choose from a summer salad with goat's cheese, roasted salmon with green beans or a venison bourguignon with a potato puree. Only available from 7 - 20 September!
We didn't expect to see a Labubu on this page, but here we are. At just under £200, this cake might seem like overkill, but when I shared this in the office with Team GH, we had about 6 people say it was the best cake they had ever eaten. Yes it looks fun, colourful and modelled after those crazy little toys, but the cake itself was extraordinary. We went for the blueberry and elderflower cake and it was so well-balanced and not sickly at all thanks to the cream cheese frosting that we could hardly stop at just one slice. The perfect cake for a celebration - and can generously serve 10-12 people (but at least 18-20 people managed to grab a slice when we served it in the office).
I recently visited Kinsbrook winery in West Sussex and had the chance to try their sensational English sparkling wine. KIN is their flagship, traditional method (so made the exact same way as Champagne) English sparkling wine and it is super refreshing with a perfectly balanced acidity. There isn't an overwhelming amount of bubbles (it has a beautiful mousse-like texture) and the flavour is crisp and zesty making it the perfect partner for fish and chips. A new favourite, that's for sure.
Mel is the Senior Food & Drink Writer for Good Housekeeping UK, covering all the delicious new product launches that come her way, writing about food and drink topics, and curating gift guides for the best foodie products to buy. Alongside that, she can be found developing and creating cocktails for GH and holds her WSET Level 2 in Wine and Spirits. She was part of the Good Housekeeping Institute food testing team for over four years before moving over to the digital side, so knows a thing or two about great food products. You'll find her scouring the supermarket shelves in her spare time for new and exciting ingredients to experiment with in her kitchen.
