Sonoma Farm Review

It's a rainy Saturday, and I was up at 5am, because I was so excited to start prepping my food for a Italian feast, all day long! From breakfast to dinner, all my meals will include, using all the products that I received yesterday from Sonoma Farm.

They company was beyond gracious with their products. The box was so heavy I had to get help to get it in the house. When my daughters and I opened it, we we're so shocked. Unpacking the box was non stop, with so many wonderful products, from olive oils to pasta sauce's and even salsa. Now, when I begin to tell you all I made using these outstanding products, don't panic. The portions we're just enough for five people to try some of everything I made, with out floating away.

Everything came from Sonoma Farm, located in Countryside, IL. And I can not tell you how excited I am to cook. But as I always do, I want to tell you just who and what Sonoma Farm is all about.

First and most important, Sonoma Farm makes and produce's Artisan Gourmet Food Product's. At Sonoma Farms, they sell a collection of registered organic items in all their categories. Their products come from small farms and top growers in California and Italy. All their goods are handcrafted in small batches, to maintain consistency. They aim to offer fresh and special items to their clients, including olives, vinegar, sauces and dips. The products and presentations are the passion, which is why they take a great strides, to provide you with their products. All the products, have no trans fat, are gluten free, peanut free, tree nut free as well.

So now let me tell you from breakfast to dessert, what I created with Sonoma Farm artisan gourmet products!

I started the day making everyone chocolate waffles, using as a ingredient Sonoma Farm blood orange olive oil. Just opening the jar of blood orange olive oil from Sonoma farms, was heavenly. Right away you smell the aroma of blood oranges. The waffles came out very moist, and you could taste the sweetness that stemmed from the blood orange olive oil. The unique flavor of the blood orange olive oil is nothing to compare to other oranges, it taste more like a berry flavor. Tasting it on the tip of your tongue, it is sweet, and very delicate. Now I incorporated the Sonoma Farm blood orange olive oil, as a baking ingredient. But, blood orange olive oil, can be dripped over a salad as a dressing, or even paired with a chicken recipe. Needless to say, breakfast was a hit!

Now to hold everyone over until dinner, I made a pizza, and used Sonoma Farm mild Muffuletta as a topping as well as sliced Italian sausage. My mouth still waters, just remembering the taste. The jar of Muffuletta, ingredients has a blend of olives, peppers, cauliflower, celery and carrots, and seasoned with oregano and garlic all covered in oil. It made a perfect topping for the pizza, and I named it a veggie, meat, Italian pizza. The best part of this jarred Muffuletta is that all the ingredients come already sliced, and was done so by hand. Now, most know Muffuletta as being a sandwich, stuffed with lunchmeats n cheese. You could use this jar of Sonoma mild Muffuletta for just that. But Sonoma Farm took it to new levels with this as a salad mix. It's a signature Italian specialty, that you can eat right out of the jar, or add it to so many recipe dishes. This specialty that Sonoma Farm created, of mild Muffuletta is great whether you eat it cold or hot. It would compliment cream cheese for turning it into a dip, or use it on top of a hot sandwich. Your choice, but it will be great however you use it.

For our first course of the night I made a dip using Sonoma Farm basil infused extra virgin olive oil, and added some red pepper flakes for heat. I toasted up a loaf of Italian bread, and sliced it for dipping. I must say any jar of their olive oil you open has such great aromas. The basil olive oil, taste so fresh, like they went out into the garden picked the basil, and brought the jar of infused olive oil right to you. The taste of the olive oil is sweet, and buttery. Right in the jar at the bottom you can see all the great ingredients it has inside the olive oil. When you shake it and pour, as for a dipping sauce, there is nothing else you really need to add. The basil olive oil would be great drizzled over pasta, on top of fish, even great for the top of a baked potato.

The second course was a spinach, apple and walnut salad drizzled with Sonoma Farm lemon infused extra virgin olive oil. There's nothing like the smell of fresh lemons, and when you unseal this jar of lemon infused olive oil from Sonoma Farm, that is just what you smell. The olive oil is made with the freshest cold pressed extra virgin olive oil, as was all the other jars I received. And of course infused with fresh lemons. Drizzled over the top of the salad with the apples and walnuts was a combo meant to be together. It was very refreshing on the palate to say the least. In every bite you got the taste of the lemoninfused olive oil, and it was not bitter tasting at all. Even the salad had a fragrant aroma from the lemon olive oil. Sonoma Farm lemon infused olive oil, would be great paired with a fish recipe, chicken dishes, and even used in baking a pound cake.

My third course was some different types of crostini's, using the other bottles of Sonoma Farm infused olive oils.

For the first crostini, I took roasted chicken and mushrooms and sautéed them in the Sonoma Farm infused garlic extra virgin olive oil. After topping the crostini, I drizzled the tops lightly with the same oil. This is a wonderful combo fresh garlic and olive oil, and helps in making yummy dishes. The garlic is just the right amount in the olive oil, and does not over power your dishes. It was the only source of flavoring that I used for this crostini, and was all I really needed. This infused garlic extra virgin olive oil, would also be great for just putting in a bowl, and using it for a dip. Maybe just adding some freshly grated parm to it. Also I could see using it in some mashed potatoes for some added flavor, and for any meat dish as well.

Now no Italian feast is complete without a good bruschetta. So that’s what I made. Taking some of the Italian bread, and topping it with a mixed color of cherry tomatoes, drizzled with Sonoma Farm barrel aged Balsamic Vinegar. Well, wow, was everyone's words. The Balsamic Vinegar from Sonoma Farm is their traditional barrel aged, award winning from Modena Italy. Aged to great perfection in wooden barrels. When you drizzle the Balsamic it is dark and rich, and the taste is heaven on your palate. It's sweet, and very smooth, and the aroma just invites you in. The thickness of the Balsamic is perfect, because it lands just where you aim it. Sonoma Farm process's this vinegar in great lengths and when you taste it you will appreciate all their efforts. It looks like caramel almost, with a taste of delicate balanced sweet and sour tones. This would be great as any topping in a recipe, but also out of the box idea over coffee ice cream.

Also,Sonoma Farm sent over three types of their salsa, and since I was doing a Italian feast, my daughter made some dishes using them, and made her hubby dinner. One dish she made for hubby, two others she brought over for me to try.

Her first dish was a meatloaf, and for the topping was the Sonoma Farm "wanted" dill pickle jalapeno salsa. It made sense, it was like having a hamburger patty with the salsa on top. She said her husband really enjoyed it. He could not enjoy my Italian feast because he had to leave for work, so it was great he got to enjoy the Sonoma Farm dill pickle jalapenosalsa. The salsa is made with of course dill pickles, that are then blended into hot salsa. My son in law said it was a very unique taste, and saved some for grilling some burgers and using it as the topping, when the sun comes out! Sonoma Farm took locally grown veggies and hand chopped them to make small batches of this salsa. What you get in the end is a fantastic unique tasting salsa, that you will enjoy in many recipes. My son in law reported, that you taste not only the dill pickles, gut get a kick from the heat of the jalapenos. If you have a passion for pickles and heat, this is the salsa for you. Not only great as my daughter used it, but right out of the jar it makes a great dip. Can't wait until my son in law grills, and I can taste it on a burger.

To bring over for our Italian feast, one dish my daughter made was a small pork tenderloin, topped with Sonoma Farm "wanted" rum mango habanerosalsa. She it the nail on the head with this recipe. It was the perfect pairing. It was sweet from the mango, and a hint of flavor from the rum, then the kick from the habanero's. It's a semi thick salsa, that sticks very well to the meat. And the mango cuts out most of the habanero heat, so all in all it is well balanced. It would be great with tortilla chips, but also for you heat lovers, it would be great served with chicken wings.

My daughters next dish, was shrimp and grits, with Sonoma Farm Tequila lime salsa mixed in. Now I know your thinking it was a Italian feast, but one of us is part Spanish lol! The Sonoma Farm Tequila Lime salsa gave the dish a very unique flavor, and was delicious. It was like eating margarita shrimp! The heat level was a medium, but the taste level was a one hundred. The Sonoma Farm tequila lime salsa does have fresh lime and hand crafted tequila as part of their ingredients. The lime in the salsa gives it a zesty taste, the thickness is perfect, and the tequila gives it even more of a gourmet taste. This salsa will inspire you to create some unique dishes your self, we always try to think out side the box for recipes. Sonoma Farm tequila lime medium salsa would also be great right out the jar as a dip, but also incorporated right into a baked dish.

Ok! It's pasta time. For the pasta sauces from Sonoma Farm, I made four small batches of pasta dishes. First up, a traditional pasta dish, spaghetti and meat-ta-balls.

The sauce I used for this dish was Sonoma Farm sweet basil. I not only used it to coat my pasta, but put it into the hamburger mixture for my meat-ta-balls. Again Sonoma Farm put some fresh picked basil, from a local farmer, and added it to their signature sauce. Both flavors got married, and lived happily ever after on top of my pasta. The Sonoma garden fresh pasta sauce with sweet basil taste like you made it your self from ingredients right out of your own garden. It was fresh tasting, and you get the taste of the fresh basil in every bite. Definitely a homemade tasting pasta sauce, that brings authentic Italian mouth watering flavors to your dish. The Sonoma Farm Gourmet pasta sauce with garden fresh sweet basil, will transform any meal into a true Italian masterpiece. The taste of the Sonoma Farm garden fresh sweet basil pasta sauce, is not only fragrant, but sweet and peppery, and down right delicious. No other ingredients we're used for any of my pasta dishes except for the pasta sauces from Sonoma Farm.

For the garlic lovers in the house, my next pasta dish was rigatoni. For this I added some hamburger to make a meat sauce using the Sonoma Farm garlic lovers pasta sauce. The garlic lovers pasta sauce is just that, a wonderful hand crafted pasta sauce with plenty of garlic flavor. The sauce itself is Sonoma Farm's award winning marinara, with hand chopped locally grown garlic inside. The taste is very rich, very unique, and very good. It has the taste of a pasta sauce you would slow cook all day in your own kitchen. But you didn't have to, it was done for you by Sonoma Farm. With every bite of the rigatoni you can taste the authentic garlic flavor of the sauce. It is a full bodied sauce that sticks to the pasta, nothing runny about it at all. Love, love, loved this sauce.

Sonoma Farm also sent a jar of their gourmet pasta sauce, Tuscan Vodka. For this I added some left over shrimp my daughter had, and added some scallops, all into a spaghetti dish. The flavors of the Tuscan Vodka sauce was zesty, and full of rich deep flavors. Sonoma using all natural pasta sauce and adding some heavy whipping cream, along with farm fresh local ingredients, made a fresh creamy vodka sauce. It was a perfect pairing for pasta with seafood. Sonoma Farm gourmet Tuscan Vodka pasta sauce is truly a gourmet indulgence you will enjoy. The taste, is just like your Grandmom would make, in her kitchen from scratch. Sonoma Farm Tuscan Vodka sauce will turn any of your pasta dishes into a gourmet delight.

The last small batch of pasta I made was ziti with Sonoma gourmet pasta sauce northern Italy Asiago. When you taste this sauce, you will feel like you are sitting in a small café in Italy. It's flavor is warm, and very flavorful. Sonoma Farm took Asiago cheese from Italy, yes from Italy, simmered it with their vodka sauce, fresh picked tomatoes, parm cheese, and fresh spinach, extra virgin olive oil, and spices, to make this gourmet sauce. And if your mouth is not watering from hearing all the ingredients, it will when you taste it. The thickness was perfect, and again, stayed on the pasta. Usually this type of pasta sauce is white, and made from cream and Asiago cheese. But Sonoma took it "RED", and it is perfect. In every bite you taste the fresh tomatoes, and the Asiago cheese. The Sonoma FarmNorthern Italy Asiago pasta sauce really puts their own spin on a true Italian cheese sauce. It will definitely perk your pasta dish up with all its melded flavors and ingredients. The depth it takes your dish in unbelievable. It doesn't have to be for just pasta, it would pair well with a meat dish, a chicken dish, even stuffed cabbage.

To end out night I even made a dessert crostini, with tart cherries and fontina cheese. For the top, I drizzled some butter infused extra virgin olive oil. This type of olive oil was new to me, but I am so glad I got to experience it. The Sonoma Farm butter infused extra virgin olive oil, was the perfect topping for the crostini. The taste was delicate for being a butter infused oil, and just melted into the cheese making it even more delicious. It has a very decadent flavor to it, fresh and very elegant. And if you are wondering if it taste like butter, yes it does. So it would make a great substitute for any dish calling for butter. Also this makes a great olive oil for vegans, and vegetarians, and other conscious cooks out there. You definitely get the best of both worlds, extra virgin olive oil, and butter. This would be a great olive oil to infuse with baked fish, in sautéed fish, or even drizzled over your popcorn. Another great feature of using Sonoma Farm butter infused extra virgin olive oil is, you use less amounts of this compared to butter. For example if you we're going to use one teaspoon of butter, you would use 3/4 teaspoon of this butterinfused olive oil. So you are also getting great health benefits.

I think it's safe to say, I am not only full, but tired. But I had a blast using and tasting these products from Sonoma farm. As well as my daughter did.

If you’re your looking for more information and products from Sonoma farm reach out to them on their website. They have so much more products to taste.

www.sonomafarm.com

Disclaimer: Momzdailyscoops has personally reviewed the product listed above. Momzdailyscoops has not received any monetary compensation for her review. Momzdailyscoops did receive a free product to try out so Momzdailyscoops could evaluate and use it for her review. Momzdailyscoops thoughts & opinions in this review are unbiased & honest and your opinions may differ.