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Celebrate A Local Charcuterie Maker

By now, you've heard of the Victory Cheese Boxes we are putting together. We have a new one that we are super excited about!

This special box focuses on artisan charcuterie by Bill Miner of Il Porcellino Salumi, just up the road in the Berkeley neighborhood. We've put together a Victory cheese box that includes 3 cheeses from some our favorite American artisan cheese producers, each perfectly paired with an Il Porcellino salami.

Boxes are available for pickup at St. Kilian's and Il Porcellino in Denver. They can also be delivered locally or shipped nationwide.

The box makes a great gift or it can set the scene for a special date night or celebration at home.

What's in a box? Here's an example:

Saucisson Sec Salami - Il Porcellino, Denver CO - Traditional French Style Salami with Garlic, Black Pepper, and Carboy Malbec Wine
Finback - Mystic Cheese Company, Groton CT - Savory and complex English style bandaged cheese
Orange Pistachio Salami - Il Porcellino, Denver CO - Sicilian Style Salami seasoned with Garlic, Fresh Orange Zest, and Sicilian Pistachios
Sofia - Capriole Goat Cheese, Greenville, IN - Loire valley inspired good food award winning ashed rind goat, delicate on the inside and flavorful on the edges
Diablo Salami - Il Porcellino, Denver CO - A Calabrese Style Salami seasoned with Fennel Seeds and both Whole & Ground Calabrian Chiles.
Cabrillo - Stepladder Ranch & Creamery, Cambia CA
Redcamper Mostarda

The Victory box is available now and can be ordered for shipping, pickup or delivery. We now a have a new and improved delivery service with scheduled deliveries 7 days a week and a larger area of coverage in Colorado.

Our friends and neighbors, Il Porcellino Salumi, is located just north of our shop, in the Berkley neighborhood. They make some of the finest artisan charcuterie in the United States. No longer a local secret after multiple awards including Good Food Awards and Grand Champion at Charcuterie Masters, their local deli has expanded to full wholesale production in Basalt, CO.

We're proud to partner with Il Porcellino and stock the majority of their line in our shop, including retail salami's and a rotating collection on the deli slicer. If you enjoy these products make sure to check out their deli off of Tennyson for some of the best sandwiches in the Denver area.

Aug 03, 2020
Shop Staff
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Easy Pizza Night At Home with Our Improved Pizza Kits

**We've revamped our pizza kits and we think you're really going to like them.**

Pizza kits are back! We have the best ingredients and toppings so you can make the best pizza in Denver, at your home, at anytime. It starts with Babette’s pizza dough, which can be stretched and cooked in a hot pizza oven for a classic Neapolitan-style pizza or rolled out thin and par-baked before topping for an easier home oven version. Next up, most of our kits layer on our favorite simple tomato sauce and a base of aged mozzarella, but sometimes we like to mix it up with pesto or fresh burrata. Then, the final touch is the fun part for us, we like to add a flavorful cheese to bring it all together and an additional topping like local salami, thin sliced prosciutto or pickled peppers. Check out a few of our favorite flavor combos below and all the options HERE.

Looking for baking instructions for your pizza? We've got your covered.

Pizza Oven Instructions

Stretch and spread the pizza dough out thin and arrange it on your peel that has been dusted with cornmeal. Top your pizza on the peel and carefully load it into your pizza oven. You will know when your pie is done when the edge of the crust is bubbling and blistered and the bottom is brown. For more great tips and directions we recommend Ooni.

Home Oven Instructions

If you are baking your pizza in your conventional home oven, preheat the oven to 450F. You can make your pizza on a sheet pan, a stone, cast iron skillet or directly on parchment paper. If you are using a stone or skillet, be sure to preheat these along with the oven. Use your hands or a rolling pin to roll out the pizza dough to your desired size (additional flour will help keep the dough from sticking and hold it's shape.) A bigger pizza will have a thinner crust and smaller round will have a thicker crust. Pierce the dough with a fork to create small holes for air to escape, and place your crust in the oven for about 2 minutes to par-bake it. Remove it from the oven, and add your toppings. Continue baking until the cheese is melted and the edges of the crust and the bottom of the pizza are golden to dark brown.

We are still offering a discount on online orders for delivery, shipping or pick-up. Use the code 'shoplocal' at checkout for 5% of your order.

Arugula Prosciutto Pizza

Spicy Diablo Pizza

Pomodoro Bianco

Margherita Pizza

Jul 23, 2020
Shop Staff
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Support Cheesemakers with a Victory Cheese Box

We love American cheese

And we would be so sad if it went away. The COVID-19 crisis is devastating the American cheese industry, from dairy farmers and cheesemakers to distributors, restaurants, and cheese counters across the country. A grassroots collection of cheese professionals – including cheesemakers, mongers, chefs, and cheese guilds from across the country – came together to find ways to help our struggling industry – creating the Victory Cheese Box.

Like the Victory Garden movement of a by-gone era, the Victory Cheese Box is a call for cheese lovers to choose domestically-produced artisan cheese. Each cheese in this box supports a local community or family and reflects a commitment to quality in farming, cheesemaking, and deliciousness in every bite. In addition to supporting cheesemakers by purchasing their product, we'll donate an additional $10 from each box to our Covid-19 charity fund that is helping to support food related charities.

Each St. Kilian's Victory Cheese Box varies, but we'll select a range of 3-4 cheeses from some our favorite American producers and you'll receive 1 to 1.5 lbs of cheese in total, plus our Redcamper collaboration Mostarda. If you have any special requests or omissions let us know in the notes on your order, and we'll do our best to accommodate.

In addition to getting delicious cheese, you'll also be supporting great producers during an especially challenging time. Together, let's step up to celebrate and support American cheese.

The Victory box is available now and can be ordered for shipping, pickup or delivery to with our new improved delivery service with scheduled deliveries 7 days a week and a larger area of coverage.

Click HERE to order a Victory Cheese Box.

Jun 18, 2020
Shop Staff
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Pre-Order Babette's Pastries!

Starting Friday May 29th, we will be receiving deliveries of Babette's breads every Friday and Sunday.
Know you can stock up for the weekend or enjoy Sunday dinners with the best bread in town. Thanks to your many requests, we will also be offering a limited selection of their pastries too!
We are now accepting preorders for their bread, pastries and pizza dough online HERE. A limited selection of bread will also be available in store Friday-Monday for walk-ins but we recommend ordering in advance for the best selection.
What's a pastry assortment? Think croissants, cheese danishes, cinnamon knots, croque monsieurs and more. We are so excited to have the best bread and pastries in Colorado available in Denver in our shop!

May 23, 2020
Shop Staff
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The Good Jar: The Ingredient Your Bloody Mary is Missing

You've put pickles with your Bloody Mary and charcuterie or cheese boards, but what about dilly beans or pickled asparagus? Well, it's time to try it! Sourcing produce from local farmers has always been one of the main priorities for Colorado-based company, The Good Jar. They love supporting local farms, large and small, which helps shrink the carbon footprint of our company while remaining economical. Depending on the product, 60 to 100 percent of The Good Jar’s produce is locally sourced from our great state. Be sure to check out their items in our shop and more relishes and pickles on their site here.

As a retail outlet in the food world, we are so lucky that we are able to remain open and serve you. We are also fortunate that we get to support small producers by selling their items in our shops.

May 19, 2020
Shop Staff
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Dinner is Served: Spring Gnocchi Meal Kit

Ask and you shall receive. We had a customer this past weekend ask for more recipes, so we came up with this spring gnocchi dish and decided to turn it into a meal kit. Now you can simply order the kit and we will grab all the items for you and have your dinner ingredients ready for you to pick up. This dish is the perfect mix of cozy, filling flavors with bright pops of spring mixed in.

Peas, lemon, a creamy cheese sauce, sharp pecorino and optional speck makes this frozen gnocchi anything but ordinary. Click HERE to order a meal kit and check out the recipe below.

Be sure to use the code "SHOPLOCAL" for 5% off of your order and we will donate 10% to local charities supporting the food industry.

Ingredients

Nuovo Gnocchi
Oil (not included in the meal kit)
Frozen peas
2 cloves of garlic, minced
Lemon
Auricchio Crema al Parmigiano Reggiano
Pecorino Romano Fulvi
Salt and pepper, to taste (not included in the meal kit)
Speck, optional

Cook gnocchi according to package directions and reserve about 1 cup of pasta water. Once cooked, toss with oil and set aside.
If using speck, fry speck until done. Remove from pan, chop and set aside.
Add garlic to the pan with the bacon fat (or add oil to a new pan) and cook over medium heat until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Stir in peas, zest from the lemon and a pinch of salt and pepper. Cook for a few minutes, or until peas are warm.
Stir in Auricchio cheese and thin to desired consistency with reserved pasta water.
Once the sauce is combined, toss with gnocchi and speck, if using.
Serve the gnocchi with a squeeze of lemon juice, black pepper and a grating of pecorino.