{"id":519,"date":"2016-08-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foodiedaily.alipsmith.com\/?p=519"},"modified":"2023-12-29T13:20:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T13:20:40","slug":"a-date-and-an-orange-with-the-delightful-laxmi-hiremath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodiedaily.alipsmith.com\/index.php\/a-date-and-an-orange-with-the-delightful-laxmi-hiremath\/","title":{"rendered":"A date (and an orange) with the delightful Laxmi Hiremath"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"519\" class=\"elementor elementor-519\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3a17c84c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3a17c84c\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6872691c\" data-id=\"6872691c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6b529cbe elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6b529cbe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.13.3 - 22-05-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7793\" src=\"https:\/\/foodiedaily.alipsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1520091119405-300x172.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodiedaily.alipsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1520091119405-300x172.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/foodiedaily.alipsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1520091119405.jpeg 482w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p><p>If you\u2019re an Indian food lover (and who isn\u2019t) you may have a stash of heat-n-eat curry pouches in your larder for those moments the craving hits. Indian cuisine is well-known for being intensely difficult to replicate if one didn\u2019t grow up at the side of mother or grandmother, stirring curries and puffing poori. For Laxmi Hiremath, creating came naturally, but not necessarily in the kitchen (or so she thought.) She loved to paint. She enjoys creating food-scapes &amp; sea scenes.<\/p><p>In the beginning, cooking was a barely dabbled-in pastime.<\/p><p>\u201cThirty years ago, when I first came to America, I did not know much about cooking,\u201d Laxmi Hiremath said. \u201cToday, I\u2019m a food writer, author, and an entrepreneur with products in Costco, Kroger, Safeway, Wegmans and Whole Foods.\u201d<\/p><p>Though past is often prologue, in Laxmi\u2019s case, her route to delighting with spice in Indian cuisine was not a direct one. If you ask her, she will immediately let you know that there was no way she\u2019d have ever thought her life would include such accomplishments as chef, author and entrepreneur and yet, today she is all three.<\/p><p>Yes, Laxmi learned the basics as most children do, at home from mother and grandmother, but let\u2019s skip ahead a bit to what put her on the food product map. She created what is still the only flax seed spread available on the market. She credits mom for the basis that she in-turn innovated by adding a myriad of specially-chosen spices, herbs, fruits and flavors that provide easy ways to really make a meal exciting.<\/p><p>Laxmi tends to favor blending fruits into her spiced sauces and they really lend a complexity that many other ready-to-eat meals don\u2019t possess. She loves using pineapples, mangoes, dates and oranges together with traditional (and not-so traditional) ingredients to meld each individual component into what is akin to a symphony that is absolutely greater as a sum than its parts. They are both beautiful bases and as-is accompaniments.\u00a0Among Laxmi\u2019s spreads are the aptly named <em>Golden<\/em> with dates &amp; orange, <em>Savory<\/em> with sun-dried tomatoes, and <em>Lemony <\/em>with ginger &amp; honey, which not only add to the palette of an Indian Thali platter, but pair great with a petite wheel of goat cheese and thinly sliced Coppa. Her spiced nuts are truly scrumptious, usually indulged-in by the handful.\u00a0It is apparent how adeptly her items lend themselves to a spectrum of of cuisines and are not just to be enjoyed as \u201cIndian food.\u201d<\/p><p>These unique products helped earn Laxmi two Sofi Awards from the Specialty Food Association. This is the specialty food industry\u2019s most prestigious award competition and she earned <em>Outstanding Innovation in Nut Butter<\/em> category and was deemed an<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em>Outstanding Food Innovation <\/em>winner.<\/p><p>Of course, just because she came up with delicious dishes and the brilliant idea to sell them, doesn\u2019t mean bringing that concept to fruition was easy. Sure, her family and friends enjoyed her meals, her children\u2019s friends begged for sandwich trade-sies at the school lunch table and she enjoyed strong-readership as a food writer and recipe author, but turning a mouthwatering dream into a business?<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5201\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/3jars_fixed3.jpg\" alt=\"3jars_fixed3\" width=\"403\" height=\"298\" \/>Laxmi\u2019s line of tasty flaxseed spreads.<\/p><p>That would require more than just a buffet of friendly accolades\u2014it would take practical business knowledge. So Laxmi, possessing both creative and intellectual savvy, educated herself on how to effectively produce and market her products.<\/p><p>She worked closely with a small-batch, artisan-centric co-packer to develop the right method for achieving the best quality and meeting exacting standards and then she set-out to determine how to get it in flavor-loving mouths everywhere. Her due-diligence paid off.<\/p><p>Laxmi\u2019s Delights can be found at many small-to-large markets like Andronicos, Safeway, Costco and Kroger\u2019s as well as being a tasty find at the San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmer\u2019s Market and directly from her website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laxmisdelights.com\">www.laxmisdelights.com<\/a><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>With painting, cooking, writing, a degree in chemistry and a collection of delectable victuals\u00a0under her belt, Laxmi is a bit of a renaissance woman.<\/p><p>\u201cI thank my mother and my grandmothers who taught me the basics of cooking and instilled a standard of excellence in me,\u201d Hiremath said.\u00a0For Laxmi and her brand, it always circles back to its foundation: family.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re an Indian food lover (and who isn\u2019t) you may have a stash of heat-n-eat curry pouches in your larder for those moments the craving hits. 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