A Taste of Staffordshire When you think of Staffordshire’s culinary heritage what springs to mind? Oatcakes, Burton on Trent’s beers? Branston pickle? Well one things for sure I’m sure it isn’t ice cream. Needwood Farm produce award winning (gold medal at the National Ice Cream competition) hand finished dairy ice creams made with fresh milk, [...]
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Breaking the Bread Challah is a soft sweet-smelling bread and is the ultimate symbol of Shabbat. It is also present at all Jewish holidays (with the exception of Passover). Technically, the word ‘Challah’ isn’t the name of the bread at all. The ‘Challah’ is a small olive sized piece of dough which is separated from [...]
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The arrival of tender stalks of asparagus in my weekly vegetable box delivery signifies summer is nigh upon us and indicate a rapid splurge in seasonal availability. Gone will be the days of hunting out new and adventurous ways with the curly kale, savoy cabbages and cauliflowers, which lets face it even the most dedicated [...]
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I have become more and more bitterly disappointed with supermarket bacon over the years; the wafer thin strips that spew grey, salty water into the pan so they poach rather than fry, withering up into tiny corrugated flaps of anaemic disappointment. You can taste the pig’s depression in the meat. I was a little dubious [...]
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With the sun shining and summer warmth beginning to creep into our days what could be better for dessert than cheesecake? With their fresh and fragrant vibrancy a cheesecake can scream of summertime, or at least they do to me. The first recorded mention of cheesecakes is believed to have been during an ancient Grecian [...]
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Just a quick note to say that Katie from Katie At The Kitchen Door is the lucky winner of my recent competition to win a Pestle & Mortar. I hope Katie will be pleased with the new addition to her kitchen and will find having a pestle & mortar beneficial. Share this:
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