The Soil Association Organic Fortnight, is the UK’s biggest celebration of all things organic. This year the Soil Association are encouraging us all to try something organic everyday. Here’s a few ideas to get you started: Sign-up to an organic box scheme. Get local, seasonal and organic fruit and veg delivered straight to your doorstep, [...]
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Working the Plate As food bloggers we have to take on the role of chef, writer, food photographer, food stylist and on top of that kitchen cleaner and pot washer. Quite a busy lot aren’t we? Food styling is a form of artwork in its own right. The job of a food stylist is to [...]
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Culinary Travels may be a little quiet over the next few days, maybe even a couple of weeks as I unfortunately am going into hospital (now don’t go worrying) and my time spent in the kitchen will be markedly reduced over the coming weeks. Expect to find the odd post about the joys of hospital [...]
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It’s now nearly two months since the earthquake hit Haiti and an estimated 700,000 people are living in make-shift shelters. H2Ope for Haiti is an online raffle that Jeanne from CookSister helped launch together with BloggerAid – Changing the Face of Famine (BA-CFF) to raise funds for Concern Worldwide’s relief effort in Haiti. They selected Concern Worldwide [...]
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The lovely Polly has tagged me. I’m supposed to come up with thirteen little known facts about myself to share with you before passing along the tag, but to be quite honest I don’t really go in for completing tags and meme’s that often. So I’ll bore you all with thirteen little known facts about [...]
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Fairtrade is something I am passionate about, believing that we all have a duty to each other to have a social conscience. Fairtrade believes, as do I, that developing world producers should be in control of their own lives, by getting a better deal for the work that they do. The four main standards that producers [...]
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A few days back I received an email with the following notification: We’ve selected you as our Foodista Food Blog of the Day for Sunday, January 31st! Your blog for Nanaimo Bars will be featured on the Foodista homepage for 24 hours. We’ve been following your blog and we are thrilled to post it on [...]
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Apologies if my website, Twitter and Facebook fan page aren’t as frequently updated as usual but I had an arrival on Sunday – Maximus the Italian Spinone pup. He’s a grand little boy and getting on well with Murphy (my Irish Setter) but as I’m sure you’ll know he’s bound to take up plenty of [...]
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Now that Christmas is just around the corner I’d like to take this opportunity to wish all my friends and fellow bloggers a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Here’s hoping you have plenty of chance to eat, drink and be merry over the festive period. Time also to say thank you to my [...]
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