August 23, 2010

Cooking Made Simple [Review]

A couple of weeks back I was contacted by a local PR company who arranged for me to trial some products from Cooking Made Simple, a Loughborough based eatery and now (almost) nationwide delivery business. Everything arrived really well packaged and well insulated to keep the items cold. As someone who has studied food hygiene [...]

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August 17, 2010

Tate & Lyle [Competition]

It’s competition time again folks. This time it’s courtesy of Tate & Lyle, probably the UK’s most famous sugar company. Tate  & Lyle has committed to making its entire retail range 100% Fairtrade and  you can get most of their sugars in Waitrose and The Co-op and they are just  starting to sell their Fairtrade [...]

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August 17, 2010

Jerk Chicken

Food From The Rye I’m going to make an upfront confession, although I’m not sure how wise it really is to do so. Right, so, I got the craving for jerk chicken not from research or distant memories but, wait for it, from watching Peckham Finishing School for Girls. Now before you ask, that isn’t [...]

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August 16, 2010

Old Fashioned Lemon Bars

If Life Gives You Lemons … If life gives you lemons … make old fashioned lemon bars from Jim Fobel’s Old Fashioned Baking Book. Jim refers to these bars as a real taste of childhood. Well they weren’t a taste of mine, maybe that would have been different had I grown up across the pond [...]

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August 13, 2010

Cork Beef Pie

“The Only Thing to do with Good Advice is Pass it On” Oscar Wilde Clodagh McKenna’s Cork Beef Stew from The Irish Farmer’s Market Cookbook is a real favourite of mine and is a frequently made winter warmer of a dish. Generally I’d served a big bowl of it alongside some fluffy mashed potatoes or [...]

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August 11, 2010

Food Photography & Food Styling Tips

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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August 10, 2010

English Cherries

“Whilst August yet wears her golden crown, Ripening fields lush- bright with promise; Summer waxes long, then wanes, quietly passing Her fading green glory on to riotous Autumn.” Michelle L. Thieme, August’s Crown Cherries are at their peek in July, but still a tremendous find in August. One of the delights of the summer, cherries [...]

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August 9, 2010

5 Minute Rose and Cardamom Chocolate Cake

The Baking Guru of Israel A few weeks back my fabulous and incredibly generous Israeli friend, Francesca, sent me a copy of Sweet Secrets by Carine Goren. Carine Goren is Israel’s best known pastry chef. According to my friend her book Sweet Secrets and accompanying television show of the same name were massive hits. So [...]

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August 5, 2010

Home Made Feta & Greek Vegetable Stew

My Family & Other Cheeses If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. Marcel Proust When Aoife posted a recipe on her fantastic blog for feta cheese my mind was immediately transported back to holidaying in Corfu. Image Courtessy [...]

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August 4, 2010

A Brief History of the Picnic [Article]

Summer is fully upon us, and, as the sun begins to shine, nothing can quite compare to unfurling a blanket and lolling around in some dappled shade, fork in hand, enjoying the lush countryside, or sitting on golden sands hearing the waves lap against the shore. I’ve written for Dine and Cook about the history [...]

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August 3, 2010

Nutty Meringue Blackcurrant Biscuit

Deep Purple The other evening I had a huge desire to bake something, no surprises there then, with the lovely punnet of blackcurrants I had sitting in the fruit bowl. Blackcurrants (ribes nigrum) have grown in the British Isles for over five hundred years and this year they have been grown in my garden! Now, [...]

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