The British Corner Shop is a unique online supermarket for expats around the world. Whether you miss Marmite or crave Warburtons crumpets, they can deliver your British favourites straight to your door. Their website stocks over 10,000 products from Britain’s most loved brands, meaning you can enjoy the British food you miss, wherever you are in the world. Customer service is at the heart of their business. Since their humble beginnings in 1999, they have refined and developed British Corner Shop, building on the wants and needs of their loyal customers. From purchasing your shopping through to the delivery, they want…
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If you’re stuck for something to buy for Father’s Day then here are a few last minute popular foodie gifts you can buy that special Dad. The personalised foodie chocolate above is from Not On The High Street and is £9.95 by Chocolate By Cocoapod Chocolate. For the cheese lover this Award-winning cheesemonger Andy Swinscoe of The Courtyard Dairy has created a gift box with Father’s Day in mind.The Strong & Mature Cheese selection includes outstanding old winchester, a 20-month-old powerful cheddar/gouda cross; spicy bleu des causses; tunworth, Britain’s rival to the best French camembert; and intense saint oswald. £26.50, For the cookie…
Scrumptious food Saturday is a tad late this week but better late than never as they say. My three choices for this week’s scrumptious food Saturday are – Scrumptious and Simply Delicious is a high quality catering company in North Yorkshire. They specialise in wedding and event catering, corporate entertaining, holiday cottage catering and private home dining. If it is to do with catering then they can get it, cook it and serve it. They have a wealth of experience in Providing First Class Catering for all. Scrumptious Creams is focused on providing high-quality cakes and customer satisfaction – They say they…
Drink yourself young with the following three drinks – Green Tea – In a Chineses study, people who drank three or more cups of green tea daily were biologically five years younger than those who drank less than a cup a day. According to StyleCraze, a Chinese study showed that men, who consumed green tea, had their cells aging at a much slower rate than the men who didn’t. Researchers think that the antioxidants in green tea are the reason behind this phenomenon. Green Tea also consists of powerful flavonoids that contribute to healthy and youthful knees. They also help reduce cartilage and collagen…
It’s back again, Scrumptious Food Saturday, I have no idea where the last seven days disappeared to but I’m back with my choice of three websites with Scrumptious in their title. The three I am going to cover this week is ‘Purely Scrumptious’ Cakes, ‘Clearly Scrumptious’ The Healthy Treat Company and ‘Scrumptious’ blog from South Africa. Purely Scrumptious specialise in Cupcakes with a Conscience. Gorgeous hand baked little cakes with a BIG difference… ALL their cupcakes are dairy and egg free so YES that makes every flavour suitable for vegans! Many months of testing and tasting have gone into the creation of these recipes to ensure that…
Scrumptious food Saturday, where every Saturday I will write about three websites that include the word ‘scrumptious’ somewhere in its title. From food and books to quotes, pop over here every Saturday for your ‘Scrumptious Food Saturday’, hit. The three I am going to cover this week are “Scrumptious Food for Family & Friends”, which is a book by Jane Hobbs. “Scrumptious Food Photography” and “Scrumptious” sprinkles to add to your cakes. Scrumptious Food for Family and Friends – Jane-Anne Hobbs has created over 90 original, triple-tested recipes designed to take the fuss out of home entertaining and bring smiles to…
One of my favourite cake recipes passed down from my Mum is Spiced Fruit Cake. Spiced Fruit Cake Ingredients One 150 g Marg or Butter 6 level tbsp golden syrup 250g raisins 250g currants 120g sultanas 120g mixed peel 120g chopped stone dates 1/2 pint plus 2 tables milk Ingredients Two 1/2 teasp bicarbonate of soda 2 beaten eggs 250g plain flour 1 rounded teasp mixed spice 1 level teasp cinnamon Pinch of salt 1 tbsp Apricot Jam, melted Method Preheat oven to Gas 3, 165C, 325F Line a 7″ deep cake tin Place all of the first list of…
If you’re still living in a home that has a separate kitchen and dining room, you need to make the changes that’ll help you make better use of the space. That usually means creating a united kitchen diner. It makes the whole space feel much more open, but how do you go about creating a fully functional kitchen diner that’s going to be fit for purpose and aesthetically pleasing? That’s what we’re about to delve into, so read on. CONNECT THE SPACE WITH YOUR GARDEN… The great thing about having an open plan kitchen diner is that it allows you…
Here are 6 different types of teapots and cups for preparing your tea from traditional to old fashioned. The classic teapot – They were originally developed from the little round-bodied teapots that were imported from China to Europe and North America on the same ships that brought the tea. Yixing teapots – Yixing is famous for its many coloured clays and for the teapots made from them. Since the 1500’s potters in the Chinese Lakeside town have been making the teapots in the form of houses, lotus flowers, pumpkins, Buddhist priests, boxes, bundles of bamboo, dragons, fruit, vegetables and lots more. This…