Win a food lover’s night in London at Russell Norman’s Venetian restaurant ‘Polpo’, which is one of the latest places to eat in London. You can also enjoy the dishes at home with his new cookery book ‘Polpo’ which features the restaurants finest dishes. To celebrate the books launch ‘Delicious Magazine’ website are giving away a meal for two at ‘Polpo’, together with an overnight stay at the luxurious Bloomsbury Hotel. Just head to ‘Delicious Magazine’s’ website, http://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk and click on ‘promotions’.
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You HAVE to try one of these to make your cakes, or at least put it on your present list. Just add equal quantities of eggs, sugar, butter or magarine and self raising flour with a drop of flavouring then whizz for around 10 seconds in your ‘Magimix’ and hey! Presto you have the right mixture for a beautiful cake. According to the website the Magimix 3200 food processor is ideal for the small to average family, regular cooking for up to 3 people, with a capacity to cater for more people on occasions. It’s capacities for mixing cake/Victoria Sponge…
Always soak your dried fruit overnight and for extra flavour soak the fruit in apple or orange juice or marinate in your favourite liqueur (brandy) for three days, stirring it every 12 hours.
A chocolate lover, Sarah Payne,(just like me) started making chocolate brownies when she was on maternity leave back in 2004. Her friends loved them so much that she started selling them on eBay. Their mission is ‘to bake joyous confections that melt in the mouth using entirely organic ingredients and fun packaging which would have a minimum impact on the environment’, how fantastic is that !!!!!! Their baking would be made from love, their service second to none and their customers would become best buddies. They started to sell at such a successful rate that her husband Rory decided to…
KITCHEN BITCHING… ‘Kitchen Bitching’, is an online open forum of amateur cooks where they can bitch about their culinary woes and get hints and tips from other cooks. They say ‘ All amateur cooks know the pain of a recipe that just wonÂ’t do as itÂ’s told. Like a disobedient puppy it sulks, sticks, slides or sinks at that crucial moment just as your mother-in-law is rap-rapping on the door….. Head to www.kitchenbitching.co.uk
Tea originated in China about 5000 years ago and it was discovered in 2735BC by one of the emperors of China. Shleng Nung, was considered as a divine healer who always boiled his water. By accident he boiled a few leaves from a wild tea plant which had fallen into his pot and gave off a delightful scent and flavour. Tea was not adopted in the UK until the 17th Century after the opening of the sea routes between China and Europe. For a long time tea was used as a herbal medicine. One of the top Chinese Tea Shops…
Try using buttermilk instead of milk as it gives a better texture to your cake. For every 250ml of buttermilk used add half a teaspoon of baking soda.
Ingredients 2 large eggs 100g Self Raising Flour 100g Soft Butter or Low Fat Spread 100g Caster Sugar 1 tsp Baking Powder 6 tbsp good quality strawberry jam 300ml Double Cream, whipped Method Preheat oven to 180C, 160C Fan, Gas 4 Lightly grease a 12 hole muffin tin and line bases of cups with circles of nonstick baking papers Whisk all ingredients for 30 seconds, until smooth Bake for about 15 minutes
This buzzing tea room is run by husband and wife team, David and Sarah Huxley who opened their doors nine years ago. It had a modern feel, with new wood tables and chairs on a nice smooth wooden floor; the double glass frontage lets tons of light in which made the tea room light and fresh. The menu was a variety of homemade produce, with the emphasis on fresh and locally sourced from home made vegetarian quiches to luscious cakes, salads and even milkshakes. They do an amazing fresh fruit pavlova served with chantilly cream and homemade raspberry sauce. The…
GRAZE, www.graze.com have 100 nutritious snacks that they deliver to your door by royal mail. You simply join and select what you like from their list of snacks and they then pick your snacks based on the ratings you have selected online. Under each selection it has questions for you to answer like ‘less often’, ‘very often’, never, try, like and love and the higher you rate the snack the more often you will receive it. Everything starts with a try and you can then have them delivered to your home or place of work (which is the most popular)…
The Sponge Family have been selling wonderful sponge in our higgledy, piggledy café since September 2000. With old-school standards and a stickler for detail, Sue’s sponge cakes have developed a huge following. Customers have stood open-mouthed at the scale of the cake, some went weak at the knees with the flavour, and others hollowed out the middle and moved in! During the summer of 2009 they took their sponge cakes out of the comfort of their Byfords home, created a new look under the company name of SPONGE and held stands at the county’s shows. The feedback was great and…
When baking cookies if you run out of sheets to put them on then just turn a baking tray upside down and drop the cookies on that.
CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES RECIPE… Ingredients 100g Butter or Margarine 100g Caster Sugar 1 Egg (beaten) 175g Plain Flour ½ tsp Baking Powder ½ tsp salt 1 tsp Vanilla extract 150g plain chocolate, coarsely chopped (or choc chips) For a more chocolatty taste add 50g cocoa powder Method Preheat oven to 200C Gas 6 Cream together the butter and sugar with a hand mixer until light and fluffy Gradually beat in the egg and vanilla extract Sift in the flour, baking powder and salt and mix together Stir in the chocolate chips Grease two baking trays Using 2 teaspoons, place about…
From 1st – 31st July the Hampshire Food Festival which be taking place in venues across the county. There will be workshops, wine tastings and foodie walking tours plus cookery demonstrations from Rachel Allen and James Martin. Visit www.hampshirefare.co.uk From 27th-29th July the Big Cheese Event takes place in the shadows of one of Europe’s largest Castles the town of Caerphilly which comes to life as people of all ages come to The Big Cheese®, an extravaganza of street entertainers, living history encampments, music, dance, traditional funfair, folk dancing, falconry, fire eating, minstrels, troubadours and much more. . Visit www.caerphilly.gov.uk/bigcheese…
Have you ever fancied you own personal chef? Well, you can have one now through a company called ‘Housebites’ at www.housebites.com You can order food from chefs which they have been carefully vetted and food hygiene approved. They will have their own series of menus that you can choose from and the chefs will either deliver the food themselves or send a courier. Starters are around £5 and mains £10. At the moment it is only available in London and Brighton but will soon be launching in Edinburgh and Manchester. Look at www.housebites.com for more details.