Broadoaks Country House Hotel

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 […]

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.

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 […]

NOW, is the time to pick your elder flowers before it’s to late. They call it the ‘free harvest of the year’. The hedgerows are bursting with blossoms at the moment and the elder flowers […]

Flour in baking, a high gluten flour would be used for bread and a low gluten flour for cakes So use flours with high protein content such as strong and durum, for breads and pasta. […]

Green Tea for this area is called Formosa Gun Powder, a dark infusion with a memorable aroma and slightly grassy, with a typical green tea flavour. Oolong Tea, Tung,Tung is one of Tawains finest oolongs, […]

We have just got back from a couple of days in the Lakes, (I know I’m totally spoilt)staying at ‘Broadoaks Country House’ Hotel in Troutbeck , Windermere. As you can see from the photos it […]