what to do with Stilton
I bought a big lump of Stilton for the festive table. It’s untouched.
www.stiltoncheese.com looks very useful.
Tags: cheesewildfoods.com
this looks interesting …
“Welcome to Wildfoods, the food explorers website!
Discover fresh harvests from the wild Caledonian forests of Scotland to the scrub-lands of Australia. Taste our delicate oils and vinegars from France, Italy and Greece or savour the intense flavour of our truffles gathered from all over Europe. Wildfoods bring you fresh and exotic ingredients direct to your door. Explore new foods and receive top tips on how to prepare and cook our mouth-watering recipes donated to us by the finest chefs around the country. Try our seasonal recipes inspired and prepared by our resident chef Cate Stevens.”
a UK based web site which supplies seasonal ingredients from all over the world.
Tags: shoppingfruit and veg don’t have to look perfect
Hurrah for Waitrose - according to this story from the Independent, they are ” launching a range of “ugly” looking seasonal fruit at discounted prices for use in cooking. The “class two” produce will be either visually flawed or oddly shaped, according to Waitrose, but otherwise perfect for eating.”
Now - if only the great British public can be persuaded to buy them … mind you, I buy my fruit and veg from the greengrocer.
Tags: shopping, waitrosequelle horreur!
From today’s Times comes an article about how some French chefs are “spraying an omelette with a truffle-flavoured chemical and injecting fake wild-mushroom drops into a duck filet”
more here.
Tags: horrorhard to find foods
May be found at www.hardtofindfoods.co.uk … providing, of course, you’re looking for what they sell. And if you don’t mind the spelling errors.
But useful, nonetheless.
Tags: shoppingbureaucracy run amok (again)
A woman who baked a cake for a friend at a day centre was told it breached health and safety regulations.
Elaine Richards, 75, from Braunton in north Devon, was told the Age Concern centre in Barnstaple only allowed people to eat bought cakes.
More here …
Tags: madnesschocolate asparagus
I really can’t think of anything else to say.
Link here.
Tags: asparagus, chocolate, madnessTriple Chocolate Espresso Bean Cookies
seen on 101cookbooks.com
Today’s recipe is for you coffee lovers. I had a bag of chocolate covered espresso beans on hand and thought it might be interesting to bake them into a cookie. A dark chocolate cookie. A dark chocolate cookie pumped full of lots of freshly ground espresso powder…
makes my buzzy chocolate cake look quite tame …
Tags: buzz, chocolate, coffeeadopt an olive tree
“Adopt one of its 881 trees for a year and you’ll receive all the produce from your tree. Imagine dunking your bread in your own oil from your own tree 1,500 miles away on a hillside in Italy.”
And only 60 quid!
We do actually have an olive tree in a pot on our patio; somehow I don’t think North Somerset is quite the right climate for it to fruit, although it’s very leafy …
Tags: olivesalas, poor Rudolph
Reindeer paté, anyone?. From www.firebox.co.uk.
Tags: christmas, reindeer, shopping