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Got to cook a chicken or two…

Get a couple of chickens at the weekend. Cut off the four thigh joints and roast the crowns. One makes the Sunday Roast (gather the troops and chat about the week past and the one that looms ahead).TASTY TIP: Marinate your thigh joints in something yummy – orange juice, Real Tomato Ketchup, orange & lime zest, grated ginger and a splash of sherry vinegar. They will keep in the fridge for a couple of days or, pop them in a bag and freeze them.

They’ll air fry perfectly (once fully defrosted) or, roast slowly on a trivet of celery, onion, leeks, herbs and fruit:Add water under the trivet, chicken on top, foil over the chuck to let it steam gently in a low oven, then removed the foil for the skin to colour.The meat will fall off the bone. Combine with the cooking juices, Dijon Mustard and a tin of corn for a quick mid-week casserole.

Cold Cuts from the roast can be introduced as sandwiches, or something special:Coronation Chicken combining cuts with our Coronation Sauce and chopped coriander. Sandwich filler, baked potato topper, salad with new potatoes, chips even … whatever you feel the family might like.

OR: brighten their after-school blues with a healthy Caesar Salad:

Ruby’s Best Ever Caesar Salad: (just click on the image and watch as it magically comes together).

What’s your view on adding a shake, squeeze, dollop, drizzle of extra flavour to mid-week suppers?Rick (MD and Chupaholic) will tell you sincerely that he made Stokes TK and found it the only way to get his daughter to eat her greens.

By developing precious home-grown recipes; sourcing the finest ingredients; and supporting our kitchen teams with technology, technique and passion, we achieved that difference that’s Stokes.

Check the ingredients on the jars and bottles. You’ll find more, better, natural recipes with fewer unnecessary, additives.That’s why we make premium products to deliver our promise: Taste Without Compromise.

See how thick our Tomato Ketchup is. That’s because of the amount of juicy tomatoes we use (200g in every 100g of ketchup).And the taste, the natural flavour … we just wouldn’t make it if it didn’t taste AMAZING.

Turn beans on toast into tastier, healthier, sensational beans on toast adding our TK to make it more tomatoey; Original BBQ Sauce, to make it sweet and smoky; perhaps a little Chilli Ketchup for a teatime kick.

Air Fry, Fry, or Bake? How do you cook yours?

Personally, I used to bake until I bought an Air Fryer. Now, it’s the air fryer every time.

Have you noticed, the better the quality of the sausage (butchers hand made over cheap processed and packed), the easier it is to clean the tray!Simply Sausage

Simple, boiled potatoes and tenderstem broccoli sit so well with the rich seasoning of the sausage meat. No fuss, no gravy, no need.

But, a dollop of something delicious on the side works wonders.

Have you tried adding our Fig Relish – packed with figs steeped with cider vinegar and molasses – it really works.Cheap & Cheerful Hearty Cassoulet

Chef’s wholesome recipe – HERE – is a healthy collection of leeks, carrots, onion and swede with haricot beans all celebrating the sausage meat balls in this one-pot wonder.Hearty Sausage Casserole (or is it a stew?!)

This is such a simple dish, adding all the ingredients to the pot as directed. Sit around the table and eat it in a bowl with a thick slice of buttered bread. A beer would go down well with it.

See and enjoy the RECIPE – HERE.