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When a burger, ribs and sausages just aren’t enough for the occasion, turn the family reunion into a festival with these simple vegetarian ideas to serve on the side. Colourful, succulent, tasty sides that promise to take your BBQ to the next level of – yummy.
One year on and we have had to ride the rolling waves of hope and helplessness. BUT NOW, let’s look ahead, look forward to better times and think about picnics, barbecues, and al fresco meals with friends & relatives once again. Let’s get ready to ‘Meet & Greet’.
Healthy, filling, tasty, colourful plates of nutritional food can be easy to rustle up and deliciously refreshing after a busy day at school. Our ‘squeezy’ range of family-sized sauces are great value and perfect for smaller hands, easy to clean, fully re-cyclable AND made from 100% re-cycled plastic.
The daffodils have started smiling, announcing the approaching Spring. It is a time of hope; fresh fields; lamb’s tails in hedgerows; tadpoles in ponds; spring cleaning at home. Here are a few timely tips to help you get ready: using up ‘part-used’ sauce jars; decorating the empties to re-use; re-cycling to make space.
Traditional jam recipes are simple but often time consuming. Commercial producers can use as little as 350g of fruit per kilo. And some use even less fruits with more additives and flavouring. Our ‘Extra’ Jams use unrefined raw cane sugar and as much as 51% fruit to create jam that’s nothing short of amazing!
The best tasting tomatoes were the product of a number of different growers in southern Italy. The beautiful plump fruit ripen in the Mediterranean sunshine until they’re ready to pick. Not cheap, but worth it. Our mantra is always to be “Best in Class” – no compromise.
February: a short run into March, Daffodils and the start of Spring. Celebrate the Chinese New Year of the Ox (12th) and the love of St. Valentine. Share these simple recipes for all: Chinese takeaways ‘made better’; the marvels of mayonnaise; fresh thoughts for Valentine’s; and gifts for all – with love.
Firstly, pat yourselves on the back for your extraordinary effort balancing home working with home-schooling. Keeping everybody focused, fed, fit and well-balanced is quite a challenge. Hopefully these ‘tasty tips for hungry tums’ will help you plan delicious, simple, healthy menus for fuel midday and fun for tea.
Keeping up regular mealtimes helps add some degree of normality in the crazy world of home-schooling and home working. The British Nutrition Foundation stresses how important this is and encourages us to eat balanced meals instead of grazing on whatever you have in the cupboards.
For almost every animal-derived ingredient and product, there is now a vegan alternative. This means that a vegan meal can easily look and taste exactly like a non-vegan meal. But does it taste as good? Stokes’ large range of plant-based, Vegan Society approved products make vegan meals tastier still …
Subdued this year, perhaps; but celebrated the world over, most certainly – yes. For the Feast of St. Andrew, we put a delicious twist on four Scottish culinary classics. Enjoy these and LEARN: how Andrew became Patron Saint; why the Saltire bears its white cross; and are Scotch Eggs actually Scottish?
Christmas might look different this year, but there’s no reason for it not to taste as good as ever – better even! Treat yourself to a cupboard full of ‘delicious’ and give the turkey a real treat; spoil your sausages rotten; turn the smoked salmon into instant Gravadlax. Spoon, squeeze, dollop, smile.
Welcome to our new Gift Selection Packs offering the ultimate ‘Gift of Taste’. If the people you love are crazy for sensational ketchup; mad for thrilling marmalade; joy to the pleasures of seriously fruity jam; and wow to cheerful chutneys with their cheese – say: Happy Christmas – but say it deliciously …
The sparkle has gone but the air is still full of fireworks. Rendlesham Hall (the home of great taste) is a firework-free zone to protect the large menagerie of animals rescued to the safety and freedom of their new home here. No fizz, bang, crackle … just smiles and good family food:
Let’s turn adversity on its head this year. There will be fewer spooks and no trick or treats but we can still enjoy some tasty ‘party’ treats. Try organising a ZOOM party with family and friends. Share these foodie ideas and pass the dips ‘virtually’ while judging the best and scariest costumes on line.
Each window in this extra special Advent Calendar has something new to excite your taste buds every single day. The whole family will enjoy our most loved ketchups, sauces, condiments, chutneys, relishes and preserves. Say hello ‘daily’ to the taste of Stokes.
There are 5 recognised basic tastes: sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami. Andy, our resident chef, uses his taste buds to great effect, creating recipes and foodie tips to help us fully enjoy the sauces we love – not just on the side of the plate, but in the cooking process too – like these:
Beer and a pizza is one of the most iconic food combos and a real treat at home on Autumnal evenings. Not delivered though and life’s too short for dough making – so, buy a basic Margherita and dress it up deliciously. So simple, so tasty, so have a go yourself.
Happy hens mean happy eggs – little self-wrapped bundles of versatility, packed full of protein, vitamins and minerals. Poached, scrambled, boiled, fried or baked, they tick all the boxes for good, simple food. The fresher they are, the easier they crack into the bowl to be whisked with another and another …
Part 2: Enjoy reading what the judges have to say about our exciting and ongoing quest for quality. These are the second 5 of 10 accolades we were so proud to be awarded. The expert tasting panel of judges had some truly warming words and clearly love GREAT TASTE.