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‘Love Lamb Week’ is an annual celebration of British farmers and the high standards of animal husbandry they practise to let us enjoy the most delicious cuts of healthy lamb. Enjoy these foodie thoughts as we share some tasty tips to reflect our own great love of lamb.
Back to School has hugely different meaning and implication this year. Before we suggest some ‘tasty teas for hungry tums’, we’d like to say thank you to our Teachers for their amazing effort and commitment to our children during lockdown and protecting their return now. Thank you all.
Meat Free Monday – once a week can make a world of difference – say Paul, Mary and Stella McCartney on their MFM website. Whatever the reason, leaving meat in the fridge once or twice a week does balance a healthy diet. Let’s look at a few tasty dishes to Eat without the Meat.
This is another of those examples of something so good for you, being so tasty too. It is packed with protein and oozes omega-3 fatty acids. Its versatility is well known and always enjoyed as these foodie thoughts reflect, with some delicious variations on our theme – Salmon Sensations.
“I still eat a burger at the counter with ketchup running down my face” said Scarlett Johansson. We will be celebrating safely, with cheeseburgers at home this year – just have to decide what to have in it, on it and with it. Let’s look at a few tasty possibilities:
For versatility and simplicity, it just doesn’t get better than chicken. For speed, breast best. Sliced, diced and fried with a simple sauce and served with pasta, rice, couscous or salad. For deeper flavour and juicy partnership with stronger Asian, Cajun, Persian influences, go leg & thigh …
Keeping a packet or two of plain Tortillas in the freezer is a family essential. Just as filling them can be family fun. Roll up fish fingers with ketchup and mayo, or take it upmarket with our fab Tartare Sauce. These versatile little assets are ready to wrap all sorts of wonderfully tasty goodies.
These jars of pure joy add so much to mealtimes – stirred into a delicious sauce to make it tastier still; sitting on the base of a burger as you dress it; and spooned onto the side of the plate to enjoy with a juicy compilation of ‘yumminess’:
Growing Food for Health & Wellbeing is this year’s theme for National Allotment Week (10 – 16 August). Whether from an allotment, farm shop or supermarket, fresh vegetables are at the heart of good health and balanced wellbeing. Today’s tasty tips transfer goodness from the soil to sensations on a plate.
Beer in a marinade is not just an excuse to blow the froth off a couple in the kitchen. No, it adds flavour with a depth varying according to the beer. It also contains enzymes that tenderise the meat by breaking its fibres down as it soaks. Enjoy these simple ideas – cheers!
The new railways of the late 19th Century opened floodgates to the Westcountry where visitors bustled to relax and indulge in hotels, tearooms, farmhouses and cafés, offering delicious afternoon cream teas. Let’s look at the finest ingredients for an Afternoon Tea …
Most homes have had to push their foodie repertoires way beyond the normal boundries of family favourites. With our help, through these Newsletter posts, we hope to inspire fresh tasty plates of delicious food to make tums – large or small, short or tall – happy & healthy at mealtimes. Stay well.
Often overlooked, red peppers contribute so much to healthy eating, from being just one of a number of ingredients to being the only one – the star, co-star and chorus of the entire peppery show. Today, we’ll have a look at both ends of the ‘just add’ scale of pepper values.
This is not fast food but fun, tasty, healthy food. It’s the sort of food we all enjoy but too often think ‘why fuss’. These are great alternatives to shop bought quick fixes, each quickly made without too much fuss. Chop, combine, divide, fry and enjoy the smiles all round – it’s worth it.
Cue the Music … if you click Shop/ All Products/ Most Popular, you will see what’s hot in Great Tasteland. Today, we’ll take a look at the top 5. So, ‘Pot Pickers’, loosen the buttons on that old paisley shirt, medallions out, shades on and buckle up for the taste bud ride.
Despite being an Island Nation, if it isn’t battered and served with chips, we eat relatively little fish. Spain, Portugal and Sweden are the biggest fish fans and it’s some of their techniques that have influenced our ‘super fish soups’ this week. Enjoy these truly healthy, truly tasty fishy reflections.
We know food should look as good as it tastes – but it should also be fun. Fish, meat, vegetables and fruit threaded on a skewer, grilled and enjoyed with a salad, couscous or rice make fun as well as delicious summer meals. Like this Greek Salad ‘lolly’, these simple foodie ideas are truly scrumptious.
We put so much effort in preparing the marinades and meat, that side dishes are often overlooked. This tasty combination of foodie thoughts is well worth the little effort because of the delicious rewards and welcome smiles all round.
Marinade, Marinate, Grill Baste & Rest: A good marinade adds flavour and relaxes the meat for cooking. Jamie Oliver suggests this ‘applies doubly’ to barbecues, to make sure the flavours aren’t overridden by the addition of the flame and smoke. Even simple marinades make all the difference.
There is nothing ‘simple’ about this summer’s restrictions, rules and guidelines. So, make the most of the things you do still control – mealtimes. Many, instead of a pile of lunch boxes to prepare 5 days and cook just 2, have had the challenge of lunches 7 days a week. We hope these help.