Model C
We love chocolate in all its many forms, so why do we need to know more about it? It tastes good, and it makes us feel good, and it’s made by Oompa Loompas in Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory – let’s just leave it at that. Well, that’s what we thought, until we stumbled across some […]
The Red Caped Superfood
It turns out that the popular juicy fruit, synonymous with summer, is also a superfood! In fact, they actually contain more vitamin C than an orange. Half-time strawberries, anyone? Think outside the punnet and take advantage of these versatile superheroes. Try them oven-roasted with camembert, with cracked pepper on a pavlova, or go the full […]
A Sauce to be reckoned with
If you’re looking for something saucy, you can’t go far wrong with a classic béchamel – the name alone evokes prestige and a touch of class, even if no one can pronounce it correctly! Known as one of the four original ‘mother sauces’, béchamel is a winner in its own right and provides a foundation […]
A fresh take on frozen
For so many, the busiest time of the day is that hour just before dinner, perhaps after a long day at Campus & Co, with bored and hungry families waiting to be fed. But oh, the joy of turning to a freezer full of neat stacks of ready-to-roast vegetables, lasagna or homemade meatballs! But that’s […]
When life gives you lemons. . .squeeze them!
Like little fragments of sunshine, lemons bring a pop of colour and brightness to the kitchen, and their tartly tantalising flavour is second to none. A burst of fresh fragrance hits the air the moment you cut into one of these yellow gems. In terms of cooking essentials, we put the Citrus limon right up […]
Garlic – not just for the Gallic!
A powerful food, flavour and medicinal wonder plant, the unattractively named ‘stinking rose’ has been popular for millennia. Pyramid-building slaves of Egypt were fed garlic to keep them going each day – look closely between the stones and you may see a preserved clove or two! Native to Central Asia, China is still the largest […]
Olive Oil – More is more.
Olive oil is a liquid fat obtained from olives, a traditional crop of the Mediterranean Basin, produced by pressing whole olives and extracting the oil. So far, no surprises. It has been grown for many, many thousands of years and used in everything from cosmetics to soap, to lighting fuel. But of course, it is […]
The Daily Grind
Coffee is the second most valuable item in the world, coming a close runner-up to crude oil, and together you could say these two commodities keep the world in motion. So many of us rely on caffeine in one way or another to kickstart our day and, valued at 100 billion dollars per year, that’s […]
Easy as Pie
Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie’ or so says the old nursery rhyme. Strangely enough, the words of the sixpence song weren’t too far removed from the truth at one time, but luckily, those so-called ‘delicacies’ are only distant cousins to the piping hot ‘mince ‘n’ cheese’ or delicate lemon meringue varieties we […]
Have here, or take away?
Fast, easy, and oh-so-convenient, the lure of takeaway food can be very strong. But so often the best part about it is the anticipation of the moment before you eat it! Not long after, you wish you hadn’t indulged. Chances are, you are now poorer, over-full, and have also just lost a chip down the […]
