We’ve all got our fingers crossed for a sunny Bank Holiday this weekend, and the extra day off means only one thing – barbecue time! And while there’s no denying the satisfaction to be had from keeping it simple with sausages and burgers, with a little preparation you can produce an alfresco feast that will really impress your guests. Here, Jamil Miah, the curry expert behind Topsham’s award-winning Denley’s Essence of India Restaurant & Curry School, shares his favourite BBQ recipes.
From the bustling streets of New York to the covered markets of London, there is a revolution in progress. Thankfully this is not the blood, sweat and tear gas sort of revolution, but a culinary one – a revolution in street food. This delicious uprising is being led by an ever-growing number of al-fresco gastronomes, each bringing their own brand of unique gourmet food to the masses quite literally at street level.
For us Brits the idea of street food may once have conjured up images of dubious burger vans serving suspicious looking “meat” deep fried to within an inch of its life....
The latest craze to take the country by storm is cooking fabulous fresh fish in a wood-fired oven. It is the perfect way to create delicious, healthy and locally sourced dishes which will impress all.
David and Holly at Manna from Devon Cooking School count themselves extremely lucky to be only a stone's throw away from Brixham, one of the most important fishing ports in Europe and the UK's largest fish market. This gives them access to a wide selection of the best fish in the country.
They run a number of ‘Fabulous Fish’ classes throughout the year (7 September; 12 and 16...
Why don't multi-national corporations like MONSANTO, keep their hands off our food, they are interfering with nature with some devastating results for humanity.
We must know what is in our foods, our children are suffering as are we and it is not going to get better until this madness is stopped.
Here is the latest depressing news: http://www.naturalnews.com/041014_Monsanto_seed_patents_GMOs.html#ixzz2YGaVdDwA
Read it and weep, this affects every single one of us.
Owen Paterson (our so called Environment Secretary) is becoming the latest in a line of pests...
Students and staff at Tiverton High School are claiming the world record for the biggest ever cream tea.
They played host to 559 guests for a proper cream tea yesterday (12 June).
The current world record for the biggest cream tea is 403 people, but an event earlier this year claimed 430.
Pupils from local primary schools, Tiverton students and staff and special guests from the community all joined in to swell the record-breaking numbers which have still to be ratified by Guinness World Records.
Officials from GWR were present at the attempt today.
The first day of the Exeter Respect Festival 2013 has been hailed as a resounding success as a record number of people - approximately 13,500 in total so far according to Cllr Ian Martin, one of the Festival organising committee - flooded through the gates of Belmont Park for Exeter's celebration of diversity. With the weather set to be fine again tomorrow (2 June) it is fairly safe to say that the Festival will smash last year's total visitor numbers of 20,000 over the two days.
The Festival continues to grow from strength to strength, attracting a cosmopolitan crowd from all...
Notwithstanding the 2012 deluge, the progress of English wines in the last year has been remarkable. You can hardly open a paper or magazine, or a wine website or trade publication, without a eulogy to England appearing.
Take this from Berry Brothers & Rudd in October last year. They went on record in the Independent..."The quality (of English wine)... stands up to the rest of the world and, in the case of some sparkling wines, exceeds their rivals."
The newspaper asked "Is English wine now exceeding the quality of French?" and returned the answer: yes. "Start with...
Leading food and drink organisation, Taste of the West, is promoting South West food and drink products to global markets as part of its new export sales and marketing service, Taste of the West International, taking advantage of the interest in all things British following the Olympics and Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. The new service is committed to selling quality Westcountry food and drink products across the world providing regional food and drink producers with an opportunity to boost sales.
Taste of the West Chief Executive, John Sheaves, explains, “440,000 jobs, or nearly half...
The countdown has begun for the start of the Devon County Show, which runs this year from 16 to 18 May. Organic family farmers from Talaton near Honiton are sure to be cooking up a storm. Jonathan and Louise Burrough from Peradon Farm specialise in gourmet burgers, made from their home-grown Aberdeen Angus beef as well as lamb. The award-winning steak burgers will be ready to eat from their catering stand near the Mole Valley Farmers Main Arena. The 310-acre farm has been in the Burrough family for several generations and has been organic for more than a decade. In recent years they have...
Farmhouse Breakfast Week is an annual celebration championing the importance of breakfast, which aims to get the nation to Shake Up Their Wake Up! 47% of people regularly skip breakfast during the week, so the aim is to encourage people to enjoy a healthy breakfast more regularly.
Managed by HGCA, the campaign started in 2000 and takes place every January. It is more successful each year with over 1,000 events and promotions taking place in 2012.
Farmhouse Breakfast Week is run on behalf of arable farmers who grow crops such as wheat, barley, oats and oilseed rape. The...
