Families looking for Halloween fun this October half term can try their hand at pumpkin carving - and eating – at a series of five family events across Devon.
Once you’ve carved your pumpkin, learn how to use the seeds and flesh to make a delicious soup and muffins, and take home a free recipe book by Hubbub .
The sessions will be led by two specialist session leaders, including The Crafty Cook CIC , who deliver cookery and nutrition courses in Devon.
This Halloween, 30.4 million pumpkins will be bought for carving and, of these, a whopping 15.8 million pumpkins...
Suttons Seeds, the long-established supplier of seeds, bulbs, and other horticultural products, today released its figures of seed sales during lockdown (March 23rd to July 4th 2020 inclusive). The data shows that Brits sowed a staggering 100 million lettuces, 25 million herbs and over 15 million beetroot seeds during lockdown! Suttons seeds sales saw growth of 2,500% on some days during lockdown, with nearly 80% of all seed packets sold during lockdown being vegetable seeds. With traditional gardeners typically purchasing their seeds early in the year, these figures highlight how the...
Slimming just got easier in the summer with the help of your local Slimming World Group. Members at America Hall are having a great time - losing lbs and learning how Slimming in the Summer doesn't have to be tough. There's recipe sharing for alternative picnic snacks like scotch eggs, sausage rolls, quiche and so much more. There's the great British BBQ - a slimming world members best occasion with recipes for homemade coleslaw, BBQ chicken with homemade BBQ sauce, Moroccan skewers, pins and sangria, all made slimming world style and delicious.
A new cookbook by TV chef and entrepreneur Jamie Oliver is being donated free to all 50 Devon County Council libraries in a move by publishers to make it available and accessible to everyone.
Jamie's new book, 'Save With Jamie', launched today, is in response to public demand for a cookbook about exciting food that doesn't 'break the bank'.
It includes recipes, advice and techniques to teach people recession-busting cooking skills, to help families under financial pressure to shop carefully, cook cleverly and to eat well with less waste.
Bridget's Advice: Keep food simple and nutritious but most of all use Organic Ingredients:
Slice and fry onions in a mixture of extra virgin oil and butter, add garlic (I use a whole green garlic) chop various coloured courgettes and add to the onions/garlic, near the end of cooking time add some freshly chopped basil, season and serve.
With Martin away working at a bootcamp, my challenge this week has been keeping up my training on my own.
Before leaving, Martin gave me a programme for me to complete in the gym. As my leg was still a bit sore at the beginning of the week, I went to a couple of spinning classes instead so I wasn't bearing any weight on it. I stayed with my gym buddy Sarah to do some weights after a class as well, just to keep up with my resistance training.
I felt confident enough to get back in the gym by Sunday and in the afternoon, managed to tear myself away from the 6 Nations to go up...
In my article about the Apple Day event at Quicke's the other day I mentioned the apple pancakes I made, but of course kept you all in suspense about how to make them. So now here is the recipe.
2 eggs 400 ml milk 250 g plain flour 1 tablespoon vegetable oil, plus more for cooking 2 teaspoons baking powder A pinch of salt 2 tablespoons caster sugar 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon or allspice 3 medium sized cooking apples, peeled, cored and grated Icing sugar, maple syrup, golden syrup or whatever you'd like on your pancakes Mix all the ingredients, except the apples, to a batter the...
