Posts Tagged ‘food’

The Creative Feast

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

Sat­ur­day 22nd May 2010
Rad­ford Mill Farm
8pm to Mid­night
£7/£5 concs
Con­tact Denise on 077233 29414

The cre­ative feast is a quar­terly open space bring­ing together an eclec­tic mix of orig­i­nal performances, scrumptious cakes, deli­cious drinks and good company! The gor­geous cre­ative gath­er­ing At  just out­side Bath is back!

Deli­cious morsels to delight, enchant and inspire. MUSIC, POETRY, DANCE, THEATRE, FILM, FIRE.

Fea­tur­ing:

Mas­ter Mbira Player CHARTWELL DUTIRO, Omer Makessa, Alex Harvest, Denise Rowe, James Watts, Alex Michel­son & more!

For info or if you have some­thing you’d like to show con­tact Denise, 077233 29414 de8fish@yahoo.co.uk, www.tolokotolo.com

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Raw food pot luck at The Love Lounge

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

I made it last night to the Pos­i­tive Liv­ing Bath’s Raw Food Pot Luck at the Love Lounge behind The Bell. This is a monthly event organ­ised by Ali­son, Jonathan and Ian.

I was sur­rounded by heart cen­tered peo­ple and deli­cious raw food treats. What a fab­u­lous way to end the weekend.

I’m not a raw fooder (I’m not even a veg­e­tar­ian) but I have dab­bled with raw food it a lit­tle and it was really great to get together with like­minded peo­ple and share our raw food recipes and experiments.

For any­one who is inter­ested in healthy eat­ing; be you non veg­gie, veg­gie, vegan or raw food, these evening will be just up your street.

Please see the pos­i­tive peo­ples web­site for more details:

http://www.positivelivingbath.co.uk/

I think I’d def­i­nitely going to have to make it to the raw choco­late party, April 30th

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Spinning sugar…not as easy as I thought

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

I was inspired by Mas­terChef Pro­fes­sional (well done Steve Groves, you’re bril­liant) to try spin some sugar. Turns out it’s pretty hard. Professionals always make things look easy!

My book told me to dip the pan in water before spin­ning but it seems to cool the syrup so quickly. Any chefs out there got any tips?

Also, it was pretty chal­leng­ing to fig­ure out how to avoid get­ting blobby bits.

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The ones below are my favourite. Espe­cially top left and cen­tre, as they are 3d swirls rather than just flat. I did that on the back of a spoon han­dle. A fat han­dle of course.

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Then I cre­ated a monster.

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And then a bowl on the back of a ladle.

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Which I promptly broke before I could even pho­to­graph it. Man­aged to fake it though.

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What I did fig­ure out is that they fin­ger­print eas­ily so you’ve got to han­dle them really care­fully. That help avoid break­ages too as I discovered.

They need to be han­dled even more gen­tly than some­one need­ing a gen­tle mas­sage that’s for sure.

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Looking for a great banana bread recipe?

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

bananabread…then try this recipe from Watirose. I made it once again recently and it goes down a treat.

Ingre­di­ents:

100g organic but­ter, soft­ened
175g Wait­rose Organic New Zealand For­est Honey
2 organic eggs, beaten
2 large ripe organic Fair­trade bananas, roughly chopped
½ tsp organic ground cin­na­mon
225g organic self-raising flour
50g pack organic wal­nut pieces
50g pack organic Brazil nuts, roughly chopped

Method

1. Pre­heat the oven to 180°C, gas mark 4. Lightly grease a 1kg loaf tin and line the base and ends with a long strip of bak­ing parchment.

2. Place the but­ter, honey, eggs, bananas, cin­na­mon and flour in a food proces­sor and blend until smooth. Alter­na­tively, beat by hand with a wooden spoon. Add the nuts, and pulse or mix until just combined.

3. Pour the mix­ture into the pre­pared tin and smooth the top. Bake for 35–40 min­utes until a skewer inserted into the cen­tre of the loaf comes out clean, and the bread is golden and well risen. Allow the loaf to cool in the tin for 10 min­utes then turn out. Remove the bak­ing parch­ment and cut into slices. Deli­cious served warm or cold, spread with butter.

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organic vs food miles vs packaged vs seasonal

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

fruit-sampler-thumb5242840A few years ago I did a nat­ural nutri­tion course with The Col­lege of Nat­ural Nutr­tion. It was of course very pro organic food. But it also placed great empha­sis on eat­ing with the seasons.

Being the lit­tle earth lov­ing crea­ture I am, I now find myself con­fused when I’m in the fruit and veg depart­ment and it can take me ages to pick my purchases:

The organic apples I’m look­ing at are in a plas­tic non biodegrad­able bag.
So I must surely buy the in-organic  loose apples.

The organic lemons are in a net bag and they’re from South Africa
So I have to get loose  in-organic ones from Spain.

I want to eat with the sea­sons.
But what do I do when win­ter sets and it’s so ‘nor­mal’ to boost my Vit C with oranges and lemons, which will no doubt come all the way from SA.

And now some­one has told me about David Bel­lamy who reck­ons global warm­ing is ‘a load of pop­py­cock!’ so maybe food miles don’t make a dif­fer­ence after all.

I’m very confused.

How do you go about choos­ing your fruit and veg?

http://www.natnut.co.uk/

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Live my life at ChickenOut.tv

Friday, August 21st, 2009

I’ve just been sent the email below.  A cam­paign well worth supporting.

Over 39 days — the piti­fully short life of a typ­i­cal fac­tory –farmed chicken — we’re spread­ing the free-range mes­sage online and in 11 cities across the UK.

chicken_outUntil the 17th Sep­tem­ber, you can fol­low the short life of an inten­sively reared chicken via our  blog at chickenout.tv. See for your­self just what mil­lions of fac­tory farmed chick­ens endure, liv­ing just 39 days between hatch­ing and slaugh­ter in a typ­i­cal over­crowded, bar­ren and win­dow­less shed.

Read the lat­est blog entry here»
http://www.chickenout.tv/39-day-blog.html

Watch a 30 sec­ond trailer here»
http://www.chickenout.tv/why-chicken-out.html

How you can help?

Please encour­age oth­ers to join our cam­paign for a free-range future:

“We need thou­sands of sig­na­tures to con­vince super­mar­kets, farm­ers, gov­ern­ment reg­u­la­tors and any­one else involved in this unac­cept­able busi­ness that they must change”.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Chicken Out! on tour
http://www.chickenout.tv/39-day-blog/39-day-tour.html

We’re hit­ting the road over the next 39 days to take the free –range mes­sage out to  11 loca­tions across the UK. Join us at a town near you and meet the team — and our own free-ranging chicken — as we spread the word.

P.S. Please con­sider  mak­ing a small dona­tion http://www.chickenout.tv/donate-to-the-campaign.html to help cover the cost of tak­ing our mes­sage across the UK.

Join our Face­book group http://www.facebook.com/chickenout.tv

Fol­low us on Twit­ter http://twitter.com/chickenout_tv

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