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Plenty of Plants!

30 January 2025

Plenty of Plants!

One of the key food focuses this year is to eat well and healthily by maximising the number of plants in our diets and adding in as many wholefoods as possible via nuts, seeds and pulses. These all increase our fibre intake and help maintain a health...

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Top 10 canapés for Christmas

02 December 2024

Top 10 canapés for Christmas

If you’re entertaining over the festive period then it’s a lovely idea to have some delicious canapés to hand out with the drinks. We're put together some delicious recipes for you from some of our favourite chefs and food writers.

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It Starts with Veg - Interview with Chef Ceri Jones

25 September 2024

It Starts with Veg - Interview with Chef Ceri Jones

Ceri Jones is a chef, food educator and cookbook author whose recent release, It Starts with Veg, is the perfect companion to the weekly veg box.

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A Whisper of Cardamom - how to spice up your baking with Eleanor Ford

19 March 2024

A Whisper of Cardamom - how to spice up your baking with Eleanor Ford

We are always excited when a new spice cookbook comes out but we are particularly excited by award-winning author Eleanor Ford's new book A Whisper of Cardamom.

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30+ Plants - how to add more plants into your diet

11 March 2024

30+ Plants - how to add more plants into your diet

Variety is the spice of life or so they say and it’s certainly true of adding different plants to your diet. When we first came across the Tim Spector's 30 different plants a week it sounded a lot but once we started counting and actively choose to b...

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Sri Lankan Inspiration from Chef, Emily Dobbs

19 February 2024

Sri Lankan Inspiration from Chef, Emily Dobbs

We're delighted to be working with acclaimed chef Emily Dobbs who will be creating some delicious dishes using Steenbergs spices. Emily specialises in a host of cuisines from European to Japanese using seasonal British produce, but it is her successf...

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Make Room for Mushrooms!

30 January 2024

Make Room for Mushrooms!

As Veganuary draws to a close we thought we’d highlight a few favourite recipes to take forward into 2024 and what better place to start than with mushrooms!

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Knife Skills for Beginners - the new crime novel from food writer Orlando Murrin

19 January 2024

Knife Skills for Beginners - the new crime novel from food writer Orlando Murrin

As you all know, we love a good book here at Steenbergs, so we were delighted to see that acclaimed food writer Orlando Murrin had branched out into crime writing with a new novel Knife Skills for Beginners out on the 1st February. We caught up with...

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Three new recipes from Sabrina Ghayour's Flavour cookbook

23 October 2023

Three new recipes from Sabrina Ghayour's Flavour cookbook

Following the publication of FLAVOUR, the latest cookbook from award-winning Middle Eastern chef Sabrina Ghayour, we're delighted to be able to share three of the delicious recipes with you. They are all packed with aromatic spices and Middle Eastern...

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Three New Spice Blends from Sabrina Ghayour and How to Use Them

03 October 2023

Three New Spice Blends from Sabrina Ghayour and How to Use Them

We're delighted to be working with the fabulous Sabrina Ghayour to produce three iconic spice blends which complement her delicious Persian recipes and can be used in your everyday cooking to add a lovely aromatic taste of the Middle East.

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Andaza by Sumayya Usmani - A memoir of food, flavour and freedom in the Pakistani kitchen

02 May 2023

Andaza by Sumayya Usmani - A memoir of food, flavour and freedom in the Pakistani kitchen

Sumayya Usmani is a storyteller, food writer and in her own words ‘an intuitive creative and enchantress of spice’. Here at Steenbergs, we have worked together with Sumayya for several years, helping to bring her own unique Pakistani Garam...

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Festive mulling spices – not just for wine!

30 November 2022

Festive mulling spices – not just for wine!

Here at Steenbergs we are well known for our sustainable, ethically sourced spices that are hand blended in our eco factory in North Yorkshire. At this time of year, attention often turns to the warm, fragrant spices such as cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg...

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Discover More Than Yorkshire puddings in Elaine Lemm's new cookbook

10 November 2022

Discover More Than Yorkshire puddings in Elaine Lemm's new cookbook

Esteemed food writer and former chef Elaine Lemm originally hails from Yorkshire and following a career that has seen her running cookery schools in France, Yorkshire and Tuscany, she returns to her roots with her new cookbook, More Than Yorkshire Pu...

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A chat with author & wellness consultant Mira Manek

07 November 2022

A chat with author & wellness consultant Mira Manek

Mira Manek is an author and wellness consultant with her own Café in London. To celebrate Diwali, we were delighted that she shared her delicious Rose Falooda Bites recipe with us - a sweet milky dessert flavoured with rose and served sprin...

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Sharmini's Cookery School win awards

01 November 2022

Sharmini's Cookery School win awards

One of the ways in which we bring our spices to life here at Steenbergs is to collaborate with chefs and cooks from a wide variety of cuisines and cultures. They kindly agree to share their knowledge and recipes with us so that our customers have mor...

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Orlando Murrin's new cookbook Two's Company: SIMPLE

24 October 2022

Orlando Murrin's new cookbook Two's Company: SIMPLE

Following on from the success of Orlando Murrin's last cookbook Two's Company, we were keen to catch up with him and find out more about his new book Two's Company: Simple, which contains 75 new recipes encompassing everything from week-night qu...

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Community House Ripon: Waste Not Wednesdays

18 October 2022

Community House Ripon: Waste Not Wednesdays

Ripon Community House, based in Ripon, North Yorkshire, runs a fabulous community scheme called Waste Not Wednesdays and we chatted to Caroline Bentham to find out more about it…

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The Fertility Kitchen - a new cookbook and essential guide

23 June 2022

The Fertility Kitchen - a new cookbook and essential guide

The Fertility Kitchen by Charlotte Grand is an essential guide to supporting fertility. Charlotte, a qualified nutritional therapist and acupuncturist, started her exploration into the correlation between lifestyle and fertility following an unexplai...

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The Best Meat-free BBQ Recipes

12 May 2022

The Best Meat-free BBQ Recipes

A few meat-free BBQ ideas to try out this summer...

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