04 June 2011

Recipe For Vegan Tofu And Coconut Curry

Continuing with our vegetarian fest after a successful week during National Vegetarian Week, I was craving a spicy curry that the kids would enjoy but would also be vegetarian - they are beginning to want some meat, but are just about hanging in ther...

29 May 2011

Recipe For Axel's Vegan Mung Bean And Tofu Soup

This week is National Vegetarian Week and we have been enjoying new and wonderful vegetarian recipes including Sally's new recipes for Moroccan Vegetable Stew and Vegetable Fajitas that we have added to the main Steenbergs website. 

25 May 2011

Recipe For Traditional Style Rogan Josh

As part of my ongoing attempts to create Indian recipes that have some bearing on genuineness, I have been fiddling around with rogan josh ideas.  Rogan josh is a signature dish for British curry houses, but was originally a North Indian meat dish th...

18 May 2011

Context...Social Dividends And Choosing Charities For Steenbergs Web-shop

So following on from my last blog, we see Steenbergs' brand as being entangled with our range, the quality of our products and the context of these products.  Where the spices, teas and blend ideas come from tells us about different cultures around t...

13 May 2011

Spices, spices everywhere

We had a visit recently from Helen Best-Shaw of FussFreeFlavours, who is a lovely lady - other bloggers welcome.  She asked many interesting questions and one of them got me thinking and that was why are we so interested in spices.  It certainly is n...

30 April 2011

Two Simple Chocolate Traybakes Made For Village Royal Wedding Tea Party

16 April 2011

Bake A Coffee Cake To Put A Spring Back Into Your Step

I am going through one of those slow patches with an enthusiasm level akin to the doldrums, full of periods of calm, then storms, but all interspersed with light winds.  Nothing much seems to be working, with nowt falling into place.  It is as if you...

26 March 2011

Brownies Recipes From Cakes By Pam Corbin

We have just been at the International Food Exhibition 2011, IFE 2011, at Excel in London, where we have been exhibiting. 

21 March 2011

Matcha Tea Cupcakes - Green, Healthy and Tasty Recipe

The terrible events in Japan lay bare to us all how much we are still at the mercy of the elements, rather than completely in control of our earth.

28 February 2011

It's A Mad World, Sometimes

We are developing a vanilla paste to complement Steenbergs organic Fairtrade vanilla extract, rose water etc. 

03 February 2011

How To Make Spicy King Prawns And Then A King Prawn Salad

23 January 2011

Recipes For Swede And Parsnip Puree

16 January 2011

Review Of December 2010 Food Blogs (Part 2)

At Mahanandi, Indira shared some innovative menu ideas for the Christmas Season, or holiday season as it is called in America - see Menu 1 and Menu 2.  Maison Cupcake was cupcake decorating in a Masterclass in Islington's The Make Lounge with Mich Tu...

09 January 2011

Review Of Food Blogs - December 2010

At A Slice Of Cherry Pie, Julia Parsons has been relishing our wintry weather here in England with a warming, earthy Rabbit Casserole recipe that has a quaint olde worlde charm.  I love the taste of rabbit, especially farmed rabbit, which has a light...

15 December 2010

Recipe For A Warming Winter's Rabbit Casserole

Rabbit used to be the chicken of England with everyone eating rabbits that live in copious amounts around the countryside.  I am not sure why chicken took over from rabbit in our nation's hearts, but it might be as simple as the fact that it is easie...

11 December 2010

Recipe For Stir Fried Pigeon Breast

11 December 2010

Countdown To Christmas

It is that time of the year again when I start panicking that I have not got everything ready for Christmas.  What have you forgotten?  No presents bought that is for sure, but the thought and desire is there.  Soon, I feel myself say, there's still...

10 December 2010

Food Blogs November 2010 (Part 2)

At Mahanandi during November, Indira proposed a Telugu menu for Thanskgiving celebrations, which looks a good menu.