10 June 2009

Get Some Peace, A Quiet Early Morning

I woke up really early this morning and was downstairs by 5am.  The house was quiet and the world was asleep, yet outside was suffused with a beautiful warm yellow light. 

09 June 2009

Recipe - Make Your Own Burger

07 June 2009

Recipe: Coronation Chicken

In Saturday's The Daily Telegraph (6 June 2009), one of our great fans, Rose Prince, explains how to make a real Coronation Chicken.  I must admit that I hadn't realised that it was invented by Constance Spry for our Queen's Coronation in 1953 to fee...

06 June 2009

The Independent's 50 Best Food Websites

We're in at number 39 in "The Top 50 Food Websites" in today's The Independent.  Greg Atkins says "if you want to marinade some chicken or cook a curry from scratch, then you need these little pots of gold in your larder."  Also, for Greg's sake, I'l...

05 June 2009

Recipes for Salt Baked Fish and Tomato Salad

04 June 2009

Natural Sea Salt

Salt is important – for health and our culture.  Loyalty, friendship and bargains are sealed with salt in the Middle East.  Ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans included salt in sacrifices and offerings.

02 June 2009

Mulling Wine – Recipes For Mulled Wine Syrup and a Medieval Hippocras

01 June 2009

Hope for British democracy?

30 May 2009

Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe

28 May 2009

Steenbergs Organic Web Site Buy of Day

Our web site - www.steenbergs.co.uk -  was the Buy of the Day on the Woman and Home web site yesterday (26/5/2009).  It's good to get genuine, strong independent feedback that we're doing the right thing. 

28 May 2009

May newsletter - baking, blogs and mustard

27 May 2009

Chief Seattle's speech in 1854

This oft quoted piece from 1854 is attributed to Chief Seattle as his response to President Franklin Pierce’s statement that he would buy the land of Chief Seattle’s tribe.

27 May 2009

Vanilla – The Temperamental Diva

A brief history of vanilla

26 May 2009

In awe at nature

25 May 2009

Brown and Cameron should check their history books

Oliver Cromwell had it right back in 1653:

22 May 2009

Recipes - An Indian Feast of Food

21 May 2009

What has Steenbergs done for Fairtrade?

18 May 2009

To vote or not to vote