07 August 2009

Recipe for Lasagne with Traditional Ragu

As promised, here is the meat lasagne for the committed carnivores out there.  It uses an old ragù recipe from Bologna.

06 August 2009

Recipe For Vegetarian Lasagne With Spinach

Personally, I have never been a great fan of lasagne even if it is one of those firm family and probably national favourites.  But then again, I don’t like spaghetti bolognaise.  I am in a minority of 1 versus several hundreds of millions of people i...

26 July 2009

Observer's 50 best gourmet goodies

In case you missed it, Steenbergs was listed in The Observer in Caroline Boucher's 50 best gadgets and gourmet goodies on 19th July:

14 July 2009

Recipe for Yellow Sunny Quiche Lorraine

04 July 2009

Another Macaroon Recipe - this time from Betty Crocker

01 July 2009

Steenbergs' June/July newsletter

30 June 2009

New Study into Aspartame

Artificial sweeteners are one of my food paranoias that, in my view, rank up there as one of those danger signs hanging over modern living; they are something that purport huge health benefits versus the issues supposedly attached to natural sweetene...

18 June 2009

Recipe - Making Real Lemonade

As you walk along the long aisles of soft drinks in shops, it’s like hunting for a needle in a haystack to find real drinks that aren’t made with chemicals and don’t contain artificial sweeteners.  Even such national treasures as Schweppes Tonic Wate...

15 June 2009

Recipe - Elderflower Cordial from the Hedgerow

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

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 April 2009

Pepper - black gold

Pepper is the king of spices – it has had far reaching effects on trade, voyages of discovery, cultures and cuisines over the centuries.  To me, it embodies the wonder of spices – a distinctive, full-bodied flavour with an almost incredible influence...