Posts tagged 'organic' - page 6
11 October 2009
Recipe for Roast Pork With Apple Sauce
It's that harvesting time of the year, with the trees turning a golden brown and the fruit fulsome on the trees. I picked an armful of windfalls from our garden and took them inside to make apple sauce to have a with a delicious joint of pork that w...
Read more15 September 2009
Recipe for Saturday Was Shepherd's Pie
Back closer to the brief, I made shepherd’s pie on Saturday morning. Typically, Saturday turned out to be the last blast of the summer with one of the best day’s of the whole year – no wind, unbroken sunshine and a really relaxed day with friends an...
Read more06 September 2009
Footprints in the sand
Earlier this year, anthropologists announced the find of ancient fossilised footprints in Kenya dating back about 1.5 million years. That's 1.7 million years after our major prehistorical ancestor, Lucy or Australopithecus afarensis, whose skelton h...
Read more02 September 2009
New Spice Standards for Fairtrade
Fairtrade has issued new standards for Fairtrade spices which seem to be a recipe for chaos. They basically say that you can trade any spice or herb as Fairtrade and that the Fairtrade price is the price agreed between the buyer and the seller. A p...
Read more26 August 2009
Back on the shop floor at Steenbergs
I am currently working back on the Steenbergs shop floor as our chief blender, Alan, is on his annual holiday somewhere in Greece. It is great fun to be back where it all began, blending the blends that I’ve created over the years and grinding organ...
Read more16 August 2009
Ignore the FSA and continue to believe in the best of organic foods
I have reflected further on the Food Standards Agency ("FSA") report on the nutritional and health effects of organic. And I have 2 further thoughts, being, firstly, that the concept of the report is irrelevant, and, secondly, there is probably no p...
Read more12 August 2009
Organic food has no nutritional or health benefits - my personal response to the Review Authors and the FSA
A couple of weeks back now in July 2009, the Food Standards Agency ("FSA") issued a press release together with the publication of a scientific review of the published science on investigations into the comparison of the nutritional composition and h...
Read more10 August 2009
Recipes for Peppermint Creams and Chocolate Strawberries
It’s been a weekend of baking and cooking for Jay’s birthday. He had some specific requests for things plus we needed to get the sausages and baps for the proper “hot dogs”, ie not with boil in the bag frankfurters but real sausages and decent bread...
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