Posts tagged 'spices'
05 August 2021
Sharmini’s Inspirational Steenbergs Spice Kit
We are delighted to have been working with Sharmini Thomas of Sharmini’s Inspirational Indian Cuisine for the past 6 years, collaborating on recipes, videos and demonstrations at York Food festival and generally sharing a passion for fabulo...
Read more13 January 2021
5 Easy Vegan Dishes for Veganuary
With over 542,000 vegans in the UK, according to new data commissioned by The Vegan Society, and numbers rising all the time, veganism is the UK’s fastest growing lifestyle choice. It’s not only a UK trend either, with over 1,000,000 peopl...
Read more08 December 2017
Christmas recipes part 3 - Festive Tipples
With all the baking and cooking going on over the holiday season, there also needs to be time to relax with a lovely glass of wine, preferably mulled! Steenbergs hand-blends a variety of mulling spices loose in jars, in handy sachets, tied in muslin...
Read more26 September 2016
Spicy cookery with Sharmini at York Food & Drink Festival
On Saturday 24th September, we savoured our first experience of York's excellent Food & Drink Festival. Now in its 20th year, it hosts numerous tastings, workshops & events alongside a market full of delicious street food stalls and artisan p...
Read more01 July 2016
Working organically with Abel & Cole for 10 years
Started 27 years ago, with the vision of supplying ethically sourced, high quality food and drink to people who care about the provenance of what they eat, Abel & Cole has gone from strength to strength. It now delivers boxes of fruit and veg as...
Read more04 December 2015
Meet Sharmini - our new recipe collaborator!
We’re really pleased to announce our new partnership with Sharmini Thomas. Originally from Kerala, Southern India, but now based in York, Sharmini runs her own cookery courses, is a cookery tutor for the City of York, and is a presenter and judge fo...
Read more26 August 2015
Steenbergs Spice Taster Panel: organic Garam Masala & Madras Curry
Recently our taster panel had the joy of trying out 2 different spice blends: Madras Curry and Garam Masala. Curries are very popular in British homes and Steenbergs aims to create authentic yet versatile curry blends to make enjoying Indian cuisi...
Read more27 April 2015
40 years on the shelf! The winner of our #oldestspice competition was… Pickling Spice from 1975
Our recent competition to find the oldest spice in your cupboards was an illuminating competition with some fascinating entries. We knew it had to be based on something with a dateline - so we plumped for best before dates which came in, in the 1970s...
Read more05 June 2012
Cooking With A Wonderbag
Sophie came across the Wonderbag on the radio and then The Guardian, so one arrived several weeks thereafter. Basically, a Wonderbag is a modern and green take on the slow cooker and that you find in books as far back as Mrs Beeton’s and even like t...
Read more25 April 2012
Dosas – Southern Indian Pancakes
My parents have recently come back from a wedding in Southern India and they have been to one of my favourite regions, Kerala. They were blown away by the delicious food and already miss the flavours of their staple, the dosa. At about the same tim...
Read more28 March 2012
Sophie Grigson Cookery Demonstration At The Oak Tree In Helperby
On Monday 26th, we had arranged a cookery demonstration by Michael Ibbotson (who owns the acclaimed The Durham Ox); they have, also, recently taken over The Punch Bowl in Marton cum Grafton and breathed life back into it and are developing a reputati...
Read more12 February 2012
Homemade Marshmallows
It is not very often that I rip out pages from cookery magazines for use at a later date, so it was a surprise when the other day I found some pages I had ripped from a copy of the magazine, Delicious, from some years back. In it, I had obviously fa...
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