11 January 2018

Recipe for Speedy Vanilla Banana Pancakes

Speedy Vanilla Banana Pancakes anyone? Seriously, you won't believe how easy and quick they are, took 10 minutes from start to finish and they're gluten free. This recipe is reproduced by kind permission of the wonderful NikiBakes.

24 July 2017

What's Going On With Vanilla?

Having built a decent line in Fairtrade organic vanilla, we recently have had to stop selling it to trade because of supply issues.  At the same time, we’ve been asked by many new customers for vanilla or Fairtrade vanilla.  Everyone’s scrabbling aro...

12 April 2017

An Easter Treat: Dark Chocolate ganache cake with happy hippy flower salt

Easter Chocolate Cake

17 April 2012

Pretty Little Rich Cake

It was Sophie’s birthday the other day.  We went out en famille for a Chinese meal at Sweet Basil in Kirk Hammerton.  Sophie wanted a strawberry cake, so I felt like trying something a bit old-fashioned.  Before Bird and Dr Oetker independently came...

12 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...

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. 

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.

08 October 2010

Recipe For Rich Apple Cake

The idea for this cake comes from the wonderful cook book "European Peasant Cookery" by Elisabeth Luard; it is her recipe for Apple Cake or Æblekage, which comes from Denmark.  "European Peasant Cookery" is one of those great cookbooks that is packed...

15 September 2010

Vanilla - A Beautiful And Sensual Spice

Vanilla comes from the vanilla orchid, called Vanilla planifolia, which is native to Mexico, but is now indigenous in many tropical parts of the world, for example Madagascar and surrounding islands.  There is a second vanilla orchid called Vanilla t...

19 August 2010

Axel's Raspberry Cheesecake Recipe

My sister and her family came to visit at the weekend, so I was scrabbling around trying to come up with a summery pudding to create, while the rain was gushing down outside in torrents.  I decided that roast chicken with all the trimmings, followed...

07 August 2010

Recipe For Almond Cake

This recipe began with a blog post from David Lebovitz, who wrote that his desert island food would be Almond Cake.  So with great anticipation, I tried his recipe several weeks back, but while Sophie and I loved the marzipan-almond luxury and the ol...

30 June 2010

Recipe For Sweet Pastry Per Pierre Hermé

Having been given a great sweet tart pastry recipe by Anthony Stern from Independent Foods, I have recently come across an even better Sweet Tart Dough in Pierre Hermé’s book “Chocolate Desserts”.  I must admit to being given the heads up about the w...

11 May 2010

Two Business Decisions That Will Shape Steenbergs Over Years Ahead

We've made a couple of small, seemingly innocuous commercial decisions in the last 10 days that will probably have a dramatic impact on Steenbergs as a business over the next 5 - 10 years.

02 May 2010

New Organic Vanilla From Tahiti

We've had a delivery of some gorgeous fecund organic vanilla from Tahiti.  It's brilliant kit and it's totally different from normal organic vanilla from Madagascar - firstly, it's a different species of vanilla orchid, called Vanilla tahitensis as a...

13 April 2010

Steenbergs As Recommended On Delia Online

Steenbergs Home Bakery range has been recommended on Delia Online as a Good Buy today which is pretty nice really:

07 April 2010

Recipe - Sweet Tart Dough or Sweet Pastry

I am not very good at making pastry.  Some people say that you need cold hands to make pastry and dough, but I have warm hands as I seem always to be burning away all that food - perhaps I just never sit still or my metabolism runs too fast. 

16 March 2010

Steenbergs Fairtrade Vanilla - Some Background

I tried to post a response online at The Times in relation to their article but they wouldn't post it - perhaps it was too long or too partisan.  In any case here are some further details on Steenbergs vanilla.