Posts tagged 'vegan'
13 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 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 more20 December 2011
Recipe For A Thoroughly Modern Vegetarian Balti
Once in a while, I really need to go without meat of any form and I am going through one of those patches at the moment. So I have tweaked my Chicken Balti Recipe from earlier this year to be more tofu friendly and so usable as a vegetarian dish. At...
Read more04 June 2011
Recipe For Vegan Tofu And Coconut Curry
Continuing with our vegetarian fest after a successful week during National Vegetarian Week, I was craving a spicy curry that the kids would enjoy but would also be vegetarian - they are beginning to want some meat, but are just about hanging in ther...
Read more29 May 2011
Recipe For Axel's Vegan Mung Bean And Tofu Soup
This week is National Vegetarian Week and we have been enjoying new and wonderful vegetarian recipes including Sally's new recipes for Moroccan Vegetable Stew and Vegetable Fajitas that we have added to the main Steenbergs website.
Read more22 February 2011
Brussels Sprouts And Chestnuts With Maple Glaze - A Recipe
I have never liked brussels sprouts, feeling they were the devil's food rather than the fairy cabbages that friends have sought to con their children with. I have always dreaded Christmas lunch with the obligatory brussels sprouts or as in my case s...
Read more14 November 2010
Traditional Mincemeat Recipe
I am winning with Christmas food preparations this year, which seems unbelievable considering how little time I seem to have to do anything at the moment;. I am running about one week behind last year. However, as a man who cooks, I do actually find...
Read more01 June 2010
Steenbergs Has Improved Our Range Of Household Cleaning Products
Did you know that one of my first jobs was in the Pets & Cleaning Department in Fenwick's in Newcastle? And ever since, I have had a strange and haunting obsession for Household Cleaning products. Well, I am not really that fascinated in them,...
Read more20 May 2010
New Indonesian Pepper Just Arrived at Steenbergs
I read a book last year called “The Scents of Eden” by Charles Corn – it’s a history of the spice trade. It was great as the perspective was different from the histories that I had read in the past which always wrote them from the angle of European...
Read more31 March 2010
New Penja Pepper from the Cameroon in Western Africa
I’ve got some new peppers and as usual I am bit over-giddy about it. These ones are classic Piper nigrum – the traditional pepper plant for normal black, white and green pepper. Usually, we get our black pepper from India and Sri Lanka, but these...
Read more11 March 2010
Enjoying Tasting Oolong Tea
Today it's a sunny day with a warming, clear fresh light and a blue sky. This is great weather to look at tasting oolong teas from China and Taiwan (sometimes called Formosa by tea drinkers). The clear light allows you to see the subtle colour diff...
Read more03 March 2010
Recipe For Yorkshire Salad
We have been discussing the ins and outs of Yorkshire Salad, and some of the different variations, including a very similar recipe called Granny Salad which Sandra (one of our amazing spice packers) was handed down from her Granny in Devon. Sadie -...
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