British seasonal food is delicious in June, and buying in season tends to represent the best value. The summer has arrived, bringing a riot of new flavours and colours along with it. Suddenly there’s a huge array of soft fruit to enjoy, along with salads and fresh-tasting vegetables, and delicate elderflowers. Here’s the big list […]
The 2017 Empty the Storecupboard Challenge has finally run out of stored food to use up! It only took seven whole weeks to get through it… Here’s how the last week played out. First of all I made a couscous salad, using up the final 100g of couscous. That had French dressing, chervil, grilled goat […]
We’re now heading into Week 6 of the 2017 Storecupboard Challenge, and things are going really well. There’s not too much old stored food left in the cupboard that still needs to be used up, have a look at what’s left. I’m still trying to make at least three main meals each week from the […]
The 13th of May is World Cocktail Day, and I’m reviewing some cocktail ingredients today that remind me of sunny days and faraway beaches. If the weather outside isn’t playing along then it’s time to make your own sunshine. Let’s start with the CÎROC Summer Colada. This is a 2017 limited edition super-premium flavoured vodka […]
We’re now into Week 5 of the Empty the Storecupboard Challenge, and we’re slowly entering the home stretch for using up our stored foodstuffs. Have a peek at what’s left of the stock list. Our first main meal of Week 5 was a quick dish of pasta with a homemade mushroom and spinach sauce. That […]
It’s Week 4 of the latest Empty the Storecupboard Challenge, and we’ve been managing to keep up the pace of our storecupboard-ingredients-based meals. We’ve made quite a lot of progress, but there’s still plenty of stored ingredients left to get through on those cupboard shelves. The first meal of the week used up the fusilli […]
The best seasonal foods in May are a mixture of luxury flavours and more humble old favourites. Treat yourself to fresh spears of asparagus, the first strawberries, Jersey Royal potatoes, globe artichokes and an imported alphonso mango or two, or enjoy elderflowers and wild garlic for free. Many kitchen gardens and allotments will be bursting […]
The Storecupboard Challenge for 2017 is rolling along nicely, and we’ve been using up even more of our older stocks of stored food – saving money and preventing food waste as we go along, as well as decluttering the kitchen one shelf at a time. The list of stored food we’re using up is here. […]
Time for another quick roundup as part of the current Empty the Storecupboard Challenge for 2017. It still feels like we’ve barely made a dent in the contents of our food cupboard, but we’ve certainly been having plenty of meals out of it and the grocery bills are staying low too. Our first evening meal […]
A few days ago I announced the start of a brand new Empty the Storecupboard Challenge for 2017 (rules and stock list exercise here), and now it’s time to see how the first week has been going. Here’s a quick roundup – please let me know if you’re making your own storecupboard meals too! The […]
