Can anything be more rewarding than making your own bread? At Manna from Devon Cooking School they make bread as it should be made, using first-class ingredients, lots of time and heaps of respect. Join passionate, professional baker David Jones on his new ‘Bread and Baking in a Wood-Fired Oven’ course and allow his enthusiasm to rub off whilst gaining the confidence to regularly make your daily bread. With National Bread Week taking place this year on 12-16 April it’s a great time to book yourself on to a course on either 12 May, 9 June or 7 July (£135 per person). There are a limited...
I am a young woman in her mid teens who loves all things cake! Now, who doesn’t love a good cake? Whether you are just a cake eater or whether you are like me and love to bake your own, I hope you will read my cake-filled blog.
I have been baking from a young age. I can remember being stood on a chair in my grandmother’s kitchen helping her with everything from a Victoria sponge to a sumptuous chocolate cake.
I used to be given my wooden spoon and my apron and await instructions. My job was always the beating, whisking and the mixing. Now after all of the beating and the...
The Exeter Festival of South West Food & Drink is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year from the 26-28 April. To celebrate Michael Caines, Festival Co-Founder met with a selection of Festival producers to raise a toast to a decade of celebrating the very best of South West produce.
From the humble beginnings of the farm shop hut nearly 40 years ago, Darts Farm has continually evolved and is now renowned as a hub of local food and drink. Here Darts Farm Head Chef Michael Crane offers a satisfying dish for dinner with family or friends.
Join the Great British baking brigade and whip up some tasty treats with these fabulous new recipes from Le Creuset – sure to wow friends and family. With baking enjoying a definite resurgence in popularity, there has never been a better excuse to don an apron and try out the new Le Creuset Bakeware range. For a match made in heaven, mix these delicious new recipes with the quality toughened non-stick bakeware range to taste the sweet smell of success in the kitchen.
Celebration Fruit Cake - Serves 20+
An English tradition for any celebration, a rich fruit cake is...
Calling kids and the young at heart, ever wanted to try your hand at baking but not too sure where to start? come and join Fun Kitchen for a free cookery workshop, have a go and sample what you've made afterwards, every hour on the hour, all welcome for more information visit http://www.funkitchen.co.uk/ in support of Hospiscare Big Devon Bake Off www.hospiscare.co.uk
Join Darts Farm and the Fish Shed guys for an unforgettable experience where you will be taken aboard a local fishing boat to fish for sea bass off the Jurassic coast.
You will be brought back to the Darts Farm cookery studio where the fisherman-chefs will show you how to prepare and cook this tasty local fish before tucking into a full fish supper together.
The day starts with breakfast at Darts Farm, followed by line fishing on the wrecks off the East Devon coast with brunch and a beer on board, then back to Darts Farm for tea and cake. A fish prepration and cookery...
A couple of weeks ago I cooked this at a demonstration marking the opening of the Kitchen Studio in Exmouth. And then last Friday I was reminded of it at the wassailing evening at The Lamb in Sandford. This old Devon ceremony is held to encourage a good apple harvest and involves 'watering' an apple tree with cider and shouting to keep evil spirits away from the orchard trees.
To encourage the apple trees I cooked this warming dish which uses a local cider, preferbly Sandford Orchards' scrumpy, which has lovely layers of flavour and cooks very well. (It also 'drinks' quite well...
Christmas is coming, and so are all the relatives and friends. Devon residents might be delighted to see their guests, but may be fretting that they just can’t cope with all the cooking this will mean. Our local Devon Chef, Tim Harris, may be able to help.
Tim says "I know what it's like when you want to relax and spend time with friends or the family, but you're also worrying about what to feed them".
Tim is generally known for running the successful cookery classes and demonstrating cooking at local events – Quickes’ Devon Apple Day and the community...
Are you always on the lookout for new, stylish foodie ranges to add spice to your kitchen store cupboard? If so, the country’s favourite chilli farm has the answer.
South Devon Chilli Farm has recently introduced a range of sleek black stand-up pouches of chilli powder to its range of high end, hot products. There are four chilli powders available: Chipotle, Ancho, Guajillo and the extremely hot Bhut Jolokia. These resealable black foil pouches (70g) all retail for £2.80 except for the mighty Bhut Jolokia chilli powder which retails at £7.35.
