Author: Not Delia

  • Jamie Oliver Lucky Draw
    (February 2009)

    News of a prize draw to attend a pre-launch tasting session at Jamie Oliver’s new Recipease shop.

  • Mushroom and pesto lasagne

    Here’s a recipe for a delicious vegetarian lasagne. It’s a little bit complex because it requires preparing several different items before going on to do the final assembly. The main prerequisites for assembling this recipe are: Lasagne sheets (I used ready-made but it’s actually quite easy to make your own pasta) Béchamel sauce (Here’s my…

  • Quick Foodie Quiz 20

    Test your foodie knowledge with our quick quiz. Only five questions but quite difficult, we think. Have fun! Hoisin sauce is a condiment used in the preparation of Crispy Aromatic Duck, Peking Duck, and several other dishes. In Cantonese, what is the literal meaning of hoisin? Beautiful Seafood Sugar Sweet In TV culinary terms, which…

  • Quick Foodie Quiz 20 – answers

    Here are the answers: Hoisin sauce is a condiment used in the preparation of Crispy Aromatic Duck, Peking Duck, and several other dishes. In Cantonese, what is the literal meaning of hoisin? Beautiful Seafood Sugar Sweet In this case the name refers to the type of food the sauce was originally intended to be eaten…

  • Minestrone Soup

    This isn’t a recipe for an authentic minestrone soup. I don’t know what an authentic one is but every cookbook I looked at seemed to make it in a completely different way. My version was to look at some pictures and have a “use it or lose it” day with the contents of the vegetable…

  • Bacon Connoisseurs Week 2009

    FREE THE BACON FROM THE BUTTIES! BACON CONNOISSEURS’ WEEK 2009 HUNTS FOR THE NATION’S BEST BACON CURES What: Bacon Connoisseurs’ Week 2009 When: Monday 16 to Sunday 22 March 2009 Where: Nationwide Who: TV Personality Anna Ryder Richardson There is nothing quite like the smell of bacon to wake you up in the morning! But…