Chef Wise

Nature's Path has created a wonderfully moreish range of organic granolas, available not only in four tasty flavours but also in two deliciously different textures. Each features a blend of rolled baked oats, mixed with a nutritious combination of nuts, seeds and fruit. Pumpkin & Flax Seed and Coconut & Chia Seed have a 'nice and crumbly' texture. They're noticeably finer than most granolas, meaning that they're not only delicious with milk, but are also perfect for sprinkling on top of fruit, or stirred into yogurt for an alternative breakfast treat. Fruit & Nut and Honey & Almond have the well-loved 'nobbly' texture of granola, that's ideal for anyone looking for extra 'bite' in their breakfast cereal. Pumpkin & Flax Seed is a wholegrain mix of pumpkin seeds (known for being high in fibre) and flax seeds, which are a great source of nutrients such as omega-3 fatty acids. Blended with rolled oats, a pinch ...

Over half of the 30 strong range of Spice Drops® have now won a Great Taste Award. In the latest round of voting in the prestigious 'Oscars' of the food world, organised by the Guild of Fine Food, three Spice Drops were given an 'outstanding' two stars and a further seven received one star declaring them 'simply delicious'. Spice Drops® are a range of highly concentrated extracts of herbs and spices that transform a dish or drink with a single drop, adding as authentic a flavour and aroma as the raw ingredient without the hassle.  All the Spice Drops® are made using fresh produce sourced from local farms and the extraction process, perfected over more than 20 years, means that the drops retain the freshness and taste of the raw ingredients as well as their nutritional benefits. Across the board the judges commented favourably on the accuracy of the pipette as a dispenser and the authenticity of the individual flavours, quite often 'astounded ...

The quintessentially British fruit vinegar brand, Womersley, are celebrating in their very own unique fashion after winning five Great Taste Award stars this week - with a jubilant glass of fizz, flavoured with their sensationally fruity products. Two of the flavours – Golden Raspberry & Apache Vinegar and Strawberry & Mint Vinegar – were entered into the cocktail mixer category and both came away with two coveted stars. The third success was for Orange & Mace which collected a single star in the vinegar classification. Organised by the Guild of Fine Food, the annual Great Taste Awards, are the acknowledged benchmark for the speciality food and drink sector. Over 49 days, between April and July, more than 500 expert judges worked in teams to decide which products were worthy of one, two or three-stars. With just one third of the 10,000 entries receiving accolades, collecting two stars is a significant achievement which places Womersley in the top 10% of en...

Discover the latest trend in cake design with Squires Kitchen's Edible Wafer Paper. This versatile medium can be used in clever ways to add decorative touches to cakes, cupcakes and biscuits. It's strong, flexible and ultra-fine, making it suitable for all kinds of uses in baking and sugarcraft. Wafer paper is so easy to use – simply cut out the shapes you need to create delicate edible decorations such as feathers, butterflies, blossoms and bows. It's also great for making realistic flowers as wafer paper is very fine, easy to manipulate and has no drying time. SK Edible Wafer Paper also offers a quick, easy and effective way to add texture to cake tiers. Use these handy edible sheets with paper-craft techniques such as quilling, folding and decoupage to create contemporary cake decorations. You can also draw onto wafer paper with food colour pens or add depth by brushing with dust (powder) food colours. If you want to make personalised cake, cupcake or...

With its quirky name, bright ruby red appearance and scrumptiously tart taste, the Chuckleberry is fast becoming the 'berry of the moment.' Speciality food company Cottage Delight, which has been making traditional preserves in Staffordshire for over 40 years, has recognised the delicious potential of this berry with the creation of Chuckleberry Jam, the latest addition to the company's best-selling range of award-winning jams, marmalades, curds and honeys. Chuckleberry Jam is an exciting preserve that packs a delicious fruity punch. With a definably tarter flavour than the more commonly known blackcurrant, this dark and juicy berry is a delicious blend of the redcurrant, gooseberry and jostaberry* and creates a stunning topping for cheesecakes and a scrumptious filling for crumbles. That's not to say that this tasty preserve should only be saved just for baking – it's also delicious enjoyed with vanilla ice cream or Greek yoghurt for a simple desser...

Made using organic meat, from animals reared on their farm in Devon, Eversfield Organic is launching an exciting new range of delicious British organic charcuterie, Roam & Relish, which will be available nationwide from 15th July 2016.  Roam & Relish consists of twelve organic charcuterie products, including Pastrami, Salt Beef, Honey Smoked Streaky Bacon and Smoked Ham. Confirmed stockists include Ocado and Whole Foods Market, as well as a number of the country's leading independent deli's, and can also be bought direct from www.eversfieldorganic.co.uk (RRP from £3.85 – see full price list below). Amongst the first to create British organic charcuterie in the UK, the Roam & Relish range will include mouth-wateringly flavoursome beef and pork products. The beef range, all of which is organic and grass fed, includes Pastrami, Salt Beef, Roast Topside of Beef with Crushed Peppercorns and Roast Topside and Mustard. All of the products are produced u...

Loaf, the new free iPad cooking app challenging and re-imagining the conventional recipe, launches on the App Store today. The foodie-lover's platform is an interactive cooking community for enthusiastic home cooks to save time, track progress and cook stress free. Select. Swipe. Share By swiping right for each step of a recipe, the interactive animated design ensures simple execution of even the hardest instructions, bringing a welcome end to re-reading and overanalyzing confusing, text heavy recipes. As the culinary landscape has changed so drastically in recent times, the humble recipe format has seen no real change in over a thousand years. Loaf has been built to reimagine the recipe experience for millions of home cooks in search of the ultimate cooking companion. As well as dissecting and overhauling the age-old recipe format, Loaf is growing a global community of passionate foodies, with a digital cookbook containing 3,500 recipes from over 50 chefs, food...

Brown Cow Organics have introduced a 155g Christmas Pudding flavour live organic yoghurt into their multi award winning range of organic yoghurt flavours (there are 10 additional flavours). This limited edition flavour is available from 20th November; a seasonal artisan dairy twist to the most traditional of Christmas desserts - their Christmas Pudding yoghurt is going out to their stockists now and will be available until Christmas, you can call or email Brown Cow Organics for your nearest independent retail stockist or you can purchase online from Abel and Cole. Artisan made on their organic farm, Brown Cow Organics yoghurts are produced using only their own organic A2 beta casein protein rich whole milk from their born, bred and grazed Guernsey herd. Ingredients are totally natural, non-homogenised, and are rich in Omega 3s and other trace elements. A small team of dedicated local people hand make the yoghurt which is then hand poured into recyclable, re-usable pots. The...

Host, Liverpool's original Pan Asian restaurant and bar concept in Hope Street, held a night with The Liverpool Craft Beer Company dedicated to demonstrating craft beer as the perfect accompaniment to Pan-Asian food. Following discussions with the Love Lane Liverpool City Centre-based business, Host will now be collaborating on a series of similar events beginning in the new year. The Liverpool Craft Beer Company's Jess Doyle said: "For a long time now, people have thought that the only drink to have with your meal is wine, but now, with craft beer becoming more and more popular and breweries, such as our own, producing high quality craft beer, people are starting to realise there's more to beer than bland fizzy lager. Beer styles have a wide spectrum of flavours, aromas, colours and textures which means that there really is a beer for every meal. Five of our beers have been expertly paired with the incredible food at HOST with the chefs tasting the bee...

Move over sandwiches – exotic salads are growing in popularity as a new lunchtime favourite for office workers and those on the go. Increasing numbers of shoppers across the UK are now choosing a salad over a sarnie, wrap or roll and it's the healthier end of the salad market that is growing the fastest. Latest retail sales data* reveals that in the last year demand for leafy salads across all retailers have grown by nearly three times the rate of sandwiches. At the same time demand for 'light' salads have grown at nearly four times the rate of sandwiches. The growing trend has prompted Tesco to completely overhaul and more than treble its 'on the go' salad range to nearly 50 lines. Included in the new range are such exotic salads: finest* Crayfish and Mango Salad finest* Coconut Asian Chicken Salad finest* King Prawn, Spicy Charlotte Potato Salad with Sour Cream and Lime Dressing Salmon and Edamame Sushi Rice Salad Yakitori Chic...

A classic combination, Tideford Organics' heavenly NEW Chicken Soup with Spring Vegetables is packed full of goodness. Using the best organic chicken, Tideford Organics has expertly combined flavoursome, fresh vegetables from the British kitchen garden including peas, leeks, courgettes, potatoes and spring onions to create an immensely tasty and nutritious, light soup. To finish, it's seasoned to perfection using garlic, crushed black pepper and spring herbs including mint and parsley. Lovingly produced in Devon, this Chicken Soup with Spring Vegetables is a British classic which tastes exactly like you'd make at home.  It's a real crowd pleaser which is perfect for lunch, or a light evening meal. Tideford Organics is proud to only use organic vegetables, herbs and spices, which are all slowly cooked - resulting in truly heavenly flavours. Gluten, wheat and dairy free, it's suitable for coeliacs, is low in salt, low in fat and contains no added sugar...

Farrington's Mellow Yellow's commitment to environmentally sustainable farming has been recognised in The Grocer Gold Awards 2015, the most prestigious awards in the food and drinks industry. The brand, which is celebrating 10 years, has been shortlisted as finalists in The Green Initiative of the Year category. The awards focus on key business areas including innovation and customer satisfaction and this is a new category for 2015 recognising “specific and material achievements”. Farrington's Mellow Yellow launched in 2005 but it was two years before its launch in 2003 that farmer Duncan Farrington decided to become a LEAF Demonstration Farm and planted his rapeseed crops under the LEAF Marque standard. This decision to grow and produce his brand of cold pressed rapeseed oil to the highest environmental standards, raised the bar of British produced culinary oils as he led the growth of the sector within the UK. Duncan has taken a long term approach to envir...

Yorkshire food company HECK has got busy in the kitchen and created a series of light, bright and deliciously healthy recipes to celebrate summer, all featuring their new lower fat and gluten-free Chicken Italia sausages, burgers and meatballs and perfect for al fresco dining. As well as packing a punch on taste, the seven recipes are great choices if you d0n't want to give up your favourite meals but still want to get in shape for summer – all are low in fat and saturated fat, low in sugar and high in protein to fill you up without filling you out, and each is super quick to make.  There are also some great healthy summer food swaps and low carb/gluten-free options. Greek Sausages Makes a delicious light lunch that's low in carbs and perfect if you need to follow a gluten-free diet. It's packed with vegetables, too – you'll get three of your 5-a-day in just this one meal! Summery bangers and cauliflower-cannellini mash This light version of ...

Innovative and award winning bakers Merangz are launching an exotic new addition to their range of stunning giant Swiss meringues - refreshing and luxurious Passion Fruit. Their giant - and bite sized - meringues now have a longer shelf life too. The icing on the meringue Unique, luxurious, ambient and versatile, Merangz are perfect for retail and foodservice. The best friend of time pressed cooks, caterers and chefs, they can be crushed, sprinkled or drizzled with fruit, compotes, cream or a thick caramelly Dulce de leche to create stunning desserts - with minimal effort. They can also be served simply - just as they are. For foodservice, Merangz giants are available in boxes of 18 of an individual flavour, and bites in a mixed box of 80. For retail, giants are available in twin packs - with eight in a box, and bites 14 packs per box. They now have an even longer shelf life too - giants, 10 weeks and bites, 24 weeks. Gluten Free - naturally! Naturally Gluten Fr...

From the creators of award winning Merangz - meet the Tweeners. Not too big, not too small - just perfectly 'in-between'. Gorgeous mini layer cakes for sharing, in a variety of flavours, filled with generous helpings of curds and compotes. And just in for Spring - three new seasonal flavours: Passion Fruit Cheesecake, Lime and Coconut and also Cherry Bakewell. More 'up top' and 'in-between' Tweeners break the mould - three inch tall light and airy superior sponges lavishingly filled 'in-between' with oodles of homemade curds and compotes. All are hand finished with toppings of real butter creams and smooth caramels. Made using only the finest ingredients, they are also available in a variety of other tempting flavours - Black Forest, Caramel Latte, Chocolate Caramel, Lemon Curd, Sticky Toffee, Triple Chocolate and White Chocolate and Raspberry. A 'Tweeny' bit different As a nation we love to indulge in food together, from shar...

North West sustainable food business, Roaming Roosters, launches new Ready to Cook range, offering customers healthy, meaty convenience meals. In keeping with the Lancashire company's 'food that makes you feel good' strapline, the meal range is made up from a selection of Roosters' grass fed meats. Coming from a third generation of farmers and butchers, the company works with local, sustainable farming suppliers, committed to the grass feeding techniques and natural growth processes which ultimately make for a better end product.  Grass fed meat is proven to provide more Omega 3 fats and is four times higher in Vitamin E, without any of the hidden, unwanted extras. The new Ready to Cook range priced from £2.95 to £5.50, gives people who lead a busy lifestyle the chance to eat well, with minimum effort.  The dishes come pre-seasoned or with sauces, so that all customers need do is put in the oven in the ready to bake tray, or throw into a pan and add extras s...

The West Country based speciality food producer, The Bay Tree, is celebrating Sandwich Week by using its loaf. The experts in preserves and chutneys are piling on the pickle, slathering on the sauce and adding that little extra something to turn the humble sarnie into something truly upper crust! In business for 20 years, The Bay Tree continue to grow their extensive range so there's no need to stick to the same old boring, everyday accompaniments. Now is the time to get fancy with your fillings! Spicy Tomato & Caramelised Onion Chutney  – Add some pizzazz to a cheese or ham sandwich. Weight 320g                  Unit Cost £2.25             SRP £3.35 Farmhouse Pickle  – Traditional English pickle that's tip-top with a trusty Farmhouse Cheddar. Weight 310g        ...

Krispy Kreme is excited to announce the launch of Choco Mania, the ultimate chocolate indulgence for you to enjoy! Introducing a mouth-watering range of four new chocolate inspired doughnuts leaving chocolate lovers with a sweet sensation they'll never forget. To get your taste buds racing, the delicious Chocolate Hazelnut Kreme doughnut is filled with a smooth hazelnut Kreme topped with a crunchy caramelised nut sprinkle and elegantly glazed with chocolate hazelnut. Calling all chocoholics, the delectable Krispy Kreme Triple Chocolate Cake is the one for you! The doughnut is coated in rich white chocolate and hand decorated with a deliciously dark chocolate drizzle and chocolate sprinkles. A tasty treat for all chocolatiers, the Krispy Kreme Chocolate and Honeycomb doughnut is filled with a decadent chocolate truffle Kreme topped with white Belgian chocolate and golden honeycomb pieces. Last but by no means least, the moreish Chocolate Krispy is our signature g...