Lisa Tse of the Sweet Mandarin restaurant and cookery school here in city centre Manchester, is teaching people to cook Dim Sum via Twitter this Saturday (28th Feb) at 10 am. Follow @sweetmandarin for step-by-step instructions on the day and check out her website whilst you're about it. Very entrepreneurial – love it!
Food and Drink
February 26, 2009
February 12, 2009
Two Cook For Two for Valentines
Sam and Chris, the cooks at Two Cook For Two hinted that they might be bringing out some extra recipes for a Valentine's Day update... and they have! Here's what they say:
'As Valentine's Day is almost here, we couldn't resist an update!! We've written some extra recipes that will make a special evening pass without fuss or stress. Starters that can be prepared in advance, main courses that are simple and stylish, desserts that are deliciously wicked!!'
Take your pick, mix and match.
Go on, visit the link below and get your extra goodies:
September 28, 2008
Living in the Raw
I love the idea of incorporating more raw food into my diet - no, I'm not talking about raw meat or anything like that - I'm talking about more fruit, salads, smoothies, nuts and seeds, etc. Would you believe that you can even get raw chocolate cake and apple crumble? Or flapjacks, cookies and ice-cream?
Karen Knowler is The Raw Food Coach. She's also an author, presenter, former MD of The Fresh Network (The UK's raw and living foods organisation), founder of The Fresh Festival and creator of Get Fresh! magazine. Karen has appeared on LK Today (GMTV), Channel Health, The Wellbeing Channel, Rude Health, LBC radio and Radio 4, as well as appearing regularly in the press in her capacity as raw food expert and food/life coach. She really knows her stuff and she makes the idea of raw food seem an absolute 'no-brainer' (without appearing to be the slightest bit 'crusty' or 'cranky').
Recently Karen posted four different YouTube videos on her blog which, together, answer the following questions:
Q1: So what is raw food?
Q2: Why do people choose to eat more raw food or begin a raw food diet?
Q3: What does a typical raw food diet or menu plan look like?
Watch the videos for Questions 1,2 and 3 here
Q4: How much of a difference would it make eating half your diet raw and going all raw?
Q5: What about eating out?
Q6: What are the biggest potential pitfalls of following a raw diet?
Watch the videos for Questions 4, 5 and 6 here
Q7: How do you get started?
Q8: How long does it take to start feeling and seeing a difference?
Watch the videos for Question 7 and 8 here
Q9: What do you consider "must know" information that anyone new to raw foods should have?
Q10: Where do you see the concept of raw foods going in the future?
Watch the videos for Questions 9 and 10 here
