Ok, hands up, who had a barbecue over the Bank Holiday weekend?
Is there an actual law that says you have to have barbecue over a three-day weekend. Well, it seemed rude not to, especially when the weather was so good.
As we wipe the last remnants of ketchup from our chins following the last long weekend until August (Noooooooo!) we should pause to appreciate the mighty beast that is BBQ.
May is Hamburger Month. That sounds good to us! We love a burger here – it’s like the little black dress of food – you can accessorise it in so many different ways.
From humble beginnings of a simple ground beef patty, perhaps with just a touch of ketchup and in a toasted bun, the burger has come a long way. It’s constantly evolving and it seems, as a nation, we can’t get enough of them.
International No Diet Day and Eat What You Want Day – now they are two awareness days we can definitely get on-board with!
Ok, the weather is getting better and as a result legs and torsos are being exposed to the world left, right and centre, after a long winter of comfort eating and hibernation. Not all of us like what has been hiding under that woolly jumper….our first instinct is to panic. And then renew the gym membership.
But should it really should be a time for thinking about our “beach bodies”, stocking up on salad leaves and dusting off the trainers? Some advertisers would have us think so, urging us to get “bikini-ready” and various diet gurus already proclaiming only their diet can have you ready for summer.
Well, thankfully, not everyone agrees.
Cooking with leftovers has been becoming a bit of a “thing” for a while now.
As we become more conscious of food waste, with tightening budgets and get more creative with our cooking, we seem less inclined to throw food away.
For many series now, Masterchef contestants have been tasked with creating culinary greatness from ingredients such as the carcass of a cod, veg peelings, left-over carbohydrate and whatever else may elevate it from bin-fodder to prize-worthy food.
