Forget The Great British Menu; it was all about The Great SK Menu this week. Ahead of a visit from some VIPs, we transformed the meeting room in our northern head office into a ‘pop up’ restaurant, the very exclusive Wellington House. Like most of the fine dining establishments trying to make a booking was […]

It may only be the start of the 2018 Chinese New Year (the year of the dog) but here in the SK development kitchen, we’re already planning for 2019 – the year of the pig. You will be very pleased to know that we are skipping ahead this year and providing a pork-based recipe. Dog […]

Mention Christmas to anyone in February and you would get a funny look, but at this time of year John Parker is already full of festive spirit. That’s because in his role as a Commercial Manager at SK Chilled Foods, he is already planning for Christmas 2018. This month, for instance, he has already met […]

A friend of mine, Nick Grieves, runs The Patricia, a small 25-seat restaurant located off the beaten track in Jesmond, Newcastle. During the recent Newcastle Restaurant Week, I took Chef Sean, and our partners, to eat there. The space is dark with low lighting, lots of candles and very atmospheric. A quiet spot where the food […]

Next Thursday, Scotland will celebrate Burns Night and a large proportion of the population will sit down to a Burns Night supper to celebrate the birth of the country’s favourite poet, Robert (Rabbie) Burns. Given our propensity to piggyback on other country’s celebrations (I give you St Patrick’s Day as the perfect example) no doubt […]

SK Chilled Foods has just experienced the busiest Christmas period in its 30-year history. In 2017, we produced over 50 separate Christmas party food products for supermarkets, covering Oriental, Indian, Med, Tex-Mex and traditional cuisines. In total, 3.3 million cases of chilled food were delivered to supermarkets in the 12 weeks leading up to the […]

The organisers of Veganuary were very clever when they set up this awareness month a few years ago. Granted, the only other option, if it was about fitting in with the name of the month, was to have it in February (Veganuly just doesn’t right does it?) but January really is the perfect time. After […]