Are you getting ready to consume your own weight in party food over the festive season? It’s the one time of the year where the diet really does go out the window so having studied and tasted (it’s a hard job etc..) the party food ranges of the main UK supermarkets over the last few […]

Do you recall the scene in Pulp Fiction when John Travolta’s character asks Uma Thurman’s character whether she had just ordered a $5 milk shake, suggesting she had expensive taste? He tastes the drink and declares it to be pretty ‘bleeping’ good, although he is still not sure whether it’s worth five bucks. Granted, 20-plus […]

Today is St Andrew’s Day, the celebration of Scotland’s patron saint. It’s a bank holiday in Scotland (why don’t we get one for St George’s Day?) and the fact it falls on a Friday this year must be manna from heaven for our friends north of the border, not that they need an excuse for […]

SK Chilled Foods has scooped two awards in the food industry’s ‘Oscars’. We walked away with the Chilled, Fresh & Dairy Manufacturing Company of the Year and Partnership of the Year award at the prestigious Food Manufacture Excellence Awards in London. The two awards recognised the technical innovation that resulted in SK making record sales last […]

It’s national curry week, which has always had a place in our hearts here in the SK kitchen, after all it is our bread and butter (or should that be naan?) To mark the week, supermarket Morrisons recently launched a new eight chilli-rated curry dubbed the Flaming Fiery Phaal. This was after complaints that their […]

Oh my ‘cod’, it’s Seafood Week. When I ‘seafood’ I eat it. Do you like my new ‘herrings’? Isn’t this blog ‘brill’? No we haven’t lost our marbles; we’re just getting ready for the first day of Seafood Week on Friday which starts with National Fish Pun Day. ‘Seabass’ me the remote, I want to […]

Ahh, is there anything more quintessentially British than the roast dinner? That’s why we were delighted when we discovered this week was British Roast Dinner Week. The week is intended as competition for pubs and hotels to see who does the best roast. Now that will be a hard one to judge but if they […]

Before we became development chefs, our lives were spent in kitchens in restaurants/gastropubs across the UK, so fine dining is in our DNA. These include Michelin-starred establishments and, in the case of Chef Oliver, Buckingham Palace and Windsor – not that he frequently reminds us that he used to cook for the Queen of course! […]

It’s Zero Waste Week, which is a grassroots campaign raising awareness of the environmental impact of waste, whatever type that may be. In our case, predictably, we are focusing on food waste. Firstly, let’s start with some facts.