Today is Global Scouse Day, a celebration of all things Liverpudlian. As part of the day, people are being encouraged to eat Scouse. If you have never heard this before, it’s a type of lamb or beef stew which has been enjoyed by generations of people from this fine city. The word actually comes from […]

It’s Valentine’s Day and love is in the air so what is a more perfect aphrodisiac than food? If you are planning to make a meal for a loved one, or taking them to your favourite restaurant, here’s some suggestions that will help to spice things up. Oysters – if they were good enough for Casanova, […]

It’s not often that we would recommend throwing food around a kitchen but we always make an exception for Shrove Tuesday. Do you know that the tradition of tossing pancakes originated in 1445 when a housewife from Olney, Buckinghamshire, was so busy making pancakes that she forgot the time until she heard the church bells […]

It’s fair to say Chinese New Year represents one of the busiest times of the year in the SK kitchen. Only Christmas is busier for us and as an example this year will be providing 1.5 million pieces of prawn toast, 2 million spring rolls and hundreds of thousands spare ribs, lemon chicken and wontons. You don’t need […]

It’s Yorkshire Pudding Day. Are you like us and think that Sunday dinner is never the same without this amazing dish made from nothing more than eggs, flour, and milk? The beauty of the Yorkshire Pud is that it is so versatile. You often now see it as a starter (traditionally this is how it was […]

It’s Breakfast Week and whilst we love nothing more than a good old fashioned British fry-up, staying true to our roots we want to pay homage to the different breakfast that people around the world eat. If you have been to countries like Spain, France and Italy, you will know that they don’t necessarily regard […]

It’s Burns Night so hands up, who likes haggis? Haggis is a traditional Scottish sausage made from a sheep’s stomach stuffed with diced sheep’s liver, lungs and heart, oatmeal, onion, suet and seasoning. It’s one of those dishes that doesn’t sound the most appetising (stomach, liver and heart!) but trust us, it delicious! We for one […]

No doubt many of you will currently be trying to stay ‘dry’ during January after the boozy excesses of Christmas, so have you thought about doing Veganuary? If you are like us, that is likely to last until this evening when you get that Friday feeling and, let’s face it, we will all have worked […]

Mince pies will be putting in their annual appearance in our homes this Christmas. But the question is do you add an egg to your pastry or not? Do you make your own mincemeat or take it straight from a store-bought jar? And do you cover the filling completely or decorate it with a pastry-fashioned star or […]