May 7th, 2018   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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Categories: Chefs' Blog

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 […]

April 23rd, 2018   |  
Author: SK Foods   |  
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It was National Tea Day at the weekend and there was a lot of discussion about how to make the perfect brew. We’re all about the food here at SK, but let’s set the record straight before we go anywhere else. The perfect cup of tea involves letting the tea bag(s) or leaves stew for at […]

April 16th, 2018   |  
Author: Sean Flint   |  
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Categories: Chefs' Blog

Wake up and smell the coffee. How many times do you see on social media or hear someone say: “I’ll be fine once I’ve had my coffee….”? Plenty, that’s how many. Coffee is something of an obsession with us Brits and we don’t seem to mind shelling out for it in any number of variations. […]

March 30th, 2018   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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With Easter coming up, we thought long and hard this week for another subject to write about for the blog…we really did. Alternative Easter feasts, creative ways with lamb, etc….we thought about them all, honest! But we kept getting distracted by chocolate eggs. The wanting to eat them now is weighing heavily on our minds […]

March 23rd, 2018   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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Categories: Chefs' Blog

News is out that Costco are selling an apocalypse food kit which it promises will keep you and your family fed for a year should disaster strike – when presumably it will be safe to venture out of your shed or whatever you’ve been using as a bunker. Now, here at SK Chilled Foods, we […]

March 8th, 2018   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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Categories: Chefs' Blog

It’s Spam Appreciation Week. Yes, it actually exists! In the days before Spam was a term for annoying emails, it was more synonymous as a brand name for canned cooked meat. Keeping the troops marching through the Second World War, Spam (or to give its correct styling, SPAM), was a name everyone knew.

February 16th, 2018   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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Categories: Chefs' Blog

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 […]

January 26th, 2018   |  
Author: Sean Flint   |  
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Categories: Chefs' Blog

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 […]

January 19th, 2018   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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Categories: Chefs' Blog

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 […]

January 5th, 2018   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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Categories: Chefs' Blog

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 […]