If, like us, you miss your pastries and pies by following a free-from diet, then help is at hand now from this amazing recipe for shortcrust pastry. Make it sweet or savoury. For savoury recipes we simply replaced the sugar with some herbs and pepper. A top tip from our Food Editor Sarah is to place the pastry inside cling film as you roll each portion into shape, as it assists with keeping it together and moving it into the pastry case.
In 2011, Fraser Bawtree needed some spending money for a French trip with his school. But instead of getting an odd job to tide him over, Fraser created a complete product and registered a Limited company - at the grand age of 11 years old. And now Frasers Fudj is soon to be on its way to a festival near you, in a fully branded, portable Fudj shop.
Food plays a major role in our well-being, fitness levels, moods and hormone balance. It can give us energy or zap us of the will to move, depending on what and how much we put into our systems. And every day there is a new diet to add to the millions already claiming to be the 'next quick fix' in terms of health and beauty. So what should we eat and how much?
It is hard to believe that it is now five months since we started clearing a pumpkin patch for our food editor, Sarah, to grow her Halloween fruits. And even more unbelievable that the pumpkin patch ended up as a small allotment, with a multitude of beds growing food for our tables. Well now has come the time to harvest many of the vegetables and fruits we have grown - and you can read the next instalment of our home-grown story today.
The Brighton and Hove Food & Drinks Festival looks set to bring us nearly two weeks of fabulous food, delicious drinks and a huge celebration of produce from the South. Running from the 4th - 14th September 2014, this proves to be a Harvest to remember, with outdoor events, tasting tours and fun for all the family.
Congratulations to our winner, Mr Brian Barks (Essex) - Asif Baig (West Yorkshire) - Elaine Edwards (Hants) - Helen Preston (Essex) - Kathryn Casbolt (Kent).
