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Choosing the best olive oil - DukesHill
Choosing the best olive oil
What should I look for when choosing olive oil? My daughters laugh when I reminisce about a time, not so very long ago, when buying olive oil meant a trip... Read more...
Why Artisanal Pasta? - DukesHill
Why Artisanal Pasta?
Is it really worth paying a little more for artisanal pasta? It’s sometimes difficult to put your finger on exactly why one thing is better than another. Take pasta for... Read more...
Meater and Meater+ Meat Thermometers – Review - DukesHill
Meater and Meater+ Meat Thermometers – Review
Just before Christmas I treated myself to a new Meater+ Meat Thermometer. I’ve always been a keen cook, and I particularly enjoy meat cookery, whether it’s slow-cooked pulled pork on... Read more...
Avoid the most common mistakes when cooking roast lamb for Easter - DukesHill
Avoid the most common mistakes when cooking roast lamb for Easter
Our guide to the potential pitfalls in cooking lamb, and how to avoid them. Imagine the horror! You’ve invited the whole family over for Easter, every extended aunt and uncle... Read more...
2 Metre Meals - DukesHill
2 Metre Meals
For those of you on social media, you may have noticed the sudden flurry of images being posted daily of people’s banana bread or their sourdough starters, their picture-perfect homemade... Read more...
The Perfect Breakfast - DukesHill
The Perfect Breakfast
As a child the old saw “Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dinner like a pauper” was repeated to the point of being one of those family... Read more...
Bologna - DukesHill
Bologna
What a disaster! We had planned our trip to Bologna to get some foodie inspiration but the day before our trip I managed to get food poisoning from eating a... Read more...
Dukeshill Tour De France! - DukesHill
Dukeshill Tour De France!
We’ve just returned from the most wonderful two week “tour de France”. We had planned our tour around the top two thirds of France taking in some of the country’s... Read more...
Mackie Mayor in Manchester - DukesHill
Mackie Mayor in Manchester
Neale and I spend a lot of time in Manchester on photography shoots. Whilst there we enjoy discovering new foodie places. Mackie Mayor is a new discovery and rather a good one,... Read more...
Dukeshill Free Range Goose - DukesHill
Dukeshill Free Range Goose
Christmas is coming and the geese are getting fat – hurrah! A majestic Roast Goose is a magnificent sight on a festive table. For those of us that love the... Read more...
Meatopia 2019 - DukesHill
Meatopia 2019
Meatopia has become somewhat of an annual pilgrimage for my family. It’s an event we look forward to enormously, and a growing number of friends seem to agree. The clue... Read more...
Dukeshill Free Range Bronze Turkeys - DukesHill
Dukeshill Free Range Bronze Turkeys
Our award winning Dukeshill Free Range Bronze Turkeys are specially reared for us by Rosie Wadlow. To say she has a rather good pedigree for turkey rearing is a bit... Read more...