September 2011
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Food Festivals this weekend September 30th-...
With beautiful weather promised this weekend, make the most of it and have a few ‘lazy’ days exploring some food festivals.
Dessert by Bruno Loubet - one of the chefs joining the Great British Chefs site
What happens when you combine a harvest festival celebration, a gathering of sixty great artisan food makers, winemakers and brewers and celebrity chefs?
The answer is The Barnes Food...
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Sneaky peek at Josh Eggleton on upcoming Great...
So many of you have asked us when’s the new Great British Chefs site coming? We keep saying …… “Watch this space”. ”Soon”. ”Sign up for the newsletter and you’ll be first to know”. However, because it’s Friday and we’re feeling generous, here’s a sneaky peek at a little bit of Josh Eggleton’s area on the new...
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Mark Jordan collects 4th AA Rosette for Ocean...
Mark Jordan, Head Chef of the Ocean Restaurant at the Atlantic Hotel, collected a 4th AA rosette for the Jersey restaurant at the recent AA Restaurant Guide awards ceremony. The Atlantic Hotel is one of only 15 hotel restaurants in the UK to achieve such an accolade. We’re delighted that Mark will be joining the new chefs who will be coming to Great British Chefs revamped website very soon....
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Shaun Rankin on Saturday Kitchen 1st October 2011
We’re delighted to say that Jersey’s Shaun Rankin will be on BBC1’s popular cookery show Saturday Kitchen this weekend. Shaun is Head Chef at Bohemia Restaurant and on Great British Chefs website and app.
Shaun Rankin - Great British Chefs from Great British Chefs.
Saturday Kitchen is watched by 2.7 million people all over Britain and Shaun will be representing the Channel...
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The Latymer awarded fifth Rosette by the AA
Congratulations to Michael Wignall, who is one of the new chefs who will be joining the revamped Great British Chefs website in a few weeks. Michael is Head Chef at The Latymer at the Pennyhill Park Hotel which was awarded its fifth Rosette by the AA on the 26th September.
Coffee & Cream by Michael Wignall - Photography by David Griffen
The restaurant, was the only establishment to...
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Shaun Rankin's Cheese Souffle
Many thanks to Shaun Rankin one of the great chefs in our Great British Chefs App for sharing this lovely recipe for British Cheese Week. This method of making soufflé takes the stress out of this notoriously tricky dish.
CHEESE SOUFFLE WITH APPLE, WALNUT & POMEGRANATE SALAD
Serves 4
Special equipment: Four 10cm (4in) diameter ovenproof moulds/ramekins, Steamer
Ingredients
240ml (8fl...
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British Cheese Week, now with vegetarian rennet
Guest blogger Monica Shaw looks at the options for vegetarians in British Cheese Week. What, you thought all cheese was vegetarian? Think again…..
All Photography by Monica Shaw
Go to any gastro pub in Britain and more often than not the vegetarian option will involve some form of goats cheese. As much as we veggies would love a little more creativity on these menus, we admit that many...
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Simon Cowell plans his own version of MasterChef
There are reports that Simon Cowell is planning his own cookery show after learning that MasterChef Australia became the world’s most successful format of the BBC show.
Photo credit - Loren Javier
The Sun report that “The cookery series caught his attention when it beat his own show Australia’s Got Talent after luring almost one in five viewers during its first year in 2009.
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Food Festivals this weekend 24th - 25th September...
It’s late September and there are still plenty of food festivals to celebrate the arrival of Autumn. We’ve found plenty of food festivals running across the UK on Friday 23rd September and this weekend to help you celebrate the new season.
Abbfest Festival will be running from September 23rd- 25th. The festival includes demonstrations from top chefs. The acclaimed Michelin starred chef...
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What's the Future for Cookery Books?
Many thanks to i Newspaper (The Independent’s tabloid) for the lovely review of our app “Forget about all those unloved & outdated cookbooks and check out the new Great British Chefs app”.
However, do you think that websites and apps are where the “future” of recipes & cookery books is heading?
Will there still always be a place for the printed cookbook?
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Food Photography or Painting of Food?
Image credit: Tjalf Sparnaay
Over on Facebook we asked you to tell us whether you took photos of food and what occasions you took it for (if you want to give a quick response, it would be much appreciated). So it was amazing to come across an artist, Tjalf Sparnaay, whose paintings of food are so realistic it’s hard to tell them apart from photographs of food.
Take a look at the image...
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Gemma's Fideuà (Noodle Paella) Recipe
We had so many people who loved Gemma’s post on fideuà on Facebook and lots of you asking for the recipe. So Gemma kindly shared the recipe here for you all to enjoy.
Serves 6
1 bulb of garlic 2 big onions 3 soaked nyores (dried peppers) 5 beef tomatoes (grated) 100g prawns (unpeeled, heads on) 100g calamari 100g mussels 100g clams 400g cod 1 litres of stock 250g of fideus (short...
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Michelin chef Martin Wishart plans to open...
One of the chefs on The Great British Chefs website and app, Martin Wishart, is planning to open a second branch of his brasserie “brand” The Honours in Glasgow.
Martin Wishart - on Great British Chefs - website & app
The Honours, Martin’s current brasserie in Edinburgh, offers mid-market café-style dining. It received 1,600 bookings before opening this summer and has...
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Food Festivals this weekend 17th -18th September...
September’s food festivals continue to celebrate the beginning of Autumn. We’ve found plenty of food festivals running across the UK this weekend to help you celebrate the new season.
The York Food and Drink festival is a weeklong event starting on September 16th and finishing on September 25th . This festival is full of events for everyone to enjoy such as, ‘Wanna be a Masterchef...
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Who won the £20 iTunes App Store Vouchers by...
We asked you to tell us the most essential appliance in your kitchen. We had two £20 iTunes App Store vouchers up for grabs for telling us. Everyone who left an answer (on Facebook, Flickr, here on Tumblr or Twitter) went into a draw to win a £20 voucher. PLUS we are giving a £20 iTunes voucher to the person who GBC HQ staff judged to have given the most helpful answer.
You had until 11.59pm...
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Win a £20 iTunes voucher by telling us your ideal...
Quail Scotch Eggs by James Sommerin
We’re going birthday crazy at the moment, but know we couldn’t have done it without you all. The 50% sale still on for iPhone & iPad But it’s time for another competition that’s open to all fans regardless of where you live (winners of the last competition were announced on Friday)
To win one of two £20 iTunes App Store vouchers...
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Michelin style Fish n Chips by Nathan Outlaw
The lovely people at Love UK introduced us to their Facebook fans last week and said of the brilliant chefs in our app: “These chefs are reinventing everything from fish and chips to Scotch eggs, Eton Mess and curry but what is YOUR favourite UK food? Let us know and we’ll get one of the chefs to give us their recipe!”
Hundreds of Love UK’s fans answered and Fish and...
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Did you go to Bootlaw's Late Summer BBQ? - Win a...
We were delighted to be one of the sponsors of Bootlaw’s late summer BBQ last night. Luckily the weather held out and we enjoyed a fantastic rooftop BBQ at The Driver in King’s Cross and had fun meeting a great mix of people, start-ups like ourselves, designers, people who ran interactive agencies, developers, TV producers, lawyers, you name it, it was a amazing mix of passionate...
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Food Festivals this weekend 10th -11th September...
September heralds the end of summer and the beginning of Autumn and there’s plenty of food festivals running across the England this weekend to help you celebrate the new season.
Harvest at Jimmy’s comes to Jimmy’s Farm in Suffolk on September 9th-12th. Jimmy Doherty the celebrity TV farmer is putting on a unique mix of music festival (including camping) with an impressive...
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Food Festivals this weekend 3rd - 4th September...
There seems to be a lot of special food events in the North of Britain & Scotland this weekend (largely down to The Scottish Food & Drink Fortnight beginning this weekend), sorry that means a long trip for you Southerners.
For those of you who reside in Scotland or are planning a visit soon, The Scottish Food and Drink Fortnight launches this weekend and runs from September 3rd- 18th....
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New Michelin Chefs joining the Great British Chefs...
“What’s this you say? You’re adding new chefs to your app - about time too”. You’re right. We’re a start-up, so naturally we’re always evolving and in the next few months you will see some big changes, not only to our app, but also to our website too. We can’t reveal too much right now, but (after listening to your feedback), we’re pretty...
August 2011
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The way to a woman's heart ... is through her...
Passion fruit creme with elderflower strawberries - by Simon Hulstone
Forget money, fame, and success, all women really want is someone who can cook. One in six British women would prefer to marry a chef than a footballer, with 27 per cent claiming that the most attractive quality in a man was the ability to cook.
We commissioned some research, commissioned by new lifestyle app Great British...
