Author Archives for Emily Davenport, Head of Dairy Diary

About Emily Davenport, Head of Dairy Diary

Head of Dairy Diary; I'm passionate about producing high quality products that our customers will cherish. I'm also a mum of three and I enjoy cooking, walking, gardening and painting with my family, as well as printmaking (when I find the time!)

Be warm and toasty on Bonfire Night!

Bonfire Night recipes

It’s a glorious morning this morning, with the sun and frost making everything sparkle.

It will be a cold Bonfire Night tonight and so we had better wrap up warm!

Of course, eating something hot
and scrumptious is essential too.

On Saturday night we headed to our local Bonfire evening with much enthusiasm. The fireworks were terrific, but the catering left much to desire and I’m afraid to say that my five-year-old and I resorted to sharing a tub of pic n’ mix sweets and a hot chocolate as everything else looked so unappetising!

Tonight will be different though as we will be watching those unfailingly comical home-lit fireworks and consuming our own grub. This is my selection of goodies for tonight – all from the Dairy Diary of course! I can’t wait!

Have fun everyone and stay safe.

Broccoli & Apple Soup

Fruit n’ Nut Fapjacks

Hot Mocha Choc

Halloween | Pumpkin carving with kids and delicious pumpkin recipes

Halloween fun with kids and pumpkin recipes

 

The trick to creating the perfect Halloween treat

Most children take great delight in carving spooky features into pumpkins at Halloween.

 

Pumpkin carving fun with your children

For the best guide on how to carve a pumpkin safely with your little ones:

Visit our How to Carve a Pumpkin blog here for all the best tips and tricks to keep children happy and involved while keeping little hands safe.

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But what do you do with all
the leftover pumpkin flesh?

The Dairy Diary has the answer! For recipes to use up your leftover pumpkin, visit our blog for 5 Easy and Delicious Pumpkin Recipes here to use up every last bit!

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And for even more Halloween themed recipes, including fun Halloween baking recipes for children, visit our Spooktacular Halloween Recipes blog here. 

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Competition | Win a Marks and Spencer £300 Gift Token

Competition | Win an M&S £300 Gift Card

To celebrate the launch of the new Take a Box of Eggs cookbook we are giving away a £300 M&S Gift Card!

How would you spend £300 with Marks & Spencer?

Fashion? School uniforms? Food? Drink? Flowers? Something for the home? Christmas gifts? Or shoes?

The card can be used in any Marks & Spencer UK store and the online shop.

Simply answer the question, “How many chapters are there in Take a Box of Eggs?” and complete the entry form.

Enter now.

Good luck

Plant now for a gorgeous spring display

Plant now for a gorgeous spring display

I would adore to live in a chocolate-box thatched cottage, or an imposing Victorian townhouse, but the reality is actually a 1980s red brick square.

We live in a lovely village and our house is very practical for a busy family, but what it’s not is pretty.

So my mission is to try and soften its
appearance with a gorgeous garden.

As time and money are not in abundance at the moment I need to start small.

Seasonal Garden IdeasWith this project from our
Seasonal Garden Ideas book, the
patch of lifeless soil underneath
the living room window can be
transformed into a fiery riot of
colour (fingers crossed!)

Click here simple step-by-step instructions.

Seasonal Garden Ideas is available for just £3.99 – it is an ideal low-cost Christmas Gift for family and friends.

 

Competition | Win a LaCrosse Radio Controlled Wall Clock

Win a LaCrosse Kitchen Clock

 

Win a LaCrosse Radio Controlled Wall Clock for your kitchen

This contemporary finish clock is not only radio controlled, and therefore, accurate to 1 second every million years (updated from the atomic clock), but it also features, a calendar, indoor and outdoor temperature, a snooze, moon phases and minimum and maximum daily readings! It can be used free-standing or wall mounted and  includes batteries.

And it adjusts itself when the
clocks go backwards and forwards,
so no more excuses.

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National Baking Week

National Baking Week recipes

This week is National Baking Week and it just so happens to be my birthday week too!

For the past few days I have been leaving cookbooks open at appropriate pages hoping that my hints for a gorgeous homemade birthday cake will come to fruition.

I just hope it’s my other half
who takes the hint rather than
my children, whose attempts
could be calamitous!

National Baking Week was set up to celebrate good old British baking and to raise vital funds for Great Ormand Street Children’s Hospital (GOSH).

Baking is all about having fun, whether baking to relax, baking with your children, baking with friends, or simply enjoying the fruits of your labour with a cuppa. Why not host a bake sale at work, school or at a local event?

Visit the website for a downloadable info pack http://www.nationalbakingweek.co.uk/downloads.

Here are the recipes I have been hinting at. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

National Baking Week recipes

Frosty Top Lemon Loaf  and Cranberry Bread Pudding

 

Take a Box of Eggs, Dairy CookbookThe delicious Cranberry Bread Pudding
recipe is just one of 100 fabulous recipes
you can find in the new Take a Box of Eggs
cookbook available now for just £7.49.

Take a closer look!

 

 

 

 

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