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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!)

Recipe of the Week | Autumn Super Salad

Autumn Super Salad

Salad is not for autumn, right?

Wrong!

This delicious Autumn Super Salad from Dairy Diary will change your mind.

Serves 2
Time 30 mins
Per serving: Calories 295. Fat 13g of which 5g is saturated

Colourful, nutritious and filling. Try it this week.

Autumn Super Salad

Dairy Diary 2018

The Autumn Super Salad recipe is one of the weekly inspirational recipes featured in the Dairy Diary 2018.

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Last chance to win a Touchscreen Air Fryer

Win a Lakeland Air Fryer

Last chance to enter!

Today is your last chance to win a Lakeland Touchscreen Air Fryer and enjoy healthier ‘frying’ with just a teaspoon of oil

Dairy Diary is giving you the chance to win this Lakeland Air Fryer. It cooks with little or no oil, so you can enjoy lighter versions of all your favourite foods without sacrificing the flavour.

Using just one teaspoon of oil to cook up to 500g of chips, it circulates hot air from all directions to cook food evenly for much lighter, perfectly ‘fried’ chips, meat, fish, poultry and seafood.

Competition closes midnight 6 November 2017, so enter now!

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Help us to choose the next Dairy Diary cover

A gentle reminder…

we need your help to choose the next Dairy Diary cover

We are busy in the Dairy Diary office finalising the design for the 2019 edition. We have almost finished, but we need your help to choose the best cover!

Please take a close look at the eight designs and tell us what you think.

The survey will only take
a couple of minutes.

One lucky respondent will receive a free Dairy Diary 2018!

Thanks so much for your assistance.

Emily

TAKE SURVEY
#competition
#win

We need your help to choose the next Dairy Diary cover

Help us to choose the next Dairy Diary cover

We need your help to choose the next Dairy Diary cover

We are busy in the Dairy Diary office finalising the design for the 2019 edition. We have almost finished, but we need your help to choose the best cover!

Please take a close look at the eight designs and tell us what you think.

The survey will only take
a couple of minutes.

One lucky respondent will receive a free Dairy Diary 2018!

Thanks so much for your assistance.

Emily

TAKE SURVEY

Best Bonfire Night Recipes

Our three favourite Bonfire Night recipes

 

Butternut Squash Velouté

Butternut Squash Velouté

  • Servings: 4
  • Difficulty: easy
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Calories 362 per portion
Fat 31g (19g sat) per portion
Suitable for vegetarians
Suitable for freezing

Ingredients

  • Butter 50g (2oz)
  • Onions 2, peeled and sliced
  • Garlic 2 cloves, peeled and finely chopped
  • Butternut squash 700g (1lb 9oz), peeled and cubed
  • Vegetable stock 600ml (1 pint)
  • Double cream 150ml pot
  • Freshly grated nutmeg to serve (optional)
  • Toasted sourdough bread to serve (optional)

Instructions

  1. Melt butter in a large pan and add onions and garlic. Cover with a lid and leave to sweat over a low heat for 10 minutes or until softened.
  2. Add squash and stock and bring to the boil. Cover and simmer for 15 minutes or until squash has softened.
  3. Pour in half the cream, season to taste and puree with a stick blender. Serve with a swirl of cream, sprinkled with nutmeg and with sourdough toast, if you like.

 

Gingerbread

Extra Special Gooey Gingerbread

  • Servings: 18 bars
  • Difficulty: medium
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Calories 157 per portion
Fat 6g (3.5g sat) per portion
Suitable for vegetarians
Suitable for freezing

Ingredients

  • Butter 110g (4oz)
  • Granulated sugar 75g (3oz)
  • Golden syrup 225g (8oz)
  • Marmalade 2 tbsp
  • Self-raising flour 225g (8oz)
  • Ground ginger 2 tsp
  • Bicarbonate of soda ½ tsp
  • Milk 150ml (¼ pint)
  • Eggs 2

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4. Butter a small roasting tin measuring about 18 x 28 x 4cm (7 x 11 x 1½in) and base line with non-stick baking paper.
  2. Put the butter, sugar, syrup and marmalade into a saucepan and heat, stirring, until the butter has melted and the sugar dissolved. Take the pan off the heat and leave to cool slightly.
  3. Mix the flour, ginger and bicarbonate of soda together in a bowl, then stir into the cooled butter and sugar mixture.
  4. Beat the milk and eggs together, then stir into the ginger mixture. Pour into the prepared tin, level the surface and cook for about 25 minutes until the cake is well risen and golden. The cake is ready when the top springs back when pressed with your fingertips.
  5. Leave the cake to cool in the tin, then take it out of the tin, peel off the paper and cut it into bars.

Cook’s tips
To store, wrap in foil and then keep in an airtight tub or tin.
It’s also delicious as a pudding with a splash of hot custard.

 

Peanut Butter Hot Chocolate

Peanut Butter Hot Chocolate

  • Servings: 2
  • Difficulty: easy
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Calories 282 per portion
Fat 17g (7.6g sat) per portion
Suitable for vegetarians

Ingredients

  • Milk chocolate 40g (1½oz), broken up
  • Smooth peanut butter 2 tbsp
  • Milk 350ml (12fl oz)
  • Whipped cream 2 tbsp, optional
  • Mini marshmallows and grated chocolate to serve, optional

Instructions

  1. Place chocolate, peanut butter and milk in a pan. Heat gently, whisking, until chocolate has melted and mixture is smooth.
  2. Pour into 2 mugs and top with whipped cream and marshmallows and/or grated chocolate, if using.

 

Recipes taken from the Dairy Diary.

 

Dairy Diary 2018 now available

 

#bonfirenight
#recipes

The origins of Halloween and what to do with all that pumpkin

 Haloween Pumpkin

The origins of Halloween

The origins of Halloween can be traced back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain.

To read all about the origins of Halloween and where Halloween traditions come from, visit our When is Halloween? blog here.

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Pumpkin carving fun with your children

Halloween carved pumpkin

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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And what to do with all that pumpkin?

Halloween Pumkin recipes from Dairy Diary

Here are four of our favourite Halloween recipes from the Dairy Diary team:

Halloween Pumpkin Streusel Muffins

Halloween Pumpkin Gratin

Pumpkin & Ginger Risotto

Tarantula Truffles

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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Have fun!

#halloween

#pumpkin

Recipe of the Week | Choc ‘n’ Nut Chelsea Buns

Chocolate and Nut Chelsea Buns

Choc ‘n’ Nut Chelsea Buns

Neatly linking National Baking Week with National Nut Day, these delicious Choc’n’Nuts Chelsea Buns look impressive, yet they are quite easy to prepare and bake.

Bake them this weekend and share with your friends. They’ll love them!

Choc'n'Nuts Chelsea Buns

 

 

Recipe taken from the Dairy Diary 2018.

Dairy Diary 2018 now available

 

 

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