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The Perfect Christmas Gift

Dairy Diary Set 2014. The perfect Christmas Gift.

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The Perfect Christmas Gift 

Fourteen and a half years’ ago, I started a new job. This job was a stop-gap to fill a void between an awful job in the print industry and my ‘proper’ graduate forever job.

Many training courses and hard work have resulted in that stop-gap job becoming my proper forever graduate job and I absolutely love it.

Dairy Diary 2014 with memorable date stickersI’ve always had an affection for stationery (do any girls grow out of this?) and so working on a diary is perfect for me. You may have noticed that the diary now includes a handy notes pocket and sticker sheet. Yes, another nod to my obsession with stationery, but also very popular with our customers.

Dairy Diary Set

As we’re such a small team, I get involved in almost every aspect of the business, including the Dairy Diary Set, which always features the Dairy Diary, pocket diary and other stationery bits and bobs.

Getting paid to wander around stationery
departments is not a problem for me!

This year, we have included a pen, which is comfy to hold and pleasant to write with. Several samples were returned as they had those awful scratchy nibs – not good enough for our Set!

Dairy Diary Set organiser and pocket diaryThe little book contains a notepad, post-it-note pad and page markers. I use these page markers in all my cookbooks to flag up my favourite recipes. The notepad and sticky notes are perfect for shopping list and reminders.

The Dairy Diary Set is available to buy now. You can order online <link> or over the phone 01425 463390/0845 0948128 or from your local milkman, if you have one. It’s a really affordable gift but also a rather lovely treat for yourself.

And here’s a Dairy Diary recipe to whet your appetite.

Spiced Chicken & Noodle Soup is perfect for these chilly autumnal days.

Spiced Chicken & Noodle Soup

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Free Recipe Sampler eBook

Free Recipe Sampler eBook

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Download you free Recipe Sampler eBook

Download your free eBook containing a mouthwatering selection of recipes from Dairy Diary 2014 and Clever One Pot cookbook.

Inside you’ll find delights such as Chocolate Bread Pudding and Lemon Tart. For the main course how about Lamb Navarin or Chicken & Stilton Pasta? Something a little spicier? Try Curried Chicken with Garlic Naans. Mmmm!

For a light meal / snack we have
Caerphilly & Leek Tarts plus
a foolproof Irish Soda Bread
recipe that you will make
again and again.

A fishy favourite is the Roasted Cod Loin Wrapped In Pancetta – truly  irresistible!

Enjoy.

Download

The eBook has been formatted for easy reading on your PC, tablet or mobile.
Of course, if you prefer a paper copy you can easily print it.

http://www.dairydiary.co.uk/free-ebook.html

The Dairy Diary 2014 and Clever One Pot cookbook are available now at http://www.dairydiary.co.uk

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Happy Halloween Recipes

Happy Halloween

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Recipes for a Happy Halloween

Stroll around any supermarket and you will be literally attacked by Halloween merchandise – it’s everywhere!

I’m not quite sure how I feel about the whole Halloween thing – especially encouraging our children to dress up in hellish costumers and knock on strangers’ doors begging for sweets. However, it can be a great excuse to get crafting.

Halloween pumpkin carving

The most obvious thing to do, of course, is pumpkin carving.  A beautifully carved pumpkin can be really quite lovely.  I don’t know if we have the talent to produce something like this but we will certainly attempt a simple version.

And in the 2014 Dairy Diary, there’s a fab Pumpkin & Ginger Risotto recipe for using up leftover pumpkin flesh. Ideal for a romantic meal for two after the children are safely tucked up in bed!

And for the little ones to make? How about this fabulous recipe for Halloween Cake Pops? They are simple to make and look so pretty (although our talented food stylist Sara, may be a little more artistic than my children!)

Halloween recipes

There are many more super seasonal recipes in the 2014 Dairy Diary and it’s only a click away!

Dairy Diary SetWhy not treat yourself
to the Dairy Diary Set?

For just £9.25 you get:

  • Dairy Diary
  • Pocket diary
  • Coordinated pen
  • Notepad
  • Sticky notes.
  • Coloured page markers

Go on….you deserve it!

Buy it now.

Win Heston Blumenthal Digital ScalesDon’t forget to
enter to win
Heston Blumenthal
Orb Digital Scales

You can enter on the
Dairy Diary website  or
Dairy Diary Facebook page

Enter on both to double your chances!

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Us Brits have some quaint customs don’t we?

British cheese rolling custom

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Us Brits have some quaint customs don’t we?

From rolling cheese down a hill to burning an effigy of the bloke who tried to blow up parliament, we can be quite eccentric with our celebrations.

Isn’t it fun though?

Children's-harvest-festival-trailerOn Sunday we went along to my son’s school harvest festival. It begins with all the children climbing aboard a trailer filled with hay bales and being pulled by a tractor around the village clutching their harvest offerings. Isaac absolutely loved it!

Of course, celebrating the harvest is an age-old custom dating back to pagan times.

The harvest festival is traditionally held on the Sunday nearest to the Harvest Moon (the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox). Religious or not, it’s a lovely way to spend a couple of hours on a Sunday giving thanks for the food we eat and donating a little of what we have to those who really don’t have much at all.

For our harvest parcel, we baked a
gorgeous loaf of bread from the 2014 Dairy Diary.
It looked quite the pièce de résistance snuggled
in amongst the apples and carrots.

Irish Soda Bread recipe from Dairy Diary 2014

2014 diary recipe for Irish Soda Bread

2014 diary recipe for Irish Soda Bread

 

 

Dairy Diary 2014

The best 2014 diary

 

The Dairy Diary has been the best-selling home and kitchen diary since 1982. The 2014 diary features an A5 week-to-view diary with lots of writing space and a practical lie-flat format. Packed with recipes, information and cook’s tips, it’s essential for any busy home. It is now available for just £7.25 from the Dairy Diary website.

Refreshing Homemade Lemonade

Refreshing lemonade

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Refreshing Lemonade

Caster sugar 200g (7oz)
Lemons 8 large, finely grated zest and juice (giving about 200ml/7fl oz)
Ice to serve

1 Tip sugar, lemon zest and juice into a heavy-based pan with 1 litre (1¾ pints) water and heat gently until sugar has dissolved. Taste and adjust sugar and lemon juice to taste.

2 Remove pan from the heat and leave to cool. Strain liquid (if wished) into a jug filled with ice.

A Dairy Diary recipe.

Rhubarb Sorbet

Rhubarb Sorbet

Rhubarb SorbetServes 6
Time 35 mins plus freezing
154 calories per portion
0g fat of which 0g is saturated
Suitable for vegetarians
Suitable for freezing

Pink spring rhubarb 500g (1lb 2oz) washed, trimmed and cut into 2.5cm (1in) pieces
Caster sugar 225g (8oz)
Lemon 1, juice only

1 Put rhubarb, caster sugar, lemon juice and 150ml (¼ pint) of water into a non-reactive saucepan, cover with a tight fitting lid and cook gently for 15-20 minutes until rhubarb is soft.

2 Allow rhubarb to cool until cold, then pour all the mixture into a food processor and blend until smooth.

3 Freeze rhubarb mixture in an ice cream making machine. Or pour into a bowl and freeze, whisking frequently – around once an hour – to prevent ice crystals forming. When the sorbet is almost frozen, transfer to a plastic container, cover and store in the freezer until required.

4 Serve scoops of sorbet in chilled glasses.

A Dairy Diary recipe.

 

 

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