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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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Competition | Last chance to win Heston Blumenthal Orb Digital Scales

Win Heston Blumenthal Digital Scales

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Competition


Last chance to win Heston Blumenthal Orb Digital Scales

To celebrate the launch of the Dairy Diary 2014 we are giving you the chance to win Heston Blumenthal Orb Digital Scales.

These digital scales, from Heston Blumenthal’s Precision range by Salter take the guesswork out of measuring ingredients, by giving highly accurate and dependable readings, every time and feature the ‘Aquatronics’ liquid measure function.

The stainless steel 1.5L mixing / measuring bowl is capable of holding and reading up to 5kg of ingredients.

If you haven’t entered do so now!

Enter

Dairy Diary 2014

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Dairy Diary 2014 available now.

We honestly think it’s the best 2014 diary available. We have refreshed the Dairy Diary design inside so it has a more modern, magaziney feel but it’s still uber user-friendly and Dairy Diaryesque.

You can order the Dairy Diary online or from your milkman.

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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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Competition | Win Heston Blumenthal Orb Digital Scales

Win Heston Blumenthal Digital Scales

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Competition


Win Heston Blumenthal Orb Digital Scales

To celebrate the launch of the Dairy Diary 2014 we are giving you the chance to win Heston Blumenthal Orb Digital Scales.

These digital scales, from Heston Blumenthal’s Precision range by Salter take the guesswork out of measuring ingredients, by giving highly accurate and dependable readings, every time and feature the ‘Aquatronics’ liquid measure function.

The stainless steel 1.5L mixing / measuring bowl is capable of holding and reading up to 5kg of ingredients.

Enter

 

 

Dairy Diary 2014

Dairy Diary 2014 available now.

We honestly think it’s the best 2014 diary available. We have refreshed the Dairy Diary design inside so it has a more modern, magaziney feel but it’s still uber user-friendly and Dairy Diaryesque.

You can order the Dairy Diary online or from your milkman.

buy bow

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.

2014 diary launched | Dairy Diary 2014 now available

2014 diary

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It’s here! The 2014 Dairy Diary.


Officially launched today. Hurrah!!

Life working on the Dairy Diary can be a strange one – you never know what year you’re in for a start.  The 2014 Dairy Diary is brand new to everyone else, but Marion our editor, Karen our designer and I have been working on it since early in 2012! So, it’s a huge delight to be able to properly, finally, launch it.

I know I would say this, but I honestly think it’s the best yet. We have refreshed the design inside so it has a more modern, magaziney feel but it’s still uber user-friendly and Dairy Diaryesque.

And of course it’s packed full of the most delicious triple-tested recipes, many with a distinctly seasonal twist. My personal favourites include Cauliflower & Potato Curry, Crunchy Alaska Salmon Goujons and St George’s Day Pudding.

The features are simply fascinating and include food for kids, anti-ageing foods, companion planting and my personal favourite super-cute mice – a gorgeous project for crocheting the cutest little mouses.

2014 diary contents

The best bit about the Dairy Diary though; is the diary itself. Not only is there plenty of space to write each day – essential for us with busy families – it also has dainty little dates stickers for those important events, such as birthdays that we really need to remember. Try to hide them from the children though or they’ll be adorning the front of their t-shirt rather than the diary (it’s lucky a can get some spares!)

There’s also a handy pocket for stashing all those notes that get lost amongst the hairclips, odd socks and wet wipes in the bottom of your handbag (or is that just me?!)

So if you’re looking for the perfect planning tool for 2014 look no further, the Dairy Diary has it all.

It’s great value at £7.25 and ON SALE NOW.

Click here to order www.dairydiary.co.uk or leave a note out with your empties if you have a milkman.

 

Cauliflower & Potato CurryAnd as a little taster here is
one of my chosen recipes.

Cauliflower & Potato Curry 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click here to order www.dairydiary.co.uk or leave a note out with your empties if you have a milkman.

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