Rude Health porridge tasting – it’s time to get your oats

There’s always been, to my mind, something austere, some thing hair shirt, something a little well, Scottish, about porridge. It makes me think of boarding schools in the Glens and young scions of the aristocracy being herded into cold showers at 6am before being forced to eat a bowl of porridge made with water and salt.

Celebrity Chefs Say Cheese for National Dairy Week

To celebrate National Dairy Week the British Cheese Board (BCB) has been asking our favourite celebrity chefs to reveal some of their top tips for cheese. National Dairy Week aims to raise awareness of the nutritional benefits of dairy products, including cheese, and the vital role they can play as part of a healthy, balanced diet.

Get in a stew

We love a ready meal at Foodepedia, mostly because we’re always ready to eat. If it can be slammed into a microwave and nuked to perfection in minutes then it gets our nostrils twitching. Some people may pretend to like a cold and wet sandwich from the well known chain, but we like our lunches hot and satisfying

Great British Cheese. Fly the flag, lose the fat

Say cheese and say it loud. Great British Cheeses can be enjoyed by people watching their fat intake just as much as anyone else. The flavours are there, the traditional methods are still there. Nick Harman gets out his cheese knife in the company of Nigel White, Secretary of the British Cheese Board and samples a few cheesy delights.

True Taste Welsh Food Market

Now in its second year, the True Taste Welsh Food Market is back, bigger and better than before, bringing fresh produce from Wales’s farm gates to Londoners’ plates. The market will be held on Friday 26 February 2010 between 11am and 7pm at Golden Square, London, W1 (just off Regent’s Street).

Block Party – Leerdammer gets bigger and tastier

Born in 1977 Leerdammer now outsells rival Emmenthal in France. Over here we have been slower to pick up on this popular cheese but with new easy to grate sizes and a Mature option, this versatile cheese should become much more of a family favourite. We take a taste and offer up some tasty recipes too.