Kitchen Gifts Now Available to Buy

Our first delivery has been received and photographed and is now available to buy online.

The initial range includes:

• Aprons 
• Oven Gloves 
• Aprons for Children
• Coordinating Accessories

We feel that the quality and generous cut of the products make this range stand out as great gifts for all the cooks in your life.  With Mother's day less than two weeks away, we are offering next day dispatch and free, first class delivery - an offer you'd be mad to miss!

Take a good look through the range and let us know what you think.

Kitchen Gift Stock Now In

We're excited this morning following the arrival of stock for the new Gifts section of the Dinner at Home website.

We'll be checking through the order to make sure that all of the aprons, oven gloves, and other coordinating items are there and then start taking photographs.

Check back soon to see the range of gifts that are available to buy.

Dinner At Home Gifts

We are very excited this week as we put the finshing touches to our soon to open on line shop "Dinner At Home Gifts"! I have always thought it would be great to be able to find great gifts, suitable for a wide spectrum of people for sale on a foodie website that recognises the kind of thing that foodie people might like as a gift.
We went to the Spring Fair at the NEC recently and sourced some very good quality, beautifully designed aprons, oven gloves, tea cosies and textile tableware which will shortly be available to buy at great prices.
The items come from India and are Fair Trade accredited. There are hot stripes, ginghams and traditional stripes and all would make perfect gifts for Mother's Day, birthdays and Christmas for wives, mums, daughters as well as husbands, dads and sons! The hot stripe half apron is perfect for the man of the house to perform his barbecue duties! Stylish , great quaslity and made to last.
Anyway - coming soon - Dinner At Home Gifts - keep a look out!

Gressingham Duck!!

Well, suffice to say that Mother's Day was all it promised to be! My breakfast in bed was lovely - always presented by, and shared with(!) my little girls! Why does something fairly simple like scrambled eggs and bacon taste so nice when someone else cooks it and presents it with a fresh red rose??

We had a few jobs to do in preparation to our trip to Tenby next week but still managed a cheeky pint down at our local pub - the Golden Fleece, South Croxton. It was full of mothers obviously but still nice to sit and people watch for an hour or so! The food there is fantastic, but on a Sunday it is my non-favourite - the carvery which is why we gave it a miss this year.

Anyway, the reason I'm writing this is to completely rave on about Gressingham duck! My girls LOVE roast duck so we decided to get a Gressingham Duck from Tesco (at £14!) instead of the normal ducks at around £6. Any posh chefs always tell you to buy this but I've never seen them in the mainstream supermarkets before now. Check out their website - it is obviously the crème de la crème of ducks!!

We roasted it a la Delia (plenty of Maldon sea salt & black pepper) in a hot oven on a rack for over 2 hours and then let it rest for 15 minutes. Total heaven - loads of breast meat and crispy tasty skin and totally delicious! I so recommend it to anyone and it is so worth the extra money.

To be honest we normally have to buy 2 normal ducks for 4 but one Gressingham was enough for 4 so look at it as good value, not expensive! Served with delicious Dauphinoise potatoes and baby veg followed by strawberries and cream.

Hooray for being a mother!

Mother's Day - 22nd March 2009

Mothers Day is always a bit of a trauma for me as my mother died just before my 11th birthday (5 days to be exact). This has always resulted in mild embarrassment rather than sadness - how do you explain what you're doing on Mothers day when you don't have a mother?? I still miss my Mum very much which is what inspires me to try to be the best Mum ever to my girls.

Anyway - many years later I have my own family - two beautiful daughters and a gorgeous husband so Mothers Day always starts with a fabulous breakfast in bed and lots of nice presents!

The trouble with Mothering Sunday is - it's on a Sunday! What is wrong with that you may ask? Well - there is just something lacking to me in going out for a Sunday roast when you can do a much better job yourself at home with the best rare beef or the best garlic infused leg of lamb! I just find roast dinner out a bit of a waste of my "eating out" budget! (Trust me - I'd be upping my budget if it weren't for this damn credit crunch - all in the interests of my website obviously!!).

Anyway - we have discussed this - the lovely Jon has advised that NO ONE is doing anything but Sunday roast (all at ridiculously inflated prices!) so we have postponed Mothers Day to the following Wednesday where myself & the girls will meet Jon for lunch at the legendary Cafe Bleu in Newark - one of my favourite eating places ever and totally worth a visit if you are ever in the town!

In the meantime I can't miss up an opportunity to indulge in a food fantasy on Sunday so am going to my local Q butcher (Clarkes in Queniborough) to get a single rib of beef (or 2 if the kids are good!!) to cook like a fillet steak - just like I had at the Hoste Arms a few weeks ago (and there is a recipe in Good Food last month I think!)

So happy Mother's Day to all you Mums. And just remember Dads - breakfast in bed with the Sunday papers is the ultimate treat!