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Every Sporting angle covered in a week!
02 July 2008
Every sporting angle covered in a week !I was fascinated to read that this week over 3 million senior students have volunteered to assist in primary schools up and down the UK this week from 30th June to the 4th July 2008 in order to bring sports day to millions of primary school children.
The slogan worn by these students volunteering is most apt reading ‘1 in 3 million’ across their back and I believe that this is a splendid example of some of the fantastic good some of the youth of ...
Credit Crunch Bar-B-Q!
24 June 2008
Credit crunch Bar-b-q !The aroma of freshly lit bar-b-q’s fills the air as we all head outside to eat alfresco.
Trying to find something to feed some hungry guests but still have time to mingle the bar-b always manages to suit as long as the weather plays its part.
For a quick and simple bar-b-q idea try our favourite (that is besides kitchenmonkey’s fantastic finger food selections ideal for any party)
Sardines in a peppercorn crust:
8 large sardines, 1 teaspoon of peppercorns, a ...
Jamtastic!
17 June 2008
Jamtastic for afternoon Tea!With the onset of summer and abit of sunshine and we all head out for a day trip and find one of those marvellous little tea rooms for a traditional cream tea.
I have many a memory of some fabulous tea houses sitting in the sunshine with a full china service being brought to the table with clotted cream, scones and fresh strawberry jam and twinning’s earl grey tea in a china tea pot.
Well to share this with you it made me think about jams and preserves so ...
Berry Nice!!
10 June 2008
Berry Nice!Here come the berries June is here and over this month and next we overload on those luscious berries be them red or black.
What am I talking about well strawberries, raspberries, black currants and red currants. Together these make some fantastic mouth watering desserts of which some are my favourite including summer crumbles & cobblers and of course the signature dish of the Summer Pudding. These desserts along with the numerous varieties of cheesecakes & pavlova's you can ...
Seaside Car Boot is crammed!!
06 June 2008
Seaside Car Boot is crammed!Well the weather was scorching the summer had arrived and we were on our way to sunny Brighton for Baby Expo 2008 show as kitchenmonkey hit the road.
Fully laden the car was packed and I did think at one stage that I might have to place Edward on the roof rack. I am sure many of you have had that feeling when packing the car.
I am sure you know some one who even if you are going for just one night or a weekend they have to bring their entire wardrobe with ...
What great competitions & winners!
28 May 2008
Out and About!!!All the team have been out and about of late attending various events, shows and exhibitions. After having a fantastic response at the NEC baby show lately we went on to attend the finale of the Heart FM Lifestyle competition on Saturday 7th June 08. This was a fantastic competition to win a FREE lifestyle for a year where the winner actually got a house for a year, beauty treatments, gym memberships, various evenings out and food from kitchenmonkey etc a complete lifestyle ...
Chips Away!!!
22 May 2008
Chips away!!!Having a discussion with my old friend Claire (she would hate it if she heard me say that) we were talking about chips. How children have a love for the long skinny French frie and how the chip varies from this slither of a chip to a chunky thick chip served in restaurants and all of our differing preferences.
Claire was saying how she can never get her chips just right, when I started telling Claire about varieties of potato and how some potatoes are better for certain menu ...
Babies see double at surprise birthday celebrations at Birminghams NEC Show
19 May 2008
Birmingham’s NEC opened its doors this weekend for ‘The Baby Show’; little did its organisers know that double birthday celebrations would unfold at the show itself.Midlands fine food company ‘kitchenmonkey.co.uk’, kick started the celebrations by blowing out a candle on their birthday cake to celebrate being one year old, followed by midlands company ‘mumsclub.co.uk’ who were also celebrating one year of trading. However the parties really started when, both companies who were sharing a ...
Advancement has it's price in all of our Kitchens!!!
15 May 2008
Advancement has its price in all of our Kitchens!!!Will the re-establishment of cookery classes in schools be too late??
Have we developed so far in technology yet have turned a full circle in time to take all of us back to 1940 in everyday life???
This may be some of the questions crossing you mind if you have been reading some of the headlines in the national newspapers over the past two days. I was only blogging about the issues they are discussing today, back in February of this year....
Unused Gadget kept in the dark for 15 years seeks compensation!
09 May 2008
Unused Gadget kept in the dark for 15 years seeks compensation!!!Gadgets and gismos we all have them. Some we use, some we don’t and some just come out once in their lifetime before being manoeuvred to the back of some cupboard to be unearthed years later for a car boot.
We were discussing the wonders of modern living and the gadgets we have in our kitchen’s today. We were not referring to the large appliances like the America fridge freezers which everyone seems to have and all for the ...
A plant with more value than you think to add to your cooking!
06 May 2008
Add a flower with more value than you think to your cooking!Something which is growing in abundance at the moment everywhere you look but it is overlooked by the majority of us, with some astonishing powers within both its leaves, flowers and root.
Gardeners hate them, the flower actually fertilizes itself which is where it foils the gardener by dispersing its seeds as early as the day after the flower opens up, and basically the faster you try to get rid of them the faster they grow as ...
Court number 1 is left strawberry less!!
29 April 2008
Court number 1 left strawberry less!Can you just imagine the height of the Tennis calendar and Wimbledon not only famous for the tennis and celebrities, and of course the odd sing song from certain famous artists to entertain all of us during the great British summertime weather without the symbol of decades, of course it is Wimbledon’s famous strawberries & cream.
It was recently announced that due to a shortage of EU workers Wimbledon may well be without its famous strawberries this ...
Being tied may not be down to your bed but your food!
21 April 2008
Feeling tied it may not be down to your bed but your food!Something which is close to my heart is food, eating well, but in the sense of a good varied well balanced diet suited for everyone’s well being.
I do have family members with allergies and intolerance’s myself, but my friend Claire who thought she was suffering from intolerance, actually turned out to be an allergy.
Food intolerances are increasingly common, around 45% of the UK population have some kind of food intolerance and ...
Lost in space with my sat nav but my shopping trolley can ring home!!
15 April 2008
Lost in a Sat Nav, but my shopping trolley can phone home!Well I gave in to all the fuss and picked myself up a satellite navigation system or sat nav for short. Thinking I was missing out on something and also having a few mishaps with my faithful old map in the car I thought this new gadget would be great. But read on for latest views on this device and advance in technology to affect even our shopping trolleys which will amuse you.
Did you know that ‘Sat Nav’ sales have increased ...
Hang on to your holiday money!!
11 April 2008
Euro eats away our holiday funds:This week saw the pound fall to its lowest against the Euro falling to 120 to the pound, if you are lucky.
What has this got to do with me you might well ask? It’s one of those hidden costs again that affect all of us in our daily lives.
If you export from the UK, it is good news. As your goods become slightly cheaper abroad. If you are a holiday maker however, things are not so good, put bluntly your 10% worse off.
If you holiday within the euro ...
Huge Growth in Hobby Farmers (watch out for the hedgehog though!
07 April 2008
Huge Growth Market in Hobby Farmers, (watch out for the hedgehog though!):There is a growing new trend which is excelling throughout the UK it is in the field of ‘Hobby Farming’.
This is a growing group of professional people who are either looking at a second career in farming, or they exchange their city fast paced business lifestyles for a new life in the country, working for themselves.
Half of the farms sold in the UK in the last year were brought by ‘Hobby Farmers’. These small ...
Are we guilty of taking away our children's childhood?
04 April 2008
Are we guilty of taking away our children’s childhood?Catching up on the newspapers this week I was reading an article about children and their social skill development through play. Some of the figures really make you think.
Basically what they are saying is that, our children today are not playing out alone thus they are not developing through independent play, as we would of done in our childhood’s.
Having a large gap between my own children, I know there is a difference from my ...
Mr Brown please keep all of us safe!
01 April 2008
Make our roads safe!!!Road safety is something we teach our children from a very early age, along with the do not speak to or go with strangers safety rule.
‘Killer Lorries’, a message for Mr Brown, from me, perhaps we should be making a new law that these foreign Lorries drop their loads at our ports for British lorry drivers to transport throughout the UK safely and to keep our lorry drivers employed!!! What do you think let me know your comments?
I actually found myself sitting down ...
First signs of Spring
26 March 2008
I hope you all had a good Easter. I have just returned from a little break with my 2 little monkies and i can safely say i need another break. We travelled up by car on the saturday morning and my oldest at 7 is at the age where she asks if we are there yet. The stereo only goes so loud!!!!.Anyway it seems that Spring is almost upon us and my wife already has a great list of things she wants me to do around the house and outside. I suppose thats not a bad thing considering how many of my ...
Monkey Teasers are EGGTASTIC!!!
21 March 2008
Monkey Teasers are eggtastic!!!Can we all at kitchenmonkey.co.uk start by wishing you all a great EASTER Bank Holiday whatever you are doing, we hope you have fun!
How about some brain teasers to keep you going throughout the weather which we are expecting this Easter. It’s a fact that women and men are wired differently shall I say, and that each of us can do certain things better, because of this. For instance men are supposed to be the better map readers; women can multi task and its ...
Cooking up a storm with Tommy's the baby charity!
18 March 2008
COOKING UP A STORMTommy’s, the baby charity is delighted to announce a new fundraising partnership with www.kitchenmonkey.co.uk, the luxury online ready meal service.
Offering a wide range of individually prepared starters, main courses and desserts, Kitchen Monkey will donate 5p (+VAT) from every product sold, to Tommy’s, the baby charity.
Tommy’s funds vital research into finding the causes of miscarriage, premature birth and stillbirth. Right now in the UK, 1 in 4 women will lose a ...
Life in the Fast Lane!!!
14 March 2008
Life in the Fast Lane!!!Eating well and cooking for yourself may feel like the last thing you want to do after a long day at work or college. But eating healthily doesn’t have to take loads of time or cost loads of money which is our philosophy at www.kitchenmonkey.co.uk
Eating a healthy diet will give your body what it needs to help you keep up with your hectic lifestyle while helping to keep you fit & healthy both inside and out.
It is recommended that we eat at least 5 portions of ...
Up Up & Away!!!!
11 March 2008
Up up and away literally!Have you been holding on to your umbrella and imitating Mary poppins over the past couple of days with the rest of us at all.
Windy or what, I was trying to drive yesterday and the gusts were so strong they were literally blowing the car across the road. At one point a land rover discovery came flying past me on the motorway only to hit a severe gust of wind and with the speed he was going he totally lost control of his car. It was frightening watching it in slow ...
The Spice of Life!!!
07 March 2008
The Spice of life!!!Here is one for you, recently while listening to a BBC broadcasting they threw out one of those listener trivia questions as they do, the question was:
What’s the difference between a herb and a spice??
You know what, I knew the answer. But I have to say I was amazed by the numerous calls to the radio station and what the listeners actually thought the answer was. One caller even stated that this was a question on trivial pursuit the board game.
So guess what, ...
Keep reading this Bun with a prize at the end!!
04 March 2008
Keep reading here’s a BUN with a Prize at the end!!!Can you believe that Easter is just around the corner??
Yes, lent will soon be over and Good Friday and Easter Sunday are a matter of weeks away. We have had so many events in such a short period of time this year with Easter being early.
You cannot go anywhere without seeing a hot cross bun, as my friend tells me they have been on sale in some establishments since January! And we were discussing how next we will be having Christmas ...
Did the earth move for you too Darling!!!
29 February 2008
Did The Earth Move for You too Darling!Well everyone’s been talking about it; you can’t go anywhere without hearing people shopping, standing in queues, on public transport, the radio, everywhere. We are all talking about it!
Guessed it yet, I’m sure you have, the Earthquake of course!
There we were in the very early hours of Wednesday 27th February 2008 when most of us were woken from our sleep by a 5.2 magnitude earthquake hitting the UK.
I remember going to bed around 00.30am and ...
Valuable Mealtimes!!!
26 February 2008
Valuable mealtimes & what happened to the Sunday roast!I wondered how many of you realised that this week is actually eating disorder week.
This is something still now we really do not speak a great deal about amongst family members. I was reading in the papers that this promotional week to discuss and support the issues of ‘eating disorders’ actually coincides with Paris fashion week which starts today 26th February 2008.
I do not know any woman who has not at some stage dieted for ...
A Mini & a monkey!!
22 February 2008
A mini and a monkey!I have had my fair share of cars, but I have to say that I really have only changed my car when the need was there.
My first car was a beautiful fun filled little mini 1000 which I loved to bits as everyone does their very first car. I had saved up for months to buy it, literally paying my board to my parents and then putting aside the rest. I remember paying just over £100 for it which I have to say was a lot of money then. A lovely white mini 1000 D registration (the ...
Its Child's play monkeying around at the Nursery!
19 February 2008
Its Childs Play Monkeying around at the Nursery!I continued to work after having children I didn’t have the luxury of being able to stay at home and so my children attended nursery from the age of 3 months when I had to return to work. This can be a very traumatic time for mums and their babies, nothing seems to be simple, from if your breast feeding do you continue, every time you leave the house you have to take everything including the kitchen sink and the guilt on leaving them behind ...
AhOyThere!!!!
15 February 2008
AhOy there, have you done this before!!Have the roads been quite this week did you notice??
Well if you didn’t know it has been half term for the schools, colleges and universities this week.
Have they driven you made yet with’ I’m bored’, or the fact that they have sat in front of the play station for hours without a word, only game speak. Or the loud music from the bedroom as Emily try’s to master the latest dance routine with her friends and Tommy try’s out his half learnt guns & ...
Monkey scores a try at rugby six nations 2008!!
12 February 2008
Monkey scores a try at rugby six nations 2008!!With the Rugby six nations in full swing, our kitchenmonkey.co.uk guide can help you explain some of those mysterious phrases and positions you hear mentioned:
Rugby a game played by 15 men with odd shape balls (well I had to start by breaking the ice didn’t I?)
The pack or forwards are 8 hansom burly guys who you would want your daughters to marry
The front row consists of 2 props & a hooker:
Props are strapping men who support the hooker (...
Laughter is the best medicine!
08 February 2008
Laughter is the best medicine!!!Firstly can we congratulate The Leicester Comedy Festival http://www.comedy-festival.co.uk on their 15th Birthday? Running from the 8th to 17th February 2008 in Leicestershire it is said that 60,000 people will attend the 60 separate venues which are covering 230 events and alot of laughs later! Well done you have the UK’s longest running comedy festival.
In light of all this laughter I was listening to BBC radio Leicester http://www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/...
Monkey Smell, Monkey see and Monkey Eat!!!
05 February 2008
Monkey Smell, Monkey See and Monkey Eat!!!Talking with friends recently we enjoyed one of those terrific evenings over a glass of wine and great food from our range, we were recalling our funny past memories and moments. It’s on occasions like this that you truly appreciate how lucky you are to have such terrific family, friends, and colleagues around you!
We were talking about how a smell, a particular food dish, a place or even a tune for example can make you recall a magic moment!
...
Early Morning Monkey Business
01 February 2008
Early morning monkey business!!!!Well have you ever had that feeling when you’re woken by your alarm clock only to feel like you had literally just got in to your bed? Well I had this only last week literally when I was woken at 2.00am (yes I did say 2.00am) to get up to go to work.
The house was pitch black and cold, the heating doesn’t come on until 5.30am and I had forgotten to change it. It really felt like I had just gone to bed ,as I had been up the previous night with my son revising ...
Going Green!
25 January 2008
Recycling, Eco-Friendly, or Going Green as we call it!We are all concerned about these issues and everyday when you open up the newspaper there is always something to cover one of these areas staring you in the face.
I have been recycling at home for many years now. My children have grown up with me making this a fun thing to do. We sort the paper, glass, tins, plastic & cardboard out. My son would love feeding the plastic bottles into the recycling banks and of course the smash of the ...
Welcome & Well Done!
18 January 2008
Welcome to our new visitors!May I firstly start by giving a warm welcome to our visitors from the mumsclub.co.uk http://www.mumsclub.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=501&hilit= it’s a pleasure to have you busy working mums visiting our site? I am sure you will find a meal to suit every single member of your families no matter what the age differences. This will then allow you some quality time to relax and enjoy those special times with your family members more, or just time for you to read ...
Not All Ready Meals are the Same??
11 January 2008
Did you see the Channel 4 program, The Truth about your food as shown on Thursday 10th January 2008:I bet all of you have been talking about this program, as my colleagues and I have been.
This programme on Channel 4 showed reporter Jane Moore investigating the ready meal trade and other common food brands. Her investigation was shocking to say the least. She tore shreds off the supermarkets for their inaccurate ingredients breakdowns, labelling and food nasties, along with some very well ...
For everyday, For everymeal, for every occassion - www.kitchenmonkey.co.uk
08 January 2008
Whether you’re a chef or a cook, (which on its own can start a debate) http://www.kitchenmonkey.co.uk has it, our chef’s special everyday just for you, so branch out with our chef and let your taste buds blossom.It’s been so cold but we were lucky enough to avoid the snow although it was snowing as I drove home on Thursday evening. We are receiving some great feedback back from everyone so keep up the good work. Let us know what you think of our dishes, if you have any suggestions them let ...
You deserve an Easy Life!
02 January 2008
We are here to make your life in this New Year as easy as we can for you?Well things have really started to kick off here this New Year. We have not only joined forces with the local dairy to bring our range to your door step through the milkmen/ladies as I mentioned previously, but soon you’ll be able to collect our marvellous food offerings from your local nursery aswell, as you collect your wonderful children. Watch this space for more great partnerships coming your way. We do all this ...
What Superb Customers we Have!
22 December 2007
Hearing from our customers is a real pleasure!I recently had the pleasure of delivering a parcel myself to a lovely gentleman. This elderly gentleman, who I have to say looked 15 years younger than he told me he was, lived alone and was blind. He had made an order for a selection of 16 meals to take him through the holiday period. He welcomed me into his home and his memories that evening, as I unpacked his superb selection of meals and desserts into his freezer for him and explained the ...
Things 'Hot Up' in the Kitchen with the Milkmen/ladies
20 December 2007
Wow! What have we been up to?Well things have really started to ‘hot up’ in our kitchens, with the addition of the Milkman/lady.
That’s got you interested.
Well we are very pleased to announce that we have teamed up with local dairy Kirby & West in this exciting partnership. kitchenmonkey.co.uk’s extensive range of superb food offerings can now be delivered with your daily pinta!
Kirby & West's excellent milkmen/ladies will be taking orders on your door step from our range of frozen ...
WWW.KITCHENMONKEY.CO.UK RECEIVES SAFE SHOPPING AWARD.
17 December 2007
Awarded Safe Shopping Award!You will all be very pleased to know that http://www.shopsafe.co.uk have approved our web site www.kitchenmonkey.co.uk as a secure on-line shopping web site.
We have found out from Shopsafe themselves that around only 25% of the web sites recommended for this award, actually receive it. We are now recommended upon their web site for secure on-line shopping. So we are extremely pleased to be given this award which we will now be displaying on-line.
The ...
Latest Lucky Competition Winner
06 December 2007
A big congratulations go out to Miriam Cheeseman, the lucky winner of an exclusive Kitchen Monkey apron.We're sure this will come in handy at this time of year, with so much cooking to be done!!
Miriam chose a moment from I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here! as her favourite reality tv moment of the year, "My favourite moment has to be Christopher Biggins sleeping with the rat on him, completely unaware and mistaking it for his water bottle. His reaction when he finally realises it's a rat ...
Nicol's Email Newsletter
07 September 2007
You've heard a lot from Jake, our M.D and Marcus, our Head Chef recently, so I thought I'd steal this chance to have my say (and they say it's the women that talk too much!)I don't like to blow my own trumpet (ok then, maybe I do...just a little bit) but I'm the one that spends a lot of time working on the website to try and make it as interesting as possible for you guys.
In fact, I'm so passionate about our products and website that I'm constantly dying to tell people about them, and once ...
Welsh Dragons
10 August 2007
The other day I was catching up with Marcus, our very, very, very great Head Chef and we were discussing new dishes for Kitchen Monkey. I asked him to come up with some classic British dishes, that were easily recongisable, but had a twist to them.To my astonishment he went of wittering something about dragons and the Welsh, or Welsh dragon's or something similar.
I was quite scared as to what bizarre concoction he was going to come up with, but didn't question him, as these creative types ...
Quality Time
02 August 2007
At last...summer is finally here! Doesn't a bit of sunshine lift everyone's spirits? I have to say I'm not sad at all to see the end of the rain. This week has been fantastic here at Kitchen Monkey. Marcus has been working on some great new products, and I've been filling the role of chief taster. I tried his wonderful Stout battered Talapia fish with hand-cut King Edward and Sweet Potato Chips. For a moment, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven...it almost felt like a traversty putting salt ...A Day in the Life of...
06 July 2007
Well, what a week this has been! You know I often read in the Telegraph's "Stella" magazine about famous people's diets. It tells you what they eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and also what kind of work they do. I would say the majority of people demonstrate a healthy diet with functional food, that in my mind, would take a balanced lifestyle to be able to incorporate. I mean, is it realistic for your average Joe to cook 3 meals a day, AND work, AND look after a family?! I suppose if it was ...BBC Good Food Show 2007
22 June 2007
As I write this I'm struggling to keep my eyes open, as I'm still feeling the effects of 5 long days spent at the BBC Good Food Show in Birmingham (along with the effects of a teething 9 month old!)Despite the tiredness we had a great time and it was lovely to meet so many of you there.
We were giving out samples of some of our best selling dishes throughout the week, and had some really positive feedback, which in turn has led to more Kitchen Monkey converts and customers.
A lot of ...
Sunday Times Style Magazine
10 June 2007
I can't believe the last time I posted anything on here was the 4th of May.In my defence we have been extremely busy! I don't think any of us realised just how much work was involved in launching a new internet business, but I'm pleased to say the launch has been very successful.
Some of you may have seen us recently in the Sunday Times Style Magazine. We sent Lydia Slater, some of our products to try, and were rewarded with a lovely review. She said:
"Not all ready meals are equal. If ...
New Website
04 May 2007
I know, I know, I have been promising to bring some of the fine food that we have made for Harvey Nichols, Harrods, Fortnum and Mason, Selfrdges and some of the top hotels in the country, to the general market... well here it is.Having started the idea of selling online way back in December, Marcus and I have been working tirelessly on researching the dishes that we would like to eat everyday as well as finding some of the finest ingredients. I can't pretend it's all been hard work, tasting ...