Elizabeth's Kitchen Diary
fuel that adventure
In collaboration with Berocca. Where do my children get all their energy from? Seriously, if I had half as much energy as my children do I’d be definitely getting a lot more done in a day than I usually do, especially during the school holidays. Me, I usually have to rely on external sources. I …
In collaboration with Ribena Doodle Your World. This summer Ribena have launched a brand new app to make your world more Ribenary: Doodle Your World! This augmented reality app allows users to animate videos and photos with the playful Ribenary characters which you can then share on your social media channels. The concept behind the …
In collaboration with Love Food Hate Waste. Did you know that in 2015 in the UK alone we threw away 7.3 million tonnes of perfectly edible food? That’s £13 billion gone straight into our landfill! In addition to the environmental and social impacts of this waste, we are literally throwing money away! According to Love …
In collaboration with Love Food Hate Waste. Hand’s up, who else is terrible at gauging how much pasta to cook, how many potatoes will feed the family and how much rice is needed? Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve been cooking regularly since I was 12, and I am still rubbish at measuring out these …
In collaboration with Love Food Hate Waste. This week is the second week of the Love Food Hate Waste #giveupbinningfood campaign for Lent. How are you getting on with it so far? Last week we shared plenty of tips and tricks for meal planning, something I had never done before then and really enjoyed creating. …
In collaboration with ANA – All Nippon Airways. 一期一会 ‘Ichigo ichie’ is a Japanese cultural concept that literally translates as “one opportunity, one encounter”. This term reminds people to treasure each moment they are in as it will not happen again. Every experience is always once-in-a-lifetime. Even if you meet with the same group of family …
In collaboration with Siemens Home Appliances. We live in a futuristic world. The advent of refrigeration, worldwide transport links and ever increasing advances in agriculture and technology have changed the way we, as consumers, shop for, prepare and eat our food. Siemens, one of the world’s leading innovative technology brands in the household appliance market, …
In collaboration with üutensil and Albert Bartlett potatoes. It’s the time of year where our diet is largely dictated by what appears in our weekly organic CSA veg box. It’s been a slow year for growing so far, our veg box producers say, due to cold weather and rain, but we are now receiving weekly …
In collaboration with The a2 Milk™ Company. All right folks. I’m going to go all sciencey on you here and put to use that BSc (Hons) Life Sciences degree I earned a few years ago. Let’s talk milk protein! Caseins are proteins most commonly found in mammalian milk, composing upwards of 80% of all the …
In collaboration with Heinz [Seriously] Good Mayonnaise. I confess, when I was growing up in Canada mayonnaise was not one of those things that regularly appeared on the menu. In fact, I actively avoided it as it was this strange, unsual condiment and I really had no idea what I was supposed to do with …
In collaboration with BritMums & The Lawn Tennis Association. “The tennis finale is next weekend, isn’t it?” I asked. The Husband blinks at me. “It’s not a cabaret, you know.” Then he breaks into the most animated, theatrical tennis pantomime he can. It was really quite the sight to behold.
In collaboration with P&O Ferries. It’s World Chocolate Day! The day we get to celebrate all things chocolate and wonderful, so let me take this opportunity to tell you about the Belgium Chocolate Experience we had the privilege of enjoying last week. As a family we travelled, old school, via ferries and trains from our …
In collaboration with The Works. The summer holidays are nearly upon us! Where has the time flown! In fact, today is the last day of this school term for my children as we’re heading away a few days early for a weekend Chocolate Experience in Brussels! Yes, it’s been ok’d by the school – we’re …
In collaboration with MoneySuperMarket. For the last week we have been challenged by MoneySuperMarket to give up one electrical appliance that we, as a family, use almost every day, and to document the impact and experience we have had and how much money we have saved. After much thought (could we give up the internet …
In collaboration with The Balvenie. I confess that when I was a child I did not like fish. I went fishing, a lot, and I could out-fish any of the village boys with my trusty alder branch rod and fishing hook baited with a bit of hot dog, but when it came to actually eating …
In collaboration with The White Company. It’s this time of year when I start clearing out the contents of my freezer. The worst of the gales is over (although there will be a few more to come!) and so the worst of the winter ferry transport disruptions to my remote North Sea island home are …
In collaboration with Tupperware for Life. Tupperware is a household American name synonymous with nearly indestructible plastic containers of varying shapes and sizes. The brand has certainly expanded from what I knew of them as a child and they now produce a wide range of kitchen utensils and baking products. Tupperware is still a famous American …
In collaboration with McCain. Anyone who has ever had to cook for a group of people will know the stress of hosting a dinner party, and those stress levels are magnified tenfold when the occasion is sprung on you at the last minute. Instead of having a minor mental breakdown, however, you can grab the …
In collaboration with Bertolli – A Taste of the Mediterranean. Pasta has got to be one of those ultimate comfort foods, wouldn’t you agree? It’s a remarkably versatile ingredient, inexpensive and quick to cook too, so you’re never more than a few minutes from a steaming hot bowl of indulgent carbohydrates. I find it fascinating how …
In collaboration with Aldi. I do not claim to be an expert on wine. I’m quite the novice, truth be told, but I do enjoy a good glass of wine with a meal or while basking in the summer sun. I know what I like and what I don’t like, although I may not know …
