The Rangemaster 'Bloggers'

Food from Northern Ireland
Being brought up at a farm in Northern Ireland, my Dad a farmer and my Mum a Home Economics teacher taught me a lot about food, its production and preparation in the true essence of organic and self sufficiency. I call it ‘Farm to the Fork.’

Banana Churros with Chocolate Sauce
To me, these deep fried delights are a great example of how food in the UK has evolved now that travel and communication around the world is so much easier. Growing up, the smell of freshly fried mini donuts coated in sugar would make stomachs grumble on many a blustery British pier in the summertime. Now it is their star-shaped Spanish cousins that make us turn and lift our noses at summer fairs and foodie festivals...

Food from England
With St. Georges' Day, Her Majesties birthday and dare I say it spring (what’s that this year?) this month, it's a time to celebrate all that is good about our Green and Pleasant Lands.  Green they may be, Pleasant with this year’s weather I'm not so sure.  It seems like we are constantly being teased as to the arrival of spring this year, cold one day, snow the next, I'm feeling wet, wet, wet - and I'm not talking about a pop band in the 1980's.

Sweetcorn fritters with griddled prawns and mango sunshine salsa

Ladies and gentlemen, Rangemaster blog readers and followers of Pigling Bland. It’s time to take a stand. Too long have we waited for sunshine, too long have we waited for those stubborn daffodils to open their buds, too long have we waited to be able to eat salad again. So, I’m bringing you an interim solution for this month’s blog in the hope that it will coax some sunshine out....

Chocolate Pretzel Pie

If you know someone well enough to rifle through their kitchen cupboards just for fun, I think it’s safe to say that the friendship is definitely “a keeper” (forgive the Americanism but this is a very American style recipe). That is how I came across smoked seasalt for the first time and since then I been barraging my friend with emails of recipes using the salt and have been using it myself on steaks, hasselback potatoes and most recently in dark chocolate and smoked seasalt cookies..........