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The cover of Mary Berry’s new Quick Cooking book which accompanies her new series on BBC 2, Monday evenings at
At the time of writing you can get a 52% discount on this book on Amazon UK by clicking here.
This week Mary attends her very first music festival and
Friday Night Feasts on Channel four this week featured Romesh Ranganathan as the guest cook. The show started with Jamie saying he’d found the perfect vegan cheese to make a vegan lasagne but for whatever reason, he doesn’t go on to name the cheese in the programme or indeed on his website.
Thankfully Jamie Oliver himself later provided the answer when he was subjected to a torrent of people on Twitter point out this mistake.
Jamie replied a tweet from Jess asking “Please someone tell me what that vegan cheese on the lasagne was? It looked heavenly!”, with the answer “Hey Jess, that’d be Koko dairy free Cheddar”.
Apparently other comments then go onto say that this is available in Waitrose. Most people say it’s OK but I’ve also seen a few which say it tastes a little of Coconut.
Update: February 10th 2019 – This is now available via Waitrose Online and can be found here.
If you’ve tried this vegan cheese or made Jamie’s vegan lasagne I’d love to hear what you think of them. Please leave a comment below.
A few weeks ago I was very pleased to be offered the chance to review bakerdays personalised cakes. I think we’ve all become used to the idea of personalised birthday cards and flowers but I’d never come across anyone offering personalised cakes online for all sorts of occasions such as Birthdays and Anniversaries with next day delivery.
Their www.bakerdays.com website is for celebration cakes what Moonpig is to celebration cards.
As it was Fathers Day I decided to review one of their clever letterbox personalised cakes. These fit in a pizza style delivery box which is just the right size to go through the recipients letterbox without anyone needing to be at home to accept delivery.
I went for one of their standard designs but their website is very flexible and allows you to design your own cake or you can ask one of their in-house designers to do something special for you. As long as you get your order in before 2 PM they are able to offer next day delivery. That’s really amazing when you consider we’re talking about a customised, baked food product and not just some mass produced item being picked and shipped from an Amazon-style distribution centre.
I chose a simple sponge cake but they offer a range from fruitcake to gluten-free.
When you open the package you find a nice greetings card and a sturdy, high-quality cake tin containing your chosen cake. It makes a lovely thoughtful gift and looks impressive when you open it. I can see people being really surprised and delighted when they receive one of these cakes.
The cake sits on a cake board which is a snug fit in the tin. This has been carefully thought through by Bakerdays so that the cake stays in perfect condition as it travels through the post and drops through the letterbox at the other end.
My husband and father, both very special dad’s shared this on Fathers Day when we had a small family gathering.
Cutting into the cake revealed a lovely light sponge and a layer of jam.
My two children (5 and 7) both had a slice and enjoyed the cake and icing and came back for more.
In summary, I was really impressed with this as a new alternative to sending a personalised greetings card and highly recommend it.
If you ever find yourself wondering how to do something a little special for an occasion or you need to arrange a gift at very short notice this is a great idea. It’s ideal for sending personalised celebration cakes for a special birthday, graduation, new job, retirement etc personalised with the person’s name and a congratulatory message. This is very innovative personalised service which I’ll no doubt be using in the future for various celebration events for friends and family.
Until the end of July 2018 you can use voucher code WEEKEND15 to claim 15% off when you place an order by visiting their website at www.bakerdays.com
Let me know what you think in the comments below.
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