British Trout is good for the brain

It’s easy to make a positive change to your diet this year with a great range of recipes from the British Trout Association. Many people now know that eating two portions* of oily fish each week provides essential vitamins and fatty acids that are an important part of a healthy diet, though many people do not realise that Trout is in fact an oily fish.

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Tanqueray® gin cocktails

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with a loved one over a luxurious Tanqueray® cocktail. The makers of Tanqueray gin have teamed up with some of the country’s leading style bars to produce a range of Valentine’s themed cocktails for the special day. The Valentine’s Cocktails will be available throughout February and offer an exciting alternative to champagne.

Love hot chocolate this Valentine’s

If you like chocolate, {Hello Girls) then the MARS hot chocolates range should make you go all gooey with delight. With four flavours to choose from : Moment du Chocolat Gourment (that’s French btw), GALAXYCreamy Hot Chocolate, MALTESERS Malted Hot Chocolate and MARS Hot Chocolate.

Caldesi creates love with Dolmio

Dolmio ‘Taste of Italy Flirting with Flavours’ was a one-off put together specially to give a demonstration of how to use Dolmio’s newest, range of products to prepare interesting dishes, devised by Giancarlo Caldesi, for their loved one at home on Valentines day.

Gordons Valentine Blush Cocktail

Gordon’s has unveiled a Valentine’s themed twist to the G&T – a classic coupling. What better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day with your loved one than with the G&T Blush – featuring a dash of cranberry juice, this is a traditional G&T with a pink Valentine’s hue.

Debbie and Andrew’s.The best British Banger by far?

With the demise of my favourite butchers, (Meat City in Clerkenwell knocked down by developers) the search for a decent sausage has been a hard one. I don’t like to walk to far after all. Good news then that Debbie and Andrew Keeble from Yorkshire have sausages that sort the gourmets from the gourmands with the best British bangers made only with lean British pork shoulder, breadcrumbs, herbs and seasoning.

FIns Restaurant

This is partly a restaurant review and partly a piece on produce, because isn’t what makes a restaurant truly great the quality of what it puts into its dishes just as much as how it cooks them? Fins is in a very fortunate position because it cooks what it catches and has become an official Gary Rhodes Local Food Hero.