October 28, 2014By Hayley Gilbert

Each year, Electrolux hosts a global design competition, where students are asked to submit original concepts based on a particular theme. This year that theme is Creating Healthy Homes and the six finalists have just been announced from an impressive 1,700 entries.

October 2, 2014By Linda Parker

After the latest patch of beautiful sunshine, and a surfeit of cakes’n’bakes, we strayed back into barbecue territory, using an old pot-bellied cast iron model we found in the garage, backed up with a few disposable bbq trays to take up the slack when needed…

September 2, 2014By Linda Parker

Is it wrong to be slightly underwhelmed by GBBO this time round? I think I have a bake overload. And since when did everyone refer to a cake of a plate of biscuits (not cookies) as a ‘bake’. Perhaps I’m over-egging the pudding a bit, but…

June 3, 2014By Linda Parker

I have just been seriously impressed and am now in despair over my own cooking skills, having viewed the finale of the 10th series of MasterChef. After 24 episodes the three finalists – Luke, Jack and Ping – battled it out with one of the most complex set of menus imaginable…