Author: Heather Brown

  • Easy Easter Simnel Cake Recipe

    Easy Easter Simnel Cake Recipe

    Easy Easter Simnel Cake Recipe This easy Easter Simnel Cake Recipe is one of my favourite cakes, partly because of my love affair with marzipan, but this cake is also a great way to use up any of the dried fruit you may have in your cupboards. Simnel cakes are a traditional Easter cake which […]

  • Recipe for Hot Cross Buns

    Recipe for Hot Cross Buns

    Recipe for Hot Cross Buns If you are looking for something to bake at home, here is our Easter classic recipe for Hot Cross Buns. If you are struggling to find flour or yeast in the shops, many farm shops have these in ready supply. You can check our list of independent farm shops still […]

  • Review of Foodelicious in Moordown

    Review of Foodelicious in Moordown. After arranging to meet up with a friend I haven’t seen in ages and looking for somewhere to go on a cold Monday morning in February, I decided to try a new cafe that had been recommended to me – Foodelicious in Moordown. On a quiet stretch of Wimborne Road, […]

  • A HUGE Thank You to Dorset’s food & drink sector.

    A HUGE Thank You to Dorset’s food & drink sector.

    A HUGE Thank You to Dorset’s food & drink sector. The original article, written by Heather Brown, appeared first on Dorset Biz News on Thursday 27th Jan.  As we approach March 2022, 2 years on from when Covid changed the world, and in the recent wake of very high covid cases, I think its fair […]

  • Breakfast Tart Recipe

    Breakfast Tart Recipe

    Breakfast Tart Recipe If you are anything like me, a good breakfast is a great way to start the day off with a bang and these breakfast tarts are effectively a full english loaded onto puff pastry (I still haven’t found a recipe that is ruined by adding puff pastry).  When making this breakfast tart […]

  • Heather’s Christmas Cake Recipe

    Heather’s Christmas Cake Recipe

    Heather’s Christmas Cake Recipe Heather recently had this Christmas Cake recipe published in the Blackmore Vale magazine and it is one of her favourites.  This recipe will provide you with that delicious deep Christmassy flavour whether you make it 2 months or 2 days before Christmas. The secret is cooking together many of the ingredients […]

  • An Interview with Dorset Food and Drink

    An Interview with Dorset Food and Drink For our weekly column with Dorset Biz News, Heather interviewed the lovely Caroline Richards about everything to do with Dorset Food and Drink.  We are very much aligned with Dorset Food and Drink’s philosophy of supporting local and we love what Caroline had to say, especially about this […]

  • Buy local meat direct from your Dorset Farm

    Buy local meat direct from your Dorset Farm

    Buy local meat direct from your Dorset farm or butcher.  Many of us are trying to support local businesses in this season and as lockdown eases enough for us to begin to meet with friends and loved ones, we may be start to look to buy local meat for our dinner tables. If you are […]

  • Review of Brasserie Blanc in Bournemouth

    Review of Brasserie Blanc in Bournemouth

    Review of Brasserie Blanc in Bournemouth The Brasserie Blanc in Bournemouth opened its doors in the summer of 2017, with a lovely launch party and a visit from the Founder himself, Raymond Blanc. The chain of Brasserie Blanc restaurants originally launched in 1996 as Le Petit Blanc and now has 20 restaurants across England.  The […]

  • Catering in Dorset

    Catering in Dorset

    Catering in Dorset We often get asked if we can recommend anyone who might be able to help with catering in Dorset for their corporate events. From breakfast meetings, to mid morning nibbles, lunches, canapes, buffets, BBQs and private dining… there are many occasions when a business might want to put on some food for […]