Editor, Author at The Big Cheese Making Kit

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Mar

The Big Cheese Making Kit on Awards Shortlist!

We’ve had an exciting few weeks here at Big Cheese HQ. Not only have we launched our new website, we’ve also discovered we’re on two awards shortlists! Firstly, The Ultimate Cheese Making Kit has been shortlisted for Best Vegetarian Innovation of 2015/16 in the Veggie Awards! The Ultimate Cheese Making Kit launched in June 2015 and contains everything Read More…

22

Mar

Lovely Customer Feedback!

We adore receiving customer feedback here at Big Cheese HQ. This week Caroline took a moment to write to us to let us know how much she’s enjoying The Ultimate Cheese Making Kit. Caroline says: Hi, Just wanted to say how impressed I am with the ultimate cheese making kit, it’s fantastic! My fiancé bought it Read More…

21

Mar

Our New Website!

Hello cheese makers! I’m hugely excited to present you with The Big Cheese Making Kit’s new website for 2016. I hope you like it! I started making Kits in my kitchen back in 2013. What started as a hobby in September of that year had already exploded by three months later. It was crazy a time, and I had Read More…

26

Aug

Competition time!

Who doesn’t like winning things? Who doesn’t like cheesy pop songs? If only there was a way to combine these two glorious things… Well now there is! To be in with a chance to win one of our magnificent The ULTIMATE Cheese Making Kit’s (rrp £36) tell us your ULTIMATE Cheesy Pop Song. It’s as simple as that! Read More…

26

May

The Ultimate Cheese Making Kit

It has landed! The newest and most exciting cheese making kit in the world: The ULTIMATE Cheese Making Kit!The ULTIMATE (you have to say it like the voice over on The X-Factor!) makes eight varieties of cheese: Mozzarella, Ricotta, Halloumi, Goat’s Cheese, Scottish Crowdie, Queso Blanco, Labneh and Paneer. Cheese lovers unite, your prayers have been answered!It Read More…

03

May

The Farm Shop & Deli Show

We exhibited at one of our favourite shows recently, the Farm Shop & Deli Show that’s held yearly in Birmingham. It’s always a lovely show to exhibit at and great opportunity for us to meet our wonderful retailers and to make new friends! It’s a long journey from Edinburgh to Birmingham, but worth every mile. We drove Read More…

18

Nov

Asparagus tartlets with goat’s cheese and sun-dried tomatoes

Recipe by Tiffany Goodall. Found on redonline.co.uk. Serves: 4 Preparation time: 10 minutes Cooking time: 15 minutes You will need1 tbsp flour 375g ready rolled puff pastry Half a bundle (approx. 125g) asparagus, trimmed and cut into 5cm pieces Salt for seasoning 3 tbsp sun dried tomatoes, roughly chopped, plus 1 tbsp oil from the jar 125g goats’ cheese, Read More…

18

Nov

Warm halloumi and chicory with pomegranate and walnuts

Recipe by Yotam Ottolenghi published in The Guardian. The combination of walnut and pomegranate seeds and/or pomegranate molasses is a pretty common one all around the Middle East, but it’s particularly prevalent in central Asia, in the area around the Caspian Sea – the Georgians, for example, make a salsa similar to the one I use here and Read More…

18

Nov

Mini Ricotta, Spinach & Prosciutto Pies

Recipe found on Empower Foods. Ingredients: 400g baby spinach leaves 60g pine nuts 600g ricotta 100g freshly grated parmesan ½ cup sour cream 2 free range eggs 200g prosciutto, sliced into thin strips freshly cracked blacked pepper to taste Method: Preheat oven to 180°C. Blanch spinach in boiling water for a few seconds Read More…

18

Nov

Chopped blood orange salad with mozzarella

Recipe by Stevie Parle found in The Telegraph. Serves four as a starter 2 blood oranges ½ head of trevise or radicchio 2 celery sticks 1 fennel bulb, tough outer layer removed 2 handfuls of black olives, destoned and halved Seeds from ½ pomegranate A handful of mint leaves ½ lemon Olive oil Read More…