Baking and Making Food

• Storing Dried Chilli for Freshness and Ease of Use

  5 January 2018

  Chilli peppers are associated in most people's minds with hot, spicy food with a real kick to it. And, while chilli is certainly the key to spicing up your dishes, there's more to its abilities than simple heat. Depending on how much chilli you use and what other ingredients it's combined with, it can bring a range of interesting flavour differences to food. This makes it an essential item in any chef's kitchen, even those who don't cook much spicy food.

• Why Should You Stock Sugar-Free Confectionary?

  17 October 2017

  Just a decade or two ago, the idea of sugar-free confectionary would have sounded slightly absurd. After all, confectionary is supposed to be sweet, and sugar used to be the be-all-end-all of sweetness. However, things have changed. Modern confectionary suppliers are able to provide sugar-free products that use artificial sweeteners, and those sweeteners are often healthier than sugar. Here are just a few reasons why you should take advantage of those advances by stocking sugar-free confectionary.