Charlie Bigham meals. Home cooked by Charlie

 

Charlie Bigham and his dedicated staff have been providing home cooked quality foods for 25 years.

No matter what meal you have from Charlie Bigham, you will know that it is a great meal that is fit for your family or for you, if you are dining alone. (They have meals suitable for two or one.)

The ingredients are properly and carefully sourced and are always of superior quality. For example if a Charlie Bigham meal calls for chicken breast you can be certain that what will be in the meal will be a real piece of chicken breast, cooked to perfection. 

And if it calls for pieces of beef then they'll be pieces of real beef of the same quality that you would expect from your best local butcher. Even better, maybe? After all, Charlie and his team do have a quarter century of finding and buying the best ingredients that are available.

And the meals are always served in the appropriate cookware. Real pottery ramakins, for example are things that you will come to expect from Charlie Bigham.

Charlie's proud, and very justified claim is: "Prepared with pride in my kitchen, cooked in yours."

What meals are available?

Steak and ale pies (a favourite of mine) steak and blue cheese (my wife's favourite) fish pies, chicken and mushroom pies, chicken ham and leak pies and cottage pie and shepherd's pie.

At least seven delicious curries (Thai was a firm favourite, I have to say)  world grain recipes, fantastic vegetarian options, some traditional meal choices (though with Charlie these come with a "wow!" factor)  and there are some stunning pasta options. 

There is also a scrumptious range of deserts, cherry bakewell, chocolate fondant, sticky toffee pudding, sticky ginger pudding, bread and butter pudding and lemon drizzle pudding.

As you'd expect Charlie and his team are careful when they source their ingredients, so they look out for things like the Red Tractor scheme and the like so you don't have to.

Where can you obtain Charlie Bigham's range? Check with your supermarket as they are widely available. At present you will find them at Asda, Booths, Budgens, Ocado, Sainsbury's, Tesco and Waitrose. (Incidentally, we have changed which supermarket we order our shopping from to one of the above who do stock Charlie Bigham's meals!)

If you are a buyer at a food retailer that doesn't stock Charlie Bigham's delicious foods, I really think you need to get in touch with them.

To learn more about their range, or check out job opportunities with them and the like, visit them at https://www.bighams.com/.

  

Skippy Peanut Butter. Now with chocolate chips

 I love peanut butter, especially Skippy (crunchy or smooth, depends on the mood I am in) and I also love chocolate.

So you will be able to imagine my pleasure and happiness when I learned recently that the peanut butter experts at Skippy had decided to have a bash at gilding the lily, i.e., attempting to perfect on perfection by introducing a new product to their range, Extra Smooth Skippy Choc Chip Swirl Peanut Butter.

I already expected to like this new addition to the Skippy range of products, but I wasn't perhaps quite prepared as to how much I would like it.

It's utterly delicious. I have to confess that I like to have Skippy Peanut Butter with chocolate spread that I add myself, but it can be a bit hit-and-miss as too much chocolate spread can overpower the more delicate taste of the peanut butter.

But this is not the case with Extra Smooth Skippy Choc Chip Swirl Peanut Butter. There is 10% chocolate drops and whilst you might think that's not much, it is the correct amount to provide a good balance between the delicate taste of the peanut butter and the sharp, yet sweet tang of the chocolate drops.

I can heartily recommend this product to anyone who likes peanut butter.

Also, please check out their recipes including Skippy Smooth Peanut Butter with Chocolate Pieces, which you will find at peanutbutter.uk.com.

It costs £2.65 for a 340g jar. And will be on our next Morrison's delivery order. Along with some non-chocolate Skippy Peanut Butter for my wife as she has an allergy to chocolate.