Pink Patisserie: Perfect Fall Pear and Cranberry Clafouti

Pink Patisserie: Perfect Fall Pear and Cranberry Clafouti

New! Recipes from Essential that are healthy AND taste good, too!

Ethical vegetarian health food brand Essential has commissioned five new recipes to mark its annual Healthy Eating Fortnight (October 17-30, 2011). 

The two savoury and three sweet dishes have been created by highly regarded nutritionist Christine Bailey who has used a number of nutritious, natural ingredients that are widely available at health food stores. 

The recipes are:

·      Muesli Slice

·      Pesto Butterbean Burgers

·      Chocolate Tahini Fudge

·      Butternut Squash, Coconut & Chickpea Curry with Toasted Coconut Flakes

·      Berry Coconut Cheesecake

The recipes aim to inspire people to try new healthy ingredients but also to experiment with familiar ingredients – such as pesto and tahini - in a new way. 

They are available to download now from www.essential-trading.coop and will be produced as collectable glossy A5 cards at selected health food shops from October.

While the focus for the new recipes is the Healthy Eating Fortnight, the five dishes can be enjoyed throughout the autumn and winter with the Chocolate Tahini Fudge, Butternut Squash, Coconut & Chickpea Curry and Berry Coconut Cheesecake recipes particularly worthy of festive entertaining.

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It's Chocolate Week!

Chocolate Week, the nation’s favourite themed week, returns for a seventh consecutive year this October to celebrate the wonderful world of fine chocolate

Chocolate Week, the nation’s favourite themed week, returns for a seventh consecutive year this October to celebrate the wonderful world of fine chocolate. chocolate week 2011 sees over 350 events taking place around the UK and culminating in a deliciously indulgent exhibition, Chocolate Unwrapped, featuring some of the best chocolate brands from around the world. chocolate unwrapped

The UK’s top chocolatiers and chocolate companies celebrate Chocolate Week by hosting talks, tastings, demonstrations and sampling, as well as creating exclusive products, new launches, offers, chocolate meals, cocktails and recipes.
Just some of this year’s events include:

• Chocolate Unwrapped – a dedicated chocolate show in London on 15th & 16th October. With over 4000 visitors and 40 exhibitors attending, the exhibition features top British chocolatiers and chocolate companies along with chocolate makers from France, Italy, Switzerland, Hungary, Holland and Germany. Visitors have the opportunity to view chocolate art, meet the chocolatiers, attend talks and demos, taste the very best chocolate, paint with chocolate onto a giant canvas and watch chocolate being made in the smallest chocolate factory in the world.

• The Great Chocolate Cake-Off – home bakers can enter their favourite chocolate cake to be judged by a panel of experts.

• William Curley’s pop up shop on St Martin’s Lane, London

• Hotel Chocolat launches its tasting adventures pack to encourage consumers to hold chocolate tastings at home.

• One of the UK’s top chocolatiers, Paul a Young, collaborates with renowned fusion chef Peter Gordon to create a 6-course chocolate dinner at Providores on Monday 10th & Friday 14th October.

• Jason Atherton hosts a chocolate tasting at Harvey Nichols, Knightsbridge and launches an exclusive chocolate dessert at Pollen Street Social. The Ivy have created an exclusive chocolate bombe dessert for the week.

• Thorntons continues its centenary celebrations by giving away a chocolate smile to everyone who visits their shops during the week.

• Divine Chocolate launches recipes from baking extraordinaire and Great British Bake Off judge Mary Berry, Baking Made Easy’s Lorraine Pascale and Masterchef judge Gregg Wallace and hold a plethora of events around the country.

Chocolate Week was set up to promote fine flavour chocolate, the independent artisan chocolatiers and the chocolate companies who work in direct partnership with the cocoa farmers. It aims to encourage consumers to pay a fairer price for their chocolate.

• For more details on the week and participants visit chocolate week
• For more information on Chocolate Unwrapped visit chocolate unwrapped Press tickets are available for the show
• For a video on the week and the show visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2-ZRl... (also on the homepage of the site)
• Chocolate Week is kindly funded by the Ministry of Tourism Ecuador, Divine Chocolate, Thorntons and Hotel Chocolat.

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More discount dining from Discountvouchers.co.uk

Online retail voucher codes specialist DiscountVouchers.co.uk is helping diners enjoy more eating out for their budget over the autumn through new restaurant deals. UK consumers can save money at more than 800 retailers through DiscountVouchers.co.uk and this week the site is home to savings at top restaurants Burger King, Pizza Hut and Prezzo.

Treating a partner to an Italian meal out this autumn need not cost the earth thanks to new deals redeemable at top diner Prezzo. DiscountVouchers.co.uk has published new Prezzo vouchers which UK consumers can use to get themselves 2 courses and a drink for £11.95 or 3 courses and a drink for £13.95.

All the UK's most popular restaurants feature at all times on the DiscountVouchers.co.uk website, and one of the country's favourite burger joints is on show now in the shape of Burger King. Logging onto DiscountVouchers.co.uk right now allows consumers to get new Burger King vouchers which can be exchanged for 2 for 1 on selected burgers and the Double Cheeseburger King Deal just £3.49.

Another of the country's most popular family restaurants to feature in the new autumn dining deals on DiscountVouchers.co.uk is Pizza Hut. Diners can look forward to taking the kids out to enjoy pizza and pasta on a budget thanks to new Pizza Hut vouchers offering 'eat for just £5 at Pizza Hut' plus also Kids Eat free and free unlimited salad.

Doug Scott, managing director at DiscountVouchers.co.uk, comments, “Because we review and update our deals all the time we can always offer people the latest money-saving offers for top restaurants. With these new deals for Prezzo, Burger King and Pizza Hut, UK diners can look forward to eating out on a budget this autumn."

DiscountVouchers.co.uk offers consumers money saving deals at major high street brands and specialist retailers, including stores like Tesco, Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury’s, Travelodge, First Choice, lastminute.com and Boden.

For details visit www.discountvouchers.co.uk

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Gourmet Explorer 6-day October cookery course in Carcassonne - special offer price!

Due to some last-minute cancellations on the French House Party Carcassonne's flagship cookery course, the Gourmet Explorer has spaces available at the unbelievable price of £950 - usual cost £1400, for single travellers.

The all-inclusive course includes cookery tuition from not one, but two master-chefs who run their own multi-star restaurants in the Carcassonne region of France.

Transfers from Toulouse or Carcassonne airports are also included, plus two meals out at restaurants and various other outings.

French House Party is recommended in the book "100 Best Worldwide Vacations to Enrich Your Life".

See website for more information: www.frenchhouseparty.eu