Posts tagged 'Environment & science'
11 August 2015
A Walk Along A Country Lane In North Yorkshire
Last night whilst Sophie was playing tennis with our son, Jamie, I went for a walk along the River Ure with our daughter, Poppy. It was a beautiful evening with swallows and sand martins out in abundance and only a few others around. The river flow...
Read more05 June 2012
Cooking With A Wonderbag
Sophie came across the Wonderbag on the radio and then The Guardian, so one arrived several weeks thereafter. Basically, a Wonderbag is a modern and green take on the slow cooker and that you find in books as far back as Mrs Beeton’s and even like t...
Read more25 April 2012
Dosas – Southern Indian Pancakes
My parents have recently come back from a wedding in Southern India and they have been to one of my favourite regions, Kerala. They were blown away by the delicious food and already miss the flavours of their staple, the dosa. At about the same tim...
Read more20 December 2011
Recipe For A Thoroughly Modern Vegetarian Balti
Once in a while, I really need to go without meat of any form and I am going through one of those patches at the moment. So I have tweaked my Chicken Balti Recipe from earlier this year to be more tofu friendly and so usable as a vegetarian dish. At...
Read more06 October 2011
Blending Breakfast Teas (1)
I have been doing some research while trying to create a range of Breakfast Tea blends to complement our very popular English Breakfast Tea. This has partly been a matter of curiosity as I like, in a slightly anoraky way, reading old books on tea, s...
Read more25 August 2011
Is There Any Need For Sustainability?
I have recently read Tim Jackson's "Prosperity Without Growth - Economics for a Finite Planet". It proposes that we refocus how we manage our economies to take into account the limits on the earth, but is rather vague exactly how we should do this -...
Read more12 June 2011
Ripon's Flood Alleviation Scheme
Around a year ago, I wrote a few blogs about walking along the Rivers Skell and Ure in Ripon. The rivers run through Ripon and circle around the ever looming presence of Ripon Cathedral on the mount at Ripon's heart. The rivers bring the countrysid...
Read more07 June 2011
Charities, The Law And Unintended Consequences
As some of you know, we have been looking as a socially committed but small business to give support to a charity, either Practical Action or Water Aid, and link that back to sales via the web site as a sensible way to work out the donation and also...
Read more18 May 2011
Context...Social Dividends And Choosing Charities For Steenbergs Web-shop
So following on from my last blog, we see Steenbergs' brand as being entangled with our range, the quality of our products and the context of these products. Where the spices, teas and blend ideas come from tells us about different cultures around t...
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