National Vegetarian Week

Can you go meat free for one week? National Vegetarian week has given us girls at Sugar & Spice a chance to try and cull or at least deter our inner carnivore. Vegetarian cuisine has come on leaps and bounds in recent years so it is hardly a difficult task to avoid meat for just a few days. So...

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Read more We all scream for ICE CREAM

Having a few Scottish members of the Sugar & Spice team we haven’t been coping that well with this lovely weather in London but it has provided us with the perfect excuse for some ice cream testing, or rather tasting. What better way to cool down I say? An ice cream a day….well it probably just...

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OUR GUILTY PLEASURE

This week in the kitchen we were talking about going on a quest to find the best burger recipe, we all got terribly excited before it transpired that we were all in agreement that the best is actually the simplest with just one ingredient – beef. So we thought we would give your our high end version...

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An Amateurs Attempt at a Scotch Egg

The plan is to provide you with a little on-going series where one of our professional chefs and one extreme amateur attempt the same recipe and give you their take on it. The extreme amateur being me, until now I have been very firmly planted in the office at S&S and successfully diverted away...

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A Case of Macaroon Madness

As dismal as the weather has been this week in London it has given us a reason to never want to leave the kitchen, and as a result we have spent many an hour trying to perfect our macaroons. There seem to be a mind boggling number of variables that go into making the perfect macaroon so we thought...

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National Chocolate Week

Whoever came up with the idea of having a whole week dedicated to my favourite food group is definitely a genius. Just as we all start despairing about the lack of warmth and having to pile on the woollies every morning we are hit by the most fabulous week of chocolate indulgence. National Chocolate...

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The Sugar & Spice Toffee Crisp

For a while the girls in the kitchen have been trying to come up with something that rivalled our chocolate brownie in popularity. It was a no brainer that chocolate had to be involved but this time we wanted something a little bit less ordinary. As much as I love our brownies and they are still the...

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EASY PEASY NO KNEAD BREAD

This bread is so delicious and ridiculously easy to make. The fact that even I managed to produce something pretty darn good is a clear indication that this recipe is fool proof!! The best thing is that there is no kneading so you can’t even blame that if things go wrong! Our chef Lucy was taught...

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Canapes

If you are having a dinner party soon and want to take things to the next level, the easiest way to impress your guests is with some canapes before sitting down to supper. We thought we would share with you some really elegant and easy canapes to wow everyone with, when you are next entertaining. More...

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SUMMER SPARKLES

Summer hasn’t quite made it on our British soil… yet!  With engagement parties and other soirees going on, refreshing cocktails are still in order, so every summer we create a signature cocktail and Mocktail to keep our guests refreshed.  We have been shaking and stirring in our kitchen...

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