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Family-friendly event will share practical ways to cut food waste

The award-winning charity, Exeter Food Action, will host the free one-day Exeter Food Action Festival in Princesshay Square on Sunday 20 September, from 10.30am to 4pm.

The event will celebrate the charity’s work rescuing surplus food and redistributing it across Exeter and Devon, while inspiring local people to think differently about food waste.

The Exeter Food Action Festival will offer a hands-on, engaging and accessible programme designed to encourage local people to find out more about cutting food waste, saving money and discovering simple, practical ways to make...

Courgettes, Onions and Garlic with Fresh Basil

Bridget's Advice: Keep food simple and nutritious but most of all use Organic Ingredients:

Slice and fry onions in a mixture of extra virgin oil and butter, add garlic (I use a whole green garlic) chop various coloured courgettes and add to the onions/garlic, near the end of cooking time add some freshly chopped basil, season and serve.

RAMM Café wins Gold

Describing it as “a great all-round experience” the RAMM Cafe has received a Gold Award in the Taste of the West Hospitality and Retail Awards 2013. The judges went on the say that the food was great local food, the prices fair, the surroundings clean and comfortable and the staff smiley.

Rosie Denham, Exeter’s Lead Councillor for Economy and Culture, commented: “Here is further proof that Exeter is synonymous with excellence: award-winning food in our award-winning museum.

"That perfect combination of international standards with a local focus is what makes Exeter such a...

Rising Star finalists sharpen their knives to prepare for culinary battle

Five aspiring young chef finalists have been put through their culinary paces and have made it one step closer to landing their dream apprenticeship placement at River Cottage HQ with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and the River Cottage team.

The River Cottage Rising Star 2013 competition was launched to give one lucky individual the best possible start to their career and to become the face of its new Young Chef Apprenticeship Scheme. In turn River Cottage hopes that its Rising Star will inspire other budding chefs so that that they too can join the River Cottage team on this...

Bridget's Organic Thai Green Vegetable Curry

Always use organic produce for a really healthy meal. Varying the organic vegetables will not stop this dish from tasting amazing, it will be a sizzler!

Lightly fry some leeks, onions and spring onions in a little butter/olive oil, mix in one jar of organic Thai Green curry paste, then place into a slow cooker. Add one tin of coconut milk.

Peel, remove seeds and chop/slice; carrots, parsnip, turnip, swede, spinach, harlequin squash (remove skin), purple sprouting broccoli, one red pepper, spinach and a medium potato.

Cook in the slow cooker until vegetable are to...

A Little Twist on Pink Radish

Slice or spiral organic pink radish, add some white balsamic (or white wine vinegar), olive oil and chopped parsley Keeps crunchy if refrigerated.

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Organic Chicken and Vegetables

Another great meal made with all Shillingford Organics vegetables. Organic chicken breast cooked on a bed of onions in organic butter, boiled potatoes, broad beans, pointed hispi cabbage, topped off with spinach and cauliflower cheese, made with gluten and wheat free flour.

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Bridget's Organic Veggie Supper

Boil some potatoes, whole carrots and towards the end of cooking add the calibrese and broad beans. While this is cooking, melt organic butter and olive oil in a wok, add courgettes, then some onions, followed a few minutes later by roughly chopped black kale and spinach.

Drain the other veg and toss it into the wok to coat it in the buttery oil, season and serve.

Click here to find out more about Shillingford.

Or click here to watch the video 'Food for a sustainable future.

All Vegetables from www.shillingfordorganics.co.uk

Delicious and mouthwatering Afro-Caribbean cuisine in Exeter?

Afriteo Restaurant, a subsidiary of Afriteo Enterprise UK, opened its doors today on Exeter's South Street, spicing up the city's food scene with its authentic Afro-Caribbean and continental cuisine. It is, as far as we are aware, the first and only of its kind in Exeter and possibly even Devon.

Restaurant proprietor Tochukwu E. Onu says: "It is in our belief that everyone who likes trying out food from around the globe will enjoy our delicious and mouth-watering dishes, which have been tailored to suit the taste buds of everyone. With our unique Spice-o-meter...

Put fun with food on the menu this summer holiday

Budding young chefs in Exeter are being given the chance to roll up their sleeves, put on their aprons and show off their culinary skills at Fun Kitchen cookery workshops.

During the summer holidays children aged between eight and fourteen, are being invited to cook up a selection of scrumptious treats and mouth-watering dishes in the Fun Kitchen at St Peter's Church of England School, Exeter. ​

To fit around parents' busy working lives, children can be can dropped off from 8.30am with an entertaining and fun-filled day of cookery activities going on until 5.30pm.

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Exclusive new restaurant bus service launched in Devon

A bus service with a difference is to be launched in Devon catering for foodies and partygoers looking for a new al fresco eating-out experience.

On The Green bus is a restaurant on wheels with a dining room on the top floor and a first-class catering kitchen and bar below.

The bus is available for private parties or events but will also be taking to the roads of South Devon so diners can eat, drink, and take in some of the jewels of the area.

Customers will be able to mix and match five routes with five menus of locally sourced, top-class food – or create their own...

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