Keep these dates in your diary...we would love to see you there!
Saturday 7th June - Taste of Grampian, Thainstone Centre, Inverurie
Sunday 8th June - Strathmore Highland Games, Glamis Castle, Angus
Sunday 8th June - Cairngorms Farmers Market, Grantown-on-Spey
Saturday 21st June - Moray Farmers Market, Plainstones, Elgin
Saturday 21st June - Turra Farmers Market, Balmellie Street, Turriff
Saturday & Sunday 28th-29th June - Bannockburn Live, Stirling
Saturday 28th June - Piping Hot Forres
Sunday 29th June - Vintage Fete for the Aila Coull Foundation, Mosstodloch
We welcome you to come along, we can easily answer any questions you have about any of our products, and we also have samples of them for you to try too!
Hazelnut oil is an amazing oil and we love using this as it's full of essential vitamins and minerals.
Like a lot of the carrier oils we use, hazelnut oil is rich in vitamin E...which helps in solving some of the problems that occur with aging, but it's also high in B vitamins too. With high levels of essential fatty acids, it's an excellent emollient and moisturiser. A very light oil that's easily absorbed in your skin, apart from that it's anti-bacterial and astringent so will help prevent too much secretion of skin oil that causes acne.
This oil is good for any skin type especially sensitive skin and is very good for oily skin. We chose this oil for our vitamin cream because of all they propoerties and because it doesn't leave an oily, greasy feeling on the skin.
Through time we will be using this oil more in our products. Please feel free to leave your comments or any questions you have below.
I will be spending most of today in my polytunnel and garden tending to my home grown fruit and vegetables... I find that it's very theraputic and satisfying growing them myself with the knowledge of them being much better for me and my family too! I have also found that when I grow my own they taste a lot better than commercially grown ones.
In my polytunnel I have tomatoes, cucumbers, corgettes, chillies and some lettuce, which are coming along quite well. In the garden I have some peas (planted just outside the polytunnel so they can grow up outside the walls!), I also planted some blueberry, blackcurrant, raspberry bushes and lots and lots of strawberry plants. Fingers crossed Chloe and Jack don't get to them first...
We have apple trees in the front garden and cherry trees out back, last year I did plant a new plum tree but sadly it died and I haven't really had the time to replace it, maybe next year.
Like all gardeners it's fine having a nice garden, but it does take a lot of work and keeping it weed free is just one of the drawbacks of gardening, particularly when not using chemicals to do it for you...but all that said there is nothing to beat relaxing in the garden on a warm summers' night!
I would love to hear what you've been up to in your garden too, just leave your comments below...
Read what Slummy Mummies think about our baby range...zinc free baby cream, soothing baby soap and moisturising mum & baby lotion!
Our soothing baby soap has mild Olive Oil, Chamomile, Lavender & Aloe...perfect for little hands to play with!
A moisturising lotion to leave your skin silky soft with its Camellia Oil, Shea Butter & Aloe...your skin will love you for it!
We'd love you to tell us what you think of these for your family...leave comments below
Our Apricot Kernel Oil comes from the seeds of the apricot tree, its a light nourishing oil high in Vitamins A and E. It is especially soothing for sensitive skin and a good thing about this oil is it's easily absorbed into the skin making this a non-greasy oil.
We use Apricot Kernel Oil in a lot of our products, from our soaps, body butters and our creams - it helps to replenish the skin keeping a healthy moisture balance so you have problem free skin...
We would like to hear your feedback, so feel free to leave your comment below!
I'm not one for eating a lot of Lamb, but here is a great way to eat it whilst it is in season...a slow cooked meal that's delicious!
Serves a family of 4 - Cooking time 3 hours
Ingredient List:
1 tbsp olive oil
1 large onion, peeled & finely chopped
3 garlic cloves, peeled & minced
2 or 3 chilli peppers, deseeded & finely chopped (green for mild, red for heat)
3 large carrots, peeled & diced
2 sticks celery, cleaned & finely diced
1 or 2 sweet pepper(s), deseeded & roughly diced
1/2 small swede/turnip, peeled & diced
125g peas, frozen if not grown in your garden
400g lamb fillet, diced into 2cm cubes
600ml lamb stock
300ml vegetable stock
2 tbsp parsley, fresh, roughly chopped
2 tsp mint, fresh, roughly chopped
Seasoning, to taste
1 tbsp cornflour
Method:
- Heat the oil in a large pan. Lightly fry the onion, chilli peppers and garlic over a low to medium heat (to 'sweat' them), put off to one side after 5 minutes. Turn the heat up to brown the lamb for 4-5 minutes until golden.
- Turn the heat down again and add the cooked onion, peppers and garlic to the lamb, then add the celery and cook until they start to soften.
- Pour in the stock and stir. Add the carrots, peas, sweet pepper(s), swede, herbs and seasoning. Cover with a lid and gently simmer for 3 hours, stirring occasionally. Take the lid away after 2 hours to reduce the stock.
- Just before serving, put 2 tbsp of the stock into a dish and gentle stir in the cornflour to make a paste. Add the paste back into the pot and gently boil for 5 minutes to thicken the stock.
To get the best out of this dish, only buy fresh organic lamb and veg (preferably from your local famers market or butcher). You can easily grow fresh herbs in little pots in your kitchen or a window box, just harvest what you need for a great tasty dish!
This has become a firm favourite in our house, and it's very easy to change to suit different tastes too! I would love to hear about any of your favourites...
