Blog Archive - January 2017

This Week's Dish Of The Dale: Chicken Dijon

Posted on 30 January 2017

Tags: Good Food, Good Recipe

Our Co-founder’s favourite recipes

There’s a new Dish of the Dale on taster for the next fortnight at your local COOK: the magnificent Chicken Dijon.

One of our great all-rounders, this is as happy working its magic as a dinner party main, with duchess potatoes and steamed greens, as it is slumming on top of an oven-cooked baked potato.

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Healthy Cooking

Posted on 28 January 2017

Tags: Good Food, Good Recipe

Every so often, someone from the COOK team will hold a lunchtime workshop at our Kitchen. Yesterday it was Rosie and SJ, our Development Chefs, who shared some healthy recipes. They were such a hit, we thought you might like to see them…

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Community Kitchen - Milestone Passed!

Posted on 26 January 2017

We officially launched the Community Kitchen towards the end of 2015, but really it’s a broad scheme that includes things we’d been doing for some time, like donating leftovers to a nearby drop-in centre for the vulnerable, paid volunteering days for our staff, and responding to those requests that come in every now and then to help out someone in need. The new bit, when we launched, was a discount on our food that we offer for community events. We’re pleased to say it has really taken off and in last December alone we helped cater for 19 different events, feeding 1014 people.

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This Week's Dish Of The Dale: Chilli con Carne

Posted on 15 January 2017

Tags: Good Food, Good Recipe

Our Co-founder’s favourite recipes

When it comes to chilli, it’s the little touches that make it. Our chefs have honed the recipe and come up with one that’s anything but ordinary.

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Lentils with Spinach Spiced with Turmeric

Posted on 10 January 2017

Tags: Recipe, Good Food

If you’re detoxing, cutting back or even embracing a completely new way of eating in 2017, you should try this lovely recipe from Tony, the COOK sourcing guru.

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This Week's Dish Of The Dale: Moroccan Spiced Harissa Chicken

Posted on 4 January 2017

Tags: Good Food, Good Recipe

Our Co-founder’s favourite recipes

A New Year, a new Dish of the Dale – and this time it’s one of our amazing Moroccan-inspired dishes.

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That was the Year that Was

Posted on 4 January 2017

Before 2016 becomes a distant memory, we’d like to say a heartfelt thank you to all our customers who supported us over the year. It ended on a real high, with more people than ever choosing COOK for their Christmas Lunch. Bringing good people together over good food is at the heart of what we do, so that gives us a lovely warm fuzzy feeling inside … which is lucky, as January looks set to be a really cold one.

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