http://blogscrambled.com Thoughts and musings on food and nutrition... Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:16:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After seeing this for the first time tonight on River Cottage, I nashed out to the garden & picked a few big, red, ripe strawberries. Then sliced them thickly into a bowl. Sprinkled over some sugar, poured over some raspberry vinegar then sprinkled some white pepper. Then I fell in ... http://blogscrambled.com/uncategorized/macerated-strawberries/ I went to L'escargot Blue in Broughton Street Edinburgh on Saturday night to celebrate a good friends 40th birthday. We had intended to eat snails for starters & horse steaks as a main, but neither were on the menu that day. This, it turns out was not such a bad ... http://blogscrambled.com/food-reviews/lescargot-bleu-edinburgh/ “What if just knowing what a word meant could help feed hungry people around the world? Well, at FreeRice it does . . . the totals have grown exponentially.” - Washington Post “Web game provides rice for hungry . . . FreeRice went online in early October and has now raised 1 billion grains of rice [by November ... http://blogscrambled.com/nutrition/help-feed-the-hungry-with-online-word-games/ Below was sent to me via email today from compassion in world farming. There is a long way to go when it comes to ethical conduct within our supermarkets, but it's progress. I think Hugh Fearnley Whittingstalls chicken out campaign has made a lot of people think a lot more ... http://blogscrambled.com/food-industry/first-of-the-uks-top-retailers-to-go-100-free-range-on-eggs/ I have had many prescriptions from my GP over the past 9 years to relieve pain & improve mobility after a fall off a building onto scaffolding that taught me a good lesson. ( Don't be stupid & climb random objects when drunk )! As I have never been too happy ... http://blogscrambled.com/medicinal-uses/anti-inflammatory-turmeric-tea/ This is a fabulous place, situated in Abbeyhill is a gem of a place  to have a slightly different dining experience in Edinburgh. When I first heard of this eatery, run single handedly by an Armenian monk, I had to try & book a table for a group of friends ... http://blogscrambled.com/uncategorized/armenian-aghtamar-lake-van-monastry-in-exile/ Last month I nipped down to London to see a gig. I had not been to London since I was a young child & as I have a healthy obsession for food my focus the next day was to seek out a good dining experience before getting the bus back ... http://blogscrambled.com/uncategorized/great-buffet-in-chinatown-london/ Well, it seems that this is not exactly breaking news, but I can no longer enjoy a guilt free bar of Green & Black's chocolate either! Whilst looking at a forum today on the subject of " boycott Nestle this Easter " I read that THE BODY SHOP sold itself to ... http://blogscrambled.com/food-industry/green-blacks-owned-by-cadburys-schweppes/ A couple of days ago, like thousands of other people, I received a Facebook invite, to join the group " have a Nestle free Easter ". I joined without any hessitation, along with 14,766 other people. I commend anyone's actions, who chooses to buy a chocolate bar, displaying the "FAIR TRADE" ... http://blogscrambled.com/food-industry/fair-trade-chocolate/ A few weeks ago, I started to collect milk bottles for growing a herb garden. A friend looked at me curiously when she asked what all the bottles were for. She is now collecting milk bottles & passing this easy recycling tip on. If you get a plastic milk bottle, ( cut out ... http://blogscrambled.com/uncategorized/recycled-milk-bottle-windowsill-herbs/