Category: Food

[Ad- gifted product] When it comes to pre-made spice mix, I don’t tend to have a whole lot in my cupboard, opting for my own spice mixes, based on my own tastes. With that in mind, when Schwartz reached out, looking for some coverage of their seasoning mix, I wanted to try them out and see if they were good. Schwartz seasoning mix comes in a variety of different flavors, but the Beef Casserole and Seasonal Sauteed Brussels Sprouts with Bacon were my two of choice. I felt that these two could make a balanced meal, once you make up a bit of mash!

Beef Casserole with a slight twist

The beef casserole was pretty simple! The packet of Schwartz seasoning mix had a simplistic, idiot proof recipe on the back, guaranteed to work even if you don’t cook often at all. The amount of ingredients needed were also small in number and included mainly pantry staples. With one onion, two carrots, some olive oil, water and 450 grams of beef, I was ready to take on the casserole. The recipe came in three steps, cutting up your veggies via slicing carrots and chopping the onion. Then heating up your oil, adding in all of the vegetables and meat, cooking it off, before adding in the seasoning mix after you’ve added water to it. From there, you just need to pop the dish into a pre-heated oven.

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[Ad- gifted experience] Recently, I was invited along to a master class featuring Haycock’s No 9 gin, a new ‘spiced gin’ which is quite different to any other gin that I have ever had. Described as a lemon sorbet for adults, this gin has lots of lemon and sweet notes, despite not actually having any lemon in it. I am not the biggest fan of spiced spirits, but Haycock’s No 9 doesn’t actually taste like a spiced gin and instead is just smooth and lemon-y, tasting quite like a dessert.

Dann and I went along to this master class, looking to learn all about the new Haycock’s No 9 gin and taste some of the drinks that it is used in. The creator of this gin described it as not a gin but instead something different and unique, made with coriander seeds which give off a lemon flavor without having to add any lemon. He spoke about flavored syrups and mixing drinks, after we had consumed some small appraisers which were really, really yummy. My favorite was this mac n cheese that was simply delicious, but onto the cocktails.

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