The BBQ - Family fun Made Better

 A great British Summer means a great family BBQ - whatever the weather.

The day starts at the local butcher who'll have a wonderful range of goodies to choose from - thick juicy burgers; old English bangers just bursting with flavour; free range chicken thighs (best pre-cooked indoors and finished on the coals); and perhaps a few slices of tender rump steak ... delicious. Whether you cook on coals or gas, the preparation, salads, chatter and chilled prosecco all add to the occasion. 

But soft, what sauce from yonder shapely bottle shines, it is the Curry Ketchup and Stokes is the sun.

Just add Stokes Sauces and believe in our promise of - FOOD MADE BETTER. These are the top five most popular sauces and relishes to turn your taste buds inside out with juicy delight at your BBQs this Summer:

Red Onion Marmalade;  Tomato Ketchup;  Real Mayonnaise. PLUS Curry Ketchup;  Burger Relish 

What's New - AND 20% off!

Stokes Burger Relish is a new and most welcome arrival into the Stokes family of deliciousness. It is a thick and rich blend of slightly sweet yet clean textures, balanced with a subtle chilli zing. Our red pepper, tomatoes and onion salsa will transform even the best butcher's burger to new and stylish culinary heights.

To celebrate Summer (whatever the weather) we are offering 20% off the Burger Relish orders you place before 31st July 2016.  Just click here to shop.

Meet the little ones

Stokes Sauces are essentially the product of Rick Sheepshanks and his dedicated team who love good honest food, made better with good honest relishes, sauces, marmalades and mayonnaise. Ingredients is King and the uncompromising recipe creation is Queen. 

Well this King, Queen, courtiers, and livestock create their secret components of culinary joy at Rendlesham Hall in Suffolk. The peace and quiet of the countryside is broken only by the eureka moment of another taste-busting idea from the team, or the bleat, moo, grunt of the family babies and their parents:

Look after the pennies

Last month we gave you some suggestions for getting the labels off Stokes jars - why, because when you have enjoyed their contents and ordered some more, the empty jars offer stylish opportunities to 'get creative'. Here are some ideas:

So, get creative. get the kids to paint your empty jars this summer, take a picture and e-mail them to me HERE , and we'll send a money box lid to the best five each week across the Summer until 5th September. 

What does the original Margherita Pizza and Stokes have in common?

It is popular opinion in Italy that in 1889, during a visit of Queen Margherita of Savoy to Naples, chef Raffaele Esposito of Pizzeria Brandi created a pizza resembling the colours of the newly unified Italian flag, red (tomato), white (mozzarella) and green (basil). The tomatoes were grown on the hillsides between Naples and Pompeii and were chosen by Raffaele for their deep red colour and intense sweet juicy flavour.

Such plump tomatoes still ripen in the sunshine that drenches the hillsides of southern Italy and it is these we use in Stokes TomatoKetchup. Unlike most ketchups, we don't mill our tomatoes, but gently simmer them down to a smooth texture that keeps all of their rich natural Italian flavours... 

 

Simple, honest, delicious

 FOOD MADE BETTER 

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