The Year of the Rat

Happy Chinese New Year

In China the New Year is also called chunjie (春节), or the Spring Festival. It’s still very wintry, but the holiday marks the end of the coldest days. People welcome spring and what it brings along: planting and harvests, new beginnings and fresh starts.

Because it is the Lunar New Year there's no fixed date for the holiday which can range from January 21st to February 20th.

This year it is on 25th January.

The celebrations are marked by a day of prayer to the gods and to chasing off monsters. Across the world, the greatest number of fireworks than for any other occasion will be set off to scare away those monsters - they obviously work.

To celebrate the culture and flavours of the Chinese New Year on the 25th January 2020 
we are running a tasty competition.

The Prize on offer!

• 1 x Stokes Chinese New Year Collection containing Sweet Chilli Sauce, Hoisin Sauce, Chilli Ketchup, Tomato Ketchup & Brown Sauce
• 2 x Half Gressingham Aromatic Duck
• 2 x Packet of Gressingham Bistro Duck Breasts with Plum Sauce
• 1 x Gressingham Cook's Apron
• 1 x Stokes Food Made Better Apron 

To enter this tasty competition - CLICK HERE

Sweet Chilli Sauce

Made with red chillies and red peppers our Sweet Chilli Sauce overflows with the vitality of the Orient. With its sweet, clean taste this sauce is deliciously versatile.

Use it as a dip for Scotch Eggs.

QI: Scotch Eggs are not from Scotland. Scotch is an old abbreviation for 'scotched', meaning hacking meat to roughly mince it.

Hoisin Sauce

A rich sweet sauce made with Yellowbean sauce, soy sauce and a little red chilli, this oriental classic will have you coming back for more. The classic accompaniment to duck.

Mixed with Stokes Brown Sauce and our Chilli Ketchup, grated ginger and lime juice - it makes a fantastic marinade for spare ribs.

Brown Sauce

This grownup brown sauce is sweet and spicy, rich with date puree, black treacle and our own unique blend of heart warming spices. It's amazing with Chinese 5 Spice on chicken wings.

Tomato Ketchup

Deliciously juicy Italian tomatoes, all 200g of them packed into every 100g of thick, rich Tomato Ketchup. Turn it into an amazing Chinese marinade by adding Chinese 5 Spice, or give it extra zing with a little Chilli Ketchup.

 Chilli Ketchup

A twist on the best tomato ketchup – savour the rich tomato taste and then feel the heat of the spices kicking in.

Turn a tomato base into a powerful Chinese-style chilli broth of water chestnuts, tofu slices, spring onion and thin slices of celery. 

Simmer beef stock, tomato juice, soy sauce and a little soft brown sugar. 

Now add Stokes Chilli Ketchup and a dollop of our Brown Sauce until it delivers the heat and flavours you want.

Stokes Chinese New Year 5 Collection

... it's a powerful taste combination 

buy yours here

More foodie thoughts for the week:

 


Flavours of the Orient - 
Celebrating the Chinese New Year with a collection of simple Chinese-style recipes - here.







Catch of the Day - 
Our Fish Friday catch of the day is cod and we've some very tasty variations for you - here.


 




The Simple Things - 
Sometimes, it's the simple things in life that create the biggest sparkle and sharing them the broadest smiles - here.

If we couldn't make it AMAZING...
we wouldn't make it at all.

FOOD MADE BETTER 
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