What’s cooking This week I am cooking on two days – On Thursday for Roots Larder (delivery Friday morning), and on Friday for Stafford...

The most common questions I get asked are, Where can you buy my bread? What do I cook? As life starts to return to “normal” I am making a...

The one thing I usually do not have enough of is time. The positive thing for me about lock down was that I did have some. I used a lot...

Diana’s Breads. Stafford Farmers Market. Preparing now for the last farmers market this year at Stafford This Saturday 12th I will be...

With lockdown ending I will be doing two final markets this year – at Stone on the 5th, and at Stafford on the 12th I am avoiding any...

Cooking plans for Saturday 21st November

During the first Covid lockdown I wondered how it was possible to let potential customers know what I was producing, find me, and share...

It has been a busy month catching up on the fruit harvest. So far I have harvested and processed Damsons, Apples, Pears, Blackberries and...

For the last few weeks I have been pre-occupied with the harvest. At the moment it is the Apples, and the damsons. I also spent a couple...

Wholemeal bread means different things to different people. Most commercially produced wholemeal is made with a percentage of wholemeal...

This week we are all being nudged to think about what we eat, worry about our weight and the effect it might have on our health. ...

re-opening this Saturday 11th July after the months of lockdown. The producers have had a couple of markets at Stone, so are now very...

The first farmers market in Stafford since lock down will take place this Saturday 11th July. Maybe this is a good opportunity to think...

I am sure that most people will be aware of the successful campaign by the footballer Marcus Rashford to persuade the government to...

When you start looking at carrot cake recipes you realise there are thousands of different ways to make cakes out of carrots. I often...

Planning for the first farmers market since lock down has been an intense process. There were the questions of course - was I ready to do...

Getting food businesses running again is quite a challenge for everyone. It is all about giving people the confidence that they are...

Over the last 20 years the Farmers Markets have been a fixed point in the structure of every month. On the Tuesday and Wednesday before...