News is out that Costco are selling an apocalypse food kit which it promises will keep you and your family fed for a year should disaster strike – when presumably it will be safe to venture out of your shed or whatever you’ve been using as a bunker. Now, here at SK Chilled Foods, we […]

It’s Spam Appreciation Week. Yes, it actually exists! In the days before Spam was a term for annoying emails, it was more synonymous as a brand name for canned cooked meat. Keeping the troops marching through the Second World War, Spam (or to give its correct styling, SPAM), was a name everyone knew.

A friend of mine, Nick Grieves, runs The Patricia, a small 25-seat restaurant located off the beaten track in Jesmond, Newcastle. During the recent Newcastle Restaurant Week, I took Chef Sean, and our partners, to eat there. The space is dark with low lighting, lots of candles and very atmospheric. A quiet spot where the food […]

Christmas is just over a week away so we’re once again including sprouts in our recipe. This one uses these little small green gems (we will wear you down until you love them as much as we do) in an Asian style salad served with pork belly. It is an ideal dish to make after […]

It’s World Chocolate Day, and while here at SK Foods we make a whole host of delicious savoury snacks, we just can’t resist a sweet treat! Chocolate is the ultimate comfort food and the first thing we reach for when we’re stressed, when life has taken a turn for the worse and or need cheering […]

National Picnic Week starts today and when doing our research for this blog we were surprised to discover that, for a change, picnics didn’t originate here in the UK. The first usage of the word can be traced back to a French book in 1692 which described a group of people dining in a restaurant […]

I always find it funny how so many non-Irish people celebrate St Patrick’s Day. Poor St David, St George and St Andrew don’t get a look in when it comes to St Paddy’s Day. When it comes down to it I think it’s because we all just love the idea of the ‘craic’ and an excuse […]

On Yorkshire Pudding Day, why, we ask, is there still no EU protected status for this simple (if you know how to cook them that is!) dish? Melton Mowbray pork pies, Stornoway black puddings, Cumberland sausage, Jersey royal potatoes and Cornish clotted cream all have this status, which means it must be produced in the […]

Believe it or not, Chinese New Year 2017 is only just underway, but in the SK kitchen we have already started planning for 2018! 2017 is the year of the rooster, which is apt given we have two in the kitchen. No, I don’t mean the feathered version, but our Head Chef John and Senior […]