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A Stirrin' Stuff blog of sorts...

Stirrin' Stuff on Radio Scotland at Christmas [audio] (30/12/07)
After having been such a gimungous success last time round, Fi got invited back to Fred McCauley's show to divulge her christmas tips for cooking with children...

York Festival of Food (1/11/07)
Ok ok, readers. So it’s been a while. Sorry about that, to both of you. Anyway, since last we met, much has happened in the land of Stirrin’ Stuff. Sadly I’ve forgotten most of it...

British Potato Council's Roadshow [video] (14/8/07)
Fi was invited to Edinburgh by the British Potato Council to join their roadshow, cook some recipes and, well, see for yourself...

The Bristol Children's Festival (14/8/07)
Hello Food Fanatics! Well, this time dearest Mama is here and she could write her own blog, but she said that my last effort was just so brilliant...

The Game Conservancy Scottish Fair (2/8/07)
Good morning sports fans! I’m afraid mother dearest is so hopelessly busy demonstrating, that she doesn’t have time to do...

Harrods in partnership with California Raisins (21/5/07)
Waking up on the Monday morning of the demonstration was bliss. There was a very good reason for this. We were in a...

Yet Again, Mum Doesn't give her Blog a Discernable or Relevant Title (21/5/07)
Stirrin’Stuff has been in action in after school clubs and schools this month. Fi continues to spend a day in the kitchen each week recipe creating for...

April (4/5/07)
During April Stirrin'Stuff spent lots of time in the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre at various...

Stirrin' Stuff on Radio Scotland [audio] (13/4/07)
Cooking is fun, especially when you cook with a child-friendly roaming radio Scotland reporter...

March 2007 (13/4/07)
March was so busy that the blog updates just didn’t happen. Here is an all-too-brief update...

Sustainability is an important issue (27/2/07)
It is snowing again but the daffodils are almost in bud and the garden is full of snowdrops, aconites and scillas...

A Stirrin'New Year (31/1/07)
Stirrin’Stuff kicked into 2007 with a new idea for a recipe column, the children send the recipes in and we test them. This was started...

Stirrin'stuff at Christmas (30/12/06)
Oh, the joys of a large family; multiple conversations, "He who shoutest loudest will probably win". Fun - lots of it. The chaos began with...

Marathon day of cookery demonstrations (13/12/06)
Nine demonstrations in a school day with S1 pupils at Clydebank High school – on a day when it rained and rained and Glasgow got flooded...

St Andrew’s Holiday Big Lottery Fund Cookery Workshops (1/12/06)
These interactive demonstrations in out of school clubs were funded Big Lottery funds.The children had heaps of fun and a high adult to child ratio...

Christmas Cooking with children - A Recipe (3/12/06)
A John Lewis and Waitrose partnership. One of the Christmas recipes created by Stirrin’Stuff came from the Bacheldre Recipe Collection...

Scottish Organic Food Fair (5/11/06)
Stirrin’Stuff enjoyed a weekend of workshops in partnership with the Soil Association, at their first Scottish Organic food fair; this took place in Glasgow...

Notre Dame (26/10/06)
Stirrin’stuff was invited to do interactive demonstrations at Notre Dame High school in central Glasgow in partnership with Quality Meat Scotland...

Yet More Blog (27/9/06)
Stirrin’stuff ran three interactive children’s cookery demonstrations in primary school in Inverness- shire on 27th September. The demonstrations were...

Abergavenny (16/9/06)
We went to Abergavenny Food Festival. Although my experience of Wales as a country was a little negative, I did enjoy the town and the festival was pretty...

York (24/9/06)
York is a stunning city and has a really well organised food festival which continues into next week. Stirrin’stuff helped Kirk (a local chef) and a...

Haddington (24/9/06)
Stirrin’Stuff was invited to the Haddington food festival, Jhonti went to stir up children and families with an interactive cookery demonstration...

Blog Number 3 (15/9/06)
This week Stirrin’stuff has been working on children’s Christmas recipes and yet we are still stealing Indian summer days. A child cooking at Christmas...

The Second (almost an epistle) (2/9/06)
A long day but somehow on days like this, the energy in you is slow to die so here we go bloggers...

The first Stirrin’ Stuff Blog (28/8/06)
It’s the end of the summer holidays; its getting cold and my wee Trashers have begun to spend less time on the sun scuffed foot ball pitch on the lawn and...