Ping Perfect?

Too often a ready meal is neither ready, nor does it make a particularly satisfying meal. Today, we’re sharing some totally tasty tips that turn so much less into so much more.

Tasty tips like this:

‘Ping’ Curry WITHOUT the ‘ping’.Fry off sliced onion and peppers in a pan, then add an inexpensive ready-curry (scrape it out of its little plastic tray) Add a splash or two of water, shake of garam masala and another of curry powder, and now a few shakes of Stokes Chilli Ketchup (if you like it HOT, use our Habanero HOT Sauce).

Stir is a tablespoon of creamed cheese, and simmer for 7 or 8 minutes. OK, so a little longer than the ‘ping’, but twice the quantity and three times tastier.

And for the rice:Take a sachet of ‘ping’ rice – but don’t ‘ping’ it. Re-heat a combination of leftover veg with some frozen peas and pinch of cumin seeds. Add a teaspoon of Stokes sweet Mint Sauce and the rice.

Use a fork to separate the rice and combine it with the veg for just 2 minutes (same as the ‘ping’ time). Serve the very special rice rice with the curry.

Your ‘ping’ for one is now a speedy great meal for two.

Making basic, better; make the ordinary, extraordnary.

Take a basic Margareta pizza. Shake our Bloody Mary Ketchup over it with a few dots of Red Onion Marmalade and Chilli Jam.

Grate a good helping of Cheddar cheese over the refreshed topping with mushrooms, broccoli florets, mini-mozzarella, tomatoes etc etc – whatever you fancy (or have to hand).

Pop it in the oven as originally directed and serve your special Pizza di Cassa.Leftover Beef, as a rich Ragu

Make a simple tomato / ragu sauce with onions, celery, tomatoes, Real Tomato Ketchup, a dash of Chilli Ketchup. Simmer to create and reduce the sauce before adding shredded leftover roast beef (works with leftover pork or chicken too).

Add cooked, drained pasts, grated cheese (lots) and bake for 12 minutes to melt and brown the bubbling cheese.Hearty Sausage Cassoulet

It amazes me just how much further a few sausages go by splitting the skin open and squeezing the sausage meat out. Roll slices into balls, and – boom baby!

This is a healthy, simple example where a few basic bangers becoming a heart-warming, generous cassoulet.

Get the RECIPE – HERE.

Pytt i Panna (Swedish Hash Brunch).

The ultimate ‘waste-not’ best meal of the day.

This dish translates as ‘small pieces in a pan’ and that’s exactly what it is, lots of leftovers or bits and pieces from the fridge fried up in a pan. Serve with lingonberry jam for a true taste of Sweden.

We are going to use the Pytt i Panna theme to use up some leftover roast lamb. 

Cut the meat into small pieces and marinate in sweet Stokes Mint Sauce.We are going to use the Pytt i Panna theme to make great use of some leftover roast lamb.

It’s fun to cook, and so so good to share with family and friends, friends who’ve ‘somehow‘ managed to stay over after the foodie fun the day before.Our Swedish friends particularly like to include mushrooms, and dress the dish with pickled beetroot, lingonberries and an egg yolk.

Follow the pattern and, don’t forget the fried egg to finish…

Get and enjoy the FULL RECIPE – HERE.

What makes Award-Winning Ketchup as thick and tasty as this?With 200g of sweet Mediterranean tomatoes reduced into every 100g of thick tasty ketchup, uncompromisingly fine ingredients and fewer additives, Stokes REAL Tomato Ketchup wins awards – naturally.Rick (Stokes’ founder, MD and self-declared chupaholic) has quite a thing about the quality of the tomatoes we put in our Award-Winning Tomato Ketchup.

“My name is Rick and I’m a ‘chupaholic. That said, not any old Tomato Ketchup – it has to be the finest. Our Tomato Ketchup was the second product we produced after the Real Mayonnaise.

And, it came just at the right time to encourage my daughter to eat more greens.”

It is thanks to Rick’s passion for perfection that we get to enjoy this delightfully thick, intensely tomatoey Tomato Ketchup and its brothers and sisters in Stokes’ joyous Ketchup Range.Meet the Family:

Savour the rich tomato taste then feel the heat of the spices kicking in from our Chilli Ketchup. For smoky background notes and another warming finish, our Chipotle Ketchup uses Chipotle Chillies, which are Jalapenos left to ripen on the plant to a deep red, before being smoked, giving them their distinctive flavour.Stokes Bloody Mary Ketchup is pure beauty in a bottle, adding a shot of vodka and a unique blend of Bloody Mary spices, perfect for that ‘morning after’ bacon sandwich.Great Tomato Ketchup?!?!

You choose – HERE.