Getting out and about ‘en famille‘ ticks so many wonderful lifestyle boxes. Joe, Caela and the boys are Food Lovers in the true Stokes sense, enjoying a long weekend at Center Parcs with plenty of fresh air, Stokes Sauces, activities galore, and – no work phones or laptops. Love Life.
Leading busy lives, raising a family, driving a growing business – it is all to easy to overlook the true values of living.
Take time, enjoy the fresh air, love life, love your family and friends, love food.
True Food Lovers are never far away from one of the qualities of life – great food made better with the natural flavours of Stokes.
With The Sachet Collection (just £4 for 8 sachets – HERE) in the glove box, you’ll never leave home without them.
There is always something out their to entertain kids of all ages – 9 months to 90 years! 
The walled gardens behind the Old Stables is home to a growing menagerie of rescued animals. Pigs, sheep, peacocks, hens, geese; rheas & emus, cats & dogs; Bennett’s wallabies, cattle & goats – all happily sharing their peaceful new lives.
As part of Rick’s drive to carbon neutrality, as well as his love for trees, he has undertaken a large replanting project on the estate.
It’s a great place to make great sauces too.
Read more about our Environment & Community thinking – HERE.
What, no Stokes Sauces!?
If you are travelling or generally out and about and have no sachets, don’t worry. Look up your nearest Farm Shop (good ole’ Google), pay a visit and you’ll find that 85% of them sell a good range of Stokes Sauces.
Center Parcs do too, as Joe learned to his delight.
Let’s take ‘Stokes on the move’ a little further with inspirations to encourage us all to leave space in the boot for our favourite squeeze, shake, drizzle and dollop.
Just imagine – the all day breakfast batch carry out … without Stokes Real Tomato Ketchup. So thick, so naturally packed with tomato flavours, so … so, not there!
Never ever enter Leicestershire without Stokes Real Brown Sauce. It’s a truly ‘grownup’ brown sauce, a lush sauce, rich with extra date purée, sweet with black treacle and heady with a unique blend of Persian spices.
Did you know, there are four components to a Melton Mowbray pie:
Joining friends for a picnic? Take a collection of Rainbow Salads. They look good, taste good and make happy smiles all round.
Resident Chef, Andy shares some Rainbow Salad tips – HERE – together with his Sauce Dijonnaise recipe.
Responsibly sourced, marinated beautifully, cooked superbly – BBQ fun, the fair way.
With the help of the RSPCA Farms Assurance scheme, our beef, sheep, pigs and poultry are generally extremely well cared for.
Look out for the RSPCA and Red Tractor badges of care and responsibility while shopping. Sourcing British produce really does make a difference.
Sweet Sticky Chicken.
Most of the chicken meat sold in this country have had fairer lives than imported sectioned birds. That said, demand for, and supply of Free Range birds is increasing quickly, reducing the price gap at the same time.
Bone out and flatten the chicken breast into escalopes, marinate in your selected Stokes BBQ Sauce (in this case Sweet & Sticky), and grill. The cut and treatment deliver quick, even cooking with wonderful flavours all round.
Pasta Salad.
A family favourite and just the right accompaniment for a BBQ. Cook the pasta, adding Stokes Real Mayonnaise and Sumac as it cools, perhaps a little British rapeseed oil too to stop the pieces sticking. Tenderstem broccoli, peppers, peas, beans – choose whatever you want, to add colour to your healthy side dish. 
Hasselback Potatoes.
These make a crispy, elegant alternative to jackets. Slice, drizzle, season, bake. By the way they cook really well in the Air Fryer.
DID YOU KNOW:
Hasselback potatoes got their name from the Swedish restaurant that created and popularised them. The Hasselbacken first served them in 1953.
And … to top it all – The BBQ Essentials Collection:
No choking. We’re Only Joking!
Q: What do you get if you put a chicken in a cement mixer? A: A brick layer.
Q: What did the rooster say to the pretty chicken? A: You are impeck-able my dear.
Q: What do you call a hen that haunts a chicken farm? A: A poultry-geist.
Q: Why did the chicken cross the beach? A: To get to the other tide.
Q: Why did the angry chicken cross only half the road? A: To lay it on the line.
One more…?
Q: What wakes the chicken up in the morning? A: The alarm cluck.
Right, I’ve ruffled your feathers quite enough. The yolk’s on me – I’m off.
See you next week.
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