Shrove Tuesday, which is more commonly known as Pancake Day is a day in February or March which precedes Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent if you did not realise this. The reason why Shrove Tuesday is celebrated in many countries by consuming pancakes is due to celebrating giving up something for lent.

It is very easy to prepare pancakes, specifically making the mixture. Pancake mixture is made from flour, milk and one egg, stirring together to create essentially a batter mix. This batter mix is then normally poured in small amounts onto a hot fry pan with a small amount of butter. This will stop the mixture sticking to the pan whilst the pancake cooks. Then the fun part, flipping the pancake to generate an even cook on each side. Either use a flipping action with the frying pan or flip it with a spatula. Serve, sugar and lemon juice – perfect pancakes!

When it comes to enjoying Salmon, you have a variety of options to chose from. For example you can buy the pre cut fillets from supermarkets that are nicely packaged which will cost around £4 for 500g. This is fairly expensive and you will see why later on in this article.

However if you go to the supermarkets fish monger, you will notice that there is a whole abundance on fish on offer, especially whole salmon’s that have been gutted (removal of all internal organs). You will notice that the price will be significantly cheaper especially when there is an offer on (£5 per kg for example). If you buy the whole salmon the trick is it to ask for it filleted as this will cost you no extra money and many people don’t realise that they’ll do this free of charge. Therefore don’t spend large amounts of the pre-packaged stuff, go down to the supermarkets fish monger and buy heaps of it!

3d printing has become a real trend setter for many in a variety of industries. Particularly prototyping and concept designs has been most prominent as design consultants are now able to manufacturer and product fast and effective prototypes in as short as a 1-2 days, making the whole process almost 20x times faster.

In terms of the food industry, 3d printing has really made a technology push as the process of printing food is now been made available. In a food technology conferences spanning up and down the UK, 3d printers are now able to print cakes, potatoes and many other food items. This means that making the perfect cake each time is now possible and the artwork displayed on these cakes in the form of patterns and sugar icing truly is very beneficial. This will hopefully be coming to the domestic market shortly where we could print our own faces on a flat cake.

Glass kettles may seem a little odd at first because you are able to see the boiling water as the kettle heats up. With modern technology of today this can be quite useful, especially if you don’t actually need boiling water but in-fact just hot water. As a user you’ll be able to gauge more of an idea when it comes to planning to make a coffee for example > If you use ground coffee you shouldn’t put boiling hot water straight on the bean because you’ll experience a bitter taste as the coffee is singed. Therefore it is highly recommended to make that perfect coffee is that you add hot water, instead of boiling to savour the flavour of what the coffee bean has to offer.

Either or, with the backlit blue technology, these types of kettles look fantastic in a dim lit kitchen and can be a real conversation opener if you have friends round for a brew.