"cooking oils" news and stories

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Each Thursday, we round up a selection of scrumptious links from our friends over at YumSugar. Here's what they've got cooking this week:

With strawberry season upon us, try throwing some in your salsa, salad, cocktails, pies and tarts.

Take your taste buds to the beach with a recipe for Creamy Cape Cod Clam Chowder.

Pack raw burgers for a picnic in an easy tower of foil, meat and parchment paper.

Happy Hour is even happier with Kalimotxo, a surprisingly tasty mixture of Coca-Cola and red wine.

Crostini are endlessly versatile, as this tasty recipe for a "sublimely simple" Parmesan-Blue Cheese Crostini with Green Onions demonstrates.

Do you use cooking oils other than olive oil?

Hugh FW and his River Cottage have produced their own Hempseed Oil. And currently have it on offer at buy one, get one free.

Hempseed oil is the hip ingedient at the moment. It is vivid green in colour, it has a deep, nutty flavour. Apparently Gill, Hugh's right hand man in the kitchen at the River Cottage restaurant, blends it with garlic, parsley and toasted hemp seeds to make a fabulous pesto. Hemp oil is a superfood too, packed with the essential fatty acids.

River Cottage hempseed oil is British grown, without the use of chemical fertilisers or pesticides. It's also cold-pressed and unrefined, so you get optimum flavour and maximum goodness. The cost is £8.99 per bottle. Available to order from the River Cottage Website.

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