Win tickets to the Hugel wine-tasting evening at DWS

Posted: 21 October '10 by Niall and Kelly

Our friends at Direct Wine Shipments are hosting another of their fantastic wine-tasting and supper evenings on the 28th of October – and you could be there! The attendees will be sampling a range of wines from the highly respected Hugel family, who have been producing wines in Alsace from the 1600s. I first came..

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Categories: Competitions and Promotions


We have our birthday cupcake!

Posted: 20 September '10 by Niall and Kelly

Between the tasting and the voting, and buying every cupcake that was in sight, you all kept Bernadette and Martina pretty busy at St. George’s Market at the weekend! Everyone at Cupcakes & Fairycakes was equal to the task, though. After counting up all of the votes I’m happy to say that we have our..

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Categories: News > Things to do


Happy Birthday to.. Us!

Posted: 06 September '10 by Niall and Kelly

How time flies.. Chilli and Chocolate is a whole 2 years old on September 28th! We started our little blog to keep track of all the places we’ve eaten in and all the recipes that we make at home. The fact that people liked reading about our culinary adventures was a nice bonus. Thanks to..

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Categories: Competitions and Promotions > News


The winners of Theo Randall’s “Pasta” cookbook are..

Posted: 03 September '10 by Niall and Kelly

As you may know by now, “Pasta” by Theo Randall is one of our favourite Italian cookbooks. Our competition to win one of three copies has just ended, and we’re happy to announce that the three lucky winners are: Grace M Stuart H David Q Thanks to everyone who took the time to enter, and..

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Happy paella-ing to..

Posted: 03 September '10 by Niall and Kelly

Our competition to win a paella kit from Orce Serrano Hams was a hotly contested affair – over 150 of you wanted to get your hands on the fantastic prize. The name drawn out of the hat is: Siobhan McK – congratulations Siobhan! The paella kit is a wonderful prize – and a great reason..

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Win a paella kit from Orce Serrano Hams!

Posted: 24 August '10 by Niall and Kelly

Just like us, our good friends Iain and Gayle at Orce Serrano Hams are getting into the Tomatina Festival spirit – although they have a far better chance of making it to the food fight from their home in Andalucia! They’ve selected a little piece of Valencia from their fantastic range of Spanish delicacies to..

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Our Harnett Oils winner is..

Posted: 23 August '10 by Niall and Kelly

We recently ran a competition to win a basket of Harnett Oils products, asking you the name of the process for squeezing the oils from the grains. While a lot of you got the answer right (it was cold-pressing, by the way) we could only select one lucky winner. Congratulations to Jill H.! A basket..

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Win your copy of Pasta by Theo Randall

Posted: 18 August '10 by Niall and Kelly

Our friends at Ebury Publishing have very kindly given us 3 copies of Theo Randall’s “Pasta” cookbook to give-away. Hopefully you’ve read what we think of the book -we’re pretty confident that “Pasta” will become an immediate favourite for the three lucky members that win the competition! Thanks again to everyone at Ebury that gave..

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