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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Pasta, peas, pesto and pine nuts

Posted: 10 August '10 by Niall

Here’s a great little recipe for a light meal on these (slightly) warmer Summer days – it’s perfect for a mid-week meal too, taking only as long as it takes the pasta to cool after you’ve cooked it, providing you’ve made the pesto in advance. The recipe is a tweaked version of Ina Garten’s (of..

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Win a selection of oils from Harnetts

Posted: 05 August '10 by Niall and Kelly

Since we chatted to Jane we’ve been busy experimenting with the Rapeseed oil and Hemp oil from Harnetts, everything from breakfast bars to a hemp oil pesto, and we didn’t want to keep these great finds to ourselves! Harnett’s Oils have kindly given us a selection of their oils to give away to one lucky..

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Categories: Competitions and Promotions


Wake up to a tastier breakfast!

Posted: 02 August '10 by Niall

Healthy, tasty breakfast bars

I’ve never been a breakfast person, but these breakfast bars are a great way to start the day – they’re really tasty, particularly good with a big mug of coffee, and you can sneak as many healthy ingredients in as you want without making them taste like a healthy option!

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Extra-virgin oils from Harnett’s

Posted: 27 July '10 by Niall

Extra-virgin oils from Harnett's Oils

One of my favourite programmes on TV in the last couple of years was “The Urban Chef” in which Ollie Rowe opened his Konstam restaurant in London and attempted to source all of his ingredients from within the M25. One of the most difficult tasks was finding cooking oil. I’d never seen that many olive..

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