Who wins the Spanish foodie bundle in our Christmas competition?

Posted: 17 December '10 by Niall and Kelly

We’ve had a tremendous response to our latest competition, the chance to win a bundle of Spanish foodie goodies. Kelly has just drawn the names from a hat and our three lucky winners are: Fiona B – our main winner James McW – runner-up Paul M – runner-up Fiona gets the “Cured” and “Everything but..

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Categories: Competitions and Promotions


Win a bundle of Spanish foodie goodies!

Posted: 07 December '10 by Niall and Kelly

Christmas, as the saying goes, is a time for giving and our friends at Orce Serrano Hams and Summersdale Publishing are certainly getting into the spirit! There’s a whole bundle of Spanish-themed foodie treats up for grabs, just in time for Christmas. So much so that we’ll have not one but three winners this time!..

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Categories: Competitions and Promotions


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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On my command, unleash.. tomatoes!

Posted: 24 August '10 by Niall

The world’s biggest food fight starts tomorrow at 11am! The population of Buñol more than triples each year as thousands descend on the small Valencian town to join in the massive tomato fight, with over 100 tons of over-ripe tomatoes being thrown in an hour of fun and mayhem. No-one really knows why the event..

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Bringing a little bit of Spain to Northern Ireland – Orce Serrano Hams

Posted: 14 May '10 by Niall

When the grey skies, the stress at work, and the plummeting temperatures get us down, one of our more frequent pie-in-the-sky plans is to live somewhere exotic, and to run our own (foodie) business. It was about a month ago that we noticed that Orce Serrano Hams was following us on Twitter. I’m quite partial..

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Feliz Cumplanos, Eamann!

Posted: 10 May '10 by Niall

Kelly and I wanted to celebrate fellow Chilli and Chocolatier Eamann’s birthday in style this year, but couldn’t decide on which restaurant to book. It was then that inspiration struck – we’d throw a Spanish tapas party! We both love the tapas bars in Barcelona (although the Catalans call tapas “pintxos”) – the dishes are..

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