Review: Pizza Stone

Being a massive pizza lover I made it my mission to perfect the homemade pizza. As i'm sure many of you know this is not an easy thing to do, because a conventional oven will usually max out at 220 degress C. The answer to your pizza prayers is the pizza stone. A thin ceramic stone you put in your oven (I use a BBQ but ill go into that later) to heat up, and place your pizza on to cook. Heating the pizza from above and below ensures you aren't left with a soggy mess. A must have for any pizza lover.

Willie's Chocolate Revolution

Some of you may have seen this programme on TV a little while ago. But for those that haven't, its a programme about Willie Harcourt-Cooze - chocolate fanatic and chef - tying to show us (the British) what chocolate really is. Not the typically sweet milky 'rubbish' you will find in supermarkets, but real cacao, not refined beyond recognition. The programme shows Willie's journey to find the perfect cacao for his new chocolate bars. Once he finds the Venezuelan and Peruvian cacao beans, he goes about turning them into the perfect chocolate bars. You can watch the three episodes here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tJRhSw7L3c.

Have a look at his site dedicated to the chocolate he has made. Why not treat yourself to a bar? I'm not a big fan of dark chocolate but Willies chocolate is delicious. You can buy his chocolate on his site, http://www.williescacao.com/.

Here is Willie with his Christmas turkey recipe, a quirky take on the traditional turkey dinner.