Blog Archive - July 2017

This Week’s Dish Of The Dale: Balinese Vegetable Curry

Posted on 28 July 2017

Tags: Good Food, Good Recipe

Our co-founder’s favourite recipes

Dish of the Dale this week is our lovely new Balinese Vegetable Curry. Inspired by the cuisine of the exotic, volcanic island of Bali, this pot is erupting with flavour: chunky butternut squash, kale and sliced red onions in a rich, aromatic curry sauce made with lemongrass and coconut milk, over brown rice. Dairy free and clocking in at a very reasonable 293 calories, it microwaves in minutes.

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Good Relationships

Posted on 28 July 2017

In our company newsletter, the COOK Telegraph, we regularly feature interviews with people who have been brought together by COOK. We thought we’d share a few with you…

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Craig & Red's Story

Posted on 25 July 2017

At the COOK Kitchen we actively recruit people who might otherwise struggle to find a job. People like Red, who after a tough childhood ended up in prison. Here’s a moving short film about his road to redemption which might prompt you to ask yourself: would you be prepared to give someone like Red a second chance?

Be Part of the Family:

Only by working together as one team can we achieve our goals. We all have different roles, different abilities and different personalities: by collaborating we can do remarkable things. We look out for each other, look after each other and muck in where necessary. Like all families, sometimes we’ll fall out but we always make up after a row.

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New 4-portion Packaging

Posted on 17 July 2017

You may have noticed the 4-portion meals in our freezers are stacked up all higgledy-piggledy at the moment. It’s because we’re fazing out the old packaging and bringing in the new, so please bear with us.

The new packaging means we’ll be able to fit more in and offer you more choice, but that’s all that has changed: the weight, recipe and ingredients are exactly the same.

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Caesar Salad

Posted on 17 July 2017

Tags: Good Food, Good Recipe

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Working-ish Lunch

Posted on 14 July 2017

Tags: Good Relationships

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death”

Albert Einstein

If you visit COOK HQ in Kent and pop upstairs to the office, you’ll see a line of clipboards hanging up in the kitchen above the microwaves. That’s where members of the team can sign up to lunchtime workshops. That might sound a bit dull and corporate, but in fact they are on a whole host of weird and wonderful subjects.

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