Product reviews

Monsoon Estates Coffee Company

I’ve never put my hands up to being a coffee expert but like wine and gin, I drink enough to know what I like.  I like Monsoon Estates Coffee.  They’re a small, artisan, micro-coffee roasting outfit which are near Stratford-upon-Avon.  Hand-roasting in small batches, they’re…

Speculaas Biscuit Recipe with Vandotsch Spice Mix

From love hearts to windmills if you’ve ever eaten thinly cut, spiced biscuits in these shapes then you’ve probably been eating Speculaas.  This shortcrust biscuit was traditionally baked for eating on or just before St Nicholas’ Feast in the Netherlands, Belgium and at Christmas in Germany. …