Calm Your Beans

Tired of trying to follow recipe cookbooks? Find yourself shouting “show me what that step looks like (insert name of celebrity chef here)!” – I know I am. Don’t have enough time to watch half-an-hour to an hour cooking shows? Jamie did his best with his 15 minute meals, but I’ve found a way that [...]

I don’t know about you, but I have been cold for most of the month of January. It might be the dark days and the shambolic weather, but it feels like a long time since I’ve felt toasty. One way I am going to try and make it a little warmer as we leave January [...]

Robert Burns, fondly known as Rabbie by his admirers, achieved great success as a poet during the second half of the 18th Century. He was a larger than life character, fond of good company and entertainment. It was only right that in 1801, five years after Burns’ death, nine men who knew him well met [...]

Christmas is coming, the season of goodwill to all men and traditionally the harbinger of a certain amount of festive gluttony. With Christmas Day typically running at over 6000 scale busting calories, lets take a look at how the pros manage it in the thrill packed world of competitive eating. Eating is like running in [...]

Every day, your heart beats 100,000 times and can pump about 23,000 litres of blood around your body. Believe it or not, that doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface on all the amazing things that the human heart can do. Provided, of course, it’s well taken care of. The importance of maintaining your heart [...]

I love food, I love making it, I love looking at pretty pictures of it and most of all I love eating it. So it may come as no surprise to hear that I was glued to the TV last night for the start of The Great British Bake Off. What better way to find [...]

Today’s Tasty Tweet is brought to you by @KYSpeaks. We’re so lucky to have such an amazing resource as Twitter to get amazing pictures of what everyone is enjoying around the world. Could this be the best the best roast duck ever? Our Tweeter certainly thinks so and who are we to argue? One of [...]

Today’s delicious picture is brought to you by Will Yates. In this brand new feature on Calm Your Beans we’ll regularly be digging into Twitter to find the pictures of the most sumptuous food to share with you as well as the fantastic bloggers behind those tweets. We may be have a bit of a [...]

I can do two styles of cooking – black or burnt. Sometimes I’m so good that I can combine the two in one meal. Since I’ve been left to fend for myself once again as my mum is away for three months, I’ll be attempting to try and cook again (or at least make something [...]

If you are a self-confessed foodie with an appreciation for a bit of luxury then there is only one place you should be this weekend; the Taste of London festival. This weekend sees the return of one of the biggest food festivals in the UK. It is set in Regent’s Park from the 21st to [...]