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October 2022 Kitchen Star Apron Winner

For the second time, the Kitchen Star apron winner for October 2022 was Sharon Day. For those with a sweet tooth, Sharon shared her chocolate orange mousse, blueberry ricotta cake, strawberry and Chantilly cream tart, cherry Bakewell tart, coffee and walnut cake, nutty caramel tart, tiffin, apple and fresh cream slices, chocolate orange cupcakes and…

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September 2022 Kitchen Star Apron Winner

The Cook & Kitchen “Kitchen Star” apron winner for September 2022 is Cath Burke. Her Mini Black Forest Cheesecake, Multi Seed Irish Brown Bread, Cheese and Chive Scones and Shortbread biscuits were all absolutely stunning. Coming very close this month also were Geoffrey Brock, Kate Cleathero, Sharon Day, Marie Baker and Michelle Golding (and her…

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July 2022 Kitchen Star Announced

Our first ever winner Margaret Pullen, and another previous winner Hazel Hayward came in contention again in July, as did two time winners Michelle Golding and Kate Cleathero. The winner for July though was Sharon Day, with her Cadbury caramel brownies, chilli nachos, scrumptious cheese and onion pasties, Turkish flatbreads and individual cheesecakes. It was…

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The 20th Kitchen Star Apron Winner Announced…

It was really interesting that shared into Cook & Kitchen in flaming June was a large range of classic winter warmers including many delicious roast dinners, though there were plenty of summer classics too. Amazing contributions came in all month from so many, but to name just a few; Michelle Golding, Rebecca Tulett, Tina Jarvis,…

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May 2022 Kitchen Star Announced

May was certainly one of the best months for contributions to our Cook & Kitchen community on Facebook, indeed far too many people shared too many amazing creations to name every outstanding contribution, and so it seems an impossible task to highlight all that deserved a mention in May. None the less we shall try,…

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The Kitchen Star apron winner for March is…

For the second time in the seventeen months of Cook & Kitchen awarding the Kitchen Star apron, Michelle Golding and her mum are the worthy winners. In March they dazzled with their seasonal roast lamb dinners, salads, stuffed peppers, buttermilk pancakes, roasted lemon and herb paprika chicken, fruit cake, sausage rolls, joint of beef &…

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Happy 2nd Birthday Cook & Kitchen

Two years ago yesterday, the Cook & Kitchen group on Facebook was started during lockdown, in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic. The group was established with just a handful of members, but those few soon became a hundred, a hundred then became a thousand, and today the Cook & Kitchen group on Facebook…

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The 16th Kitchen Star apron winner is…

John E Ponty Godwin came close in January, and now he’s done it in February becoming the 16th winner of the Cook & Kitchen community award, the Kitchen Star apron. There were so many people sharing such amazing cooking with our group in February, indeed also coming close this month to winning again were two…

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December 2021 Kitchen Star Announced

December is proving a special month for posts into the Cook & Kitchen community group on Facebook, and as such it makes it incredibly hard to find a clear winner for the Cook & Kitchen Kitchen Star apron. To name but a few in contention were Janna Costanzo, Margaret Małgorzata JJ, Sharon Day, Teresa Floyd,…

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November 2021 Kitchen Star Announced

The Kitchen Star apron winner in November only joined the Cook & Kitchen group on the 10th November and made his first post on the same day. Since then he has shared some wonderful cooking with us including shin beef and onion pie, Yorkshire pudding wraps, scotch eggs, Beer battered Cod , scampi and chips,…

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October 2021 Kitchen Star Announced

Incredibly pleased to announce Cath Burke as the winner of the October Kitchen Star Apron, well done Cath. There were just too many amazing contributors in October to mention them all, but to name just a few – Michelle Golding, Teresa Floyd, Sharon Day, Geoffrey Brock, Margaret Małgorzata JJ, Kate Cleathero, Andy Kay, Sophia Josephine,…

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September 2021 Kitchen Star Announced

This month’s Kitchen Star could easily have been the winner in August, July and May, and so it’s an absolute pleasure to announce that in September, she’s finally done it – congratulations to Teresa Floyd! September has been a month with some wonderful contributions, but to mention just a few these – we were dazzled…

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August 2021 Kitchen Star Announced

We are very pleased to announce the Kitchen Star apron for August 2021 goes to Julie King. In her range of posts there really was something for everyone, from her chicken tikka kebabs, her pan-fried salmon fillets and for those with a sweet tooth of course her chocolate vanilla strawberry sponge, and her train cake…

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July 2021 Kitchen Star Announced

Now with over 8,000 amazing members in the group the competition for the Kitchen Star apron get’s tougher and tougher, indeed there were many again in contention for July’s Kitchen Star apron, with some particularly great cooking by Sharon Day, Michelle Golding, Teresa Floyd and Debbie Hyett. Sonya James edged ahead this time though and…

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June 2021 Kitchen Star Announced

In the month which saw Cook & Kitchen surpass 8,000 members, June has provided us with a vast range of mouth-watering cooking from our amazingly talented Cook & Kitchen community. Kate Cleathero and Sonya James both came close to becoming the first person to win the Cook & Kitchen apron for a second time, Sarah…

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May 2021 Kitchen Star Award

May could quite possibly have been the hardest month so far to name our Kitchen Star. There were simply too many names in contention to mention, but coming close included Debbie Hyett with her fresh cream toffee profiteroles, Teresa Floyd and her rescheduled Christmas dinner and trifle and Janette Akeroyd and her raspberry sponge cake…

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April 2021 Kitchen Star Announced

April’s winner put a smile on our faces back in February with her Hungry Caterpillar cupcakes which she baked for granddaughter’s birthday, but dazzled us in April with her chocolate fudge cake, chocolate cherry cake and of course her Teddy Bears Picnic victoria sponge cake. So this month it’s a big congratulations to Janette Akeroyd,…

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March 2021 Kitchen Star Announced

The Kitchen Star award was a tough contest in March, with so many in Cook & Kitchen sharing such amazing dishes and bakes. Some of the highlights last month included Chris Jackson’s garlic, ginger and honey roast chicken, and of course Ian Powell’s roast beef with giant Yorkshire puddings. Debbie Hyett, Maxine Gardner and Kate…

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Happy 1st Birthday Cook & Kitchen

On the 23rd March 2020, the UK went into the first lockdown due to Covid-19, and the following day came the idea to start the Cook & Kitchen group on Facebook. The ambition was to bring anyone with a love of cooking and baking together into a safe space, where cooking triumphs and disasters could…

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January 2021 Kitchen Star Award

This January was perhaps the most difficult month so far to judge this award, with so many people sharing their amazing cooking and baking with our Cook & Kitchen Facebook group, and so a number of people came in close contention for the Kitchen Star apron this time around. Ian Maggiore came out on top…

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December 2020 Kitchen Star Announced

The very well deserved winner of the Cook & Kitchen Kitchen Star apron for December 2020 is Geoffrey Brock, and so a big congratulations to Geoffrey who becomes just the second winner of our Facebook group cooking competition. Another winner will be announced at the end of January, but before then may we wish you…

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Cooking and Baking Competition

Just when you thought the Cook & Kitchen group on Facebook couldn’t get any better, we are pleased to announce that at the end of each month we will now be awarding a standout group member the new Kitchen Star apron. The new award will simply be based on how scrumptious the food they share…

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Cook & Kitchen Cookbook Launch

In response to requests from Cook & Kitchen Facebook group members, we’ve now launched our Cook & Kitchen community cookbook, where you can easily share your favourite recipes with the group. It’s been designed to make it simple to find recipes in the future, and to print them too, and so will hopefully build into…

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