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Celebrate UK Coffee Week with the perfect espresso martini recipe

Our favourite coffee-based recipe is, of course, an espresso martini. And we love this twist on the classic, using Scottish dry gin Oro in place of vodka to give your espresso martini a velvety smoothness like never before. The cocktail has a smooth, light texture with the flavour swinging back and forth from coffee to gin, losing all of the bitterness, yet retaining a lovely coffee aroma.

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Celebrate Easter with this delicious recipe for traditional Simnel cake

Easter 2020 is probably going to be fairly memorable for a few reasons, but here at Hood, we’re keen to make sure that you can use this time to make some memories to treasure. So, if you’re not sure how to pass the time this Easter, why not indulge in some family baking time with your store cupboard ingredients, to whip up a delicious traditional Easter Simnel cake?

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Tin can ally: How to make the most of those store-cupboard essentials

Jess Elliott Dennison considers herself a cook, not a chef, and spends most of her time whipping up culinary magic in the kitchen of 27 Elliott’s, her cafe, supper club and workshop space in the heart of Edinburgh’s Newington district, with dishes led by what’s available seasonally and locally. Jess has given Hood readers two of her favourite recipes to try out, so if you’re stuck for inspiration and just aren’t sure what to do with the tins piling up in your kitchen cupboards, read on…

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