Food Hero Hugo Woolley Creates Better Breakfasts And Brunches August 21, 2009

Two recipe books about the best meals of the day have been launched by Rick Stein’s friend Hugo Woolley.

Cornish-based Woolley has been appreciating and writing about Breakfast for years so it’s no surprise to those who know him that he has put his expertise on paper and gathered his home-grown recipes into a range of books.

Hugo is famous in Cornwall for his dedication to the “best meal of the day,” with Rick Stein declaring him a Food Hero and the Padstow locals frequenting his wife Pippa’s – guesthouse hotel dining room for the sparkling range of gastronomic morning offerings.

Creating a more sophisticated start to the day is Hugo’s speciality. Choose from breakfast recipes as diverse as Coldstream Eggs to Bacon Jolly Boy. While Brunch recipes include Smoked Haddock Brandade and Ulster Fry. With humorous light-hearted writing and some easy and adventurous ideas, Hugo will guide you through the selecting and cooking process. And if you get stuck? Drop Hugo an email and he’ll give you some one-to-one advice.

With full colour illustrations, and Christmas just around the corner, these books make a fabulous stocking filler.

About Hugo Woolley and Breakfast and Brunch:
The grand, and rather eccentric, Hugo Woolley ran a range of restaurants in London before opening two food stores in Kent and Sussex. After injuries sustained in a car accident, Hugo moved to Cornwall where he has been enjoying the local produce for many a year and helps with his wife’s five star, award winning guesthouse hotel, Woodlands Country House www.woodlands-padstow.com and putting pen to paper.

Both books – B&B (BREAKFAST AND BRUNCH) – are available for £14.90 direct from www.breakfastbook.co.uk or Amazon

New Puffed Cereals August 20, 2009

Rude Health has recently launched two new breakfast cereals; Puffed Oats (£1.60) and Puffed Wheat (£1.40) are light, oh-so-good for you and irresistibly delicious. They are available to buy now in Waitrose stores and from Ocado.com

Oat-mania has embraced rolled oats, hot oats, even wonderfully crunchy oats but until Rude Health propelled its new Puffed Oats into stores there hasn’t been a light oat cereal. Salt and sugar free, these fluffy, wholegrain breakfast gems are now available nationwide, where they will be found on the main cereal aisle alongside their similarly wholesome sister Puffed Wheat.

The secret to Rude Health’s Puffed Wheat and Puffed Oats is in their rocket like production. The finest wheat and oats are loaded into a giant popping machine and blasted out so hard that they explode. BOOM. Great fun and a truly excellent idea too as the nutrition of the grain is preserved along with its naturally great flavour. Rude Health believes there is no earthly reason to add salt, coat in sugar or throw in any nasty additives when cereal tastes this good.

And now for the science… Puffed Oats are an excellent source of beta-glucan, known to lower cholesterol and keep your heart healthy and happy. Oats also have a low GI index, which means their energy is released slowly, which should kick those mid-morning snack attacks into touch. Made with wholegrains, this cereal is high in fibre, helping to make you feel as bright and bouncy as a trampolining ballerina.

Rude Health’s angelic Puffed Wheat is also high in fibre and makes a fabulous low-fat breakfast. As yummy with cold milk as when tumbling over chopped banana and drizzled with maple syrup, a bowl of Puffed Wheat gives you a flying start to the day.