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Earlier this year, Farrington’s Mellow Yellow cold pressed rapeseed oil was selected as a partner to Michel Roux Jr’s Cookery School, located at Cactus Kitchens in central London, which offers an array of unique and intimate cooking experiences. The cookery school has used Farrington’s Mellow Yellow since it opened its doors in 2013.

Cold pressed rapeseed oil continues to grow in popularity and is much loved by chefs and home cooks alike who appreciate its culinary and health properties. Visitors to Michel Roux Jr’s Cookery School can enjoy using this British produced cooking oil in full-day experiences with Michel, as well as his protégé – senior Sous Chef Monica Galetti, and during technique based classes taught by his Head Chefs.

Anna Ratcliffe, Director at Cactus Kitchens, said “Here at our cookery school we love the quality of Farrington’s cold pressed rapeseed oil and are very proud to be associated with such a fantastic family business and brand. It’s great to be able to showcase such a wonderful product to our customers.”

In November, Eli Farrington was invited to join Michel Roux Jr in a masterclass with the Michel Star chef himself. Eli enjoyed a fantastic day and created a number of dishes under the watchful eye of Michel. Here is a full list of the recipes she created:-

Poached Scallops with Leeks and Smoked Salmon

Bread Charlotte with Confit Duck

Rough Puff Pastry

Chausson Aux Pommes

Once again we will be sponsoring the Carfest South dressings and breadmaking workshops at Laverstoke Park. A fantastic event that sells out year after year, the workshops are run by the team at Laverstoke Park and Carfest. We are also teaming up with Waitrose Cookery School for the bread making workshop. We are supplying 80 liters of oil to keep the workshops going this year as well as having a stall at the event.

Carfest South raises money for Children in Need and is supported by hundreds of volunteers from the Carfest organisers and Laverstoke Park. It’s a mega event for all the family featuring music, food, cars and much more.

We are looking forward to welcoming customers to our stall where you can try our full range.

We are thrilled to receive a Gold Star for Garlic Mayonnaise in the world’s largest food awards scheme. The Great Taste Award for our Garlic Mayonnaise is a huge accolade and over the years our cold pressed rapeseed oil, the full range of dressings and our classic mayonnaise have all received this sought-after marque of approval.

We are delighted to announce that both our new Chilli Oil and Garlic Mayonnaise have been shortlisted as finalists in the ‘New Local Product of the Year’ category in the Carlsberg UK Northamptonshire Food Awards & Drink Awards 2013.

The prestigious awards are held every year and Farrington’s Mellow Yellow has won in previous years. The Chilli Oil and Garlic Mayonnaise past the first round of judging to be shortlisted and will now go forward to the final… fingers crossed!

Jamie Oliver Food Tube channel is packed full of great tips and recipes for you to try at home and is well worth a visit.

We were of course very excited when he uploaded the “How to make mayonnaise with Jamie Oliver” website featuring our own Farrington’s Mellow Yellow. If you want to try to make your own mayonnaise, Jamie gives you simple step by step instructions. Alternatively, you can buy our own Mellow Yellow Mayonnaise (it’s completely additive free, using only quality ingredients, just like you would use at home).

We are immensly proud that our entire range of Farrington’s MELLOW YELLOW cold press rapeseed oil, dressings and mayonnaise has been approved by the Vegetarian Society. Sharing an ethos of tracability, quality ingredients and no-nonsense food production makes our range a great choice for customers who wish to make informed choices about the food they eat.

Our entire range of Farrington’s MELLOW YELLOW products including our Mayonnaise, Garlic Mayonnaise, and three dressings, has been Coeliac UK Approved and listed in their directory of gluten-free products. The care and attention we commit to producing no-nonsense natural products with carefully selected and sourced ingredients has resulted in a range of truly delicious, healthy and trusted favourites.

Eli Farrington reveals what you might not know about this underused British ingredient

1. A truly versatile all-purpose culinary oil; cold pressed rapeseed oil contains the optimum ratio of 1:2 of omega 3 to omega 6, as well as being a natural source of

vitamin E.

2. It has the lowest saturated fat content of any widely available culinary oil – half that of olive oil!

3. Cold pressing is the traditional and natural way to produce oil. It is gently squeezed out of the seed at temperatures below 40C ensuring that the natural goodness and character of the oil is preserved.

4. The delicate, gentle flavour makes it an ideal partner for almost any food, great for drizzling or dipping.

5. Farrington’s Mellow Yellow emulsifies beautifully making it perfect for dressings, mayonnaise, pesto, and hummus; a healthy complement to starters, salads and vegetables.

6. With a smoke point of 220C, cold pressed rapeseed oil is a wonderful high temperature cooking oil, making the most perfectly golden and crispy roast potatoes, and aromatic, nutty stir-fries.

7. A delicious and healthy substitute for butter and margarine, when you bake with this oil it produces deliciously moist and light cakes that feature a subtle nutty flavour. It’s fabulous used in flapjacks and brownies. When substituting butter with our oil, add a little

less, about 80% of the total weight required and make up the remainder with a liquid such as milk, rice milk or soya milk. This is to account for the milk part and the fat content of the butter. If substituting for margarine, the rapeseed oil content would need to be less, about 75% (with more milk) as there is a higher water content in margarine.

8. As we only use oil from the first pressing of our rapeseed it is the culinary equivalent to extra virgin, cold pressed olive oil.

9. There is no such thing as commercially grown GM rapeseed in Britain.

10. First cultivated in Britain by the Romans; rapeseed oil has been used throughout Europe since the 16th century.

We were so utterly delighted when the lovely Sarah Scott (food writer and columnist for Vegetarian Living magazine and blog A View from the Table) stumbled across our Mellow Yellow mayonnaise and created this warming recipe for potato salad.

To read Sarah’s recipe and her blog, click here.

The first jars of our NEW garlic mayonnaise are now starting to appear on the shelves. Packed full of roasted garlic pieces, Farrington’s MELLOW YELLOW Garlic Mayonnaise is gluten and additive free, created from our original MELLOW YELLOW Mayonnaise recipe using free-range eggs, and with all the health benefits of our cold pressed rapeseed oil, always at the heart of our products.

We are extremely excited to launch the latest addition to the MELLOW YELLOW range, and have had a really positive response from taste tests. People love the bursts of garlic in this truly artisan product. We are confident that the newest twist on our classic mayonnaise will not only be the perfect complement to barbeques and summer cuisine but will also become a popular store cupboard staple for all occasions.

As the end of the British winter approaches Farrington’s are looking ahead to summer days in readiness to dollop their delicious and versatile Garlic Mayonnaise for the barbeque season, a perfect accompaniment for a wide range of foods, including meat, fish and shellfish, a dip for crudités and canapés, in sandwiches and hamburgers, or with spicy dishes such as samosas, onion bhajis or kebabs.

Let us know what you think of the bold new taste, and share your favourite serving suggestions!