Reviews
Welcome to the Tin and Thyme reviews page. Here you will find links to reviews for various food and drink related items, including books, kitchen equipment and meals out. Scroll down to find the relevant category: chocolate, drinks, other edibles, books, eating out, visits, events, equipment and miscellaneous.
Latest Ten Reviews
- Raspberry Cashew Smoothie – Plant Milk Power
- Froothie Evolve Power Blender – A Review
- Homemade Falafel with British Grown Fava Beans
- Apricot Whisky Honey Cheesecake – A Flash in the Pan
- Fattoush with Sumac Hummus – Seriously Good Salads
- Pacari Premium Organic Chocolate Review & Giveaway
- Aubergine Carrot Couscous – Bazaar Review & Giveaway
- Cornish Hevva Cake (sometimes known as Heavy Cake)
- Riverford Vegan Recipe Box – Review & Giveaway
- Pacari Chocolate – a Review and Veganuary Giveaway
Chocolate
- Pacari Premium Organic Chocolate Review & Giveaway
- Pacari Chocolate – a Review and Veganuary Giveaway
- Summer Bundle Giveaway – Citrussy Gin, Dreamy Chocolate & Nut Butter
- Coffee Chocolate Chip Cookies with Cardamom & a Pacari Chocolate Giveaway
- Easter Feaster – Chocolate Easter Eggs: The Best of the Nest
- The Tin and Thyme Christmas Gift Guide 2016 for Food Lovers
- Autumn Sleekster, One of Hotel Chocolat’s Finest – Giveaway #81
- Hotel Chocolat Summer Collection – Review and Giveaway #77
- How To Make Your Raw Chocolates More Interesting
- Divinely Decadent Chocolate Hamper – Review and Giveaway #75
- Fairtrade Fortnight Breakfast & Recipes for Banana Bread & Hot Chocolate
- Divine Chocolate Week and a Giveaway #63
- Food Bites – September 2015
- Chocolate Bites – Spring
- A Super Duper Chocolate Hamper – Review and Giveaway #58
- Easter Chocolate Bites
- Seed and Bean Organic and Fairtrade Chocolate Bars
- Miss Witt Will Woo and other Valentine Treats
- Valentine’s Chocolates from Charbonnel et Walker
- Fun Fillers for Your Christmas Stockings
- Choc Full – Stocking Fillers for Christmas
- Paris Truffles – Giveaway #54
- An Italian Feast – Grazie Ufuud
- Chocolate Made Easy
- For the Love of Chocolate Tiffin
- Chocolate Week: Day Seven
- Chocolate Week: Day Six
- Chocolate Week: Day Five
- Chocolate Week: Day Four
- Chocolate Week Day Three
- Chocolate Week: Day Two
- Chocolate Week: Day One
- Seed and Bean – a Rainbow of Delight
- Chocolate Bites – August Review Round-up
- Chocolate Treats – A Mega Review
- Playing Around with Raw Chocolate
- Spicy Dark Chocolate Cake and It’s Vegan Too
- Tropical Smoothie with Coconut, Mango & Banana
- Bettys Chocolate Tour de France Bear – Giveaway #49
- Paul A Young Fine Chocolates
- An Easter Eggstravaganza
- The Big Cake Show – Right here in the South West
- Betty’s Chocolate Otter – Review and Giveaway #46
- A Cornish Cornucopia
- Creme Egg Buns and a Review
- Waffles with a Mapley Chocolate Sauce
- House of Dorchester Luxury Assortment – Review and Giveaway #44
- Chocolate by Miss Witt – an Unexpected Find in the Forest
- Chocolate Telegram
- Stocking up with Chocolate
- Hotel Chocolat: The Signature Christmas Collection and a Box of Delights
- Bettys Dark Chocolate Selection – Review and Giveaway #41
- Marmite Caramel Brownies – Not so Very Peculiar
- Chocolate, Apricot and Walnut Tortes
- Chocolates for Chocolate Week and Autumnal Cheer
- A Trio of Gourmet Chocolate Desserts
- Chocolate Cards by Post – Giveaway #35
- Blackberry and Apple Cupcakes – a Recipe for Autumn’s Bounty
- Afternoon Tea Chocolates and a Giveaway #34
- Naive Chocolate – a Review
- Kokopelli’s Chocolate – a Review
- Cocoa Boutique – A Review
- Spelt, Rye and Berry Cookies and a Cocoa Comparison
- Zotter Chocolate & Merry Christmas
- Hotel Chocolate Giant Christmas Cracker – Giveaway #18
- A Miscellany of Chocolates
- French Chocolates by Post – Three Box Giveaway #16
- Nakd Bars – a Review
- Devnaa Chocolates & Cookbook – Review & Giveaway #13
- Lindt Chocolate Review – Lindor Plus More
- Cocoa Boutique – a Review
- Chocolate by Genevie – Review & Giveaway #11
- Elizabeth Shaw Chocolates – A Review & Giveaway
- French Chocolates by Post
- Guylian Sea Shells Review
- Extra Thick Chocolate Egg from Hotel Chocolat
- Nicky Grant – Fine Chocolates from Cornwall
- Matcha Chocolat – Mother’s Day Selection
- Champagne Truffles
- Hotel Chocolat Valentine’s Heart
- Martin’s Chocolatier – A Selection Review
- Divine Intervention
- Hokey Pokey from the Chocolate Society
- Chocolate from the East India Company
- Hotel Chocolat: The Sleekster Summer Desserts Selection
- Sea Dog
- An Egg Sandwich – But Not As We Know It, Jim
- Chilli Pie – Raw Chocolate
- Hotel Chocolat: The Eggsibitionist – and a Giveaway #3
- Candied Orange Peel dipped in Chocolate
- Chestnut Brownies
- Tea Chocolates – The Winter Selection
- Chocolate and Love
- Tea and Chocolate Tasting
- Matcha Chocolat – Lotus Collection
- Getting Greedy in Ghent
- More Bars from the Chocolate Cafe
- I Should Coco and Chocadores
- More Tea Chocolates
- Tea Chocolates – A Review
- Three Bars from The Chocolate Cafe
Drinks
- Summer Bundle Giveaway – Citrussy Gin, Dreamy Chocolate & Nut Butter
- Discover Craft Cider with Crafty Nectar – Review and Giveaway #89
- Take a Break Fairly & Squarely for Fairtrade Fortnight
- Vanilla Almond Cookies (vegan) & a Nice Cup of Tea
- The Tin and Thyme Christmas Gift Guide 2016 for Food Lovers
- Plump for a Pimms or Mash up a Mojito?
- DCOCO Young Coconut Water – Giveaway #60
- Fun Fillers for Your Christmas Stockings
- Chocolate Week: Day Six
- Twinings, it’s all about Tea
- Look at this for IngenuiTEA – A Review
- Time for Tea
- Chocolate Log with a Whipped Dark Boozy Chocolate Ganache
- Chocolates for Chocolate Week and Autumnal Cheer
- Breakfast Bites – Sit Down and Tuck In
- Puro Fairtrade Coffee – a Review & Giveaway #23
- Teapigs Chocolate & Matcha Teas – A Review
- Steenbergs Chilli Drinking Chocolate
- It’s Summer – Time for Hot Chocolate?
- Hot Chocolate and More
- Tea and Chocolate Tasting
Other Edibles
- Homemade Falafel with British Grown Fava Beans
- Riverford Vegan Recipe Box – Review & Giveaway
- Summer Bundle Giveaway – Citrussy Gin, Dreamy Chocolate & Nut Butter
- Raspberry Granola Parfait and Fibre – Are You Getting Enough?
- Stokes Real Mayonnaise and Other Sumptuous Sauces – A Review
- The Tin and Thyme Christmas Gift Guide 2016 for Food Lovers
- Vegan Salted Caramel Sauce with Optional Smoky Notes
- Marley Spoon Recipe Box – Review and Giveaway #78
- Orange Kefir Smoothie and a Delicado48 Organic Box
- Riverford Recipe Box – An Organic Feast – Giveaway #72
- The Tin and Thyme Christmas Gift Guide for Food Lovers
- Relax with a Bowl of Bircher Muesli and a Giveaway #64
- Food Bites – September 2015
- Food Bites – June 2015
- Grapefruit and Honey Almond Cake
- Jumbles with a White Chocolate Lemony Drizzle
- Fun Fillers for Your Christmas Stockings
- An Italian Feast – Grazie Ufuud
- Squash, Walnut and Goat’s Cheese Pizza
- Spicy Dark Chocolate Cake and It’s Vegan Too
- Chocolate Bean Burgers To Go – With Hot Chilli Sauce
- Tropical Smoothie with Coconut, Mango & Banana
- Twinings, it’s all about Tea
- Holy Lama Spice Drops – Review & Giveaway #47
- Honey & Walnut Yogurt Semolina Cake
- Savoury Chocolate Vol au Vents and Canapes
- Killer Vanilla from Taylor & Colledge
- A Thank You from Honeybuns and a Giveaway #40
- Chocolate Indulgence from Fudge Kitchen – Review and Giveaway #37
- Oat, Coconut, Fennel Chocolate Chip Cookies – A Chocolate Coconut Fest
- A Trio of Gourmet Chocolate Desserts
- Breakfast Bites – Sit Down and Tuck In
- Vegetarian Enchiladas – Made in Mexico
- Organic Eggs and a Cornish Holiday Discount
- Atkins & Potts Chocolate Spreads and Dips – a Review and Giveaway #22
- The Brownie Baker
- Bettys Christmas Gugelhupf – Review and Giveaway #17
- Elderflower and White Chocolate Cupcakes
- Cooks&Co Speciality Oils – a Review
- Raw Brownies
- Love Hearts – A Sweet Fizzy Review
- Blue Basil Brownies – A Review
- Toffee Yogurt Cake & TOTAL Greek Yogurt
- Byron Bay Butterbursts
- Cheese Scones and TOTAL Greek Yogurt
- Byron Bay Cookies
- TOTAL Greek Yogurt & Chocolate Puddings
- Chocolate Breakfast – It’s Crunch Time in Cornwall
Books
- Raspberry Cashew Smoothie – Plant Milk Power
- Apricot Whisky Honey Cheesecake – A Flash in the Pan
- Fattoush with Sumac Hummus – Seriously Good Salads
- Aubergine Carrot Couscous – Bazaar Review & Giveaway
- Roasted Beetroot Galette, a Review of Higgidy The Cookbook & Giveaway
- Tofu Lettuce Tomato Sandwich, a New Vegan Cookbook & a Giveaway
- Puff Pizza Pies From Living on the Veg – Review & Giveaway
- Carrot Pickles and a Vegan Book Review
- Curd Cheese, Honey & Walnuts on Toast and Wild Honey & Rye
- Kale Apple Cake and The Veggie Desserts Cookbook
- Veggie Bean Chilli, Two Vegan Recipe Book Reviews and Giveaway #84
- The World of the Happy Pear – Review and Giveaway #76
- Spiced Lentil Pancake Wraps and a Brace of Book Reviews
- Aubergine Dip, The Cranks Bible and a Giveaway #70
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups and Homemade Memories
- Sugar and Sweets – Book Review and Giveaway #61
- Diamond Biscuits and Teatime in Paris by Jill Colonna
- Chocolate at Home by Will Torrent
- Spicy Gingerbread with Limoncello Icing and a Giveaway #55
- Fun Fillers for Your Christmas Stockings
- Three of a Kind
- Almond Mincemeat Slices and a Giveaway #45
- Mini Orange Sponge Cakes with Blood Orange Curd
- Choc Chip Cookies from Lorraine Pascale’s A Lighter Way to Bake – Giveaway #39
- My First Cookbook and a Recipe for Chocolate Drops
- The Hungry Student Cookbooks – a Review
- The Leftovers Handbook and Quick Banana and Chocolate Ice-Cream
- Love Bake Nourish – a Cookbook Review
- Choc Chip and Fudge Madeira Squares
- Stacie Bakes – a Review
- A Riverford Giveaway #25
- Clandestine Cake Club Cookbook at Last
- The Diner’s Dictionary – a Review
- Marshmallow Madness – A Cookbook Review
- Devnaa Chocolates & Cookbook – Review & Giveaway #13
- Custard Creams & a Review of Honeybuns Gluten-Free Baking
- A History of Food in 100 Recipes – a review
- My cookbooks and Associated Recipe Collections
- Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Brownies & a Review
- Baked & Delicious Easter Special & a Competition
- Make Your Own Organic Ice Cream with Chilli Chocolate Ice Cream
- Crazy Water Pickled Lemons – a Review
- Cranberry White Chocolate Cookies with Walnuts
- Dan Lepard’s Short & Sweet Giveaway #4
- Bitter Chocolate Puddings – Baked & Delicious
- Chocolate and Literature
- Latest Editions to my Chocolate Bookshelf
Eating Out, Visits & Events
- Cornish Hevva Cake (sometimes known as Heavy Cake)
- Leaving Liskeard – Tribute to a Small Cornish Market Town
- When is an Oat More Than an Oat? When it’s an Organic Chocolate Truffle
- The Scintillating Isles of Scilly – A Flying Visit – Plane & Simple
- Rustic Rhubarb Galette With Orange Spelt Flaky Pastry
- River Cottage Christmas – An Opportunity Not To Be Missed
- Almond Apple Cider Cake and Feeling Full in Falmouth
- Holiday Snaps – A Gastro Garden Jaunt From Hampshire to Hastings
- Organic September – It’s All Go With Yeo – and the Soil Association
- A Fairtrade Bonanza and Christmas in July
- Almond Rye Shortbread with Whisky Raspberry Cream
- Strawberry Cream Cakes – Blissful Picnic Treats
- Cranking up the Memories for National Vegetarian Week
- A Bloggers’ Weekend of Dorset Food and Fun
- Food Awards 2016 – Yeo Dudes, Tin and Thyme Did It
- Tofu Scramble and a Vegan Cookery Workshop
- A Day at River Cottage on the Devon Dorset Border
- Honey Apple Cardamom Mini Bundt Cakes and a Cornish Cliff Top Walk
- Afternoon Tea at The Alverton in Truro
- Rhubarb Bundt Cake with a Hot Ginger Glaze
- Cheese and Leek Bread Pudding with Cranks
- Gesundheit Birmingham
- Festive Chocolate Making at L’atelier des Chefs
- Hot Chocolate in a Glass Jar
- It’s All About the Bear – Paddington Afternoon Tea at The Athenaeum
- Mastering the Art of Sushi with Yo! Sushi
- Lord Preserve Us – a Trip to River Cottage
- Baking Matters
- The Big Cake Show – Right here in the South West
- The Hub Cafe – Liskeard’s Hidden Gem
- A Cornish Cornucopia
- BBC Food and Farming Awards
- The Glorious Glynn Valley with Brownies for Pudding
- Five Arrive in Cheltenham – a Food Bloggers Meet-up
- Six Course Chocolate Themed Dinner – Our Big Night In
- Everything’s Hunky Dory in Newport
- Salted Chocolate and a Wedding
- Hot Chocolate Victoria Sandwich + Apricot Jam & Cream
- Temper Temper – the Secret of Chocolate Success
- Riverford and a Blogger’s Lunch
- Garibaldi Biscuits with a Difference – We Should Cocoa #24
- The Brownie Baker
- The Fine Food and Folks of Liskeard
- Cornwall Clandestine Cake Club Celebrates its First Birthday
- The Hidden Hut Revealed
- Honey Flapjacks with Fig & Almonds + A Scilly Trip
- Cakes and Moor
- 14 Cornish Recipes – The Cornish Pasty is King
- Passionfruit Curd Sponge Cake & Clandestine Cake Club
- St Clements Cake Truffles
- Lemon and Poppy Seed Traybake and a Book Swap
- Nicky Grant – Fine Chocolates from Cornwall
- A Food Blogging Fest
- A Bonanza of Bakes
- Cornwall Food and Drink Festival – Guest Post
- Chocolate Week and Cornish Goings On
- Chocolate Whoopie Pies – the agony and the ecstasy
- Apple, Hazelnut and Choc Chip Cake
- Christmas with Dan’s Date & Hazelnut Bars
- Tea and Chocolate Tasting
- Getting Greedy in Ghent
- South West Food Bloggers Meet Up
- As I was going to St Ives
- Fun, But No Buns in Bath
- Rhubarb & White Chocolate Muffins with a Garden Tour
- Cocoa Nibbed Cookies & A Woodland Walk
- Easter Tea
- Feeling Full In Fowey
- All is Not Lost in Lostwithiel – Photomontage
- Cornish Cake Crawl Down Penzance Way
- Liskeard Cupcake Tour for National Chocolate Week
Equipment
- Froothie Evolve Power Blender – A Review
- Spelt Waffles with Rose Raspberry Sauce
- Optimum Vac2 Air Vacuum Blender Review – Suck it and See
- Granny’s Apple Pie with Wholemeal Spelt Pastry
- Beetroot Leaf Green Smoothie and the Nutri Force Extractor
- 10 Juicer Recipes with Fruits, Roots & Leaves and Introducing JUlaVIE
- Cucumber Roll-Ups with a Garlicky Feta & Mint Filling
- Carrot Smoothie with Ginger & Orange, Ten a Day & The Self-Cleaning Juisir
- Fry in the Sky with the Optimum HealthyFry – Air Fryer Review
- The Tin and Thyme Christmas Gift Guide 2016 for Food Lovers
- Ginger Green Goddess Smoothie – Power Up Your Breakfast
- How to Make Kombucha – a Healthy Sparkling Fermented Beverage
- High and Dry with the Optimum P200 Dehydrator – A Review
- Optimum ThermoCook Review – A Multi-Purpose Kitchen Appliance
- Precision Knife Set & Black Diamond Knife Block – Giveaway #67
- Forks Away – a Classic Pastry Set and Giveaway #65
- Gadgets to Go in the Tin and Thyme Kitchen
- A New Beast in my Kitchen
- Mini Chocolate Ice Pops + Caramalised Chocolota
- Panettone Meets Panasonic – My First Bread Maker
- Look at this for IngenuiTEA – A Review
- Waffles with a Mapley Chocolate Sauce
- No-knead Spelt Cocoa Bread
- Apple and Raisin Pancakes with Chocolate Sauce
- Vegetarian Shepherd’s Pie with Lentils
- A Red Teapot – Review and Giveaway #27
- Twinings Redbush Tea and a Teapot – a Review
- Apricot Curd and White Chocolate Cupcakes
- Chocolate Shortbread Hearts
- Grating Chocolate After a Fairy Flutters By
Miscellaneous
- A New Kitchen For Christmas (please)
- Squash Chilli Chard Feta Pasties – A Vegetarian Take on a Cornish Pasty
- Fun Fillers for Your Christmas Stockings
- Cocoa Hand Cream from Hotel Chocolat
- i-Phone Chocolate Case – Review and Giveaway #43
- Chocolate Themed Wooden Jigsaw Giveaway #42
- Pin it Forward UK
- Mooving up the Professional Ladder and a Giveaway #29
- Linen Tea Towels and a Giveaway #6
