FFTO Blogger Of The Week: Only Nature: Foodporn!

It’s that time of the week again. Once more we’ve been trawling the web to find a brand new Fruit For The Office Blogger Of The Week. This week, we stumbled across a blog by Kok-Loong Wong.

Kok-Loong began cooking at around the age of 10 and for the past 3 years has been documenting his tasty stories on the blog Only Nature:Foodporn! (a bit naughty I know!). His aim is to cook delicious meals that ‘satisfy not only out taste buds and our stomachs but also our eyes and imagination’

Many of his recipes draw on Malaysian/Asian inspirations and his recipes marry flavours together that many people would never think of. Kok-Loong also takes some classic food combinations and puts his very own, often fruity, spin on them.

One of his recipes is a Satsuma Marmalade Cake made with his very own home made satsuma marmalade. The cake is topped with a delicious dark chocolate and marmalade icing topping. Two ingredients which Kok-Loong says compliment each other really well.

Kok-Loong also recently teamed Roast Pork Belly with Mango Relish (pictured above) – another match that seems to be made in heaven. Sounds like a defiantly tasty twist on the classic pork and apple combo.

Congratulations Kok-Loong Wong!

National Chocolate Week

You all know that we are completely passionate about fruit, however over at Fruit Towers we can’t resist a bit of chocolate too. And believe it or not, the boys are actually worse than the girls! So when we found out that it was National Chocolate Week, we knew we had to let our fellow Fruit Ambassadors know that now is the time to indulge!

National Chocolate Week runs from the 10 – 16 October this year and is a big fat celebration of everyone’s favourite sweet treat. The team hold events and tasting sessions all over the country where chocolate lovers can indulge in their not so secret obsession.

We thought we’d take this opportunity to remind you of a few of classic chocolate fruit combos to help you combine your fruit box with your chocolate fix.

Banana split – Take a banana, split it, drizzle on chocolate and cream. Couldn’t be simpler.

Good ol’ Chocolate Fondue – Melt the chocolate, grab some fruit and dip. Delicious

Chocolate covered berries – Whether strawberries raspberries or even cherries are your thing – this desert is easy to make and hard to resist.

Pear and Dark Chocolate – check out last week’s blogger of the week if you want some inspiration.

Have a good chocolate week!

FFTO Blogger of the Week - Yummy Choo Eats

We stumbled across another fabulous blog this week. Selina’s blog Yummy Choo Eats is a collection of really homely dishes. Her incredible recipes are not fancy dinner party show off dishes (however for the record, if I were served any of these at a dinner party, I would be a very happy bunny). Selina’s recipes are about being comfortable in your kitchen and following your instincts.

Selina also seems to use one of my favourite styles of cooking. That’s the ‘lets just see what I’ve got in the cupboard and put something magical together’ style.

What stole the show for us over at Fruit HQ was her recipe for a pear, dark chocolate and hazelnut crumble – served with custard of course.

FFTO Blogger of the Week – All That I'm Eating

All That I’m Eating is a great blog written by someone who clearly champions fruit and veg. Past posts have included highlights from her vegetable patch, asparagus and hollandaise sauce adventures, a gooseberry fool recipe and even tales of a watermelon cocktail.

We loved the blog and images on foraging for fruit – it reminded us that that fruit doesn’t always come straight from the office fruit box!




And who knew there were purple French beans in the world!

Great blog, brilliant writing, lovely recipes.

FFTO Blogger of the Week – Cookie's Cakes and Bakes

This week’s winner is a fabulous blogger called Nicola. Her Cookie’s Cakes and Bakes blog has only been going for a few weeks but has already grabbed our attention over at Fruit HQ

Each blog post is made up of easy to follow step by step instructions and edible photography that makes you want to get your spatula out.



In the past few weeks her recipes have included Strawberry and Cream Cupcakes a Banana, Coconut and Passion Fruit Loaf Cake and our personal favourite Chocolate Orange Brownies.

Nicola has clearly proved herself to be a fruity blogger so she more than deserves the Fruit For The Office seal of approval.

Thanks Nicola!