Author: Hilary Steel

Kent Women in Business Awards 2019

Kent Women in Business Awards 2019

Posted by | Mar 12, 2019 | , |

Last week was completely BONKERS! We hosted the SEVENTH Kent Women in Business Awards to a packed out room full of some of the biggest characters in Kent. Firstly I can’t believe it’s seven years and secondly, I can’t believe I sang ‘A Million Dreams’ from the Greatest Showman in the opening. Maybe this is where I should add that I am NOT a singer and I have NEVER been so scared to be on stage in my LIFE! When I stand on that stage I am in front of award winning business women, women who have pushed themselves...

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2019 What a Wonderful Start

2019 What a Wonderful Start

Posted by | Jan 16, 2019 | |

People often start a new year by setting goals that may well fall into oblivion. Others have weight loss and fitness objectives and people like me simply embrace the fact that I am still here to make new choices in my life! Sounds a bit deep, but it’s true. Over the past 12 months my whole world has once again changed and although some circumstances were beyond my control, many changes have come about because I have consciously made them. Two years ago I was Editor of the Kent Women in Business Magazine, one year ago I was supporting...

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Gadget Cooking

Posted by | Jan 8, 2018 | |

Santa was very generous to me last year…I’m not sure it’s because I was particularly ‘good though’. I had a list of kitchen gadgets that I was building up to getting so asked for vouchers to help me get them all. You may have read recently about the influx of electric pressure cookers to the market…and that there was a shortage over the Christmas period. Well Santa was really lovely to me and I received a ‘Pressure King Pro’. Apparently this is advertised on a TV shopping channel and had I seen it on there I would have bought it sooner…. He also brought me a Halogen oven and Acti-Fryer… To some this may seem a little excessive, and the chances are that these gadgets will soon be relegated to the kitchen cupboards never to be seen again…This couldn’t be further from the truth. I am fascinated by what I can only describe as ‘combination cooking’. By simply planning ahead I have managed not only to improve the nutritional value of my family meals but also the time spent in the kitchen and the levels of waste. It’s become a bit of a game for me..one that I intend to get better at. What methods am I using? Electric Pressure Cooking Air Frying Sous...

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Never Stop Asking Questions

Never Stop Asking Questions

Posted by | Sep 25, 2017 | |

Children are often berated for asking annoying questions. Why is the sky blue? What does that day? How does that work? At 45 years old, I discovered that asking the right question made a massive impact on a situation. Four months ago, while my Dad was in Pembury Hospital after being shipped off by blue light a few weeks before, I received a phone call from a Doctor on the ward. When I picked up the call I thought it was going to be the physiotherapy department organising his discharge home visit, instead it was a time stopping moment...

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Changes Happen…

Changes Happen…

Posted by | Sep 18, 2017 | |

Thankfully I am not afraid of change which is just as well considering I have totally turned my world upside down in the last 10 months. From Magazine Editor to running pop up bars at food and drink Festivals and playing around with potatoes with the intention of publishing a cookery book based loosely on one written by my Mum in 1989. (The Great Potato Cookbook). This all sounds like fun right? Well it is, but there is also another motivation behind these changes… In May 2017 my Dad was taken to Hospital leaving me to take care of...

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