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Elemental Energy Saving

By Madeleine Whittaker

There are so many simple, easy ways we can become energy savers. It does not need to be a fairytale!

Why not be a hero and save energy today, in your lifetime, for your family and children in their lifetime. We all need to make the effort and changes necessary to put this into action.

Why not start by replacing your light bulbs for energy efficient ones. The amount of energy this can save will also save you money. Replace any older, less energy efficient appliances. Most new appliances now come automatically energy efficient and labelled with the energy star system or another local energy rating.

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ENIGIN - On the right road

The time for change came when I decided that the old car had to go!

Travelling in to Enigin every day certainly puts the miles on the car.  In my bid to “Save the planet”!! I have reduced my cars engine size from 2000cc to 1600cc which in turn has reduced my insurance costs and my road tax costs.  Its quite painless really just like saving energy the Enigin way.

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Enjoy Your Food

We enjoy our food down here at Enigin’s HQ in the South West of England. A lovely pub lunch just makes a day complete. I enjoy eating out especially.

Over the past weekend we ate out a lot. It is always so nice to do, though you do feel like your paying for it afterwards. After a few days of not caring what you eat, or drink, you definitely start to feel like you need a healthy, home cooked meal, with lots of vegetables.

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Cheating with Food

Here at Enigin we enjoy our food! I enjoy cooking at home as well as eating out. Bot definately have their highlights.

I love the feeling of going out for something to eat, even if it is simply tapas, or a nice meal. It is exciting to be out in a bustling restaurant, enjoying a glass of wine and a well cooked pleasant meal.

But I also enjoy cooking in my own kitchen. Coming up with something delicious and different. Trying out new and interesting recipes and meals.

But still it is sometimes difficult to find new and different things to do. And then there can be the cost. You find a lovely recipe you’d like to try but then find you need all these random ingredients. Which are usually “stock cuoboard” ingredients but you only have in your “stock” if you already use them on a regular basis. Things such as rice vinegar, pine nuts, white wine vinegar, sesame oil. And to then go out and buy these items for one meal, is not cheap!

But what about cheating? There is a recipe book by one famous british cook which shows us how to cheat with food. It uses new and interesting recipes but with cheap and easy alternatives which you are more likely to have in stock.

It is a great way of keeping peoples interest in cooking at home and making it easier for them. So I am off now to cheat with my dinner, and hopefully enjoy a delicious and interesting meal.

Enigin - Food glorious food

The recipe posted below sounds great - definately will be trying that one.

One great recipe book is a Jamie Oliver one, Ministry of Food. Amongst our friends it had become a must have recipe book. Especially for the men!

It is full of easy to cook recipes, especially for first time cooks. But they are also great recipes that taste wonderful. I would recommend to anyone, including those advanced and experienced cooks. It includes lots of sauces and easy to make suppers. But also very basic meals simply made easier.

One for example is Lasagne. Jamie (has he has come to be known) suggests instead of making a bechamel sauce for the top of your lasagne, to use creme fraiche, and it is brilliant. Cheaper and so much easier to do, and quicker! And tastes delicious. So give it a go!

And stock up on Olive Oil beforehand. Our Jamie loves his Olive Oil, in everything! Apparently he even puts it in mash potato, haven’t tried that but I think I will.

So try out the Ministry of Food, it is the way to go for Food, Glorious Food.

ENIGIN - Mackerel - Simple

Following the last week or so of superbly hot weather there is a reasoning that suggests that its Too hot to be stuck over a hot stove preparing meals for the family.  Here at Enigin we believe in trying to keep things simple and easy to understand.  Strike up the Barby comes the cry and why not!   Get down to you local Fishmonger or supermarket if they have a decent fish counter and look for local freshly caught Mackerel.  Look for bright eyes and a shimmering skin which will tell you that the fish is fresh.  Ask the Fishmonger to fillet a couple of good sized mackerel and pin bone them..  When you get them home put them straight into the bottom of the fridge.  Light up the Barby and while you are waiting for it to go to white ash prepare nice fresh salad with lots of different elements.  Put about 4 desert spoons of extra virgin olive oil in a bowl and add 2 -3 dessert spoons of Red wine and stir well.  Add salt and pepper and mix well.   Enigin.

Ok lets bring this together for a terrific easy and great tasting meal.  Oil up the fish with olive oil and place skin side down on the BBQ.  It should not take long and you will see the fish cooking through.  Once the colour change id about two thirds of the way through the fish carefully lift the fish and turn it over.  Give it anothe minute and remove from the BBq and hold on a hot plate.  Plate up the salad, Cut a wedge of lemon and lay the mackerel fillets over the salad placing the lemon wedge on the fish.   Spoon on a little of the red wine dressing and serve with crusty bread.  A glass of cold cider goes well with this light meal.  Summer on a plate.  It works just as well with quality smoked mackerel just warmed.  Mackerel is one of the best superfoods just like Enigin is one of the super energy savers.

MAYDAY - Summers a time for saving at Enigin

Its official, here at Enigin summer is jus around the corner.  The jackets and overcoats are being left at home as the temperatures rise to a comfortable level.  Its now that we should all be thinking about saving energy as we turn down the heating and use less lighting as the daylight lasts longer.   Get out in the garden during the week end and avoid sitting in front of the TV, in fact why not switch it off rather than leaving it on standbye to gether with the DVD player, Sky box and Surround Sound system.  If you were lucky enough to have an Enigin Eniscope installed at home you would be able to see the saving this could make for you.  

The time also came for change came when I decided that the old car had to go!  Travelling in to Enigin every day certainly puts the miles on the car.  In my bid to “Save the planet”!! I have reduced my cars engine size from 2000cc to 1600cc which in turn has reduced my insurance costs and my road tax costs.  Its quite painless really just like saving energy the Enigin way.

Enigin - Held up by Ash

By now most of the world including Enigin has become victims of the Icelandic Volcanic Ash clouds that have been circulating for the past few weeks.  This has not only caused problems with Enigin’s outgoing customer orders and incoming stock orders but we have had staff members stranded because of it.  It just goes to show just how much we all rely on the Airfreight service.  Here in the UK we were on the brink of chaos as imports of vegetables and fruit from other countries dried up.  Wholesalers had to set up road links with the EU to bring supplies in from alternative sources which sadly increases the carbon footprint of the produce.  So with the above in mind do you not think it would be beneficial to us all if we tried to grow a few items in our gardens instead of cultivating lawns?  Enigin have many solutions fopr saving energy but we all need to reduce our carbon footprint and we can do this by growing some of our own food.  It also gives you a warm fuzzy feeling that youve done your bit to save the planet and it tastes great. 

As a Summer Salad hows about a nice fillet of wild Salmon served with a green pea and asparagus salad and new cornish potatoes!!!

Enigin - Snow’s no boundaries

Well it been an interesting time here at Enigin following a week or so of snow and ice that has literally brought the UK to a standstill.  The upshot of this adverse weather has been major delays in stock being delivered to us creating a small but noticable delay in Enigin orders being despatched.  Most of our staff were unable to get into work and thanks to the age of technology most were able to continue to work from their home environement.  There were a few of us that managed to get in every day through the ice and snow to keep the flag flying so to speak.   Hopefully weve now seen the end of the bad weather and we can all get back to normal.  Apologies to those of our partners and distributors that experienced order delays during this period.

Enigin - Counting the Beans?

Here at Enigin Its that time of year folks when the beans have to be counted so to speak!  Stock taking is a routine  activity that we all have to undertake to ensure that we know exactly  what is on the shelf.  Maybe it is because the key products of Enigin are really fast movers that we have to keep on top of the  process more often than normal.

Because of the Christmas holidays in the UK this activity which would normally take place at the end of the month has been brought forward to make it easier for our customers by minimising the off-line time we are going to do it before Christmas.  Hopefully the Enigin Ecos system will be back on line by Christmas Eve for those of you that are working over this period.