Ainsley Harriott Spice Sensation Cous Cous Reviews

I like this cous-cous from Ainsley Harriot's brand of food products. You can find it in most supermarkets at under a pound a packet. I recently bought 4 or £2 in Morrisons, which was quite a good offer. The slim packets store easily in the cupboard and have a reasonably long shelf-life (usually a best-before date of about a year's ...  Read the complete review

Ainsley Harriot Spice sensation Cous Cous This cous cous by Ainsley Harriot is another staple of my store cupboard at home now. I first tried this about a year ago and I haven't looked back since. It is a lovely accompaniment to various meats such as a nice piece of chicken kiev or a juicy steak, and is equally ...  Read the complete review

I often buy these very convenient little sachets as something a bit different for lunch. They are great to keep in the cupboard in case you run out of bread for a sandwich, which often happens to me! It's good because it's low in fat and relatively low in calories but fills you up a treat. It is very easy to make, just pour on 160ml ...  Read the complete review

Ahhh, cous cous, the staple diet of students which is quickly challenging the title of beans on toast at their sole source of nutrients. The students have got it right though, cous cous is cheap, easy to prepare (especially the ready made varieties like ainsleys) and is moderately good for you. Specifically ainsleys ...  Read the complete review

I work in an open-plan office and for that reason we are not allowed to have a microwave at work - apparently the smell of food cooking is considered too disruptive and in some ways I agree with this as it's not nice to smell the strongly flavoured foods that some people seem to prepare in office microwaves. However, I live ...  Read the complete review

Ainsley Harriott Spice Sensation Cous Cous......... I have been a big fan of cous cous over the past year or so and have come to the conclusion that you really can't do better than Ainsley Harriott's range. I have just eaten for my lunch at work a whole packet of this Spice Sensation and have thoroughly ...  Read the complete review

Ainsley Spice Sensation Couscous is on special at Tesco's - any two packets for one pound. In each packet there are two 100 gram sachets. Each sachet has enough Couscous for two people as a side dish for dinner or one person's lunch. The Couscous is very easy to prepare, you pop it in a bowl and add boiling ...  Read the complete review

What place does a quick cous cous ready meal have in a country that is increasingly health conscious, and perpetually berated by celebrity chefs for not feeding ourselves or our loved ones with the freshest, least processed of foods? More to the point, is there such a need to accelerate the cooking speed of an already speedy ...  Read the complete review

The Ainsley Harriet 'Spice Sensation' Cous Cous comes in a recyclable cardboard box and costs £1.17 in Sainsbury's (you can find it in the dried food aisle with the rice and pasta snacks). In the box you get two 100g sachets with serve two people (as a side dish). On the outside there's a recipe suggestion but as it was a meat ...  Read the complete review

Cous Cous seems to have become trendy in the past few months as it suddenly started appearing on the supermarket shelves with celebrity endorsements and the like, this was a bit of a surprise to me as i have been eating it for ages ever since coming across it in an African restaurant in Paris, I ea it with meat stews and also alongside a ...  Read the complete review

With the warmer weather coming up and the barbecues being dusted off and being brought out of the shed, I always find my shopping takes a slight turn and I start buying more couscous to go with the salads and barbecues. I never used to eat couscous, thinking it was bland and tasteless. On going to a friend's barbecue last year I saw ...  Read the complete review

I only really discovered cous cous a couple of years ago, and my first taste of it was at a morroccon street stall in Bristol. I loved it, the flavours were amazing and it tasted fantastic with the dish I was eating, soaking up all the juices and really adding to the taste of the whole meal. From then on I would always look ...  Read the complete review

Ever since I first tasted cous cous in a Moroccan restaurant in the South of France 10 years ago I have been in love with the stuff. However i've never been able to turn a bag of cous cous seeds into something tasty... Ainsley Harriott has. This review focus's on the Spice Sensation Cous Cous from Ainsly Harriott though there ...  Read the complete review

I have to admit that I am not normally a huge fan of cous cous in its most basic form. To my mind (or should that be taste) it is extremely bland with the consistency of course sand. However, it does perfectly complement spicy Moroccan dishes and this particular variety of Ainsley Herriott's cous cous replicates those spices found in ...  Read the complete review