On my way back from Cornwall we decided to have lunch in Cheddar Gorge (avoiding Motorway Services Food!) we had a simple Ploughmans lunch and of course I had to buy some Real Cheddar cheese to take home…..
Real Cheddar Cheese Cloth Wrapped Truckle
Real Cheddar Cheese
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Tagged cheddar, cheese, gorge, lunch, ploughmans, real, truckle
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Brody’s Bistro & Pizzeria, Skipton – Lunch
Fancy a quick family lunch in Skipton, Brody’s Bistro could be just the thing!
We had the Family Lunch, a choice of any 2 stone baked pizzas from the main menu accompanied by a garlic pizza bread, side salad & portion of good chips. The family lunch is a fixed price of £19.95 and with 3 soft drinks the bill came to £25.
Good authentic style pizza base, thin, crispy and stone baked, simple side salad including mixed leaves and 2 types of tomato served with a nice dressing, chips were nicely browned home style with skin on, a cross between wedges & homemade chips. We tried the Brody’s special pizza with cheese & tomato, peppers, Italian salami, mushroom and red onion and the Chorizo & Jalepeno pizza.
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- Chorizo & Jalepeno Pizza
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- Brody’s Special Pizza
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- Garlic Pizza Bread
Nice decor and good service, Brody’s Bistro & Pizzeria is open every day 12 – 2pm & evenings from 5pm, 9 Sheep Street, Skipton, 01756-799991
Wharfebank Brewery – Tether Blond Ale 4.1%
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- Wharfebank Tether Blond Ale Clip
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- Wharfebank Tether Blond Ale 4.1%
Wharfebank Brewery, Pool in Wharfedale, Tether a blond ale at 4.1% is now available in the Victoria Inn, Kirkby Malham and is sold alongside the usual Timothy Taylor’s Landlord & Golden Best, Copper Dragon and Tetley’s. Well worth a visit for the great beers and of course fantastic steaks and Granny Boo’s Fish & Chips.
Posted in beer, Eating, Food, Yorkshire Dales Food
Tagged brewery, copper dragon, fish and chips, golden best, kirkby malham, landlord, Steak, tether, tetley, timothy taylor, victoria inn, wharfebank
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Homemade Raspberry Jam Recipe
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- Raspberry Jam Jars
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- Raspberry Jam in the pan
With the profusion of soft fruit just now it has to be Jam Time! Dig your old jamming pan out and get some of the fantastic soft fruit on offer from the hedgerows, garden or your local farm PYO and make some delicious homemade jam.
Generally Raspberry Jam does not require extra pectin so just use equal quantities of sugar and fruit, clean the fruit, soften fruit in the pan then add the sugar and stir to dissolve, boil up vigorously for 5 to 10mins and test for setting on a saucer (after a few secs on a cold saucer the jam should wrinkle when pushed) and when it’s setting on the saucer your ready to bottle up in clean jam jars. You can sterilise the jars in the oven for 10mins and allow to cool.
Fantastic Field Mushrooms
After the warm spell and then the torrential rain of the last few days here in the Dales the wild field Mushrooms have decided its time to make an appearance and we have found an abundance these last couple of days.
Wild Field Mushrooms
As I adore fresh mushrooms, I’m trying to make the most of them, we have given a couple of dozen away to friends and family and so far I have made & eaten creamed mushrooms on toast and soup. Just made a another big batch of wild mushroom soup to freeze into portions, not everyone in our house likes mushrooms so small portions are ideal! Even @KaveyF got some on her flying visit!
Wild Field Mushroom Soup
Multiply quantities depending on how successful your wild food foraging has been!
Ingredients:-
- 2 large chopped onions
- 2 cloves garlic
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 or 3 oz butter
- plain flour
- cleaned & chopped mushrooms, stalks & all
- 1 litre chicken stock
- 2 or 3 fl oz of fresh cream or I used the cream of the top of the milk (old fashioned green top!)
- Salt & white pepper
Method:-
- chop onion & garlic
- fry both in a little butter until soft but not brown
- toss the mushrooms in some plain flour and add to the pan with onions
- sweat off for 3 mins then add the chicken stock and bay leaves
- simmer for 10 minutes
- remove bay leaves & allow to cool for a few minutes
- zap with a hand held blender or liquidize (my magimix has just blown up so had to use the old liquidizer, think I need a fab new KitchenAid like “Gilberta” over at FoodStories)
- add cream or milk and stir & serve
- is also great to freeze in portions
Chorizo Tart
I couldn’t resist putting a photo of @bakelady59 fantastic Yorkshire Chorizo tart on here for all to admire! You can see the full recipe and some mini Chorizo tart’s on Bakelady’s Blog here bakelady.wordpress.com
Yorkshire Chorizo Tart
Gourmet Burger Kitchen
Spent a couple of days in Richmond, Surrey which of course is not the original Yorkshire Dales Richmond but the second Richmond – renamed by Henry VII in 1485 when he held the title of Earl of Richmond. Anyway I digress, whilst in the 2nd Richmond we tried The Gourmet Burger Kitchen which is a New Zealand burger joint complete with a popular New Zealand drink called L&P or Lemon & Paeroa a lemon flavoured water originally from Paeroa in New Zealand, I had never heard of it but can confirm it is a very refreshing, thirst quenching beverage!
We tried the chicken dippers to start, which were crispy & accompanied by a nice chilli dip, what followed were some of the biggest crispiest onion rings ever, pretty ordinary chips and great burgers, although mine “Habanero” which was pretty hot but I should have expected same as described as “hot and spicy sauce, mozzarella, salad & mayonnaise”. Great buns, salad and a nice side order of 3 different dips, blue cheese was the favourite with nice creamy lumps of blue cheese, garlic mayo – lots of garlic and an ordinary thousand island. Burgers had a good chunky consistency and fab beef flavour, the menu stated “All Aberdeen Angus” which could mean lots of things these days!
Prices were reasonable (starters, sides, 2 x burgers & drinks £28) and as we were famished everything went down a treat, chips the only slightly disappointing item (we left lot’s), would def go again and recommend you try L&P “World famous in New Zealand” lemonade as claimed on the tin, which sounds somewhat of an oxymoron!
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- Gourmet Burger Kitchen
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- Onion Rings & Chips
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- Gourmet Burger – Habanero
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- Chicken Dippers
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- Lemon & Paeroa
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- 100# Aberdeen Angus
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- Gourmet Burger Kitchen
Great Yorkshire Show – Beer & Scotch Eggs!
Had a great lazy day in Harrogate at The Great Yorkshire Show, met up with friends and had a good look around. The new 2010 DeliciouslYorkshire “Yorkshire’s Own Kitchen” book was launched, looks great and includes even more recipes. Highlights of the day included a blonde beer from Black Sheep, Scotch Eggs & some wicked chilli tasting from @thechillijamman !
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- Great Yorkshire Show 2010
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- Skipton Sheep
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- Welcome to Yorkshire Rhubarb Crumble and Custard Garden
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- Welcome to Yorkshire Rhubarb Crumble and Custard Garden
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- Golden Sheep from Black Sheep Brewery – Blonde 3.9abv
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- Pickled Scotch Egg & a Smokey Joe Scotch Egg
BBQ Paella with Chorizo
Simple one pot dishes cooked on the barbecue, how about a fantastic Paella! less washing up of pots & pans and a great way to cook with your guests.
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- BBQ Paella with Yorkshire Chorizo
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- BBQ Paella with Yorkshire Chorizo
Leeds Foodies Festival – great friendly event
Well just about recovered from the Leeds Foodies event in Roundhay Park, Leeds packed all the gear away out of the van and ready for the next event. The weather was kind to us if a little breezy on the Sunday! and met lots of fantastic people including a few fellow Tweeters or should that be Twits! @bakelady59 who made a fantastic Chorizo Tart you can see it & get the recipe on Bakelady’s Blog here @stujmiller trying to save some chorizo for himself before the kids eat it all! @JoolsCyprien belly full of curry goat rice n peas @themapples sorry didnt get chance to chat more @YinLi lovely compulsive shopper @andrewcritchett spreading the word. Also met some great chef’s and buyers so hopefully you might see more of our produce at a restaurant or deli near you soon.
Feedback on the Yorkshire Chorizo was fab and the Garlic version was the Leeds favourite.
A few pictures of the event so you can see what you missed!
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- Hendrick’s Gin
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- Cupcakes
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- Leeds Foodie Festival
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- Hendrick’s Gin Bath
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- Cool Champagne Tent
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- Aagrah Carved Water Melon
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- Paganum home of the Yorkshire Chorizo
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- Moorish nomadic Arabic catering
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- Paganum Stand at Leeds Foodie Festival
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- Curry Goat rice N peas
Posted in Chorizo, Events, farmers market, Food, Yorkshire Dales Food
Tagged festival, foodies, Leeds, park, Roundhay, twitter
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