Filed under: Events, Yorkshire Dales Food | Tags: 3, ben atkinson, chefs, falcon, festival, highwayman, john pratt, manor, michael ward, park, rudding, settle, stephanie moon, take, traddock
The next instalment of the Settle Take 3 Chefs series of events is on Wednesday the 25th of November at 7.30pm at Settle Victoria Hall and will feature local chefs including Michael Ward from the Highwayman, Stephanie Moon from Rudding Park, Ben Atkinson from The Falcon Manor, Settle, and John Pratt from The Traddock, Austwick.
The last event was a great success, the cooking demonstrations very professional, entertaining and a great advertisement for local produce, watch out for a full report here after the event.
More information and Chef biography on the Settle Festival website.
Swillington Stuffed Duck - John Pratt - Traddock
Filed under: Events, Food, Yorkshire Dales Food, farmers market | Tags: 2010, dales, drink, festival, Food, leyburn, may, Sausages, wensleydale, Yorkshire
The Dales Festival of food & drink
The Dales Festival of Food & Drink is held at Leyburn in the heart of Wensleydale and the 2010 Festival Dates are: 1st, 2nd & 3rd May 2010.
This is a great festival in the heart of the Dales, small enough to still have a friendly feel and large enough to provide a great family day out and well worth a visit. Look out for the Paganum stand in the main food hall for our Sausages, Lamb, Pork and Beef and a few special products new for this year.
Filed under: Farm, Yorkshire Dales Food | Tags: black, breed, gilts, oxford, pedigree, pigs, rare, sandy, traditional
We have some new stock on the farm, our first two pedigree Oxford Sandy & Black breeding gilts….
Oxford Sandy & Black Pigs
Filed under: Food, Food & Recipe Books, Recipes, Yorkshire Dales Food | Tags: batter, best, egg, gravy, horseradish, milk, pudding, Recipes, ultimate, Yorkshire
Yorkshire Pudding
OK so which is the best Yorkshire Pudding Recipe?
Delia Smith suggests a mixture of water & milk whilst The Hairy Bikers suggest an all whole milk mixture?
The key elements regardless of precise quantity must be a really hot tray pre greased with a little spot of lard, oil or butter and it must be hot before you put the mixture into it, so that’s a really hot bun tray or cake tin so the oil/fat is smoking…
My simple recipe is:-
4oz plain flour, 2 really fresh free range eggs, half a pint of full fat milk, a little lard or oil
Method:-
Sieve flour into dish, create hollow in flour and crack egg in, gradually add milk whilst whisking by hand, no need to rest the mixture just pour into a really hot bun tray or baking tin which must have smoking hot fat.
Tradition states that Yorkshire Puddings should be served with gravy as a starter, the idea being that when meat was in short supply or just out of the family budget you could fill up on Yorkshire’s and then have less meat with the main course. Now we always have the Yorkshire Puddings with the main course filled with delicious beef gravy but Mum also used to serve them as a dessert or should that be “for pudding” just like a crepe or pancake but a different shape! served with butter, a little milk and sugar or simply drizzled with golden syrup.
Small Yorkshire puddings are also perfect for canapés or bite size party snacks, with a slither of beef, a drizzle of gravy and a dollop of horseradish sauce! mmm a fantastic alternative to smoked salmon on brown bread..
Filed under: Food & Recipe Books | Tags: book, christmas, delia, fayre, happy, Recipes, smith, traditional
Delia's Happy Christmas Recipe Book
Delia Smith has a new book out – “Delia’s Happy Christmas” available from the 15th October, the follow-up or sequel to her original “Delia’s Christmas” book first published nearly 20 years ago.
Delia has revisited Christmas with both traditional and new versions of classic Christmas fayre. Sections include how to cook ahead and prepare and avoid the last-minute panic! including pickles, preserves and cooking for the freezer and if you still leave everything to the last-minute a section on fantastic fast recipes.
Another new section is the Armchair Shopping section listing 18 of Delia’s favourite suppliers, sure to cause a pleasant panic with some traditional food businesses.
Delia’s Happy Christmas is available now from all good book shops and Amazon here
Filed under: Events, Food Competitions, Yorkshire Dales Food | Tags: arms, carving, cumin, dress, fancy, halloweeen, lister, malham, orange, pumpkin, Sausages, soup
The Lister Arms in Malham are hosting a Pumpkin carving competition from 2pm on Saturday the 31st of October.
Lister Arms Malham Pumpkin Carving Competition, Craven Herald
Several local chef’s and food producers will be entering pumpkin creations, come along and join in the fun, apple bobbing, Paganum sausages and pumpkin soup will be available on the day.
Prizes for best carved pumpkin and fancy dress. Anyone can enter and different classes for Adult & Kids entries.
Lister Arms, Finkle Street, Malham, Skipton, North Yorkshire, BD23 4DB 01729-830330
And for all that pumpkin flesh from hollowing out and carving your pumpkins Terry Quinn, Chef Patron at the Lister Arms suggests this pumpkin soup recipe:-
Ingredients:-
- pumpkin flesh
- red onion chopped
- carrot
- green & red chilli to taste
- salt & pepper
- pinch of cumin, thyme & rosemary to taste
- garlic
- chicken or vegetable stock
- fresh orange juice squeezed into finished soup
Method:-
- soften the chopped onion in a little butter (or Yorkshire rape seed oil)
- add chilli, garlic, chilli & herbs and fry a little to release flavours
- add diced pumpkin flesh and soften only for a minute or 2
- then add stock and simmer for 40 mins or leave to simmer in oven for an hour (bottom oven of the Aga)
- squeeze a little fresh orange juice before serving or a swirl of cream
Photo from Craven Herald, many thanks to Terry & Kirsty and all the staff at the Lister Arms, Malham for putting on a great family event and to all 17 fantastic entries in the pumpkin carving competition.
Pumpkin carving results :-
1st Olivia Dewhurst, Kirkby Malham,
2nd Chris Wildman, Paganum Produce,
3rd Granville Boocock, Victoria Inn, Kirkby Malham
Fancy Dress :-
1st Gemma Darwin, Kirkby Malham
2nd Millie Bradley, Malham
3rd Laurie Petrucci, Hanlith
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- 2nd Prize!
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- Lister Arms Malham Pumpkin Carving Competition, Craven Herald
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- Scary Pumpkin!
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- Halloween Fancy Dress at The Lister Arms Malham
Filed under: Yorkshire Dales Food, beer | Tags: ale, arms, beer, best, bitter, brewery, dark horse, elslack, hetton, skipton, tempest, Yorkshire
Following my recommendation of the wonderful creamy Hetton Pale Ale, I spotted Hetton Best Bitter in the Tempest Arms at Elslack when dropping off my Chutney Competition entry last night and thought it rude not to try it!
This is another great beer from the tiny Dark Horse Brewery at Hetton in the Yorkshire Dales near Skipton and well worth seeking out to try.
Hetton Best Bitter, 3.8% abv, Dark Horse Brewery, Hetton is a lovely pint, great condition was served in a branded glass and has a nice sharp dry bitter taste, a great mid brown colour, this is a real session beer that leaves you wanting more!
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- Hetton Best Bitter, Dark Horse Brewery
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- Hetton Best Bitter, Dark Horse Brewery
The Tempest Arms at Elslack is now firmly on my “must visit soon” list as they have a great selection of beers and a fantastic, varied menu of local produce including Bolton Abbey Lamb, Homemade Game Broth, Yorkshire Puddings as a starter, Game Pie, Breast of Partridge, Cornbeef Pie and Roast Belly Pork to name a meaty few.
Beer on tap at the Tempest at the time of my visit in October 2009 included :-
- Hetton Pale Ale, 4.2%, Dark Horse Brewery, Hetton, Skipton
- Wainwright, 4.1%, Thwaites Brewery, Blackburn
- Landlord, 4.3%, Timothy Taylors Brewery, Keighley
- Theakston Best Bitter, 3.8%, Theakston, Masham
- Hetton Best Bitter, 3.8%, Dark Horse Brewery, Hetton, Skipton
- Moorhouse’s Elslack, 4%, Moorhouse’s, Burnley
Filed under: Eating, Food, Recipes, Yorkshire Dales Food | Tags: chorizo, egg, garlic, idea, lunch, omelette, onion, pepper, quick, tortilla, Yorkshire
Need a quick lunch with ingredients to hand! then try my version of a Spanish omelette or maybe we should call it a Mediterranean or even Yorkshire omelette as this version contains no potato which is normally an essential in a Spanish Tortilla.
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- Omelette Ingredients
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- Spanish Omelette
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- Yorkshire (Spanish) Tortilla
Ingredients on hand, please fee free to add sliced cooked potato, mushrooms, ham, sliced sausage whatever you have in the fridge:-
- 1 red & 1 green pepper
- 1 green chilli
- 1/2 large red onion
- chopped fresh tomato
- 2 crushed garlic cloves
- sliced chorizo
- sea salt & black pepper to taste
- 7 fresh free range eggs
- splash of milk
- oil to cook, I used a glug of rapeseed oil
Method:-
- use a large non stick frying pan
- soften the onions in a little rapeseed oil, add crushed garlic
- then add the sliced peppers and soften a little more
- add the chorizo & tomato
- mix the eggs and a splash of milk with seasoning to taste
- pour egg mixture over the contents of the pan
- omelette will start to set, if necessary transfer to oven or grill to finish
- use a spatula to gently ease around the edges of the omelette then turn over contents onto a serving plate or bread board
- eat immediately with a few hunks of fresh bread
Filed under: Eating, Food, Steak, Yorkshire Dales Food, beer | Tags: best, bitter, brulee, chilli, chocolate, creme, eye, garlic, grassington, grill, hall, inn, landlord, lime, mexican, mixed, old, pudding, rib, ribeye, Steak, taylor's, theakstons, threshfield, timothy
A birthday tea treat with the family, we set off not really knowing where to go, we passed The Angel @ Hetton? The Devonshire @ Cracoe? The Fountaine @ Linton? maybe somewhere different for a change so we headed for The Old Hall Inn at Threshfield just before Grassington. The Old Hall always looks welcoming as I’m driving past but had not tried eating here for years. I had heard good things about the staff, the food & the beer so we parked up and headed in, on a Wednesday night the place was really quite busy and got busier as the night progressed.
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- Mixed Grill
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- Mexican style Rib Eye Steak
The menu is displayed all around the lounge bar and specials on blackboards above the bar and all in addition to the standard menu, a lot to digest! we settled down with a creamy pint of Timothy Taylors Landlord and studied the vast selection, lots of meat & fish choices and I did briefly glimpse some vegetarian stuff!
We ordered a typical mix of steak for the boys and fish for the girls, I don’t know why but that’s the way it was! Rather than my usual and preferred unadulterated steak both big brother and I went for the Mexican Rib Eye Steak with lime, garlic & chilli marinade and sauteed pots served with a ramekin of perfectly cooked veg (7 different vegetables crammed into a small ramekin!) Eldest son must have been feeling peckish and choose well, going for the Mixed Grill and a good example it was, with steak, gammon, sausage, black pudding, pork chop, lamb chop and egg. Youngest son went for a lighter option of the House Pate with a side order of chips and the Lady had the fish dish, apologies didn’t catch the fish dish details but it was duly polished off and looked well!
Puddings to finish were all excellent and included a Chocolate Pudding with Chocolate Sauce, Caramelised Baked Lemon Tart with Creme Fraiche & Creme Brulee.
Total bill £100 for 5 people including drinks, good value for great food, great pub and great staff… as we were leaving the Wednesday quiz was starting and the pub was packed!
Filed under: Events, Food, Food Competitions | Tags: azucar, club, cultura, havana, Leeds, mojito, nirmas, rum, tapas
Did someone say free Rum! I was invited to a bloggers meet up in Leeds with the offer of free Havana Club! my personal favourite (really it already was!) so how could I resist….
On arrival at Azucar on Brewery Wharf in Leeds (near Oracle) we were introduced to our lovely hosts for the evening and offered either a Mojito or Cuba Libre rum cocktail, mmmm we started with the Mojitos.
Once the Mac was fixed!! (by Jonny) we were shown the Havana Cultura website and browsed around various other peoples blogs & projects and generally introduced ourselves to the Leeds Blog Scene, an eclectic mix of people & characters.
The Azucar bar is a relatively new creation for Brewery Wharf and describes iself as a South American inspired tapas and cantina bar, which is exactly how it looks and feels. Local Leeds legend and author Howard Marks is involved with the bar and images of him can be seen around the walls and bar. The tapas we tried were great, looked reasonably priced and compliment the easy dining atmosphere, we tried:-
- JALAPOS – Green jalapeno peppers filled with cream cheese in a crispy crumb (AKA Buffalo Turds! sorry that’s what they get called at BBQ’s in Malhamdale!)
- CALAMARES A LA ROMANA – Battered squid rings with alioli
- ALBONDIGAS DE CERDO – Pork meatballs in tomato sauce
- CORN TORTILLA CHIPS – Chilli beef with cheese and jalapenos
After we had been fed & watered at Azucar we moved on to Normans Bar on Call Lane for a more soul-tinged Cuban themed fun from the decks. A great night all round.
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- Mojito
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- Call Lane, Leeds
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- Normans Bar, Leeds
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- Azucar bar
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- Havana Club
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- Azucar tapas
Havana Club Rum need no introduction and are sponsoring various events in Leeds over the coming weeks in support of there Havana Cultura Project a window on contemporary Cuban creativity! They have also teamed up with Gilles Peterson to fashion some funky Cuban tunes on a new CD which officially launches on October the 26th. More events in Leeds, Manchester & London to support this and also a twitter Treasure hunt to win some great Havana Club prizes, you can find out more on the following links.
Discover the Spirit of Havana – “El Ron De Cuba” Havana Club Website
Havana Cultura website – a window on contemporary Cuban creativity!
You can follow the events and competitions on Twitter @_havanacultura_ and watch out for the Twitter treasure Hunt starting on the 19th October #havanatreasurehunt to win a weekend for 2 in Paris and VIP tickets for the Gilles Peterson Album Launch party….
