Filed under: Eating, Food, Yorkshire Dales Food | Tags: amuse-bouche, Angel, black pudding, breast, chicken, cornfed, crab, dinner, foie gras, hetton, inn, North Yorkshire, pig, ravioli, restaurant, scallops, skipton, suckling, whitby
Surprise dinner for the birthday girl last night at The Angel Inn, Hetton, Nr Skipton, Yorkshire Dales.
The last few times we have been to the Angel have been for bar meals and the service has been disappointing but we tried the restaurant and A LA CARTE menu last night and all was forgiven, back to the usual quality service and excellent food.
We arrived on time (unusually for us!) and we were immediately shown to our table, 2 glasses of the Wine Cave Rose Champagne Cuvee Brut Bernard Remy ordered and arrived quickly while we perused the menu.
The Food:-
Selection of fresh warm bread rolls including walnut and Parmesan in brown or white.
To start I went for the WHITBY CRAB RAVIOLI with fennel and ginger cream and the better half had the old Angel favourite of ANGELS BLACKPUDDING with seared foie gras, artichoke veloute, grape and walnut salad both dishes were fantastic and my crab ravioli was particularly good!
An amuse-bouche of Cheese with an onion marmalade was served between courses, I didn’t quite catch exactly what the waiter said it was but I know it was tasty!
The main courses, CORNFED CHICKEN BREAST with spring asparagus, peas and beans, truffled pomme puree served with Albufera sauce. SEARED LOCH FYNE KING SCALLOPS WITH CRISPY YORKSHIRE SUCKLING PIG with apple and cauliflower, pomme puree and a red wine reduction. Both very well put together dishes with excellent taste combination’s and they looked fantastic.
The Beer:-
did you really think I wasn’t going to try the beer! Dark Horse Brewery, Hetton Ale was on hand pull and as it’s brewed all of 500 yds down the road from the Angel thought it rude not to try it! The sprinkler had been taken off to wash but the friendly bar staff were more than happy to oblige, replace and pour a pint, again an excellent creamy and very local pint!
No room for pudding so just had the coffee and sweet things which included a mini doughnut and soft vanilla fudge, a very enjoyable evening and I would heartily recommend The Angel, great service and top food.
Dinner is served Monday to Friday 6pm to 9pm and to 9.30pm on Saturday, The Angel Inn Website
The Angel Inn, Hetton, Restaurant
Filed under: Eating, Food, Yorkshire Dales Food | Tags: ale, arms, Beef, beer, chips, dinner, egg, fishcakes, gammon, litton, littondale, queens, roast
Went up to The Queens Arms in Littondale on the request of the eldest son for tea. He did want to try the George at Hubberholme but on telephone for opening hours established that it was fully booked. The Queens is a super little pub in one of the Yorkshire Dales hidden dales, lovely ride out over some of the great Dales roads especially if you go via Malham and Arncliffe.
The Food:- Well the gammon was good! but the rest of the meal and the beer was rather disappointing. Thing’s don’t appear to be quite the same at the Queens Arms, prices were very expensive and the quality of the food disappointing, fish cakes & roast beef dinner poor, vegetables & salad like something out of a 1980’s tv show but with 2010 prices. At least my gammon was OK!
The Beer:- Litton Ale: Pale brown in colour with a classic malt flavour. 3.8% abv. brewed on the premises, shall we say was having a rather off day! from what I have tasted it’s better in a bottle!
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- Gammon, Egg & Chips
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- Brown liquid purporting to be Litton Ale
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- The Queens Arms at Litton
Filed under: Food, Yorkshire Dales Food, butcher | Tags: apple, atkinson, caramelised, chilli, elite, gordon, harrogate, leek, meats, onion, pork, sage, Sausages, starbeck, stilton
The taste test of 8 elite sausages. A selection of fantastic sausages from Gordon Atkinson at Elite Meats in Starbeck, Harrogate, North Yorkshire. The family gathered around to conduct a sausage taste test of the following flavours:-
- Prime Yorkshire Pork Sausage
- Pork Leek & Chive Sausage
- Pork Peach & White Stilton Sausage
- Pork & Sweet Chilli Sausage
- Pork & Caramelised Onion Sausage
- Pork Tomato & Basil Sausage
- Pork Sage & Apple Sausage
- Starbeck Sausage
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- Elite Sausages oven baked
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- Sausage Sampling
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- Elite Sausage Taste Test
These are all very good sausages and were enjoyed by all members of the tasting panel!
Favourites were Pork Sage & Apple and the Pork Peach & White Stilton.
Filed under: Eating, Food, New Products | Tags: bath, british, chorizo, free range, garlic, herb, pig, pigs, pork, sausage, spicy, Yorkshire
Matthew at The Bath Pig Company sent me a lovely surprise package today, pre-launch samples of British or more specifically Yorkshire Chorizo! Still in the pack now but will be reviewing over the weekend. I have 2 versions, Garlic & Herb Chorizo and Spicy Chorizo, all made using free range, British pigs. Other products will include Semi cured cooking chorizo, extra spicy chorizo and The Pub Pig, spicy chunks of Chorizo, all should be available to buy in June 2009 and hope to have them on the Paganum website.
We have now tried both flavours and these are really delicious and taste exactly as described “on the tin” the garlic & herb has a nice herb flavour and makes a very British style Chorizo whilst the spicy version is much more traditional and quite fiery. There is likely to be a classic Chorizo and this one the extra spicy version. Whilst at the Leyburn Food Festival we tried out both varieties on the unsuspecting Yorkshire public and feedback was excellent for both. Hope to have them for sale for inclusion with your meat box or individually on the Paganum website very soon.
Filed under: Food, Yorkshire Dales Food, farmers market | Tags: dales, drink, festival, Food, leyburn, Yorkshire
2009 Festival Dates: 2nd, 3rd & 4th May 10:00am to 5:00pm daily please call in and say hello and mention you read the Yorkshire Dales Food Blog.
The food hall is the main venue for food and drink stands, with over eighty exhibitors, sited in a 14,000 sq ft marquee.
Free cookery demonstrations by leading local chefs throughout the day, held in our Theatre Marquee.
More info on the Dales Festival of Food website.
The Dales Festival of food & drink
Have read a few articles recently about “how to cook the perfect poached egg” and one in particular stood out where it suggests you use cling film, I thought I should try it out!
Take a cup or ramekin and let the cling film drape in to form a receptical for the raw egg, crack the egg into the hole and then twist the cling film to seal and drop into boiling water. I cracked another directly into the water to see the difference. I didn’t add any vinegar or use any other trick just 2 identical fresh eggs (from our Rhode Island Red & Black Rock hens).
Results as in the photos, below, I still prefer the direct immersion method into gentle boiling water and think the secret factor for poached egg success is VERY FRESH EGGS they will stay together naturally.
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- Poached egg experiment
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- Poached egg experiment
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- Poached egg experiment
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- Left Natural, right cling film method
Filed under: Recipes | Tags: bake, beans, black, cannellini, chilli, onion, potatoe, pudding, stock, veg, vegetables
A Guest recipe post from PB, maybe the first of many?
Boiled potatoes first. Then added them in a tray with a chilli and slices of black pudding and the chopped onion and the tin of cannellini beans. Then added a pint of veg stock over the top and baked for 30 mins until it was nearly dry. Was very tasty…
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- Black Pudding Bake
Filed under: Eating | Tags: best, challenge, kendalls, mushy, pateley, peas, pie, pork, skipton, stanforths
In the interest of research I have decided to willingly face the grueling task of endlessly testing and tasting the best of the best, Great British Pork Pie.
UPDATE:
Stanforths – Mill Bridge, Skipton
These pies are superb and world famous but you must observe the strict Skipton Stanforths pie eating ritual’s, that is, you must purchase and consume your pie immediately! the pie must be hot/warm! you must assume the position or posture for hot pie eating, bent forward slightly to prevent pie juice sloppage, tie and shirt stains et al, best eaten while walking along the canal tow path. A moist, peppery pork pie baked on the premises regularly throughout the day, Delicious.
The Celebrated Pork Pie Establishment
I will start with the Yorkshire Dales and my first report will be on those scrumptious pie makers from
T Kendall & Sons – Pateley Bridge
Well the various Kendall pies have been scoffed tested with the following observations:-
- Pork & Mushy Pea Pie – excellent pork and the green of the mushy peas looked well in the top of the pie but doesn’t taste any different to a normal pork pie, excellent all the same. 99p
- Pork & Apple Pie – very nice combination of excellent solid pork filling with very little jelly and a nice sweet/savoury mixture. 99p
- Pork, Stuffing & Apple Pie – or Farmhouse Pie, lovely layered effect when the pie is sliced, good short pastry, just enough apple and a nice layer of stuffing between two layers of pork, lovely stuffing flavour, excellent pie. 99p
- Pork & Pickle Pie – nice pickle smell, pie qualities as others but with a nice sweet chutney/pickle flavour, yummy… 99p
- Steak Plate Pie – a big family pie and full of big chunks of quality steak, no bits of fat and very good gravy and pastry. £4.75 excellent value easily feeds a hungry family of four.
General observations on Kendall’s of Pateley Bridge Pies, Very well filled, solid, no air space, very little jelly with a thin, crisp short pastry. Also additional fillings added subtly to the pie rather than completely smothering the quality pork pie, all made and baked on the premises with meat from own on site butchery.
The 10 year old assistant tester gave the pork & pickle and pork & mushy pea pies a thumbs up and said “100%, 5 stars and 10 out of 10″ ! great praise indeed… He wouldn’t touch the ones with Apple “coz that’s minging”!
The Fabulous foursome
Filed under: Recipes, Yorkshire Dales Food | Tags: homemade, pastry, pork, rolls, sausage, sausagemeat
Sausagemeat & Pastry what could be simpler!
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- Homemade Sausage Roll
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- Homemade Sausage Roll
Filed under: Beer Blogs, Eating, Yorkshire Dales Food | Tags: bistro, brewery, copper, dragon, fishcakes, golden, lunch, pippin, skipton, thai
Copper Dragon Brewery Bistro
Having visited Skipton’s newest visitor attraction a couple of times, I decided it was time to try out the new Copper Dragon Bistro for Lunch.
An extensive menu including locally sourced produce and a specials board that featured Special Seafood Salad, BLT club sandwich, Thai fishcakes along with the regular menu items such as Jumbo Haddock & Chips (The chips are nice thick brown home made ones!), Yorkshire Gammon, Steak & Ale Pie, Local Pork Sausages incorporating 1816 beer somehow (will have to find out more!) and a selection of hot & cold Sandwiches, steak & sticky onions, Pippin Yorkshire Rarebit, Wensleydale, Beef or Prawn.
I tried the Thai fishcakes served on a bed of salad with a Mayo dressing and added a portion of the homemade chips. Excellent homemade fishcakes with a lovely delicate Thai flavour.
To drink: nice cup of Tea! but would recommend the Copper Dragon Golden Pippin, refreshing blond ale with a citrus note, perfect with fish, 3.9%abv will return without the car for a more comprehensive beer review !
Copper Dragon Bistro Skipton, Thai Fishcakes
Lunch is served at The Copper Dragon Bistro, Snaygill Industrial Estate, off Keighley Road, Skipton from 11.30am to 3pm. Fantastic brewery Malt smell as we left, they must have been starting a brew!
