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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- Scary Pumpkin!
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- 2nd Prize!
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- Halloween Fancy Dress at The Lister Arms Malham
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- Lister Arms Malham Pumpkin Carving Competition, Craven Herald
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: Events, Food, Yorkshire Dales Food | Tags: arms, awards, british, chutney, elslack, festival, Food, great, homegrown, homemade, pub, skipton, tempest, year
The Tempest Arms at Elslack hold an annual chutney festival and this years event will be on the 17th October 2009 from 10.30am. They quote the ethos of the festival as “Impress us with your scrumptious, ‘finger-licking’ chutneys. Help us promote a British Tradition – whilst supporting freshly grown produce and no waste approach to eating – the only additives permitted are ’sunshine & rain’.”
I have applied for an entry and have been sent a very smart label to apply to my jar, any type of chutney is permissible so long as it is your own homemade produce. I have a couple of different versions made up now and need to decide which is going to make my entry, simple homegrown beetroot & apple chutney is in pole position at the moment.
Homemade Beetroot Chutney
If you would like to enter contact Anne at the Tempest Arms on 01282 842450 for an entry form or see website for more info www.tempestarms.co.uk Entries to be completed and returned with your “Chutney Contributions” by Wednesday the 14th October 2009. Terms & Conditions: All exhibits to be made by the exhibitor and must be homemade, We trust you!!! No M&S contributions please!!!
The Tempest is a gem of a pub on the outskirts of Skipton and was recently nominated in the Great British Pub Awards in the “Best Food Pub” category. Following regional judging The Tempest Arms has been named as the Best Food Pub in Yorkshire and went on to win the National Award at the Finals in London on the 9th September, praise indeed.
UPDATE 18/10/09
My homegrown beetroot chutney didn’t win! and I don’t have the full results but a spicy pear chutney from Relish Deli in Grassington did win Best in Show! congratulations…..
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: Eating, Food, Steak, Yorkshire Dales Food | Tags: arms, chips, lister, malham, mushroom, onion, rib, rib eye steak, rings, Steak
Thought it would be rude not to try out a Rib Eye Steak at the Lister Arms in Malham at a recent family outing for Sunday Tea, it’s always quiet on a Sunday evening in Malham as many of the weekend visitors are long gone.
Served with crispy onion rings, a nice big field mushroom, cooked tomato and plenty of chips. I asked for the steak medium and that’s exactly what I got, cooked perfectly, juicy and perfectly to my liking, the photo below does not do it justice as it tasted much better than the pic suggests.
- Rib Eye Steak, Lister Arms, Malham
Filed under: Yorkshire Dales Food | Tags: appletreewick, arms, aynesworth, brewery, copper, craven, dragon, island, itv, kelham, perfect, pint, Yorkshire
Yorkshire's Perfect Pint beermat
Been meaning to add something about the recent TV programme about David Aynesworths search for the perfect Yorkshire Pint recently showing on ITV Yorkshire. David is testing various Yorkshire real ales to feature in his beer festival at The Craven Arms pub in Appletreewick in the Yorkshire Dales. David is driven by his son Robert in “The Brigadier”, a 1930’s Bentley in which they visit and test a great selection of Yorkshire Breweries.
Featured so far include:-
Fawcett’s Castleford Maltings, Kelham Island Brewery, Sheffield
Dark Horse Brewery, Hetton, Leeds Brewery, York Brewery, Brown Cow Brewery, Selby and the Copper Dragon Brewery, Skipton.
