Filed under: Eating, Food | Tags: breakfast, content, fat, green, homogenised, jersey, milk, organic, pasteurised, raw, real, semi, skimmed, sterilised, top, UHT
Green Top Whole Milk - Real Milk
Very random blog about Milk, I love real milk, that is unpasteurised full fat milk otherwise known as MILK, green top, raw milk, the real stuff, whatever…..
Everyone has a favourite milk and just so many variations now but what is wrong with the real stuff I ask you!
- Unpasteurised Green Top – whole natural milk, only available direct from the farm or a your milkman for doorstep delivery if your lucky, minimum 3.5% fat content. Government made it illegal to sell in shops in 1989!
- Pasteurised Full Fat Milk – the regular full fat pasteurised variety, minimum 3.5% fat content
- Semi Skimmed Milk – the most popular variety in the UK with 1.7% fat content, our local supermarket sells this with a green lid! scandalous should be trade descriptions act green top is ONLY ever real milk not this wallow rubbish or “blue milk” as Grandma used to call it!
- Skimmed Milk – nearly all fat removed 0.1 – 0.3% fat content, complete waste of space, might as well be water!
- Pasteurised Milk – Pasteurisation involves heating the milk to a minimum of 71.7 degrees centigrade fro a minimum of 15 seconds
- Homogenised Milk – has undergone a process to spread the fat evenly through the milk, pushed at high pressure through little holes, does not get a creamy layer at the top of the bottle, used to come in funny shaped bottles!
- Sterilised Milk – pre-heated, sterilised, then homogenised and then heated in the bottle to between 113-130ºC for approximately 10-30 minutes, just about kill’s everything including some of the vitamins and taste funny different!
- UHT Milk – UHT = ultra heat treated, heated to a temperature of at least 135ºC, long shelf life ,OK on your cornflakes when camping! IMO should not be used at any other time!
- Jersey Milk – rich & creamy also know as Breakfast Milk
- Organic Milk – from Organic herd’s grazed on Organic pastures with no use of chemical fertiliser or pesticides
Filed under: Food, Yorkshire Dales Food | Tags: Yorkshire, Sausages, Food, breakfast, bacon, black pudding, local, deliciously, hotel, b&b, pub, miles, greener, environment, taste, regional
Deliciously Yorkshire Breakfast
Does your local Pub, Hotel or B&B serve a Deliciously Yorkshire Breakfast?
When staying in accommodation the last thing I remember about a place is the breakfast, not the clean rooms or the chocolate on the turned down bed, the breakfast. If served a rubbish breakfast after a pleasant stay somewhere, all you remember is the dodgy sausages !
Well now you can look out for, or suggest to your favourite B&B that they serve a Deliciouslyorkshire Breakfast, your guarantee of a truly local breakfast made with quality, locally grown or homemade ingredients!
Designed to encourage hotels, B&Bs and cafes to source more regional produce, the Deliciouslyorkshire Breakfast scheme is only open to those who source 5 ingredients or more regionally – look out for the distinctive Deliciouslyorkshire Breakfast logo.
The scheme continues to go from strength-to-strength – capitalising on the growing interest in sourcing and serving more locally produced food with all the benefits of few air miles and a healthier, greener environment – not forgetting the great, fresh taste!
If you would like to serve Deliciously Yorkshire Breakfast’s then get in touch with Paganum to supply all your Yorkshire Breakfast ingredients and then register with the Deliciously Yorkshire Regional Food Group to promote your quality local breakfast.
Filed under: Food Competitions, Yorkshire Dales Food | Tags: aloo, apple, barnsley, breakfast, breed, brulee, cake, chop, competition, creme, deliciously, Food, ginger, gobi, hamper, perk, pickering, pork, rare, restaurant, rhubarb, swan, tapas, up, venison, white, Yorkshire
Deliciously Yorkshire the regional food group for Yorkshire are running a competition to win some great Yorkshire Food prizes including :-
First Prize – The White Swan, Pickering – 1 night stay mid week with dinner, bed and breakfast
Second prize – Perk Up restaurant in Ripon – meal for two
Third Prize – Breakfast hamper from Side Oven Bakery
to enter answer a simple question and submit your details on the Deliciously Yorkshire Website you can also download the Deliciously Yorkshire Recipe Cards which incude the following recipe selection :-
Ginger Spiced rare breed Pork Recipe
Deliciously Yorkshire
Filed under: Eating, Food | Tags: ale, bacon, Beer Blogs, ben, breakfast, butter, cobbler, crab, eggs, fort, garlic, hops, langoustine, lorne, nevis, pie, salami, sausage, scallops, scotland, scottish, seafood, Steak, tagliatelli, venison, william
Spent a couple of days in Fort William in the Highlands of Scotland last week, tried a few restaurants and cafes before scaling Ben Nevis, variety and quality of food varied but included some great local produce, fresh seafood, crab & langoustines (Scotland has some of the best Seafood but most is exported!) Scottish beef and venison and of course the odd Scottish Breakfast here are a few photos of the better ones. Food at the Glenelg Inn, Kyle of Lochalsh was particularly good let down only by the tomatoes!
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- Scottish Breakfast 1 with lorne sausage
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- Scottish Breakfast 2
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- Fresh Scottish Langoustines in garlic butter
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- Fresh dressed Scottish Crab starter
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- Venison Salami
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- Beef and mushroom cobbler, roasted veg and mash
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- Tagliatelle with fresh Scottish Scallops in a fish reduction
Also tried a few local ales which is essential carbo loading the night before a big walk! Some of the beers I can remember include the following selection.
Latitude 3.6% abv.
Latitude Pale Ale is a straw-coloured session ale with a pronounced fruitiness and hoppiness. Brewed with best Maris Otter Pale Ale Malt and a little of our own Atlas Lager Malt, this beer exhibits a brilliant, crystal-clear pale straw colour
Fraoch – Heather Ale 4.1% abv
A light amber ale with floral peaty aroma, full malt character, a spicy herbal flavour and dry wine like finish.
Kelpie 4.4% abv
Rich chocolate ale with an aroma of sea breeze, a distinctive roast flavour and a crisp salty finish. Perfect with seafood and breads. (This was really not to my taste not sure seeweed is suited to brewing!)
Deuchars IPA 4.4% abv
An extremely tasty and refreshing, amber coloured session beer. Hops and fruit are very evident and are balanced by malt throughout. (an old favourite of mine)
Red Cuillin 4.2% abv
Smooth, malty and slightly nutty; lightly fuggles-hopped for aroma. Named after the famous hills of the Isle of Skye, Red Cuillin is a premium ale, which has won many awards. Like the hills, it is rounded and pleasing.
Caledonian 80/’ 4.1% abv
A predominantly malty, copper coloured beer, well balanced by hop and fruit; a complex Scottish heavy with the hop characteristics of best bitter.
Filed under: Food, Yorkshire Dales Food | Tags: bacon, benedict, breakfast, eggs, ham, hollandaise, muffin, poached eggs, sausage, spinach
Been on a bit of a road trip and have tried a few different breakfast’s just lately and they can be so good and so very very bad. Surely making a good breakfast is not rocket science! its easy to cook, just use quality fresh local produce wherever you are in the world and it should be good but how some places mess this up!! and some get in spot on!
River House Hotel in Malham does a good quality breakfast, well worth the visit. How many OK Hotels or B&B’s leave you with a lasting impression because the breakfast was rubbish! I think the last thing you remember about a stay somewhere is “how good was the breakfast?” and at River House it was great… quality sausages and bacon and a great poached egg…
Poached eggs are something of a favourite with me, “eggs benedict” being the best way to eat them! and where did I find a great eggs benedict recently? on the Hull to Zeebrugge ferry of all places!! mmm yummy. But the best eggs benedict in my experience have to be in Melbourne, Australia at any number of cafes and eateries, must be something of a speciality in Australia. Check out some of the reviews on this great breakfast blog from Melbourne.
On the good / bad breakfast front, I was hoping to sample some nice Yorkshire Bacon this morning from Town End Farm Shop which I can heartily recommend by the way, (review to follow shortly) but didn’t get time this morning! and ended up having a dodgey sausage buttie at the Rugby Club! I must try and get them to use Paganum or Wildman Special Recipe sausages, I wonder if ….!
Totally random but just spotted this on the BBC website ”The formula is: N = C + {fb (cm) . fb (tc)} + fb (Ts) + fc . ta” any ideas?? It’s the formula for the perfect Bacon Butty! see the full story on the BBC website here Scientists’ ‘perfect’ bacon butty
Anyway hope to add more regular posts going forward…
