Filed under: Food, Yorkshire Dales Food, cheese | Tags: cheese, skipton, Angel, hetton, bull, broughton, Yellison, Farm, goats, carleton, crowdie
Stephen Akrigg and Harry Metcalfe of Yellison Farm, Carleton, Skipton produce excellent Cheese, have just been on a farm visit and watched Harry preparing a fresh batch. They were also testing some new shapes for the cheese in homemade plasticine! I tried the semi hard hand rolled log, that was the cheese not the plasticine and it is without doubt quite delicious. The soft semi hard cheese is hand rolled in logs and rounds for savouries, hoping to try a few recipes soon, maybe starting with a simple red onion & goat cheese tart?
They also produce “Crowdie” a soft spreadable cheese ideal for desserts and dips that comes in tubs and again it is a delicious soft cheese, very mild with a Philadelphia texture.
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- Yellison Goat Cheese & Chorizo
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- Crowdie
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- Draining the whey
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- Splitting the curds & whey
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- One of the Yellison Goats
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- testing different cheese shapes
You can buy Yellison Farm Goat Cheese from Verdes Deli in Skipton or try it locally at The Angel, Hetton or The Bull @ Broughton.
Yellison website or follow Yellison Goat Cheese on Twitter.
Filed under: Food | Tags: brie de meaux, cheese, cured, delivery, Food, french, italian, linguine, Meat, natoora, organic, parmigiano reggiano, pasta
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- Natoora Packaging
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- Natoora Delivery
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- Natoora Delivery
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- Natoora spread
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- Natoora Spread
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- Jack o Shea’s sausage & burgers
Natoora, French & Italian food delivered to your door, Natoora describe themselves thus “A unique range of superlative fresh food and groceries, including fruits and vegetables from the markets of Milan and Paris, delivered to your home”
They were kind enough to offer me a trial selection and this was delivered promptly in chilled packaging wrap and cool blocks, not as eco friendly as the Paganum sheeps wool packaging solution but still very effective.
I tried a selection of cured meats including Jambon de Bayonne, Mortadella Di Bologna Felsineo, Breasola Punta Anca IGP, Prosciutto Cotto and Prosciutto di Parma. Our favourites were the excellent Mortadella and superb Breasola I must have a go at making my own Breasola!
On the cheese front we tried the classic unpasteurised Brie de Meaux which was particularly smelly and full of natural grass flavours, just how I like it! and a huge piece of Parmigiano Reggiano (0.67kg) which has been superb, buying a bigger lump helps it keep and is a fantastic must have ingredient and keeps for weeks if not months.
Also included were some dry goods including, long spaghetti, our family favourite linguine, Vialone Nano Novello rice, celery crackers perfect with blue cheese and some delicious Fairtrade Alter Eco Organic milk chocolate with hazelnuts.
The meat available is more local coming from Jack O Shea’s, Tuscan Farmers Sausage & Grass Fed Black Angus Burgers were both proper meat and excellent quality, the Tuscan farmers sausage are particularly authentic coarse continental style sausage, you either love em or hate em!
All in all a great selection of continental grub supplied efficiently by mail order, well worth a try. www.natoora.co.uk
Filed under: Events, Yorkshire Dales Food | Tags: Yorkshire, Meat, Food, produce, cheese, show, local, bread, local food, wine, deliciously, tasting, kitchen, beer, demonstrations, cider, game, cookery
The Great Yorkshire Show is the North’s leading agricultural event and takes place from Tuesday 14 to Thursday 16 July 2009 on the 250-acre Great Yorkshire Showground on the edge of the spa town of Harrogate.
Great Yorkshire Show
Lots of foodie events at the show including top chefs Rosemary Shrager, Stephanie Moon & Bruce Elsworth in the Game Cookery theatre, bread making, smoothie making, a cheese show and cheese making demonstrations and of course the vast food hall containing many of the best local suppliers and producers including stands from the Yorkshire food group – Deliciously Yorkshire.
The Great Yorkshire Show will also see the launch of Yorkshire’s Own Kitchen, an essential guide to the very best of local produce and recipes from local food heroes and celebrity chefs, beautiful photography and food highlights for planning an appetising day out – all in one easy-to-use full colour book. Available at the show at a special introductory price of £6.50, Yorkshire’s Own Kitchen is available through farm shops, independent delis and local bookshops, as well as online at www.deliciouslyorkshire.co.uk It retails at £9.99.
Yorkshire's Own Kitchen - local produce directory
Filed under: Eating, Food, Recipes | Tags: bacon, cheese, egg, flan, Jusrol, onion, pastry, quiche, shortcrust
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- Ingredients for your Quiche
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- Blind Baked Pastry flan
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- Cheese & Bacon Quiche
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- The raw quiche filling
Really simple quiche!
For a fast but homemade quiche try this!
- blind bake your pastry in a quiche or flan dish, don’t forget to prick the base with a fork to prevent air bubbles and brush with a little egg to seal, I used Jusrol pre-rolled shortcrust pastry, a Delia Cheat Ingredient!
- fry half an onion and 2 rashers of Yorkshire bacon until golden brown
- mix 3 eggs, 4 or 5 fluid ounces of cream and a pinch of salt & pepper
- add the onion, bacon & grated cheese to the cooked pastry and then pour in the egg & cream mix
- bake for 20 mins or until set/cooked
Simple as that, replace the bacon, cheese and onion with goats cheese, broccoli, asparagus, smoked salmon or whatever you can get your hands on!
Filed under: Eating, Food, Yorkshire Dales Food | Tags: adventure, bread, cafe, cheese, chilli, malham, open adventure, pitta, racing, veggie, wilf's
Wilf’s famous Cafe visited Malham at the weekend for the Yorkshire Dales Open Adventure Series of adventure races and was sited on the Malham Show field providing competitors with vital sustanance, including pizza, veggie chilli and some great homebaking, flapjack, etc.
Wilf’s is based in Stavely in the Lake District and has a great reputation for fantastic grub, lot’s of vegetarian dishes and at the Cafe they also do some great meat dishes, bacon butties et al. Always worth a visit and keep an eye open for the green mobile unit at other events.
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- Wilf’s veggie Chilli
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- Wilf’s Mobile cafe
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- Wilf’s cafe homebaked cakes
Filed under: Food, Recipes | Tags: cauliflower, cheese, milk, onions, recipe, soup, stilton
I have a full Stilton Quarter that we have not even started over Xmas, so have been looking out some Stilton Cheese recipes to try and use some up!
This is Stilton and Cauliflower Soup adapted from Keith Floyds recipe from his book Floyd on Britain & Ireland and serves 8.
Ingredients:-
- 30g/1oz butter
- 2 large onions, chopped
- 1 very large or 2 regular cauliflowers
- 1 Litre/1.5 pints vegetable stock
- 1 bouquet garni
- 1 tbsp cornflour
- 1 pint milk
- 8 oz blue stilton
- parsley to garnish
Method:-
- melt butter in pan and fry onion until soft (do NOT brown)
- add cauliflower, stock, salt and pepper and bouquet garni and bring to boil for 10 to 15 mins
- remove bouquet garni and allow to cool slightly
- liquidise or blend until smooth
- mix cornflour with a little cold milk and stir into puree with remaining milk
- bring to boil whilst stirring
- remove from heat and start crumbling the Stilton into the soup and stirring until melted and combined, it’s ok to have some small cheesy lumps!
- serve with a sprig of parsley and enjoy…
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- Quarter Stilton Cheese
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- Stilton & Cauliflower Soup
Nephew dropped in at Lunchtime the other day so made a quick burger.
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- Paganum Burger Lunch
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- How a good burger really should look! From The Good Stuff
6oz beef burger, cooked in oven for 10 mins, then remove and add a slice of whatever cheese you have in, can be anything, Wensleydale, Cheddar, Stilton, Edam, even Lancashire! Toast some bread or a bun, whack some mayo, tomato, lettuce and a bit of tomato chutney or burger relish on top, season and there you have it…..
Mines the boring one on the left, the one on the right is the same burger in the hands of a better chef and photographer, Leigh over at The Good Stuff Blog.
Filed under: Eating, Food | Tags: cheese, cheeses, cornish, cornwall, country, devon, mail order cheese, online, shed, west, westcountry
My cheese curiosity got the better of me and I couldn’t resist trying out the Cheese Shed in Devon. Run by Ian Wellens and James Mann this online Westcountry artisan cheese shop is based in or at least run from a blue shed in Devon.
The website is great, quirky and works well, the order process was smooth, the cheese arrived quickly and well packaged. My selection included :-
- Menallack – Penryn, Cornwall, great tasty hard cheese better than a traditional mature cheddar
- Keltic Gold – Bude, Cornwall, very smelly strong flavoured medium soft cheese!
- St. Endellion Brie – Cornish Brie made with double cream, very creamy and delicious
- Rachel – Somerset goats’ milk cheese, very ripe, distinctive goat taste!
- Devon Blue – Totnes, unpasteurised cow’s milk as it should be, moist & crumbly as described, very nice for the blue cheese fan
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- The Cheese Shed mail order box
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- The Cheese Shed range of cheeses
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- inside the cheese box
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- Inside the box, beautifully wrapped
Filed under: Eating, Food, Yorkshire Dales Food | Tags: antipastto, bread, cheese, garlic, ham, olive, olives, parma, pasta, pizza, room, salami, settle
Olive Room Antipastto
New little Italian Restaurant just opened in Settle under the shambles in the market square. The Olive room is tiny, approx 18 covers in the old stone arches of the cellar under the shambles, a beautifully atmospheric room and a tiny kitchen to match, but great food and service. The first thing that we noticed when passing was the fantastic smell, (we hadn’t planned to even try it today) it turned out to be meat balls browning on the tiny hob. Everything is homemade from pizza dough to dressings and ice cream, menu includes a good selection of inexpensive pizzas and pasta dishes, panini, soups and salads.
As we wern’t really planning to eat we just tried a coffee and the antipastto plate to share, including cheese, garlic bread, olives, onion balsamic relish, parma ham, salami and melon, yummy….
Filed under: Food | Tags: black pudding, cheese, farmers market, free range pork, gloucester, sausagemeat, Sausages, scotch eggs, stroud, tomatoes
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- Stroud Farmers Market
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- Stroud Farmers market
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- artisan bakery bread
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- Cheese board
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- duck sausage virtually fat free
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- The tomato stall
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- Carrots
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- Gloucestershire Cheese
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- Jon at the tomato stall
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- Jons lunch salad
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- Scotch Egg Sausagemeat
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- The best Scotch Eggs
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- what flavour do you fancy?
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- Warmed Scotch Eggs, blackwatch with black pudding and an original
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- Simon Weaver Cotswold Cheese
It was very good to see a vibrant farmers market full of fantastic produce and plenty of customers, some stalls were nearly sold out by 11am, nearly all the strawberries and green beans were gone.
We bought red and yellow cherry tomatoes, green beans, Single and Double Gloucester cheese from Godsells, Church Farm, Stonehouse and organic Cotswold Brie from Simon Weaver of Kirkham Farm, Upper Slaughter, Sun dried tomatoes, scotch eggs, Gloucester old spot pork sausages (for the kids), apple juice, steawberries and a bottle of English wine.
The excellent scotch eggs were from The Handmade Scotch Egg Company which come in a fantastic array of flavours, we tried BlackWatch with rich black pudding and free range pork a Mac which is an original scotch egg (free range pork and seasoning), a Passion which is a bit different with free range pork, beetroot and red onion and lastly a Baz which is free range welsh white/landrace cross pork with fresh basil, sun dried tomatoes and black olives, they were mmm scrumptious…
