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: Events, Food | Tags: autumn, british, festival, Food, fortnight, harvest, malham, yha, york
British Food Fortnight is timed to coincide with the traditional Harvest Festival, the end of the British Summer and the start of Autumn, The 8th British Food Fortnight runs from the 21st September to the 4th of October 2009.
British Food Fortnight
With events from Healthy eating in schools to full on food festivals Like York Food Festival and promotions in your local pub, restaurant, supermarket, deli or butcher, British Food Fortnight is spreading the word about some of our great British food.
Even our local Youth Hostel (YHA) at Malham is getting in on the act with a special British Food Fortnight menu :-
Menu
Starters
Spicy Butternut Squash Soup (V)
served with a bread roll
Field Mushrooms
with smoked bacon, sage & mature Cheddar
Mains
Mushroom Wellington (V)
with creamy chive sauce & roasted root vegetables
Autumn Lamb Shepherd’s Pie
served with roasted root vegetables
Sausage & Mash
venison, port & red wine sausage on potato with onion gravy
Desserts
Baked Plums
served with honey & Greek yogurt
Blackberry & Apple Filo Parcels
served with cream
Link to British Food Fortnight website, link to Malham YHA website
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: Events | Tags: alea, casa mia, chef, chefs, city cafe, festival, Food, harvey nichols, james, Leeds, loves, martin
Leeds Loves Food “a food lovers festival” runs from the 2nd until the 5th July 2009, events include, live cookery demos in Millennium Square with James Martin and chefs form top Leeds Eateries Harvey Nics, Casa Mia, City Cafe & Alea. Food tastings, chocolate trail, promotional offers and giveaways at various venues.
Leeds Loves Food Festival
Details of the Leeds Loves Food Twitter Food Review Competition
“Leeds Loves Food – and we know that you do too, so why not let the world know? We’re holding a competition for the best restaurant micro-reviews. To enter, all you have to do is write your review in less than 140 characters and text it to Twitter with “#LLF” at the beginning of your text.” More details on LeedsLovesFood.
Filed under: Events, Yorkshire Dales Food, beer | Tags: ale, appletreewick, batemans, beer, brakspear, brewery, bubblegum, craigmill, craven arms, dark horse brewery, festival, fullers, grassington, grozet, jane, peyton, tasting, Ventnor
Grassington Festival 2009 here in the Yorkshire Dales is now well under way with a varied choice of events from the arts, entertainment and even some food and drink events. Last nights event was “Beer Tasting with Jane Peyton” at the Craven Arms, Appletreewick out the back in the beautiful Cruck Barn. Jane is originally a local lass from Skipton but now living in London, Jane is an author, beer & wine tasting tutor, events producer and public speaker.
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- Jane Peyton Beer Tasting Tutor
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- Grassington Festival 2009
What did we learn?
How to taste beer of course and a little about beer ingredients and flavour, colour, aroma, taste, feel and head. We tasted and marked 6 beers and tried to guess if they originated from the North or South! the bees and results are shown below.
Jane was an excellent tutor and speaker and kept us amused throughout with gems of information and beer anecdotes, great fun and very informative.
The main ingredients of beer are water, hops, malted cereal and yeast.
Beer was the third alcoholic beverage to be invented, the simpler process of making Mead and Wine coming along first. The word Honeymoon is about beer! from the suggestion that to aid fertility you should drink Honey Beer for a month after your wedding.
The UK is the 5th biggest beer drinking nation by capita and whilst we import 99% of wine we produce 92% of our own beer!
Food and beer matching suggestions :-
Traditional Porter and Oyster or chocolate e.g. Fullers London Porter and chocolate, really brings out the flavour in good quality chocolate.
Smoked beer and bbq food, Chinese black bean sauce dishes and smoked food in general.
Fruity beer and cheese e.g. Brakspear Triple and Blue Wensleydale.
The six beers we tasted :-
- Hetton Pale Ale, Dark Horse Brewery, Hetton, Yorkshire Dales, ABV 4.4%
- Sand Rock from Ventnor in the Isle of Wight, a smoked ale, ABV 5.6%
- Combine Harvest, Batemans, Lincolnshire, a multigrained beer of malted oats, malted rye, and malted wheat, ABV 4.7%
- Grozet, Craigmill brewery, a fruity gooseberry ale with a hint of honey, Scotland, ABV 5.0%
- Triple, Brakspear, Oxfordshire, ABV 7.2% a triple fermented, triple hopped strong beer with a hint of Fruity Bubblegum, HubbaBubba maybe!
- London Porter, Fullers, Smooth, rich, and strong, ABV 5.4%
and the scores on the doors, not everyone appreciated the smoked beer therefore coming in at 6th place, some very close scoring put many of the beers on a par but the winner was the Brakspear Triple with that hint of bubblegum! looking forward to next years event already and I do have the Grassington Festival Champagne tasting still to look forward to and I won a prize – dinner for 2 at the Craven Arms so I will be back again soon!
Filed under: Events, Recipes, Yorkshire Dales Food | Tags: Lamb, mushroom, salad, settle, risotto, haddock, smoked, festival, take, chefs, 3, three, traddock, ravenous, falcon, manor, sea bream, pikelets, leeks, micro herbs, warm, walnut, pear
Take 3 Chefs made a return visit to Settle Victoria Hall on Wednesday the 13th of May, organised by Settle Festival a full house were treated to a variety of menus from 3 local chefs -
- Richard Wallbank from Ravenous, Market Square, Settle – Black ‘n’ Blue Pig & Mushroom risotto
- John Pratt from The Traddock, Austwick – Yorkshire Pikelets with creamy Smoked Haddock, leeks & soft poached egg and stuffed breast of Swillington Duck with a warm salad of pear, walnut and perry dressing garnished with capers, balsamic syrup, croutons and a whole poached pear
- Ben Atkinson from The Falcon Manor, Settle – Sea Bream with vine cherry tomatoes and Lamb with Summer Salad
All three chefs were brilliant performers in front of the crowd and produced some fantastic dishes.
On display in the interval were local suppliers Growing with Grace, Paganum Produce, Booths and NYCC reduce waste display.
I could not resist giving this one a go myself so have recreated Richard Wallbank’s Black ‘n’ Blue Pig dish see Black N Blue blog post. Link to all the recipes and more photos here LoveSettle
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- Swillington Stuffed Duck – John Pratt – Traddock
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- Black ‘n’ Blue Pig – Richard Wallbank – Ravenous
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- Yorkshire Pikelets with Creamy Smoked Haddock – John Pratt – Traddock
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- Lamb Summer Salad – Ben Atkinson – The Falcon Manor
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- Mushroom Risotto – Richard Wallbank – Ravenous, Settle
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- Sea Bream with vine cherry tomatoes – Ben Atkinson – The Falcon Manor
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
