Lets face it, who would have planned for a festival on 1 October to be on one of the hottest days of the years? I think this, combined with the festival moving back into the centre of Melton Mowbray, helped to make this a really busy show this year, and there seemed to be good [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Game'
Another good year at East Midlands Food Festival
October 3rd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Alcohol free drinks, British favourites, Cheese, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Foodie Travel, Herbs & Spices, Ingredients, Local food, Meat treats, Places to shop online, Savoury gifts
Tags:Battlefield Blue·East Midlands Food Festival·Game·Gourmet Spice Co·Hot Rocks Pizza·Mr Fitzpatricks
No grouse about the grouse
September 24th, 2011 · No Comments · British favourites, Foodie gifts, Meat treats, Places to shop online
It’s game time of the year, or what I always think of as being game time, as the recipes really send themselves to autumn days and nights. And the team at Blackface sent me a pair of grouse to celebrate the season, which was a different addition to our weekday dinner routine. I’ve always thought [...]
The Friday Five – Foraging & Feasting with Sarah Fay of Essex Gourmet
January 8th, 2010 · No Comments · British favourites, Cookbooks, Foodie blogs, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Friday Five, Meat treats
Ah, remember the balmy days of early December? How warm we all were? How soft the ground was? There was I thinking how lovely to run Sarah Fay’s list the first week in January, when we’d all be ready for a good long walk in the countryside. How wrong could I be? But in preparation [...]
Tags:Cookbooks·Essex·Foodie gifts·foraging·Game·home winemaking·Ingredients·Mark Hix·mushrooms·seasonal food·The Wild Food Year Book·wild food
Hide (if you’re a grouse)
August 13th, 2009 · No Comments · British favourites, Cookbooks, Foodie gifts, Healthy eating, Ingredients, Meat treats, Savoury gifts
Ah, the glorious twelfth. Or possibly the slightly damp around the edges twelfth, depending on where you were! But for the grouse, it’s always a day to be very good at camouflage and keeping very still. There are apparently health benefits to eating game, as it is generally low in fat and cholesterol, but has [...]
Tags:Blackface·Clarissa Dickson Wright·Foodie gifts·Game·Glorious Twelfth·Grouse·Ingredients
