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Thursday, 13 December 2012 11:36

The Mince Pie Project

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The Mince Pie Project is a 72 hour mince pie marathon, raising funds for Galvin’s Chance and Crisis.  You have just a day left to bid and could bag yourself a fantastic box of mince pies made by a top UK chef.

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Wednesday, 05 December 2012 20:39

Wine is a wonderful thing

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On Friday last week I so enjoyed the Thos Peatlings Christmas Wine tasting.  Over 70 wines to taste, a lighter purse and some cracking wines wending their way to the suffolkfoodie HQ for Christmas.

Two days later I was invited to an informal tasting and dinner at Pea Porridge.  Ian Steel from For the Love of Wine ( he was also at Peatlings, hidden in his favourite corner of the cellar) brought a vast selection of Italian wines to taste. Pictured is Rosso Passo 2010, Lenotti, which he also showed at Peatlings. We slurped, tasted and enjoyed a fabulous dinner.  Neil Courtier from Grapesense also joined the party.  We talked wine and food, ate too much and shared each others knowledge.  If you would like to learn more about wine then take a look at Neils website. He has some brilliant courses.

 

Monday, 03 December 2012 15:13

Look inside the box

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Last night this was just one of the highlights of a delicious supper enjoyed with our foodie friends Justin and Jurga from Pea Porridge Restaurant. Mont d'Or AOC is a cheese from the Franche-Comté region made from cows milk produced from 15th August to 31st March. There are strict rules for the production of this AOC cheese. The raw milk can only be from the cows of the Montbéliard and Simmentaler breeds. To shape the Vacherin, it is rounded using a ring of Spruce bark. It is ripened on a Spruce wood board, taking at least three weeks, and is rotated several times before it is placed in its characteristic wooden box. We ate it directly from the box with a spoon. It is also delicious melted in the box in the oven.  Get some now for your Christmas cheeseboard.

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Saturday, 01 December 2012 15:19

Marmalade

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I have run out of my Seville orange marmalade so have made myself a small batch of easy four fruit marmalade until the new seasons Sevilles arrive.

I used clementines, limes, grapefruit and lemons for my Christmas special! Just subsitute what ever citrus fruit you fancy and use this recipe

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Monday, 26 November 2012 17:03

I eat a lot of bacon

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I eat a lot of bacon in my job as an Hotel Inspector. But all those breakfasts eaten in my line of duty have not put me off  a good rasher of bacon when I get home 

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Dry Cured Back Bacon finished in Black Treacle and Beer.

Hill Top Smokehouse had a tasty looking stall at the Bury St Edmunds Christmas Fair at the weekend. There is an online shop, so order yourself some award winning goodies for Christmas.  Or if you are passing by either of the family run butchers shop's R J Smiths of Needham Market or Byfords Traditional Fresh Foods of Rayleigh, Essex pop in and buy some.

Monday, 19 November 2012 21:23

Fancy a BushTucker Trial?

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Fancy taking part in a Bush Tucker Challenge?  You can buy your insects here. Help, I'm a Celebrity - get me out of here!

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Saturday, 17 November 2012 09:53

Breakfast at Browns

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Breakfast was so bad at a recent overnight stop that Inspector X had to satisfy herself with a full English Breakfast on the route back home.  Well, this one goes straight to the top ten.  Browns Kitchen on the Mundford Roundabout serves breakfast from 9am to 11.30am.  They don't seem to have a website but you will find them on Twitter @BrownsKitchen.

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Inspector X has been busy judging the entries for the Customer Service Award for the 2012 EADT Suffolk Food and Drink Awards. Tomorrow the winners will be announced at an Awards Ceremony to be held at Wherstead Park. Good luck to everyone who has been shortlisted - there are some real food and drink superstars out there.

Tuesday, 06 November 2012 12:24

Don't decorate a cake...decorate a wall!

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Canadian Shelley Miller has moved on from icing cakes to decorating the walls of her home town.

Tuesday, 06 November 2012 11:55

What to eat during an election...

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Jim Messina was Obama's campaign manager in 2008 and says in a recent article in the Independent..."I miss how bad a campaign office smells at midnight." He once ate twenty-seven consecutive meals at McDonald's.

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