Christmas popping up everywhere

Do you have an event or a Full Turkey Dinner with All the Trimmings for £7 ? Let me know and I’ll put it up here.

Rabbit Hunting – part one

Well, not so much hunting as waiting for them to come for the carrots.

Jerusalem Fartichokes

Have you noticed?

Unlike asparagus and strawberries now these are truly seasonal and grow like weeds. I dug these up before the ground got too hard and made a delicious lunch with a grating of Lincolnshire Poacher cheddar on top. Mmmm…

and Mulberry crumble for dessert…

…but made this at home with mulberries from the freezer because the puddings are never this good.

Suffolk Coq au Vin

What is real Suffolk food? Have just had a conversation with a tv company who are searching for it and mentioned something I had never heard of before. This was perfect on a cold foggy Suffolk evening.

Bonfire Night

with mulled wine, soup, sausage rolls, brownies and various  other lovely things.

Walnut Tree Farm lunchclub

It was only at the end of our lunch that I realised I was actually in Roger Deakin’s farmhouse, looking at the moat he swam in.  I have just been reading Notes from Walnut Tree Farm – Jasmin tells me she gets lots of visitors ‘just wanting to have a look’ at where he lived and wrote about. Lunch was good – everything home-made with lots of quince chutney made even better with the really good wine we had brought with us. I had some interesting conversations with John but couldn’t work out if we were the only ones who didn’t know everyone else? That’s the problem with Suffolk isn’t it – lunch clubs and pop-up restaurants might be just too London for here – but Jasmin will find out and let us all know. 

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I love George Debman butchers

Because he said the piece I wrote about him in last year’s Christmas edition of Suffolk magazine was ‘sensational’. And he says that if I go to his butchers he will give me a bit of free bacon.

Cakes in the window

What we love to see… if only we had more time!

    

Dhal for lunch

So easy, so delicious, so nutritious, so warming and so cheap. A sweet potato and lentil dhal with naan bread – didn’t make the bread but I did use coriander seeds out of the garden.