Aldeburgh Food and Drink festival

Didn’t go – did you?

Posh Nosh from Goodwood – see Abroad

Tracey comes to Suffolk

Tracey Macleod features fellow food blogger (listed on here first, Tracey) and new pub owner – The British Larder – in last weekend’s Independent. Also listed are Trinity at Crown and Castle in Orford, Maison Bleue in Bury and The New Roundhouse at Thorington – wherever that is?

My bank holiday breakfast…

…was made wearing my new apron.

Lavenham Swan

I suppose being Suffolk born and bred you tend not to go to these touristy villages, but I had one of my favourites here recently at The Swan - calves liver.  

It beat other liver (and bacon) dishes I’ve had recently hands down, and it was nice to have a walk around afterwards – the houses really are fascinatingly wonky.

Wyken Sunday Lunch

This is an expensive and rather pretentious farm shop, but I can’t fault the food in their cafe. Lunch goes on until 4.00pm, perfect for those of us who only decide we want to go for a walk at 1pm. We look at the llamas for a few minutes to justify eating, then a table becomes available and I can only put it on the blog if I have tasted the food.  We had Stowlangtoft lamb brochette (on a stick) with a lovely aubergine side, yoghurt sauce and rocket salad. A salmon fish cake with (not very sweet but very hot) sweet chili sauce, maybe they bought the wrong one… a side order of very hot and crisp french fries and a selection of three British cheeses – Keens Cheddar, Oxford Blue and Gold Medal something, that I made them swear to remember the name but they have already forgotten. All three were as delicious a cheese as you are ever going to find anywhere and served at the perfect temperature. Then puddings – white chocolate bread and butter pudding which sounds revolting but was actually much nicer than it sounds, rhubarb mousse because I haven’t had any rhubarb yet, fab pink and very sweet, but on a suspect too-white (shop?) meringue basket, and carrot cake which I don’t like in any shape or form but still managed to taste.

Oh the joy of eating late when you want to ! And it was lovely food; no obese oversize portions and a menu that you are never going to see in your average pub Sunday lunch.  It was £15.00 each including soft drinks. Not bad for everything sourced within five miles of the kitchen!