‘Best of British’ recipes for the New Forest Show

‘Best of British’ recipes for the New Forest Show

I love the cookery theatre at the New Forest Show – there’s such a good atmosphere amongst the stallholders and the back stage team are just utterly lovely. I’m only able to do the Wednesday this year, but I’m very excited that my demonstration is 

Cocktails & Canapes demonstration at Festival Place Food Festival

Cocktails & Canapes demonstration at Festival Place Food Festival

I’m getting ready for 3 days of cookery demonstrations at the ‘Festival Place 3 Star Food Festival‘ which starts this Friday. Sadly, I’m not one of the 3 stars in the title – that accolade goes to James Martin, Rachel Allen and the brilliant Olly 

Sweetbreads and samphire

Sweetbreads and samphire

I went into Alresford yesterday to meet a friend for coffee at Caracoli. On the way I popped into CE Evans the butcher and couldn’t resist the packet of sweetbreads they had behind the counter. It’s one of those ingredients that often tempts me on 

Cookery demonstrations at the Alton Show

Cookery demonstrations at the Alton Show

I’m getting all my ingredients and equipment together for the Alton Show tomorrow, running through my recipes and trying to calm the butterflies in my stomach! I’ve included all the recipes from my 3 sets below. Now, back to the packing!

Foraging for chanterelles

Foraging for chanterelles

After our fantastic wild strawberry haul on Monday, we couldn’t resist a second trip. While the Dordogne hasn’t seen quite the insane amount of rainfall that we’ve suffered recently, it has been a wetter than usual spring and now that flaming June is in full 

Wild strawberries

Wild strawberries

It’s day 3 of our trip to the Dordogne to visit my parents and I still can’t get over the fact that it’s not constantly raining over here. We went for a long walk down the track behind the house earlier and found that the