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Ruth
How to have a party for 200 people in a farm shed
My notes!
Brisket 5 x briskets – slow cooked Thurs and sliced (Ruth) with horseradish and chutney on side. I’ve got tons of chutney.
Coronation Chicken 30lb whole chickens. Roasted Thurs (Ruth) and cut up and made into Coronation Chicken on Friday. (mayo, curry, grapes, celery)
Fresh Salmon 30lb fresh salmon filleted into sides, served on shredded lettuce with lime and coriander mayo and prawns to garnish. To be assembled on Saturday.
Samosas Ruth will get from Leicester (serve with raita)
Spanakopita -the Guardian/Hugh Fearnley Whittingstalls recipe online is very good. His recipe will make enough for 12 people so suggest recipe x 8.
Hummus and breads and butter (garnished with whole chickpeas and drizzled with olive oil and pickled lemons)
Cheese, (Baron Bigod, Dorset Blue Vinny, Mrs Kirkhams) crackers and grapes a wonderful display!
Chinese noodle salad – noodles, water chestnuts, bean shoots, red peppers, spring onions, carrot ribbons, tom juice, soy sauce, honey and ginger dressing.
Coleslaw – carrots, cabbage, mayo (Sat morning Ruth)
Tomato and mozzarella salad – garnished with basil and salt and pepper, balsamic and oil (Sat morning Ruth)
Green salad – lettuce, rocket, cucumber, green stuff
Potato salad – potatoes, mayo, chives
Roasted vegetable and cous cous - med veg, olives, herbs etc
Welcome drink - Prosecco or Elderflower Fizz
48 bottles Prosecco
EldeflowerFizz (Cordial/Sparkling Water/Lemons/Mint)
On the tables – Wine – Two whites, Rose and Red (45 bottles for the tables the rest to sell behind the bar
48 Sauvignon Blanc (white)
48 Esmerelda (white)
48 de Bortoli (red)
24 Rose
Bar –
Beer and cider
2 x 36 pints polypin Old Cannon best bitter
40 litres/70 pints canned lager
40/50 bottles Aspalls cyder
Mojitos & Elderflower Collins Cocktails and Spirits (Gin, Rum and Vodka)
6 litres rum
6 litres gin
6 litres vodka
6 x Gomme syrup
6 x Elderflower cordial
6 x Jiffy lemon juice
24 lemons
48 limes
5/6 bunches mint
Light brown sugar for mojitos
36litres each of soda, sparkling water, tonic, lemonade, diet coke, coke and orange juice
8kg ice cubes
6kg crushed ice
Buckshot Sauces
I'm loving the green chilli sauce that Buckshot sauces sent me. It's slightly astringent with lots of ginger and cumin and I am pouring it over everything! I can't eat a samosa without it. Maybe I am addicted. (We really liked the brown sauce too).
Castle on the Hill
We are loving the look of the new café at Framlingham Castle which has opened following a major revamp by English Heritage. The menu includes Suffolk Grumbly, a regional dish made with sausage meat and a mustard and cheese sauce, and a Tudor Tarte Owte of Lent, made with ingredients you’re not allowed to eat during Lent – cheese, cream and eggs; cooked in a light pastry case. Lots of other local produce too, including Maynards juices, milk and cream from the Marybelle Dairy in Halesworth and beer from St Peter’s Brewery.
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beautifully incorporated modern facilities in the castle
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family friendly cafe
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delicious home made cakes
http://australia.suffolkfoodie.co.uk/about-suffolkfoodie/who-we-are/itemlist/user/66-ruth.html?start=170#sigProIdfeb4aaefa1
East Suffolk food trails
Discover the Suffolk coast with the East Suffolk Food and Drink Trails interactive platform. Lots of places to stay and things to do, as well as eat. Take a look.
It's ice cream weather!
Actually it doesn't need to be ice cream weather to enjoy a visit to Hadley's Parlour in Lavenham. We went on rather a chilly day but enjoyed tasting a selection of the handmade icecreams that really do offer satisfying, smooth and creamy flavours using locally sourced Fen Farm milk and cream, Elmsett Game Farm eggs, Maldon sea salt and Pump Street chocolate, to name a few. You can get very good coffee and mini cakes as well, if you are greedy like me.
http://australia.suffolkfoodie.co.uk/about-suffolkfoodie/who-we-are/itemlist/user/66-ruth.html?start=170#sigProId0ed03c6669
The Stillery
Arcade Street Tavern
Is this the best pub in Ipswich? An astonishing range of craft beers from around the world, a beer sommelier, gorgeous gins, street food on a Friday and the friendliest staff.
http://australia.suffolkfoodie.co.uk/about-suffolkfoodie/who-we-are/itemlist/user/66-ruth.html?start=170#sigProIdbb6f1088b2
Leave it out
There's been a huge increase recently in the number of people who claim to be coeliac or have a dietary intolerance. One of my best friends is a diagnosed coeliac and she has my full understanding and empathy for the difficulties she often has to face when eating out. I'm always more than happy to cook something for her using potato, buckwheat, maize flour or other gluten free ingredient, and she never moans, complains, or gives restaurants a hard time when she goes out, despite being very ill if she does consume gluten in any recognisable amount. So when I recently heard at a local cafe, a customer asking if the soup, which was gluten free and had run out, had only been served to gluten free customers and another who was happy to eat bread pudding for dessert after asking for gluten free options throughout the starter and main courses I was very annoyed.
Rook Pie
May 13th. Today's the day, my dear old Dad would say to make a rook pie. How I miss him.
Alde Valley Spring Festival 22nd April to 21st May 2017
Don't miss this four week celebration of food, farming, landscape and the arts at White House Farm, Great Glemham, near the Suffolk coast. Intermingling arts with food, farming and heritage crafts, farm suppers, festival talks and a pop up shop and a tea room. Festival talks include 'Unearthed' this Friday 12th May by local food writer in residence Tessa Allingham. Tessa, who co-authored Unearthed, is going to use the book and the stories in it to explore some of the things that are important to her, and that she loves writing about - food provenance, and the people who grow, rear, fish, farm, bake, cook and sell the wonderful food we have in Suffolk, as well as some of the wider issues about traceability and honesty in food that this subject invokes. The talk includes a delicious soup, bread and cheese supper afterwards.