Musings on food and drink from the travelling foodies.
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 31st, 2008
The hog roasting rig that has been manufactured to our specific requirements is a beauty to behold. Using some of the finest engineering skills available in Nottingham, the kit has been specially constructed in very little time - under two weeks - and will be fitted together on site tonight at Pat and Tony’s.
Gurdev’s pulled [...]
Pig slaughtered, pluck set aside for chef’s perk on Sunday.
Pole and pins delivered to Jonathan’s.
Plates etc sorted by John.
Lights, and practical stuff organised by Dawn and Tess today (carving table too)
80% of roasting rig in the back of Gurdev’s car.
Going around tonight to review high quality craftsmanship.
Apple sauce done (by Tess)
Julie on the lookout for [...]
I feel quite inspired to brew some of my own beer.
After the Ap’wick Beer Festival and seeing how easy the micro brewing boys make it look and then seeing the Neil Morrissey programme about him and his pal buying a pub in North Yorkshire it has got me thinking…
Let’s get the hog roast out of [...]
Just 4 days to go to the very first Globe Troffers hog roast. Following Hugh’s instructions faithfully we hope to deliver a beautifully roasted 40 kilo porker!
With almost military precision, the event is coming together. Gurdev is on the case with the ‘apparatus’, the pig is ordered and will be slaughtered on Thursday to our [...]
Posted in Leeds on Oct 26th, 2008
You can tell I’ve been off all of this week, I don’t think we’ve had as many lunches out! Julie hadn’t been to Anthony’s at Flannels and it’s a few years since I’ve been with a client, so we fancied easing the load of our weary shopper’s feet with a cheeky lunch on the top [...]
Inspired by John Wright’s River Cottage Mushroom handbook, we set out this afternoon to see if we could lay our hands on any wild mushrooms in the woods on Post Hill. A bright but chilly afternoon saw us follow the path we’d taken a couple of weekends ago and then off the beaten track we ventured into [...]
Posted in Leeds, guilty pleasures on Oct 22nd, 2008
It’s been years since we’ve had fish and chips from Harry Ramsdens, so when we were passing on Tuesday we turned around on the spur of the moment and it was table for two please.
Turned out it was two for one midweek (we didn’t realise) so it was two large haddock and chips including mushy [...]
Posted in Outdoors on Oct 21st, 2008
Big thanks to Dawn for sorting out the unaugural Troffers camping weekend at Appletreewick in the Yorkshire Dales.
After seeing the beer festival advertised in the summer at the Craven Arms, we optimistically planned an weekend camping in October. Much fun was had in spite of the weather and although we only got there on the Saturday morning, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 14th, 2008
A cracking walk around the valley incorporating Post Hill (named after the Evening Post, which I never knew!!) culminated in a few cheeky beers at the Beulah and informal lunch at ours. Not all of the Troffers were in attendance as J&L were on their way back from Norfolk and Tess joined us for dessert [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 9th, 2008
there’s often quite a lot of sniffy comments about the food in spain - not as good as Italy, not a patch on France etc etc. Well, a weekend in Madrid will put paid to that argument. The tapas there is monumental and if you stick around the Santa Anna area, you really can’t go [...]