Top ten places to buy Wild Garlic Pork Pies
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by Sarah Pettegree
4y ago
Update... there's more than ten now! Photo Alun Callender for Country Living Magazine It's been an unusually late start to the Wild Garlic season this year, but, now that it's got going, the plants are looking lush and gorgeous and it's going to be a bumper crop. If you forage for your own Wild Garlic please ask permission from the landowner and pick sustainably, so not too much from any area and never the bulbs. As seen in Country Living Magazine So here's the top te ..read more
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Kefir without tears
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by Sarah Pettegree
4y ago
Actually, there's no need for tears at all, it's a doddle making your own kefir, but why waste a good title? How to make your own kefir The first thing you need are some kefir grains, which are little clusters of culture (bacterial, not Proust-reading). If you can't find someone with spares to give you they're easily and cheaply bought as mail order on t'internet. If you buy them, the grains will come with instructions, which will be variations on the theme of "put the grains in milk and wait". There are only two rules Kefir grains don't like contact with metal Kefir grains don't like contact ..read more
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Pork Pies? It's child's play
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by Sarah Pettegree
4y ago
How to bake a pork pie It probably hasn't escaped your attention that, in our Pies By Post shop, we don't only sell pork pies that are ready baked, for years we've also sold frozen ones for you to bake at home (with full instructions). We always say that it's really easy and here's the proof. This is Madeleine, the daughter of one of our customers baking their pie last Christmas. Isn't she brilliant? Carefully does it We've decided that this is the new staff uniform ..read more
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Is a pork pie course right for me?
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by Sarah Pettegree
4y ago
Everyone naturally has a few concerns, whether you're buying a cookery course for yourself or as gift for someone else. So I thought I'd write a blog post to lead you through everything so that you can be quite sure. I even asked on social media what people's fears might be and they're all covered here. Honestly. There's nothing to be worried about - it's all very un-scary. The cookery school is run by ex hospital consultant and now pâtissier (which means he has a gorgeous cake shop) Dr Tim Kinnaird. Tim and I have been good friends for a long time and we're keen that people have fun whilst th ..read more
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The Wedding Letter
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by Sarah Pettegree
4y ago
The wedding pork pie I think I'll just wipe a tear from my eye and, with her kind permission to reproduce this, let Maureen tell the story... For more information on our wedding pork pies click here Hi Sarah, We've just arrived back from honeymoon & we have a long list of suppliers to thank for making our wedding day so amazing, but I really had to put you top of that list!  The wedding pie in situ at Manchester Town Hall The pork pie cake you made for us was abso ..read more
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Scandi Cambridge. An Airbnb adventure a month
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by Sarah Pettegree
4y ago
“I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.” — A. E. HousemanWe plan to have an AirB&B adventure each month. Not necessarily far away and just a night or two, but regularly, to riffle up our molecules a bit I am, like all right-minded people, in love, utterly, with Cambridge's Kettle's Yard, (the 20th century art gallery in a Cambridge house), it rivals only The Sainsbury Centre at UEA in my heart. My adoration for it is probably why I've often walked past, but never been to, the much larger Fitzwilliam museum. But dear, dear Kettle's Yard is closed until next year f ..read more
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The wooden shed by the river. An AirB&B adventure a month.
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by Sarah Pettegree
4y ago
“Everything on the river was new to them. Only the evening before they had come down the deep green lane that ended in the river itself, with its crowds of yachts and its big brown-sailed barges and steamers going up to Ipswich or down to the sea. Last night they had slept for the first time at Alma Cottage.” — Arthur RansomeIf you run your own business sometimes you get a bit over-focussed on the quotidian and if you live in a beautiful place, you sometimes forget to leave. So, we have decided to have an AirB&B adventure each month. Not necessarily far away, just a night or two ..read more
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North Norfolk Food and Drink Festival
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by Sarah Pettegree
4y ago
  The first weekend in September means one thing at HQ: lots and lots and lots of baking for the wonderful North Norfolk Food and Drink Festival at Holkham Hall. The walled gardens in full glory Now in it's 8th year, the festival is by far the biggest and best food and drink in Norfolk.  It takes place in the spacious and stunning setting of the enormous 6 acre walled gardens; (which in themselves are a worth exploring for a few hours), bringing together all of our fellow producers for a veritable co ..read more
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Twitter By Gently - take back control of your timeline
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by Sarah Pettegree
4y ago
What to do if your twitter timeline isn't chronological But first. Let's pause a while and consider choice. I'm sure you like to decide how to take your coffee (mine's good beans, ground moments before, milk and no sugar since you ask, thank you). But it's your coffee and your decision. Well, I'm not keen (at all) on algorithm robots deciding for me what I see and when I see it, and I don't think you are either. At its best social media is a stream of what people are saying, experiencing and thinking right now. Current, unfiltered and pacy. If I follow someone I want to see what they are sayin ..read more
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The tiniest train
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by Sarah Pettegree
4y ago
The Wells To Walsingham Light Railway Now, I'm not much of a one for steam trains. Somehow the gene that has directed the rest of my family to variously obsess, head to Greece on (full size) ex-UK, engine-buying expeditions, run station sweet shops etc has firmly passed me by. But I've found my exception. As my half-anthracite brother was staying with me, and because I see a lot of the happy team at the Wells to Walsingham Light Railway on our regular visits to keep their little cafe (there will be a lot of diminutive adjectives coming up) stocked with our sausage rolls, I suggested a trip fro ..read more
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