Finally – British Food Fortnight The Round Up

Oct 15th, 2007 by Helen

Many apologies for the delay – a change of jobs, broken broadband and umpteen other things have delayed me in getting this published.

A huge thank you to everyone that took part – I hope that despite the huge delay you will talke part again next year.

Annemarie at Ambrosia and Nectar cooked roasted venison with a cherry and red wine gravy, with venison from the local farmers’ market in Walthamstow. I can see that I am going to have to visit this new corner of London and investigate.

Mansi at Fun and Food, made a fantastic Apple and Pecan Cobbler with a twist with the addition of that most English of flowers – Lavender!

The wonderful Abby (the only Foodblogger I have met) from Eat the Right Stuff has made a Plum Bakewell Tart this looks delicious and is a far cry from supermarket bought, plastic wrapped cakes that pretend to be Bakewell Tarts. There really is a town in England called Bakewell, I can see that I am going to have to cook way around England … Kendal Mintcake, Eccles Cake, Pontefract Cakes … I am sure that there are many many more.

Maryann; a New Yorker, who writes Finding La Dolce Vita, a blog that looks fabulous, has made a perfect Autumn/Winter dish of Apple Crumble and Custard. I love English Winter puddings and have yet to make my first crumble of the season.

Margot; a fellow London blogger, at Coffee & Vanilla, has made a lovely warming Leek and Potato Soup – it looks lovely! Perfect now it has got far colder.

Katie from Other People’s Food who lives in Herndon, VA, USA sent me a recipe for Cornish Pasties, not only has she written up an excellent recipe, but has also included a history and background to the pasty for those unfamilar with the pasty. These pasties take me back to my childhood holidays in Cornwall, where we sould sit on the beach and eat our pasties for lunch. The addition of sand was not always a good thing from what I can remember.