Please will you look at my Yorkshire Food blog?

[Kathyis6incheshigh]

and leave comments if possible, so I feel all popular?

Thank you

Yorkshire Food

Oooh yes that sounds fab!

nice blog kathy, makes me a bit homesick. we went to the star inn at harome last time we were home, it was amazing.

York brewery DEFFO worth trying. Not sure you can get in their bar without a member though - but there are plenty of pubs in York that sell the beer.

Cropton - yes, some are fantastically fab, others are average and some I don't like. Their 2pints is always goodbut they do a 9%er which is head-bangingly nice for a slurp then too much. What kind of beer does he generally like? (I suppose he could always come with us on our mammoth beer drinking session )

I live about 8/10 miles from Wold Top.

Hoxtonchick - thank you
The Star at Harome is probably top of my list of places I want to go but it will take a bit of organisation of babysitters etc! Glad it was good. In the meantime we content ourselves with getting chicken from Loose Birds of Harome sometimes.

Squonk - thanks for tips re beer. We will have to look out for the York Brewery stuff - do they do any bottled ones? We don't get to pubs very often

9% would probably be too much for either of us! We do like those light summery ones (like the Wold Gold). Sounds like we will need your advice about Cropton then.... don't want to get it wrong....

Very interesting. I am in Yorkshire too, although not the same part as you - nearer Ellbell I think.... Will add to favourites.

Thanks Bozza & Justabout

I have a brother in Leeds and his dw sometimes buys yummy stuff from Leeds market when we come to visit - she did a fantastic spread of antipasti the other week.... Do you have any other West Yorkshire recommendations I can add?

Blog is a bit biased to N and E atm - I will have to do something about this. The only thing I ever eat in South Yorkshire is a sandwich at Sheffield station when changing trains, but my dad grew up there so I will have to get him to reminisce.

Kathy, can recommend a deli where I live called Lewis and Coopers.
They have an online shop for hampers but the shop itself is amazing.
If your ever in Northallerton its at the top of the high street near the town hall and its a must for you to visit.

Kathy - the absolute best beer in the world is made in Yorkshire: the Landlord is my favourite, but the others are all good

Black sheep is very popular, but I find it a bit too heavy

To answer your question about York beers... yes, you can buy them in bottles. There is a place on the Hull road out of York that sells them, but I can't for the life of me remember what it is called.

Am always happy to help where beer is concerned

D'you have a copy of the Yorkshire Kitchen coookbook? I think it was published by YTV - a godsend, it has The Definitive Parkin Recipe in it and lots of other good stuff

My sister found me a copy for Christmas and I was sooo pleased

Is it this one Effie? It looks good.

When I googled I got a lot of hits on a YTV series called Farmhouse Kitchen - could it be that instead?

I only have this little one.

Squonk - we drive along Hull road regularly so should be easy to find
The Black Sheep man is a 'superhero' in the Rick Stein food heroes book..... apparently they do brewery tours at Masham so one day we will do that.

Thank you for brilliant tip about Timothy Taylor. Will try it asap and blog about it. Oh this food blogging thing is so much fun!

A couple of W. Yorkshire recommendations:

Blacker Hall Farm Shop

And one for the beer-lovers

Wonderful pub/restaurant with a deli attached

Will try to think of a few more!

Farmhouse Kitchen is the one

www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Farmhouse-Kitchen-Cookbook/dp/0004129350

Hi Kathyis6incheshigh, its really good. I'll keep watching cos I love Yorkshire and I love food!

Unfortunatley the nearest village to me Thornton is rubbish in the food stakes, there is no butchers or bakers or even candlestickmakers. No seriously it's so sad as I would gladly shop locally rather than give my money to Tesco's

On Yorkshire food, I am not impressed with the Rhubarb Triangle, come February I was all excited mmm Rhubarb crumble, rhubarb jam, rhubarb fool but no rhubarb to be found in Bradford, they must ship out all over the country, I finally tracked some down in York market mid Feb but it was a bit floppy not at all firm, noticed it is in shops now but assume this won't be the forced stuff.

Keep up the good work.

BTW, the review says the recipes have been updated and are healthier, but they do contain inordinate amounts of lard

I can post my Definitive Parkin Recipe if you like...

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Blog looks great Kathy! Have you contributed any of your recipes here? I am looking for good seasonal/springtime ones if you have any.

Few more West Yorkshire goodies

The Ring o Bells Fantastic pies.

Found these at Bingley food festival a couple of weeks ago, they are delish and the ladies are lovely Pudsey Pickles

yeah Kathy youv'e got to have Yorkshire pudding and Black pudding.

PABLOP, the rhubarb triangle is centred on Wakefield. You have just missed the Festival of Food, Drink and Rhubarb (not sure why rhubarb gets a category of its own there!). I didn't go... it was freezing/pouring (probably both!).

have you got lardy cake? (mmmmm)

now surely black pudding is lancastrian?

oh, yes, Ellbell, Ossett beers are nice as well.

After much thought (the sacrifices I make for you, Kathy ), you may want to add:

Theakstons - the old peculier in particular

Brown Cow beers are all made with organic ingredients - and all brewed by a woman! (although she may have staff now, she didn't back when I knew her and bought them regularly)

Daleside beers are nice the old legover bottled beer is nice.

Hambleton ales - particularly the Stud

Rudgate are really into the Viking theme

Can I be the resident beer expert? Can I, Can I?

All the beer I've specified is light and summery (IPA-ish) because that's what I like, and I suspect your dh will like them too. But all the breweries I have linked to are Yorkshire, independent and very, very good.

If you are interested, anything recommended by CAMRA York is pretty much guaranteed to be good.

(am almost tasting these fab beers - hope you don't mind me waffling )

Thank you everyone for nice comments

Yorkshirepudding - I am saving you up till I can do something interesting - no point in me just posting yet another recipe when they are all over the web already.
Actually I do have a plan, which is to eat one with jam on and blog about that

"Can I be the resident beer expert? Can I, Can I?"

Yes please!!! I think you have already shown yourself amply qualified for the role
If I mention you do you want to be called Squonk or something else?
Am I right in thinking you used to run a pub or are you just an avid consumer?

Lard.... lard is good. Also dead cheap, which is important to Yorkshire people, as you know. Do you know this classic t-shirt?

Black pudding - I'm not sure who invented it, they just make a lot of it round here. How about this from a Yorkshire butcher's website though - 'Arthur Haigh?s supply a complete range of traditional Yorkshire Fayre ? black puddings (famously sought after by Lancashire butchers), '
Clearly this is a subject where Yorkshiremen take Lancastrians' opinions very seriously

Monkeybird you may be right, I think blackpudding does originate from yourside of the pennines. I have a fabbo recipe for lamb & blackpudding cassorole.