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Getting ready for Christmas!
I`m off to Norfolk for a few days before the December gallop up to Christmas begins! Shall be fetching apple and pear juice from a traditional fruit farm near Hunstanton and also some of Mrs Temple`s cheeses from their farm. They make Binham Blue, Copys Cloud (a wonderful Brie) and Alpine, a hard slightly sweet cheese, reminiscent of a Swiss mountain cheese. Of course, there are no Alps in Norfolk, as a customer kindly pointed out! The name comes from their herd of Swiss Holstein cows. I will also have some fruit liqueurs from Hereford.
I will be at all my usual farmers markets in December, so do come and see me and stock up. If you are too full of turkey to attack the cheeseboard, there`s always Boxing Day! There will be an extra market at Buxton on the 22nd December, and I will be at Mansfield on 23rd and 24th December. Please contact me if you want any special orders or hampers made up.
What`s new on the cheese front....
Getting ready for a busy few weeks, with plenty of farmers markets, including back to Sutton Bonington next Wednesday. This is a fairly new market held in the grounds of the Sutton Bonington campus of Nottingham University, and I shall be standing next to the beer stall, I hope!
It`s going to be a very hot weekend, so shall be managing the cold storage and display of cheeses carefully. On the market, everything stands on ice packs, or in my mega efficient coolboxes, but I will be putting everything away early tomorrow at Mansfield to keep it cool. Cheeses improve with coming to room temperature, and some of the milder cheeses such as Lincoln Yellowbelly really improve in flavour when they have warmed up.
I`ve just discovered some excellent new cheese from a dairy in Yorkshire, Shepherds Purse. It`s called Ryedale, and is moist and sharp and fruity. I shall be delivering some next week to Lambs at the Market in Mansfield, so it should be on their cheeseboard in the next week or so. Did you know there are over 700 British cheeses being made now? So much cheese, so little time to try them!
News from Newark
Had a busy weekend at Bingham farmers market, which is becoming a really lively one. Everything is available from beer, fish, organic vegetables, bread, pies, local meat, indian snacks, a couple of very interesting cake stalls- come and visit! Every 3rd Saturday from 9 till 1.30 and you can get everything for the weekend! Plans are afoot to build Tesco store in Bingham, which nobody seems to want. These superstores are like sharks, circling for the kill.
Newark Food Festival on Sunday, with my fantastic assistant, Sarah. It was hot! Thankfully the local cider stall was close at hand, together with plenty of hungry wasps.
Posted @ 16:02:30 on 23 August 2011 back to top
Hello cheese lovers! This is my first blog entry ever! Follow me here to see where I am, and what's happening in the worrld of cheese. I will be doing features on new cheeses and cheese makers I've met- there are some characters out there, such as Mrs Smart in Gloucester who started making cheese when she was 60!
Mary
Really Good Cheese
Posted @ 12:43:58 on 15 August 2011 back to top
