Crediton Food Festival

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Get out of the kitchen and into the square. You could bring your own picnic or you could just relax and indulge in an offering from one of a dozen stalls circling the Big Sunday Lunch tables, tempting us all to enjoy a local food experience.

Alison Stoyle will be cooking her farm potatoes with delicious fillings, Oliver’s and Stevie B’s will produce a range of picnic sweet and savoury pastries and, for those with a really sweet tooth, there is fudge, Richie’s Bistro puddings and that old-fashioned tricycle supplying the incomparable Rookebeare Farm ice-cream.

Not just a recipe for Lamb Sweetbreads, Wild Garlic Gnocchi, Morels & Asparagus but a whole learning experience. Download the pdf and indulge.

Sweetbreads

Want to see who’ll be there:

Alison Stoyle – Potatoes

Ann Pollard – Riverside Goats Cheese

Bob Wigginton – Devon crumbly slab fudge

Brambles – Ready made meals

Clannaborough Red Ruby Beef – Beef

Crediton Garden Club

David Burcher Farming – Duck & goose eggs

Glyn Comont – Pork products

Jamie At Home – Cooking equipment

Jane Edwards – Pies, chutneys, etc.

Jurassic Seafood – Seafood

Justice Olives – Palestinian produce

Linscombe – Organic vegetables

Neil Wilson – Plants

Norsworthy Cheese – Goat cheeses

Oliver’s – Bakery

Purely Pines – Pork products

Redhill Apple Juice – Apple juice

Richie’s Bistro – Puddings

Rob The Egg Man – Pasties

Rookebeare Farm – Ice cream

Ruth Beckley – Ready made meals

Sandford Orchards – Cider

Stanbury’s – Game meat

Stevie B’s – Bakery

Sustainable Crediton – Grow Your Own

Suzy Sweet Tooth – Fudge

Tracey Mill Trout Farm – Trout

Tried & Tasted – Olive oils, etc.

Women’s Farming Network – CD

Plus entertainment and face painting.

Here are the approximate timings for you to catch your favourite cookery demo:

As a Festival opener Crediton Mayor Frank Leitch will kick off with his demo about 10.30, followed an hour later by Steve Brannan from Il Casita with Creedy Carver duck breast with raspberry sauce, saute potatoes and wild garlic followed by a no-cook cheesecake.

Around 12.30 the fabulous Chris Archambault will be creative with the produce he has sourced from roving round the stalls (see his recipe for sweetbreads – maybe he’ll be cooking it, maybe not).

About 1.30 Gretchen Oldland will definitely be wowing us with her fabulous Woolsgrove meal (recipes to download are below), then your final chance to pick up professional tips is with Richie Brent at 2.30.

Here are the recipes which Gretchen Oldland of Woolsgrove Cookery School is demonstrating at 1.30 on Saturday:

• Roast Asparagus with Quicke’s goat cheese and lemon dressing
• Fillet of beef with salsa verde
• Marinated rosewater strawberries with Barbados cream

Yum, yum – download and enjoy!

The Woolsgrove Meal #33FBA6

Crediton Arts Centre is very grateful for the support of Mid Devon District Council and its Business Partners:

Wortham Jaques

Veitch Penny

Peck & Strong

Tuckers

Richie’s Bistro

How about a sample of life on a local farm as a taster the weekend before?

Richard and Jill Burston of Ashridge Farm, (on the Kennerleigh Road, EX17 4EN) invite you on a FARM WALK on SUNDAY 13 JUNE 2010, 3.00-5.00pm

Hear about growing cereals and fruit, keeping chickens, cattle and pigs; diversifying with B&B and a conference centre; responding to local food demand.When the walk is over refresh yourselves with a Devon cream tea (donations to Shelterbox).

Just turn up or call 01363 774292

Why not go to The Cheese Café  before 11 in the morning for a special Festival breakfast all washed down with freshly squeezed orange juice, coffee or tea. Choose a croissant or egg dish or bacon and baked beans.

If you don’t make it until midday then you’ll have to choose a special! Like in-house terrine with salad, chutney and home-made rolls for £4.50 or smoked salmon pate, salad and toast for £4.

It’s even irresistible at tea-time, when there’s cheese scones in a savoury cream tea or an Aunt Sally cream tea, both for £5.50.