Crediton Food Festival

Another huge thank you, this time to Quickes Traditional for sponsoring this year’s primary school competition.
All thirteen local primary schools have been invited to enter recipes/s for a healthy lunch that uses local produce.
Three winning schools will receive a book token, one will also get a visit to Quickes and have their recipe/s demonstrated at the Food Festival.
We hope to publish all the entries in a booklet after the Festival.
Mary Quicke and Ruth Beckley (of Ruth’s Real Food) will be our judges.
For full details download here.

As a result of the generous sponsorship of Ashgrove Kitchens the 2012 Crediton Food Festival is now well on the way to offering another wonderful weekend of food, drink and music on 16 and 17 June.

Planning is now underway for a weekend Crediton Food Festival on 16 and 17 June 2012.
Please share your thoughts, volunteer your time, or flag up your interest – we’d love to hear from you.
A comment to this post will get to us.

The 2011 Big Sunday Lunch was enjoyed by close on 300 people under a cloudy (but dry) sky, surrounded by yummy stalls and uplifted by terrific music.

Thanks to the food providers and to the sponsors (Ashgrove Kitchens, Three Little Pigs, Claremont Marquees, Milklink and the Crediton Arts Centre).

Thanks to all of you who came, sat, ate and chatted – young and old, resident and visitor, repeat ‘offender’ or first time sampler.

Here are some photos (thanks to photographer Paul Cartwright):

From noon until 3pm Crediton Town Square will be alive with the sound of munching and music!

Get together a group of friends or family and grab a (FREE) table for the best picnic of the year. Even if you bring your own we guarantee you’ll be tempted by something from one of the stalls.

All the stalls this year are geared to providing you with delicious things to eat or drink then and there: local ham and salami, jacket potatoes, hot meals, salads, cheese, cider, beer, lemonade, Eton Mess and other puddings, ice cream, fudge and chocolate.

Sleepwalkers and friends will playing their inimitable music; Creation Station is offering a craft activity for children and/or they could have their face painted (small charge applies for children’s activities).

Huge thanks to Ashgrove Kitchens who are supporting the Crediton Food Festival for the third year; and to Milklink who are sponsors of the month long Summer in the Square – for which the Big Sunday Lunch is the launch event.

Stallholders to date:

Three Little Pigs (bar and cooked food); Traditional Jacket Potatoes; Axons Fruit Wine; Brambles (cakes and cream teas); Cairney’s Eton Mess and puddings; CISCO’s taste of Poland; Devon Crumbly Slab Fudge; Ice Cream Trike (Rookbeare ices); Milklink cheeses; Ruth’s Real Food (hot food and desserts); Salmonhutch Charcuterie (home produced hams and salamis); Sandford Orchards (cider and soft drinks).

The Big Sunday Lunch on Sunday 5th June 2011 is the launch event for Crediton’s Summer in the Square (5-25 June 2011).

Between 12 noon and 3.00pm there’ll be yummy local food stalls so  you can build up the perfect picnic (or add to your own)! There’ll be tables and chairs in the centre of the Square at which to eat  and entertainment so that you and your family and friends can relax and enjoy the ambience. For the children there’ll be face painting and a craft activity.

If you would like to volunteer your time and skills to help organise, participate, set up or clear away then let us know. To send us a message and your contact details then click on the title of this post and fill in the comment box.

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.