Charcuterie and cheese board 🧀 🍖

I love a good cheese board and I love cold meats, put them together with accompaniments of fruit, chutney and crusty bread, I’m in heaven!

I recently popped I to a newish gin bar in Durham and the only food on the menu was a cheese board or a charcuterie board, so I ordered both, to share with Mr H of course! It was amazing so I decided to try and recreate it at home. I used home made chilli jam (which I’m yet to blog) and Cranberry and red onion relish to enhance it.

It was delicious 😋

Chicken Cobbler

After buying Marcus Waring’s newest book I couldn’t wait to try the chicken cobbler. It looked so warming and hearty, with autumn certainly in the air, it’s perfect timing!

You can find the recipe Here

Sloe Gin 🍷

It’s that time of year again where the blackthorne bushes are bursting with sloes.

Berries pricked and gin purchased means starting the process of making Slow Gin.

It’s so easy, fill a bottle a third of the way up with sloes, cover the sloes with caster sugar then top up with gin. Keep in a cool dark place and shake every day for a week then leave it til just before Christmas. Strain through muslin then decant into a sterilised bottle. Perfect as a Christmas gift 🎄🎁