Episodes

  • COMBER REVISITED!

    COMBER REVISITED!
    Nov 18 2024

    We're back! And we're hungry. Good job we're at a Food Festival!

    We take another trip to one of the most beautiful countries and we eat. A lot.

    The Comber Earlies Food Festival in Comber, Northern Ireland once again plays host to the honourable PGI Potato grown around Strangford Loch. Best steamed and served with quantities of butter and a sprinkling of parsley and salt.


    I was really happy to return for another year to host the Meet the Producer Stage and do a spot of cooking too.


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    51 mins
  • MORE POTATOES.....PART 2 OF OUR GLORIOUS TRIP TO NORTHERN IRELAND

    MORE POTATOES.....PART 2 OF OUR GLORIOUS TRIP TO NORTHERN IRELAND
    Sep 22 2023
    We are on the last count down to Thame Food Festival which is at the end of September. A big event with huge infrastructure and complex logistics - and an often challenging final week or two as things change, move around and people book late!


    Event's are moveable feasts - all your plans t the beginning of the year are often topsy turvy by the festival itself. It keeps us on our toes...ad can often lead to a sleepless night or two.
    As we plunge towards D Day - I am reminded of the food festival we worked at in June where we didn't have any of the stresses from putting on the event - we just enjoyed it! The atmosphere, the people, the food, the drink and the sunshine.
    Here is part two of our trip to Northern Ireland to take part in the Comber Earlies Potato Festival.
    First up I had a lovely chat with my matey Paula McIntyre....



    www.thamefoodfestival.co.uk



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    56 mins
  • Potatoes, Potatoes and Potatoes! Northern Ireland, Comber and a glorious food festival...and Potatoes!

    Potatoes, Potatoes and Potatoes! Northern Ireland, Comber and a glorious food festival...and Potatoes!
    Aug 16 2023
    In June, Jon and I flew over to Northern Ireland. I had been asked to host the “Meet the Producers’ Stage at the Comber Earlies Potato Festival in Comber which sits on Strangford Loch.
    It is a beautiful town, in a stunning part of the country and we were treated to a joyful festival of food and lovely people.
    My fab friend Paula McIntyre (more from her later) who you would have heard on a previous podcast - put me forward and introduced me to Heather Shields from Ards and North Down Council.
    Together with her team they put on a truly wonderful event. The sun shone that day, the food, drink, music and laughter flowed.

    www.scrumptiousfoodfestivals.co.uk


    https://www.instagram.com/truly_scrumptious_podcast/


    https://paulamcintyre.co.uk/


    https://www.visitardsandnorthdown.com/whats-on/summer-food-festival/comber-earlies-food-festival


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    58 mins
  • MOVE OVER MRS BEETON - ELIZABETH IS IN DA ROOM!

    MOVE OVER MRS BEETON - ELIZABETH IS IN DA ROOM!
    Jul 28 2023
    Welcome to another of our special summer podcasts!
    A month or so ago I spoke with the utterly delightful Dr Neil Buttery when his brand new book was launched. I happened upon Neil (as you do!) when scrolling through instagram and I saw that he had written a book about one of my all time culinary heroines.
    Now…You might be thinking Mary Berry (yes I love Mary, have worked with Mary and I think she is fabulous) … but it’s not her. Neither is it Delia or …tum tum tum Nigella! 
    This lady lived about three hundred years ago in Manchester. She was forthright, intelligent, canny and with a fabulous business head. At a time when women weren’t allowed opinion or property.
    So….. make a cup of tea, get comfy and slice some of your favourite cake… Settle down in your best chair and let me introduce you to Elizabeth Raffald and her biographer the fabulous Neil Buttery. 


    https://britishfoodhistory.com/about/


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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • SHOUT OUT FOR BRITISH TROUT!

    SHOUT OUT FOR BRITISH TROUT!
    Jul 6 2023
    In May, Jon and I were invited by the British Trout Association to spend a day in the sunny Cotswolds learning to fish Trout. 
    Having never fished a day in my life I thought this was a great opportunity and a lovely way to spend a day.
    We arrived at Lechlade Trout Fishery, met our other fellow fisher folk, had a coffee and welcome biscuit…. then rod in hand walked towards a huge pond full to the brim with Trout.
    It’s a bit more complicated than just tossing a rod and line into the water, there is a bit of flicking, drawing of the line, a good eye to spot the trout…and patience. 
    Not my strongest quality - but definitely Jons. Who caught four…. I managed to land three! 


    But that was in the easy pond….after lunch we went to the large lake where our quarry was a little harder to net!
    We were in the expert hands of Tim from Lechlade Fishery and learnt so much from Oliver, the CEO of the British Trout Association.




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    20 mins
  • IT'S A BAKE-OFF TASTIC TOASTY WARM BOUNCY BUNDT CAKE OF AN EPISODE!

    IT'S A BAKE-OFF TASTIC TOASTY WARM BOUNCY BUNDT CAKE OF AN EPISODE!
    Apr 14 2023
    Oh we have a Bake-tastic episode for you all this week!
    A tangy, toasty, squishy, warm and spongy whopper of an hour with four amazing women who also happen to have competed on the Great British Bake Off. And one - who WON!
    And we are happy to say that they are all joining us at our Festivals this year too!


    This is the last episode in the current series.....but we'll be back at the end of June with lots more Festival chat - with interviews recorded at our event in Bradford on Avon! And more......


    In the meantime, watch out for a couple of 'one off' episodes....
    www.scrumptiousfoodfestivals.co.ukwww.thamefoodfestivals.co.uk

    Syabira - https://www.instagram.com/syabira_bakes/Val - https://www.instagram.com/valcake.walks/Carole - https://www.instagram.com/compostcarole/Dawn - https://www.instagram.com/thebakerdawn/

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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • A squishy, light and fluffy spongecake of a dive into Rum, Fudge, Wine, Fifty Shades and Festival Photos!

    A squishy, light and fluffy spongecake of a dive into Rum, Fudge, Wine, Fifty Shades and Festival Photos!
    Mar 31 2023


    Welcome to another squidgy, chewy, light and bouncy episode. And this week we are all over the place!
    We take a trip to Cornwall for a catch up with the lovely LoveDay Gin Girls, Daisy and Chloe. We’re also chatting with another gorgeous lady there - Deb Porter, our fabulous Festival Photographer!
    Then we’re up to Gloucestershire to speak with one of our favourite and longest attending producers - Beccy Whittal and her award winning and bloomin' delicious fudge.
    But first first of all we zoom over to Sweden to speak to Jane Sandstrom who we first met last year on Midsummer in the land of the midnight sun!


    Daisy and Chloe, Loveday Distilling - https://lovedaydistilling.com/

    Deb Porter - https://www.debporterphotography.com/

    Beccy Whittal - https://whittals.co.uk/

    Jane Sandstrom - https://www.instagram.com/janesandstrom/

    Truly Scrumptious - https://www.instagram.com/truly_scrumptious_podcast/

    www.scrumptiousfoodfestivals.co.uk

    www.thamefoodfestival.co.uk




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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Terrific Tristan and True Story Brewing - Chef and Beer!

    Terrific Tristan and True Story Brewing - Chef and Beer!
    Mar 24 2023


    Hello and welcome to another squishy, whopper of a lightly toasted episode.
    This week I am chatting with my old matey Tristan Welch - not only an incredible chef, thoroughly nice chap but also my culinary boyfriend. Yes, it’s a thing!
    We go back a few years, when we competed together in New York, on Food Network’s bonkers tv show - Chopped!It was a crazy few days and the best experience - you’ll find out more in a moment…
    And let us introducer you to two more lovely men that I had the joy to chat to recently - Ben and Will from True Story Brewing. They have gone from video production to Beer production and they are joining us at Bradford on Avon Food Festival this year.




    TRISTAN WELCH - https://www.instagram.com/chef_tristan_welch/

    WILL AND BEN FROM TRUE STORY BREWING - https://truestorybrewing.com/

    LOTTE DUNCAN - https://www.instagram.com/lotte_duncan/


    THAME FOOD FESTIVAL - www.thamefoodfestival.co.uk

    BRADFORD ON AVON FOOD AND DRINK FESTIVAL - www.scrumptiousfoodfestivals.co.uk



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    59 mins