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We recently spent some time on the south coast, driving from Brighton to Devon and spending a few days in each.

When in the area, I like to stop at Dart Farms where there is a well stocked farm shop offering great local produce. An old favourite is Somerset Five Year Old Cider Brandy which when teamed up with a new find Somerset Camembert provides a new variation on one of Nigel Slater’s quick and easy snacks…

• cider brandy camembert

As we drove around, it was great to see the availability of so much fresh sea-food in those sea-side towns from which it has been conspicuous in its absence for so long. This led us to the rediscovery of an old favourite…

• chilli garlic prawns

A tip for the chef — make sure that you get in there first, any brandy sitting on top of the cheese mixes with cheese for an irresistible combination.

This is a favourite recipe of ours, first eaten on long summer evenings in Andalucia and now rediscovered in Devon, where we found fresh local prawns for £2.50 a dozen (even better with a couple thrown in for free on the back of a couple of crabs and the excellent Gravad Lax we also bought).

The mexican classic with no minced meat and no kidney beans. Buy good pork and beef and allow plenty of time to cook — it’ll be worth it.

title: eat and drink / eat seasonally
site: http://www.mwnch.co.uk/

description: Food and drink are two of the great pleasures in life. This site provides recipes and discussion to help you to get the greatest pleasure from them. To us that means sourcing the finest seasonal, local and where appropriate organic produce and ingredients and preparing them simply and well.

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Eat and drink well - mwnch! Not just any old cooking site - we believe in sourcing the finest seasonal, local and where appropriate organic produce and preparing them simply and well. Our recipes reflect this belief.

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It’s so easy to forget just how tasty ham can be when prepared and cooked well. This is a favourite of mine, cooked on Christmas eve, served with a parsley sauce.

Festive classic, good all year and even better cranberries are a super food….

On Hugh F-W’s TV program tonight, (the one where he takes everyday people and tries to convert them to organic seasonal cooks) one of the participants commented that every meal should be a treat…that we should appreciate and respect just what goes into our food…

She could have a point…

On the car radio on the way home tonight there was a discussion of food related tall-tales that people had been fed when they were children.

• Scampo is the singular of Scampi (the breaded shellfish common as a pub meal).
• Treacle is made from melted down lions (Lyle’s Golden Syrup the famous British treacle brand has a lion on its label).
• [added 26th November 2006] One for penny pinching parents…the ice-cream van only plays a tune when it has run out of ice-cream.

[…I found them amusing…]

What brought me here (I mean to the internet) is apples (bloody apples are to blame for a lot). Let me explain…

Back in 2002 I planted the beginnings of an orchard. The orchard is in a remote location on the side of the Tywi valley between Carmarthen and Llandeilo in the West of Wales.

My intention, driven by a desire to diversify away from the city life I somehow find myself entangled in, was to begin a small business based upon a more rural way of life. The core of this business was to be generating profit by adding value to produce. Initally through converting apples to juice, cider and chutney and then diversifying into new areas.

The orchard was to be the source of this produce and my sales channels were to be both farmers markets and the internet. Whilst the apples were growing I started my business: Bochgoch Limited ~ a Welsh word that roughly translates as apple-cheeked. This was to be in preparation for use of the ‘net to sell all that lovely apple based produce.

Since then, the apples have not grown too well (or in fact at all) but the internet side of the business has developed at a pace. And so, here I am on my latest site, typing away, while I wait for the apples to grow.

You can read more about all this on the bochgoch website.