Vale House Kitchen at The Game Fair
Come and see us at the Game Fair this Saturday 29th July when we take to the Field Kitchen Theatre at 3.30pm. We’ll be demoing with our fantastic tutor and game chef extraordinaire Tim Maddams and top game gun Tom Payne and talking about our Field to Fork ethos, getting more people to eat what they shoot and how people can get into country pursuits such as shooting. We’ll also be focussing on Pigeon, how to shoot them, how to…
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Cured and Smoked Trout
We are very fortunate to catch the odd fresh trout or two, especially when teaching our guests on the Beginners Fly Fishing Courses. Much as they are delicious simply wrapped in foil, stuffed with a few herbs, butter and a drizzle of white wine and roasted in an oven for 20 minutes or so, we often like to fillet, cure and hot smoke them. This gives them that little extra depth of flavour and some extra versatility on the cooking…
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Meet Our Guests – Lori McCarthy
Welcome to a new series on the Vale House Kitchen blog! We always love meeting the people who choose to come on our courses, and over the past three years we’ve had some fascinating folks join us who’ve gone on to do brilliant things with the knowledge and skills they acquire. In this second post, we chat to Lori McCarthy, who came all the way from Canada to go on one of our Butchery Courses. There’s no better way to…
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A Tribute to Paul Young
This is a very sad blog for us to post. As a part of a new series we are featuring people that have been to Vale House Kitchen, acquired new skills and then gone on to use them in their life. Paul Young was one of those people. The day that this was originally going to be published Paul was tragically killed in a motorbike accident in Somerset. A truly charismatic and larger than life figure we had got to…
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Sals Kitchen learns to make Marmalade
Here’s a link to a great article by Sally Godfrey, one of Bath’s most well known food bloggers, about her time at Vale House Kitchen learning how to make Marmalade. She spent a day with our amazing preserve’s tutor Vivien Lloyd and came away a new marmalade convert. http://www.salskitchenblog.com/2017/03/sals-kitchen-tries-marmalade-make-bake-day-vale-house-kitchen/
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Buttermilk Scones
Heres a great recipe from our fantastic tutor Kieran Lenihan. These scones are always a real favourite on our Beginners and Family Cookery Days. Please give them a try. Makes 5-6 225g self-raising flour, preferably organic ¼ tsp salt 50g slightly salted butter cut in small pieces 25g golden caster sugar 125ml buttermilk 4 tbsp full-fat milk A little extra flour for dusting. Strawberry jam and clotted cream, to serve Preheat the oven to 220C/gas 7/fan 200C and lightly butter…
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