Food Frome

Come to the Lamb Inn, Frome at 7.30pm on 13th February, 2009 to learn about and contribute to Food Frome's new projects. These include:

* A Roman Feast Film
* A Local Food Directory
* An Oral History Project

There will also be another chance to see "Quince Venison and Peas", our film about creating a 17C feast.

Food Frome are cooperating with the Frome Story Circle on a stall at Frome Farmers Market on January 24th. There will be free tastings and a quiz.

FennelOur fennel has grown well this year - it must like rain!

1 medium onion, chopped
2 medium heads of fennel, chopped
glass of white wine or cider
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon butter
1 1/2 pints stock, kept near boiling point
1 small mug risotto rice or spelt
1 cup parmesan cheese
chopped parsley
salt
black pepper

Apple ChutneyThis is my recipe for apple chutney, it is based on a recipe in "The Perfect Pickle Book" by David Mabey and David Collinson.

4lb cooking apples
2lb onions
2pt cider vinegar
2lb sultanas
2oz whole pickling spice (peppercorns, chillis, allspice, yellow mustard seeds, coriander seeds)
3tsp ground allspice
3tsp ground ginger
1tsp salt
1lb white sugar
1lb dark brown sugar

Thursday November 13
Trinity Hall 8pm (doors open 7.30)
Final Event and Book Launch
FREE

We shall be launching the four booklets produced by Food Frome project members:
Fair Trade Frome
The Foodfrome Local Cookbook
Food and Drink in Roman Somerset
Growing our Own

Saturday October 25
Trinity Hall 8pm (Doors open 7.30)
Quince, Venison and Peas (film)
The final event of the 2008 Mendip Food Festival
Tickets: £5 on the door (free for seniors and children)

This film recreates a seventeenth century feast (in a seventeenth century house) and covers cooking and obtaining ingredients from local suppliers.
The film is followed by tastings of some of the dishes prepared for the feast, and by a discussion with members of Food Frome who have helped to make this fabulous film.

Most of the elderberries around us seem to have dried up, but at the weekend we just managed to find enough to make a small batch of Elderberry Syrup. We used a recipe from Roger Phillips' book Wild Food. Elderberry syrup is supposed to be a good remedy for winter colds and we'll try it out this winter. The recipe we used is already on the Internet on the Irish Secrets website.

Frome Festival 2008
It's August already - nearly a whole month since the Festival and time to look back at Food Frome's contribution to the sensational 2008 Frome Festival - 'Best in the West' (although Glastonbury's not bad either). In the end we sponsored or ran four events:

Deep Soup
This was certainly the longest event of the Festival. Artist-cuisinière Miche Fabre Lewin prepared a healing Deep Soup over two complete days (Friday and Saturday).

Recently Food Frome visited Mike and Sarah Benson at Barrow Farm. For information about PYO soft fruit, vegetables and other products see www.barrowfarm.com. More pictures here.

Zoe shows us a herbOn June 19th local herbalist Zoe Hawes took us on a guided walk round Vallis Woods near Frome. More pictures here.