Fancy taking part in a Bush Tucker Challenge? You can buy your insects here. Help, I'm a Celebrity - get me out of here!
Breakfast was so bad at a recent overnight stop that Inspector X had to satisfy herself with a full English Breakfast on the route back home. Well, this one goes straight to the top ten. Browns Kitchen on the Mundford Roundabout serves breakfast from 9am to 11.30am. They don't seem to have a website but you will find them on Twitter @BrownsKitchen.
Suffolk Food and Drink Superstars to be announced tomorrow!
Written by RuthInspector X has been busy judging the entries for the Customer Service Award for the 2012 EADT Suffolk Food and Drink Awards. Tomorrow the winners will be announced at an Awards Ceremony to be held at Wherstead Park. Good luck to everyone who has been shortlisted - there are some real food and drink superstars out there.
Canadian Shelley Miller has moved on from icing cakes to decorating the walls of her home town.
Jim Messina was Obama's campaign manager in 2008 and says in a recent article in the Independent..."I miss how bad a campaign office smells at midnight." He once ate twenty-seven consecutive meals at McDonald's.
Today I made 18 lemons and two bottles of vodka into Limoncello. Not quite Limoncello because the very complicated internet recipe I found requires filtering and doesn't use vodka, because apparently it affects the taste. But I am going to try it and see - and bought this new microplane grater for the purpose.
Last night I was invited to the 'Farming Oscars', held by the Suffolk Agricultural Association at Trinity Park, on the outskirts of Ipswich. The awards are an amalgamation of the Suffolk Farm Business Competition, which is open to all farms in Suffolk, and the Best Alternative Land Enterprise (BALE) Awards, which celebrate the diversification of businesses in Suffolk, Essex, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire. Congratulations to runners up of the BALE Award - Jason and Katherine Salisbury from Creeting St Mary-based Suffolk Farmhouse Cheeses. The couple annually produce 27 tonnes of cheese under three brands, Suffolk Gold, Suffolk Brie and Suffolk Blue. Also Simpers Deben Shellfish, run by the Simper family, who are reviving the native oyster in the Deben, scooped the Best Newcomer award. Their oysters can be ordered online.
Last Friday night, late - nearly 10pm, suffolkfoodie and gang felt peckish and had to think hard where to get a good late night snack in Bury St Edmunds. Then we remembered the newly opened Graze... We were welcomed with a smile and enjoyed some impressive small plates of excellent food. One of our favourites were the Haggis and Rabbit Bon Bons. The wine was good too!
Phil, our Great British Bake Off Dish of the Day came to suffolk foodie towers to make us afternoon tea. Here are his amazing jam "philled" doughnuts. Made with Paul Hollywoods original recipe.
Amelia Rope - Pale Lime and Sea Salt, Chocolate Naive - Uganda Fleur de Sel, William Curley - House Dark 70, Paul A Young - Peppermint and Black Pepper, Demarquette - Vietnam Ben Tre Milk.