AS the countryside springs into life, it is time to celebrate the hard work happening on our farms. Grab a great buy this week that also puts pounds back into farmers’ pockets. And once you have bagged the best products, cook up a farm fresh meal using the recipes below. Roast pork with fennel and […]
AS the countryside springs into life, it is time to celebrate the hard work happening on our farms. Grab a great buy this week that also puts pounds back into farmers’ pockets.
And once you have bagged the best products, cook up a farm fresh meal using the recipes below.
(Serves eight)
YOU NEED:
METHOD: Heat the oven to 200C/180C fan/Gas 6.
Rub the skin of the pork with oil; sprinkle on the salt flakes. Put the joint in a roasting tin and roast for an hour.
Melt the butter in a pan, toss in the sliced fennel and apples. Fry until they take on a little colour, then pour the cider into the pan.
Spoon the caramelised mixture around the pork; return to the oven for 40 to 50 minutes until the pork is cooked through and the veg is tende
Remove the crackling and snap into bite-sized pieces. Carve the pork garnished with thyme sprigs and serve with the crackling and veg.
THE For Farmers range at Morrisons, which gives customers the chance to support British farmers by paying a little more for products, includes four pints of semi- skimmed milk, £1.32, a 350g block of extra mature cheddar, £2.44, and £2.15 for a 300ml pot of double cream.
Farrington’s Mellow Yellow Cold Pressed Rapeseed Oil, 500ml, from a farm in Northamptonshire, is down from £4.50 to £3.50 at Sainsbury’s.
For a speedy supper, Bannisters Yorkshire Family Farm six Little Jacket Potatoes – which cook in just three minutes – are down from £2 to £1.50 at Morrisons.
Asda has Longley Farm Bio Natural Yoghurt, 450g, at 78p.
Drink up a deal on Lincolnshire-made Belvoir Fruit Farms Cordials, down from £3.15 to £2.50 at Asda.
Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference ice cream range, including Madagascan Vanilla, £3, are produced by husband and wife team Peter and Carol Duncan, who get the milk for their products from a farm five miles down the road in Devon.
Asda’s Extra Special Wyke Farms Extra Mature Cheddar, 480g, was £3.50 now £3.
Get a fifth off Waitrose Somerset Cheddar mature strength 5, was £4, now £3.20. It is hand-made in Somerset by third- generation farmers Johnny and Peter Alvis, using milk from their own and other local herds.
Save 50p on Morrisons award-winning The Best Mature Red Leicester, 200g, made at Belton Farm in Shropshire by the Beckett family since 1922, now £1.70.
Sainsbury’s has Hoads Farm six medium free-range eggs, £1.75, with Sussex-based Hoads donating 1p for every dozen sold to Kent and Sussex Air Ambulance and London Air Ambulance.
Get three for £10, or £4.30 each, on Waitrose Hereford lean beef mince produced from Hereford cattle, 10 per cent fat.
Made using apples grown in Herefordshire, including Tillington Ladies’ Finger, Bulmers Norman, Mitchelin, Dabonnet and Yarlington Mill, Co-op Irresistible Tillington Hills Dry Cider, 500ml is £2 at the Co-op.
(Serves six)
YOU NEED:
METHOD: Melt the butter in a large saucepan, add the onion and cook gently for five minutes.
Finely chop the broccoli florets and stems, reserving a couple of unchopped broccoli florets to decorate. Add all the broccoli to the onion plus the stock and bring it all to the boil.
Boil for five minutes.
Remove the broccoli florets for garnish, then blend the rest with the stock until very finely chopped.
Crumble the Stilton, reserving a few crumbles to garnish the soup. Add the Stilton to the soup and whizz briefly.
Stir in the cream and heat gently, but do not boil.
Before serving, season to taste. Pour into bowls and garnish each bowl with broccoli florets and a few crumbles of Stilton.
