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RECIPE OF THE MONTH using British pork
September 2008: Trench porkfare
Mud was the motif at Dorset Show where Frances Slade, Janet and Vic Fountain, and Stuart and Sally Ham spend two days promoting British pork.
There was a surprisingly good attendance given the conditions and main ring displays went ahead.
True, not everyone ventured along the LIPS avenue, which was muddier than most, but those who did were in good spirits and felt they had earned the tasty pork dishes served by Ladies in Pigs.
The LIPs mobile kitchen had to be towed onto the site and you may not be surprised to learn it had to be towed off afterwards.
July 2008: Ladies in Pigs help Derbyshire WI
celebrate 90th birthday
By Simon Davies
Nottinghamshire Ladies in Pigs gave a demonstration on Saturday to over a hundred Derbyshire WI ladies, who were celebrating their 90th birthday. They were very receptive to the message "Buy British" and look for the Quality Standard Mark. They all agreed the marketing of truly British meat is still confusing — but LIPS set them straight! The cooked sample recipes were all thoroughly enjoyed and needless to say all the Recipe Books were sold out. The LIPS ladies involved were Julia Blant, Mary Ibbotson, Vicky Smith and Claire Davies.
June 2008: Ladies in Pigs at Lincolnshire Show
Above: Margaret Denness, Mary Ibbotson and Julia Blant at Lincolnshire Show.
The mobile LIPS kitchen headed north last week to attend Lincolnshire Show.
LIPS has recruited some new Lincolnshire members, Lizzy Owers and Paula Joseph, and so with them on board and ladies from Yorkshire and Nottingham, we were able to promote the new season's recipe's.
Over the two days we were met with a great response from the public. They particular liked the Pork-and-Apricot Burgers with the yogurt and mint dressing. Our excellent meat was kindly provided from Uncle Henry's Farm Shop at Grayingham, by Steve and Meryl Ward.
We had a butcher next to us at the show and he helped educate the general public in the various cuts of pork and how to buy and cook it, as well as providing the opportunity for the public to buy British joints, sausages etc.
Above: Paula Joseph offers the sausages around at Lincolnshire Show.
The new cookbook with over 155 pork recipes in it, went on sale for £5 and proved very popular. Anyone wishing to buy one can do so, by getting in touch with Jane Conder at LIPS central office, 01923 262214, or visiting the LIPS stand at the summer shows.
We will be attending Norfolk Show (25-26th June), Royal Show (3rd-6th July), Great Yorkshire Show (8th-10th July), Driffield Show (16th July), CLA Game Fair, Woodstock (25th-27th July), New Forest and Hampshire (29th-31 July), Dorset Show (6th-7th Sept).
May 2008: Ladies in Pigs at Newark Show
By Julia Blant
June 2008
Newark and Nottinghamshire Show this year basked in some of the hottest weather in May, so there was lots of interest from the public in our new 2008 recipe tasters.
In one of the rarer quiet moments, some of the local farmers are seen partaking of samples too (above).
Together with the Yorkshire girls who work the Leyburn Food Festival, the Nottinghamshire girls are always the guinea pigs with the new season's recipes.
I can report that this year's tasters are going really well with sausage and bacon risotto and sausage and leek chowder being the favourites so far.
We always team up with the NFU at this show to make a really good impact for local farming and food, and this year was particularly good for the children in this Year of Food and Farming.
There was a collage of a farm. Children were invited to draw and cut-out the items to make up the full scene with animals, machinery, birds, people etc. It looked brilliant at the end of the Show.
John Deere had lent a big new shiny combine, and there were lots of charts on hand to show how it works, plus the local farmers to help on the practical side.
Buckets of seeds - linseed, oilseed rape, wheat, barley etc. - provided much hands on fun, along with charts to detail the processes with foodstuffs at the end of the chain.
And for the toddlers, there were plenty of interesting rare breed chickens, ducks, goslings, provided by the White Post Farm, which does such a good job in linking farming and food.
Photos by Alison Pratt, East Midlands NFU.
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