Category Archives: This Week

We couldn’t decide which soft cheese to offer this week so we have gone for two, we have Rosary goats cheese a delectable soft, fresh goat’s cheese it has a light and fluffy texture. Matured for a matter of days Rosary goats cheese is fresh and perfect for sandwiches or cheeseboard. It can also be used in pasta dishes, tarts and lots of other recipes and is suitable for vegetarians.
Montagnolo is our second cheese This is a very mild blue and creamy cheese from Germany, It is made with triple cream and has just a hint of blueness in its flavour. The cheese itself is intensely buttery with slight spicy undertones and a hint of salt. It has all of the creaminess of a ripe brie sitting alongside the delicate bite of a blue cheese.

Our fish for this week is Sea Bass partnered with our Garlic and lemon butter.

Both boxes this week include a sweetheart cabbage. This cabbage goes perfectly with our fish of the week.

£12.50 – Two fillets of sea bass including a pot of our flavoured butter – lemon, garlic and parsley, just finely shred the cabbage and gently cook in the melted butter.

It is always exciting in the shop when the first of the Yorkshire forced rhubarb arrives, Slender and bright pink, this elegant British speciality is ‘forced’ in the famously dark growing sheds of Yorkshire’s rhubarb triangle.

Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb is an out of season rhubarb that is first grown outside for a period of two years so that the exposure to frost toughens the roots. After initial exposure to the frost, the Rhubarb is lifted from the ground and placed into forcing sheds. Once in the darkened sheds, heat is applied causing the rhubarb to grow quickly in search of light.
The Rhubarb is harvested by candle light to maintain the tenderness of the shoots and ensure that growth continues. This growing process produces rhubarb that is sweeter and more delicately flavoured with an especially vivid red colour.
This really is the best of British produce.

We all have our favourite way of using Rhubarb, simply stewed, in a crumble (why not add our delicious crumble mix, you just need to add butter Fruit Crumble Mix – Village Greens, Charlesworth )

£6 for 500g

We have a number of homemade pastries and tarts you can add to you delivery and available at the shop.

Apple Turnovers – Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday (Friday and Saturday to order )

Almond Croissants, Almond and Cranberry Croissants – Friday Saturday

Treacle Flapjacks, Bakewell Tarts,- All week

Lemon Tarts – All week to order

We have put together a selection of our customer’s most popular choices of the famous creamy flavoursome Longley Farm fruit yoghurt. £3.60

Of course any of our range of Longley Farm products can be added to your order just go to the Deli section and click on Dairy to see the full range that we stock.

Our range of butters are an amazing condiment, one of the best ways to add great flavours to any meal, including vegetables, pasta, fish, steak and chicken.  Just add to the pan a couple of minutes before the end of cooking and baste.

This week’s suggestion is Sea Bass with Garlic and Lemon butter.

You can choose from 

Garlic, parsley & Lemon Butter

Sage Butter

Parsley, Chilli & Lemon Butter

White Truffle Oil, Parmesan Cheese Butter

Parsley, chilli, garlic, curry powder, paprika Butter

Anchovy Butter

Oregano Butter

Orange & Thyme Butter

Herb Butter

This week’s recipe is roasted carrot and fennel soup. Italian fennel is exceptionally good at the moment. This soup is bursting with flavour, roasting the fennel and carrots brings out a subtle sweetness. We have included all the ingredients in both the £25 and £15 boxes.

Fennel is a member of the carrot family, though it’s not a root vegetable. The base of its long stalks weave together to form a thick, crisp bulb that grows above ground. Though the stalks and leaves are edible, fennel recipes most often call for the bulb. When raw, it has a crisp texture similar to celery and a fresh licorice flavour. It caramelizes as it cooks, taking on a sweeter flavour and tender, melt-in-your mouth texture. It has all sorts of health benefits too, It’s low in calories, but high in nutrients like dietary fibre, potassium, and vitamin C, to name a few. Thinly slice then marinate in lemon juice, olive oil, and salt, it is delicious on its own or in a larger salad. Dress it up with herbs, nuts, and shaved Parmesan cheese. To roast cut into wedges, spread them cut-side-down on a baking sheet with a little space between each one. Toss them with olive oil, salt, and pepper, and roast at 180 degrees for 25-35 minutes, until the wedges are tender and caramelized around the edges.

This week we have Rebellion tomatoes in our £25 box, these large winter tomatoes are sweet and juicy. They’ve earned their rebellious name with their refusal to grow uniformly smooth.

Both boxes include sweetheart cabbage (Hispi cabbage), a sweet pointed green cabbage, perfect for steaming or stir fries. Try frying with chopped garlic, chilli and ginger and dressing with a dash of soy sauce, or take a knob of butter and a pinch of caraway seed and fry lightly for just a couple of minutes. This cabbage goes perfectly with our fish of the week – sea bass £12.50 for 2 fillets including a pot of our flavoured butter – lemon, garlic and parsley, just finely shred the cabbage and gently cook in the melted butter.

You can still contact us via messenger sending us a private message (we don’t always see messages left in the comments section of our post) or contact the shop on 01457 852456 or text Sharon on 07838 256631

Our £15 box (ideal for 2/3 people)

Baking potatoes
Onion (R)
Carrots (R)
Fennel (R)
Sweetheart cabbage
Cauliflower
Baby leaf spinach
Navel oranges
Braeburn apples

(R) items needed for the recipe

Our £25 box (ideal for a family of 4) contains all of the above in larger quantities

Rebellion tomato
Flat lettuce
Avocado
Mushrooms

Some items may change to bring you what’s best available on the day

Our new potato cakes have been very popular, made for us by All Things Nice in Marple, these are the most authentic potato cakes we have ever tried. They are a substantial size £1.10 each and you can add to your order from Wednesdays onwards.

Our very popular artisan bread will be available from Wednesday onwards. we will have white and seeded sourdough, white and wholemeal cob available every Wednesday and Thursday, Friday and Saturdays we will also have focaccia and French sticks, our bread can sell out very quickly to make sure you aren’t disappointed send us a message or phone the shop on 01457 852456 and we will make sure we save one for you. Bread always seems to be the first thing that people cut out of their diets when trying to cut down, but sourdough not only delivers a tangy flavour that’s perfect for toast and sandwiches, it is good for you, too! The fermentation process for sourdough bread can lead to an increased number of prebiotic and probiotic-like properties, which help improve gut health. It freezes exceptionally well so you won’t be tempted to eat the whole loaf.