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Keep Calm, It's Only Christmas! ISSUE 05 www.appetitemag.co.uk December/January 2011/2012 appetite.TicKLE YOUR TAsteBuds... Jill Harbord, the Queen of FREE Etiquette, on a Please take a copy very genteel festive season Keep calm, it’s only Christmas! STARTERS MAINS PUD! Festive baking, It’s good to pork, It’s for life, grazing, drinking and other non-turkey not just for and lazing related dishes Christmas WHAT DO YOU GET THE FRIEND WHO HAS EVERYTHING? VALLUM FARM ICE CREAM, SUNDAE & CUPCAKE VOUCHERS! NEW! Cupcakes & Ice Cream GIFTS CORNER IN OUR ICE CREAM PARLOUR - GREAT FOR PRESENTS & STOCKING FILLERS!’ Artisan producers: Vallum is home to Bywell Smokery and North Country Organics, whose fantastic produce is used in the meals served at Vallum Farm. Italian Delicatessen, Coffee Shop and Restaurant • Christmas Menu, decorated cakes, puds, ice cream & trimmings! Mon - Sat lunch 12 - 3pm, Thur, Fri & Sat dinner from 6pm. • Vallum can be hired for private parties in the evening St Helen’s Street • Corbridge • Northumberland • NE45 5BE • Outside catering for every occasion by Vicky Moffi tt Tel: 01434 634554 www.ilpiccolo.co.uk We are proud to handmake all our own Christmas cakes, puddings, hams, stuffi ngs & chutneys. Wishing you a traditional British Christmas! East Wallhouses, Military Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE18 oLL - 5 miles from Corbridge & only 15 minutes from Newcastle t: 01434 672 652 • www.vallumfarm.co.uk Open everyday: 10am to 4.30pm Closed from 1st Jan, open from 23rd Jan - 7 days a week Editor revives the days when The Boxing Day We want to hear all about the food and drink you love in the North East, and that means you can get fully involved in the Buffet was the epitome of region’s newest magazine. If you like something, we style. Happy Christmas! WE want to know about it. Your LIKE! favourite restaurant or deli, cake shop or butcher - if they’re doing something good, You know you’ve arrived at middle age months) and emerge, not a hair out of please let us know so that we can profile when plans for your Fanny Craddock- place (though everso slightly sloshed) them in the mag and on our website. inspired Boxing Day buffet are exercising to load the table with honey-roast ham, Email [email protected] your mind in the middle of the night, coronation turkey, olive cheese balls, vol when thoughts of chicken fricasse are au vents of every description, and a huge dominating your every waking hour and collection of sweets including sherry trifle, Thank you so much for the numerous emails your prawn cocktail vol-au-vents have flummery (whatever happened to that?), and web posts we’ve had in response gained a global significance greater than and hot vanilla souffle. to the first four editions of appetite. the situation in the Middle East. Thanks also for all your visits to our Plus, the adults all dressed up - long website at www.appetitemag.co.uk where we’re I haven’t read a newspaper, listened to dresses and black tie - for the occasion, keen to see you sharing your favourite recipes. an intelligent radio programme or had my and the kids were allowed a sherry. Now, Post a picture of it too, and you never know, nails done for weeks now, so obsessed that’s what I call Christmas. we might even send you a prize, possibly even am I by my quest to create The Ultimate running to a fun-size Mars Bar. Woo ooo! Boxing Day Cordon Bleu Buffet. So think of our house this Boxing Day, as we (my generation, the olds all being Obviously, I blame my parents for gone) feast on vol au vents, pineapple on We are tweeting. everything, including my maths dyslexia, sticks and brandy snaps. Follow us @appetitemaguk the bags under my eyes, and the fact Christmas has never that my most prized possession is a tasted as good Hostess Trolley. Which brings us back to as it did in the 1970s, IN your hands... The Buffet, a tradition rooted in family so we’re going Published every six weeks, appetite is free Christmases when my mother and aunt back. Now, where at selected restaurants, cafes, delis and shops would disappear into the kitchen for what are my Slade Jane Pikett, Editor throughout the region. Suscribe via the website seemed like days (and was probably records? at www.appetitemag.co.uk tickle your tastebuds... appetite.TicKLE YOUR TAste Buds... OUR CONTRIBUTORS... Editorial 0191 231 6080 ROSIE MCGLADE JANE PIKETT GARY RAMSAY ANNA HEDWORTH Jane Pikett - [email protected] This month, Rosie Editor Jane Our taste tester is When she is not Advertising 0191 231 6080 has been mostly followed a series of in full training for blogging about food Joanne O’neil - [email protected] eating cake. This is transport disasters, Christmas, which under the pseudonymn a major departure which included an necessitates locking (try spelling that after Website www.appetitemag.co.uk from her recent unscheduled flight him in the kitchen a few festive sherries) adherence to the from London to for days and weeks The Grazer, Anna Designed & Published by Dukan diet, and one Edinburgh (she lives on end sampling is eating, breathing she describes as and works in neither our own homemade and dreaming her most rejuvenating. city, so why?) with mince pies, chocolate Christmas menus, She is now gearing the only answer to logs, various terrines, which is great, Media Exchange One, Coquet Street Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 2QB up for Christmas and stress - lunch. And etc, etc. He will because she has a feast of all that afternoon tea. And emerge on January 1 shared some of them Photography is not Dukan. We a night in the pub. Is 2012, a few pounds with us. We say, roll on Peter Skelton www.photo-psp.co.uk applaud her. there a problem? heavier, but happy. Anna’s ‘Twixmas’! 4 appetitemag.co.uk PLACE 20 YOUR ORDER 6 READER CLUB Offers to tickle your tastebuds 8 STARTERS Festive news and views KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL 16 Jill Harbord’s etiquette of Christmas 26 28 20FESTIVE FEASTS Kitchen feats for the festive season 24 HERBY CHRISTMAS Going green in the kitchen 26 HAppY GRAZE Blogger Anna Hedworth’s festive fayre 28 BAKE! Cake as a new clandestine craze 30 DO THEY KNOw it’s CHRISTMAS? 34 20 How one aid worker celebrates Christmas across the world contents LUNCH! 32 Comfort brings joy 34 AB FAB Eating and drinking in Morpeth 38 CHRISTMAS! Where to eat, drink and be merry 42 THE DIARY Beautiful People at Beautiful Places 43 CLUCK! 16 The diary of Pluck, a city chick 46 JUST DESSERTS Plum pud - not just for Christmas appetitemag.co.uk 5 * appetite We will price match local competitors all year round! 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