ISSUE 06 www.appetitemag.co.uk February/March 2012 appetite.TICKLE YOUR TAsteBUDS... FREE Please take a copy Get your chops round our French dinner a deux and feed the love...! the food of love inside breakfast, lunch, tea, dinner, supper... more food than is commonly considered decent, in one decadent package Experience a little drama before enjoying the theatre Dabbawal invite you to experience the vibrant flavours of freshly prepared, authentic Indian street food in the lively atmosphere of our Newcastle restaurant. Call in to try our pre-theatre 69-75 High Bridge, menu offers between 5 & 7pm. Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6BX. www.dabbawal.com Call us on 0191 232 5133 or email [email protected] Tea Room, Ice Cream Parlour, Artisan Producers Fabulous home baking “We love Gill’s scones and always take a few home with us!” Great Taste Award Winners All Day Northumbrian Breakfast for February & March Sunday Lunch Served 12noon - 2.30pm ‘Extremely Highly Recommended’ Italian Delicatessen, Coffee Shop and Restaurant by ‘ Your Northumberland’ for Mon - Sat lunch 12 - 3pm, Thur, Fri & Sat dinner from 6pm. Best Sunday Lunch 2011 St Helen’s Street • Corbridge • Northumberland • NE45 5BE Award winner 2011 Tel: 01434 634554 www.ilpiccolo.co.uk “Great Taste Lemon Meringue Ice Cream” Tea Room & Ice Cream Parlour: 01434 672652 www.vallumfarm.co.uk Open 7 days a week 10am-4.30pm 10 miles west of Newcastle on the Roman Wall @vallumfarm 5 miles from Corbridge / Matfen Also home to John Turner Upholsterer, K9 Hydrotherapy, Wildfowers Florists, Barton Interiors & North Country Growers Experience a little drama before enjoying the theatre Dabbawal invite you to experience the vibrant flavours of freshly prepared, authentic Indian street food in the lively atmosphere of our Newcastle restaurant. Call in to try our pre-theatre 69-75 High Bridge, menu offers between 5 & 7pm. Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6BX. www.dabbawal.com Call us on 0191 232 5133 or email [email protected] Editor muses on the French version of the food of love. We want to hear all about the food and drink you love in the North East, How rare is rare steak, and which means you can get fully involved in the region’s only how romantic is it really? dedicated food magazine. WE If you like something, we want LIKE! to know about it. And if you cook something you’re proud Mes amoureux! This month we are Meanwhile, I’m wondering what might of, email us a photo and a description and celebrating the food of love in honour of happen if I present my beloved with we might even put it on our website or in the Valentine’s Day with recipes from French a delcious steak (rare and romantic) magazine. Fame at last! chef of the moment, Nico Duhil. followed by home-made crème brûlée on Email [email protected] Feb 14. Will he notice the date, or will he We have crème brûlée (one pot, two just think I’ve gone soft in the head? Thank you so much for the numerous emails spoons, mmmmm!), sea bass (the fish and web posts we’ve had in response to of lurve...), and a proper French steak You’ll understand that I don’t harbour any the first five editions of appetite. Thanks recipe - take two steaks, show them to great sense of anticpation for Feb 14 also for all your visits to our website at a warm-ish pan, and serve. Don’t worry if when I tell you that the last time the day www.appetitemag.co.uk where we’re keen to they sprint off the plate; it just indicates was fully acknowledged in our house was see you sharing your favourite recipes. Post a they’re still a little bit alive and may need in 2004, when - zut alors! - I was the lucky picture of it too, and you never know, we might a second more over the heat. recipient of a new pair of wellington boots. even send you a prize, possibly even running to Romance? Is it dead, or just a little a fun-size Mars Bar. Woo ooo! This recipe has caused quite a debate in over done? the appetite office. Are you a bit soft if you actually cook your steak? Is ‘medium Answers on a We are tweeting. rare’ resserved only for those of a weak postcard to: Love Follow us @appetitemaguk constitution? Is steak tartare verging on Don’t Live Here over-done? Well, I whisper this in case Anymore, Lonely they’re listening, but I would add an extra Street, Byker. IN YOUR hands... 30 seconds or so to that steak. It won’t The most romantic Published every six weeks, appetite is free render you soft and your dinner’s less note gets a box at selected restaurants, cafes, delis and shops likely to run away, but I’m just a girl. of chocolates. Jane Pikett, Editor throughout the region. Subscribe via the website at www.appetitemag.co.uk tickle your tastebuds... appetite.TICKLE YOUR TAste BUDS... OUR CONTRIBUTORS... Editorial 01661 844115 ROSIE MCGLADE JANE PIKETT GARY RAMSAY ANNA HEDWORTH Jane Pikett - [email protected] Rosie’s been having Editor Jane has had Our taste tester When she hasnt been Advertising 01661 844115 a laugh this month, to take to her bed certainly knows blogging about food Joanne O’neil - [email protected] working her way after eating her way which side his under the pseudonymn through the menu at round no less than bread’s buttered. The Grazer, Anna has Website www.appetitemag.co.uk The Stand comedy five pubs, heroically Having persuaded been undertaking a club with its resident sampling the food in business associate scientific study into Designed & Published by funny men. She every one, all for the Sharon McKee out the components that came back wearing benefit of appetite for lunch, not only did create the ultimate a broad smile on readers. Despite he let her pay, but he comfort food. The her face and her appearances, La also persuaded her result? A superb Unit One, Bearl Farm, Stocksfield, lunch down her front, Pikett is no Madame to write a review for shepherd’s pie and Northumberland, NE43 7AL having packed plenty Creosote and has this magazine. Talk several bowls of Photography of laughs into one been suffering since. about singing for carbonara. There’s Peter Skelton www.photo-psp.co.uk lunchtime. Nice work! Serves her right... your supper! dedication for you. 4 appetitemag.co.uk PLACE 31 28 YOUR ORDER 6 READER CLUB Offers to tickle your tastebuds 8 STARTERS Foodie news and views 14 MEAT AND 10 VEG It’s a new way to get your five-a-day 16 THE grAZER Comfort and joy in the kitchen 18 LUNCH AND LAUGHS Comedy club where food raises a smile 22 PIES AND PINTS Five pubs, five meals = full! 24 FEED THE LOVE Dinner a deux, the French way 27 LUNCH! Getting social with food 18 16 28 THE BIG BREAKFAST contents A quirky take on the farmhouse kitchen fry-up 31 THE ART OF FOOD Cakes and tastes with artist Colin Moss 34 ON THE WATERFRONT Eat your way round the Quayside market 36 COOKs’ tOURS The tastes of Northumberland 42 THE DIARY 36 Beautiful People at the Beautiful Places 43 PLUCK! 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FREE GLASS OF HOUSE WINE at Fiume, Washington For more than 15 years Ristorante Fiume at Fatfield, Washington has satisfied diners’ appetites for affordable, home-cooked Italian food and outstanding service. This month we’ve teamed up with the family-friendly restaurant to offer you a free glass of house wine or a soft drink with every main course, or a full bottle of house wine if four people dine together. All you have to do to claim this exclusive offer is bring this page with you when you dine at Fiume before March 31 2012. For more information about the restaurant, see www.popololeisure.co.uk or call 0191 4150007. Terms and conditions: This page entitles the holder to a free soft drink or glass of house wine when they order any main course from Fiume’s menu, or a free bottle of house wine when four people order a main course each. Voucher valid valid during all restaurant opening hours until March 31 2012, excluding February 14. Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer. 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