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| Shot from Inside my parish church St Mary's Haverhill ( well it is Sunday) where I was dropped in the font. Marble tablet on wall in refrectory states date of first priest was 1190. Last time I attended was for the baptism. |
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Fairtrade and buy local
Fairtrade fortnight starts tomorrow. This is a great branding excercise for small producers (originally) from overseas that are looking for a recognisable symbol and who meet sustainable criteria. A similar scheme to promote small businesses is the Buy Local campaign. A number of businesses are part of this Haverhill including the cafe (with internet) which I use. De Ja Vu is run by a local business man which is even better, who has helped give youngsters help in their footballing endeavours.
Farmer's markets are another buy local group. They have attracted some comedic criticism mainly based on the fact that some of the produce is from outside the 30 mile criteria (ie not a local as you would think). However, with the olive oil trees in Coggeshall a farmers market selling products made from these would qualify in a farmers' market in the Haverhill area.
So the recipe for this week to be found on 2pointfiveageofman.net (later in the week I will put these on fully) is Cauliflower cheese. A very topical recipe given the news (was on BBC Breakfast but again cannot actually find the actual story on the BBC website) about early Brassica crops in Holbeach St Marks. The crops have been hit for the third year running by bad winters. They were at the point of being ploughed-in. The story was that the solution to these climate change events would be to grow the Cauliflowers in more temperate parts of the country or to use new varieties bred for the changing climate while maintaining the yield of current varieties. Any body have any old seed left from 100 years ago plus?
Sunday morning so just watching the Andrew Marr show. Very interesting set of guests? Peter Mandelson for some reason appears a little uncomfortable!
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