Cold mornings, warm hearts

I've had to scrape the ice off the windscreen of the little blue van for the first time this winter. Just the weather for slow cooked dinners. 
It was however a truly beautiful morning when I set off for Devon and Cornwall, a superb sunrise, followed by a clear, cold sunny Autumn day. 
I really enjoyed my trip around these South Western counties and loved seeing the sea.  Great to get a new stockist in Barnstaple, please go and visit Pots'n'Pans and if you are in Falmouth, drop in to a-dept on the High Street.
As for the warm hearts, would you believe I met a really helpful traffic warden in Falmouth - thanks for the perfect directions.
And also a huge thank you to all of you out there who have helped, advised and supported us in so many different ways.  In particular, thanks to Alan and Sarah at Trevor Mottram in Tunbridge Wells, as well as Halina at the Gourmet Cook Shop in Nantwich for all the useful contacts and to Sarah at Cooks Emporium in Knutsford for all the promotion work she has done.

And a thank you to everyone who has offered me a cup of coffee on my tour of the country - you know who you are!

New recipe coming soon - watch this space!

From Bridgnorth to France

Thanks to our great friends at Bridgnorth Delicatessen - purveyors of fine cheeses, olives and charcuterie, as well as cast iron slow cookers - a Netherton Foundry cast iron tagine has now taken up residence in France!  And here is what they said about it:

"Just to say I've received my electric tagine today and the quality of it is absolutely fantastic. Just love it, thank you. We are all so busy that we only seem to have time to complain, so when something stunning arrives (not very often these days) I do try to say so. If this is your quality then you would be a real runner against 'le creuset'."

 

Drop in to their shop and sample their wares, they are too tempting to resist.

The Adventures of the Little Blue Van

One of the very first shops to stock the Netherton Foundry Slow Cooker was Timmis in the delightful Georgian town of Bewdley on the River Severn.  Here is a photo of the window display, which has caught the eye of lots of passers by. 

This is a great shop, only a few miles down the road from us.  They always seem to have whatever I am looking for and the staff are so knowledgeable - I'd rather go to a shop like this than somewhere like B&Q every time. 

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