Anyone for tea?

A beautiful, traditional stove top kettle available next week.

In keeping with the Netherton Foundry tradition, this will, of course, come with a full set of recipes, from iced mint tea to hot toddies - there's more to life than tea....whatever the monkey says!

Check the website later this week for more news.

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Spring is in the air

The weather may not be Spring like, but it was lovely to see daffodils in bloom and the lambs out in the fields as I drove round Wales.  It got me to thinking about the news that children these days cannot identify 3 different butterflies or know an oak tree from a horse chestnut!  I may be old fashioned, but I still think these things are important and I wish they still took primary school children out on nature walks.

How else are they going to know what dragonflies and damselflies are - so beautiful with their iridescent colours and elongated bodies.  I find them fascinating,  hovering over ponds and streams and then turning so quickly and darting away in the blink of an eye.

Fortunately there is one particular damselfly that stays still long enough for you to enjoy it - our lovely stockist in Louth, Lincolnshire.  If you live nearby or are visiting the area, please go and visit Damselfly Kitchen, where you will find the Netherton Foundry cast iron products and a whole range of other goodies!  This has to be in the running for most evocative shop name and you can be guaranteed a warm welcome and great service once you walk through the door.
Update: sadly this shop has stopped selling cookware and is no longer a Netherton stockist

Looking forward to warmer weather, so that I can use the new Netherton Foundry Garden Hob, without having to wear a woolly jumper - check out the website for more information.

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Happy St David's Day

As it's St David's Day, I have devised a lovely new recipe with some leeks in it!!

LONG MYND LENTILS

 This was inspired by the delicious parsnips that arrived in my organic veg box - I get mine delivered direct from a farm in  Ombersley

Who says lentils have to be boring?

2 tblsp oil

2 leeks, cleaned and sliced

30g dried tomatoes, chopped

250g Puy lentils

Handful of kale or Cavolo Nero

3 small parsnips

200ml red wine

750ml vegetable stock

2 bay leaves

2 sticks celery, chopped

Heat the oil in the slow cooker bowl over a medium heat.  Add the leeks and cook until they are just starting to soften.  Add all the other ingredients and transfer the bowl to the heater base.

Cook on LOW for 6 - 8 hours

Serve with spiced carrot puree - boil 6 carrots until soft and drain.  Melt 50g butter and add a 1" piece of ginger, finely grated, 1 tsp ground coriander and ¼ tsp ground cinnamon.  Add the drained carrots and mash to a coarse puree.

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