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Boxing Day

Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 09:05PM
Tags: cheeses, cider apple, country cheeses, crispy coating, delicious recipes, ducks and geese, good food, hams, honey glaze, ribs of beef
Filed in: Pipers Farm, Recipes, Christmas

Boxing Day saw us all having brisk refreshing walks on the beach at Exmouth or up on Exmoor.

The stock were to feed, and that gave a chance for more tractor driving lessons for young cousins! A lunchtime snack was perfect cheeses. Once again we knew they would be perfect, because they came from Elise and Gary at Country Cheeses www.countrycheeses.co.uk. We have had complete faith in their skill as artisan cheesemongers for many years now. By late afternoon, the wood oven was in action again, and this time to bake one of our cooked hams, with plenty of Â our honey glaze to spoon over. The result was as mouth-watering as it was gorgeous to look at!It always conjures up visions of our saddleback pigs in the cider apple orchards - foraging for windfalls in the dappled sunlight. Â They grow slowly and the ham was meltingly soft and full of the moist deliciousness. .. . . with a crispy coating - there were many murmurs of complete satisfaction around the big table. Really good food makes a really special occasion.

We have had many very positive comments about our turkeys, hams, beef and ducks and geese. They are always very welcome and give us all a real boost. Â Many of our customers and their guests have declared the Pipers Farm ham or turkey or ribs of beef as the best they have ever eaten. Â For all of us in the Pipers Farm team, that is special indeed.

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Christmas Dinner

Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 08:54PM
Tags: christmas day meal, christmas dinner, christmas turkey, dear friend, delicious recipes, festive meals, marfona potatoes, memorable meals, pigs in blankets, sprouts, swede, turkeys
Filed in: Pipers Farm, Simplest Christmas Turkey Recipes, Christmas,

So, what else was involved on our Christmas day meal?

We par-boiled the Marfona potatoes (from a sack from www.greysfarm.co.uk given to us by a dear friend from Cornwall), and then sliced them almost through crossways before roasting them in our goose fat.The carrot and swede from Carol at www.culmvalleyveg.co.uk, was blended with lots of butter and a generous twist of black pepper! And Carol's sprouts were as good as they get!The Turkey emerged from the oven and we left it to rest in the kitchen. We added the juices from the turkey itself to the stock which had bubbled away on the chimney!

We popped the "pigs in blankets" into the wood oven and they sizzled and crisped within a few minutes!At this moment it felt slightly poignant, as it always does! Â The thought of the hundreds of homes where Pipers Farm turkeys were being served, and as always we felt a strong sense of responsibility, hoping everyone was enjoying their special festive meals as we were!Especially this year we were conscious that we had launched a totally new concept with our "Simplest Christmas Turkey".Deep down, though, we feel confident that we have done everything possible to give our customers memorable meals .. . . . and right now the sense of expectation in our kitchen was an exciting reminder of why we feel so passionate about our work!The meal was really sensational, and even after all the build up . . . we loved it!No doubt the quality of the singing once weâ€™d opened our "musical crackers" was a lot less impressive than the meal we had just enjoyed!