We're Award Winners!

After nearly four years of trading now (wow) we finally bit the bullet and decided to enter some of our own lines into the Taste of the West 2012 Awards. Of course we have always been confident we are producing some of the finest food from our farm but it's always nice to have someone else tell you that too!

Back in May Mum and Dad were armed with a few choice lines and headed down through deepest darkets Somerset, bound for Exeter where the judging takes place. An anxious few weeks awaited but last week the results were announce and we were thrilled to find out we picked up two awards!

Firstly we won a highly coveted Gold Award for our Homemade Chicken Liver & Port pate. This is one of our favourite homemade products and is our chef Ollie's own recipe which he has been making for the shop for a while now. The judges said....

"The aroma is very fresh and of nice mellow pate. The appearance has a little hint of pink coming through and the pate is a lovely colour. It has a nice smooth texture. The taste is very nice, it leaves no aftertaste (like some chicken liver pate can!) - it has a powerful flavour and dissolves on the tongue." I couldnt agree more! 

Next up was our Silver Award winning Dry Aged Sirloin of Beef. Our butcher Ed picked out a beautiful, dry aged sirloin from one of our equally beautiful Aberdeen Angus carcasses to be judged. The judge's remarks were as follows...

" The aroma was good, fresh, beefy and well aged. Nice appearance both raw and cooked. The texture was fairly good and reasonably succulent. Taste was good - nice 'beefy' flavour"

Our Angus beef dry-ageing on the bone

One of the organisers of the event also mentioned that for us two win not one but two awards on our first attempt is an excellent result!

Farmers, butchers and chefs alike are all extremely proud of this achievment as we have put a lot of effort into our home produced meat along with the food that we are now producing in our farm kitchen. With these awards now to our name we know we are on the right track and hope for more success in the coming years! Thanks to everybody too for your much valued feedback as we firmly believe all our customers have been the best judges anyway!

All the best

Tom