Enter our recipe competition and win a 2 night break
Jul 3 2009 by Jane Hall, The Journal
A luxurious stay in one of the North East’s top hotels, fine dining and the chance to meet Michelin-starred kitchen maestro Kenny Atkinson, is just one of the fantastic prizes up for grabs in a joint Journal Taste/Heighley Gate competition to hunt down a treasured recipe that offers a true taste of home. Jane Hall reports.
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ARE you proud of the plethora of fine ingredients grown, reared and produced in the North East, keen on cooking and have a favourite recipe you would like to share with fellow food lovers?
If the answer is a resounding yes to all the above, then read on.
For The Journal’s Taste North East England campaign has teamed up with Heighley Gate Nursery and Garden Centre to help celebrate the region’s glorious food in all its forms.
Over the next four weeks we’re inviting you to send in your favourite ancient and modern recipes to be in with a chance of winning a fabulous line-up of prizes in our A Taste of Home challenge.
At stake is a luxury two night break at Seaham Hall Hotel in County Durham where you will not only be treated to dinner on one evening in the North East’s only Michelin-starred restaurant, the White Room, but have the chance to meet top celebrity chef Kenny Atkinson - and perhaps learn some valuable cooking tips.
But that’s not all. The winner will also receive £100 worth of gift vouchers, a hamper of quality locally produced foods stocked in Heighley Gate’s in-store farm shop and see their recipe put on the menu for one week at the centre’s restaurant.
Two runners-up will receive £100 worth of gift vouchers, a raised vegetable bed and a £50 gardening hamper.
The top three dishes will then be made into glossy recipe cards, which will be available for a small donation with funds raised going to St Oswald’s Hospice in Gosforth, Newcastle.
Whether you make a mouthwatering steak and ale pie, warming game stew or scrumptious tea-time treat, we would like you to share your most treasured recipe with a wider audience.
It can be a tried-and-tested family favourite that has come down through the generations or your own modern take on a dining classic. Whatever the recipe that sets your taste buds tingling, it must be original and not be taken from a food book and champion at least one quality North East ingredient. That could be vegetables and fruit grown in your own allotment or garden, cheese from one of the artisan producers bringing national accolades to the region, a locally brewed real ale, freshly laid free range eggs or flour milled at Gilchesters or Heatherslaw.
Credit will be given to those who go the extra mile, however, by using ingredients they have grown themselves. Grow your own can be anything from root vegetables and seasonal fruits to herbs raised in a pot on the kitchen windowsill.
Heighley Gate is currently running a Grow Your Own campaign to encourage people to adopt the self-sufficiency lifestyle epitomised by Barbara and Tom Good in the popular 1970s sitcom, The Good Life, as rising food prices, the recession and the need to tackle climate change, all make themselves felt.
