Articles & Recipes

It’s asparagus season - and we believe British is best! As the image above shows, the home-grown spears (top) are much larger than their imported counterparts, with a greater spear-to-stem ratio, too. The British asparagus season lasts for just a few short weeks, so enjoy them while stocks last! Check out our top 3 tasty asparagus recipes below...

With days getting longer and temperatures creeping up, we naturally move to put away the stew pots and casserole dishes, and give our weekly menus a shake up in favour of something lighter. We’ve put together our top 5 recipes for Spring to help you ring the changes, and celebrate our seasonal heroes!

It’s hard to beat a freshly-toasted hot cross bun with butter or clotted cream, and for that reason it’s pretty rare to find any leftovers round here! However, those of you capable of exercising a bit more restraint may find yourselves with spare hot cross buns sitting sadly in the bread bin, once the Easter festivities are over, and if they’re too stale to freeze it can be hard to know quite what to do with them.

To celebrate National Butcher's Week (Monday 4th - Sunday 10th March) we want to showcase the talented team behind the Greendale butcher counter.

With a little adult help (though Mums are officially excused!), children can follow this easy recipe to make a personal, home-made gift that tastes every bit as good as it looks.

If you can’t gift a box of home-made cookies, why not gift the next-best thing; the certainty of home-made cookies in the near future!

Sidbury Mill flour has a nice fine texture and plenty of protein so you may be surprised that you can use it on its own and you will get nice open textured and well risen bread.

These Welsh pancakes are almost a cross between a crumpet and a buttermilk drop scone and are traditionally eaten on Shrove Tuesday in Wales.

This recipe is much less time consuming than an authentic sourdough and gives a really nice sourdough style loaf, that looks the part and tastes great.

Typically made with pan-fried beef steak and prawns, Surf & Turf – or ‘Beef & Reef’ if you’re Australian - is a perfect partnership between fantastic farm produce and high-quality fresh fish (both of which you’ll find in abundance here at Greendale!).

Here at Greendale, we believe it’s incredibly important – now more than ever – to support the superb local growers and producers on our doorstep here in the West Country. To this end, each week we’ll be featuring a different small business, all located within 30 miles of our Farm Shop, and all brilliant examples of the wonderful produce available locally.

Even if you’re not sure what blinis are, there’s a good chance you’ve eaten one at a party or buffet recently - these tiny pancakes are perfect vehicles for all manner of toppings, sweet and savoury, making them a popular choice for canapes, finger-food and starters.