Two weekend ago Abergavenny staged its now annual Food Festival, a fantastic gathering of chefs, cooks, writers, producers, farmers, foragers and quite simply anyone who enjoys good food. This event happens every September and is always worth a visit. Gliffaes Head Chef, Karl Cheetham, gave two demonstations during the weekend, one of which we filmed. [...]

Abergavenny Food Festival Abergavenny is just ten miles from Gliffaes and is the epi-centre for all things gastronomic in South Wales and the annual food festival is being billed as, ‘ the Glastonbury of food festivals’. The festival kicks off next weekend,the 15th and 16th September , taking over the town centre for the weekend. At the [...]

Our Own Rare Breed Pigs on the Menu In January of this year we bought two Oxford Sandy and Black pigs as weaners to fatten up for the kitchen.  Susie and I had never kept pigs before but were assured by our daughter, Olivia, that it was easy as she had been in charge of [...]

Great time of  year for all things fresh & green. The hot weather in April has brought the growing season forward by about two or three weeks so there are lots of fresh and seasonal ingredients for  Karl and his team of chefs to get creative with.  So recently we have had Wye Valley asparagus, organic rocket,beetroot, wild [...]