When I first heard about the Foodies100 event at River Cottage I was so excited. It sounded perfect for me. Over the years I’ve watched the TV programmes and followed Hugh’s culinary adventures. As you can see from this little selection from our bookshelf, we have a lot of the cookbooks too. The River Cottage Meat Book and the Fish Book are real staples in our house. They get consulted whenever we try anything different with fish or meat.
Going back to 2011 we were staying on the Dorset coast for a holiday. As it happened it coincided with my birthday and for my birthday meal that year we went to the River Cottage Canteen in Axminster. We popped along at lunchtime, as we had our son with us, and found it a real breath of fresh air. Great food served in a friendly way. There were no stiff white tablecloths and we felt very at home there with a 4-year-old in tow. The food was great too: interesting, high quality and nicely presented.
Since then I’ve been promising myself a trip to either the Canteen again or maybe to River Cottage HQ to do one of their food courses. I haven’t got around to managing it yet, but I’m thinking the trip I’m going on this week might prove to be inspiration. A car load of food bloggers are heading down from the Midlands to meet up with other food bloggers from all over the country. We’ll be learning about making bread and making butter (really interested by that). There’ll be lunch of course – I am looking forward to that. Then there’s food photography in the afternoon. Then back in the car for the long drive home. It sounds like the perfect day.
Sounds like you’ll have a fab time 🙂 I love Hugh 🙂
This sounds like it will be a fab event – enjoy yourself and can’t wait to hear about what you get up to x
green with Envy. I love HRW and his veg book is one of my cooking bibles!
I’ll await your blog post afterwards so I can read about your adventures! It sounds like a wonderful day with good blogger friends and great food!!
hope you have an amazing time, i adore River Cottage .. although his pigeon pittas did make me gag at the thought!
I wish I was a foodie blogger just to be able to go on this trip – making bread and butter sounds right up my street! Have a fab time x
I hope you have an amazing time, it sounds like a fantastic plan! x
We have a local River Cottage Canteen but we still haven’t tried it. I hope you have a fantastic day on your trip, it sounds like a great day and one I’d love to go on.
I am so excited as it is fairly close to home for me – see you there xx
I hope you have a wonderful day – it sound like it’s going to be fab.
Gutted I’ve had to pull out have a great time.
I haven’t watched much as it is often meaty, but I loved that one on lunches he did and found it so inspiring. Look forward to hearing all about this one!
Oh how fabulous Erica. Yesterday sounded like it was amazing, I hope you had a brilliant time. The food looked utterly divine and made me crave delicious treats all day! We ended up ordering a dinner from CAU to be delivered though *nom nom*
How exciting! Hope it was fun!
I hope you had a brilliant time – I ate in the River Cottage cafe a while ago and it was delicious.
What a fantastic experience. I saw pics on the day and it looked great fun.
I am so jealous that you got to go. I watched all the wonderful photos’ go past on my instagram stream and it looked wonderful
I sooooooo want to do a cookery course at River Cottage!