Sunday 10 August 2014

Clitheroe Food Festival

We had a great day out yesterday – we went for a drive in the hills and ended up in the beautiful market town of Clitheroe, which was having a food festival. I was told by some locals that it’s the biggest food festival in Lancashire and I can well believe it – I’ve never seen so many food stalls in one place before, showcasing so much wonderful food! 

Keith had the great idea of buying one of everything that took our fancy and having a little each so that we could sample a broad range of things. And I have to say that everything we tried was lovely! Ben’s favourite was some delicious creamy, crumbly Lancashire cheese produced by Leagrams Organic Cheeses – a small dairy located in Chipping, a picturesque village nestled in the hills between Garstang and Clitheroe. Keith’s favourite was a scrumptiously irresistible chocolate tart from Posh Tarts, based in Lytham. Crissy’s favourite was a mouth-watering chocolate cake from Apricot Meringue - a wonderful little coffee shop in Clitheroe that we like to visit when we're in town. Simon and Sarah’s favourite was some absolutely gorgeous Mrs Dowson’s Ice Cream produced locally in the Ribble Valley. And my favourite was some scrummy chocolate from Choc Amor located in Botany Bay, Lancashire. After stocking up on our favourites we had a walk around the beautiful castle at the top of the town and then we went down to the river for a picnic. 

On the way home we stopped by my friend Nikki’s house and dropped off a birthday present for her youngest, Jessica. Ben and I bought her a lovely hand smocked blue stripes summer dress from Cachet Kids (my favourite online children’s clothes retailer). I know that Jessica loves the colour blue and I thought that it would go well with the blue T-bar shoes in matt leather and knee high pom pom socksin baby blue that her mother bought her recently.