The Brecks Food Festival

Started with a bang at the Harvest Festival in the beautiful church of St Peter and St Pauls which is in the heart of the market town of Swaffham. It was organised by the staff and pupils of The Sacred Heart Convent which is also situated in the town. All the baskets of fruit and vegetables that had been donated by pupils and parents were auctioned off over the rest of the weekend to raise money for the home hospice and the church maintenence fund.

The festival was officially opened that evening by Dr Pixie Mckenna of 'Embarassing Bodies' fame and our local MP Liz Truss both of whom were guests at the The Porkers Pop Up Restaurant that followed as were The Simonds Family. George, Paddy, Sarah and I were lucky enough to spend the evening with the guests of honour as well as Sr Francis and other members of staff from Sacred Heart.

The theme of the 'pop up' was 'A taste of the Brecks' and featured Scotts Field belly of pork and Heygates potatoes as well as Tim Kinnairds special Brecks Macarons, an amazing crayfish soup and Brecks English wines.

We ate some great food prepared by Head Chef, Sam Bryant of Strattons who was ably assisted by Mary Kemp and Vanessa Scott as well as pupils of The Sacred Heart. We also had a lot of fun with the other guests, chatting about Baltimore & Sherkin Island in South West Ireland, The Dalai Lama , pre-school education ....and food of course!

Saturday evening was spent in the company of a very old friend, Sarah Mills and her husband, Vic again at The Assembly rooms, this time at a talk given by James Parry about the history of The Brecks heathland.

 


We were joined again the following day by Sarah & Vic as they helped us to talk to people at the farmers market about Susan (one of our large black sows) and her litter of piglets who had come to Swaffham Market for the day ....so without more ado let the pictures paint a thousand words ....