The farmers market at Tunbridge Wells will be open for a special Christmas event this Monday the 22nd of December. We would love you all to come down and share some mulled wine and  mince pies with us – as well as our special Christmas Menu.

Our famous Salt Beef Sandwich – served with Chipolte Coleslaw and Pickles on Rye

We will have our two usual best sellers. Our 8 hour smoked pulled pork, which I know many of you love and our famous Salt Beef on Rye with pickles and Mustard sauce. Added to that we have a few Christmas specials – including our own home made mulled wine with Mince pies as a snack and a chance to stop and say hello. Our Christmas dish this Monday will be a Rotisserie Turkey with Chorizo, Apple Chipolte Coleslaw, Cranberry Sauce with an option of Fondu Cheese on top. We have made this before and it is very very tasty.

Last week we sold a new dish for us, a very beefy and spicy Chillie con Carne. It was a big hit, with a few customers coming back for second helpings – so we will be doing the same this Monday, we serve it with a butter roll and dotted with sour cream and chives.

Our Home Made Pea and Ham soup will be served with a fresh butter roll – perfect for keeping the cold at Bay.

And finally to keep the cold at bay – we have on offer our home made piping hot Ham and Pea soup, with chunks of ham and and real peas. You all know our cooking by now so you know it will be generously packed with ham and flavour.

So I hope you can come and join us for a mulled wine or a sherry and some mince pies and of course we would love you to try and special Christmas Menu. See you in Tunbridge Wells from 0900 to 1500 on Monday.

It’s great experimenting with food and coming up with something new. As we returned to base after our last event on Friday we noticed as a couple of remaining hocks cooled down in their cooking liquid (Beer), it formed a fantastically tasty aspic. So with the remaining hock meat and some cooked carrot I made an hock in aspic a bit like the French classic “Ham and Parsley in Aspic” – added a bit of salt and lots of pepper – it could have been crap – you never know. But even I had to admit this is one of the best things I’ve tasted this year – served with a little mustard and cornichon – fantastic. I’m going to make this as an entree dish for the summer.

Pork Hock and Carrots in Aspic from the “Deli Truck”

Pork Hock and Carrots in Aspic from the “Deli Truck”

Hope you can join us this week at Tunbridge Wells Farmers Market – we had a great time two weeks ago and met some fabulously well informed foodies, including a former New York City cop – who appraised our salt beef sandwich as one of the best he’s ever had. The Menu this Saturday (25th of October) will be our regular largish meals – Our famous Salt beef sandwich and our 8 hour smoked pulled pork sandwich. Also we realise that a lot of people want just a snack or something small to warm up with so we will be doing a Boston seafood chowder, jam packed with white fish, mussels, salmon and cream and served with crackers or our own home baked mini chowder buns. Our our fish and seafood are both sustainable and organic.

Boston Seafood chowder

And we will also be baking one of Americas’s most famous comfort foods – a cheesy, creamy “mac and cheese” Or as we’d say over here a maccaroni and cheese bake. We start this with a creamy white sauce to which we add obscene amounts of organic cheddar, parmesan and mozzarella and top with a crunchy topping for even more flavour. Both these smaller dishes will be available for under £5.00.

mac and cheese

Always looking for more and better flavours – so cooked this up for lunch today. Little gem lettuce tossed with some of our home made coleslaw and topped with our cajun blackened sea-bass. Wow fabulous light lunch with a crunch from the lettuce topped with the lime-mayo sauce from the coleslaw – topped with crispy spicy fish. I think we may be doing this from the truck at some time in the future.