We receive 100s of enquiries for Cheese Wedding Cakes, and who wouldn't want one? An alternative to your regular fruit cake, this savoury beauties can be served as the cheese or dessert course, look the part, and are the perfect munchies after happy champagne swigging. ... read more
Northumberland Cheese Company has had a fantastically successful summer of awards this year. We began with the Artisan Cheese Awards in Melton Mowbray (they were at the end of April, but we think that almost counts as summer!), where we were delighted to gain a Bronze award for our Brinkburn in the best goats' cheeese category, and we won a silver award for best newcomer for Northumberlandia; we were especially excited about this, as Northumberlandia is a new face in the cheese world this year. Next, we had the Great Yo... read more
Brinkburn, our mould-ripened Goats' cheese, is stealing all of the limelight at Northumberland Cheese this year! It has just won Gold at the Guild of Fine Food World Cheese Awards, for hard-pressed goats' cheese. We were overjoyed with this accolade! It joins a few awards in our Brinkburn trophy cabinet, including Gold at the Nantwich International Cheese Awards, Gold at the Great Yorkshire Show (Speciality Goats' cheese), and Gold at Dumfries and Lockerbie. We are very proud of Brinkburn this year! It is unique as a goats' cheese, becaus... read more
Nicholson’s Butchers in Whitley Bay, headed-up by Kathryn Nicholson, submitted a home-made individual Steak and Blagdon Blue Cheese Pie in the Hot Pies and Bakery Category at Q Guild Smithfield Awards, and was awarded a perfect score in the category. Kathryn explained her inspiration:‘This product uses locally sourced Blagdon Blue Cheese, inspired by the need for warm, comforting foods.’ This merited a diamond award:we're so proud! ... read more
It was Noel, our jolly farmers market man who introduced us to Brian at Northumbrian Preserves. Another regular at farmers markets across the region, Noel got to know Brian and his wonderful chutneys and jams, and thought it might be something we would be interested in. We are always trying to source products f... read more
I think this is such a simple recipe but with loads of great tastes and complementary flavours. An easy work night meal or spruce it up a bit for a fab starter. I use ... read more
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