Monday
- Garlic mushrooms on sourdough toastgarlic and thyme mushrooms · wilted spinach · toasted sourdough
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Newcastle: its food, and a week to cook at home.
Tyneside food was made for hard work: bread, peas, ham and smoked fish.
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What people eat here
Dishes from Newcastle
No. 1
Stottie cake
A heavy, flat loaf, baked low in the oven, split and filled with ham and pease pudding.
No. 2
Pease pudding
Split peas cooked soft into a spread. An old rhyme calls it pease pudding hot, pease pudding cold.
No. 3
Singin' hinny
A griddle scone with currants that sings as it sizzles.
No. 4
Pan haggerty
Layers of potato, onion and cheese fried slowly in one pan, from Northumberland.
What grows here, and when
North Sea fish all year; potatoes, onions and leeks through the winter.
Craster kippers come from the Northumberland coast to the north, and the North Sea gives cod, haddock and crab.
Seven days, seven menus
A sample week from our recipes
A week to cook at home that suits Newcastle and its seasons, using only recipes on this site. Each day reads in the order you eat.
Tuesday
- Pea and mint soupsweet garden peas · fresh mint · olive oil
- Ploughman's plate with quick pickled onionsmature cheddar · crusty bread · pink pickled onions
Wednesday
- Smoked mackerel pâté with toastsmoked mackerel · lemon and chive · sourdough toast
- Crisp hake with minty crushed peascrisp-skin hake · minty crushed peas · lemon new potatoes
Thursday
- Leek and potato soupsilky leek and potato · snipped chives · green olive oil
- Jacket potatoes with smoky homemade beanscrisp jacket potato · smoky tomato beans · chives
Friday
- Roast chicken thighs with leeks and potatoesgolden chicken thighs · sweet roast leeks · crisp potatoes
- Creamy mashed potatoessilky mash · warm butter · chives
Saturday
- Thai green vegetable currygreen curry and coconut · garden vegetables · thai basil and lime
- Steamed jasmine ricefragrant jasmine rice · steamed under the lid · fluffed with a fork
Sunday
- Steak with peppercorn sauce and watercressseared sirloin · cracked peppercorn cream · peppery watercress
- Crisp roast potatoes with rosemary and garliccrackled roast potatoes · rosemary · soft roasted garlic
- Strawberry Eton messsummer strawberries · vanilla cream · crushed meringue
We have no recipe yet for stottie cake, pease pudding or pan haggerty.
