Monday
- Garlic mushrooms on sourdough toastgarlic and thyme mushrooms · wilted spinach · toasted sourdough
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Norwich: its food, and a week to cook at home.
A fine old city in the middle of some of England's richest farmland, with the Norfolk coast a short drive away.
The photograph is AI-generated.
What people eat here
Dishes from Norwich
No. 1
Mustard
Colman's mustard was made in and around Norwich for about two hundred years, from mustard seed grown on Norfolk farms.
No. 2
Cromer crab
Small, sweet brown crabs from the coast north of the city.
No. 3
Norfolk turkey
Norfolk has raised turkeys for Christmas for centuries. The Norfolk Black is one of the oldest breeds.
No. 4
Norwich Market
The open market below City Hall has traded for about nine hundred years.
What grows here, and when
Asparagus in May and June, samphire in summer, crab from spring to autumn.
Norfolk grows barley, sugar beet, potatoes and asparagus, and its coast lands crab and samphire.
Seven days, seven menus
A sample week from our recipes
A week to cook at home that suits Norwich and its seasons, using only recipes on this site. Each day reads in the order you eat.
Tuesday
- Courgette, pea and mint frittatagolden courgette · sweet peas · lemon and mint
- Green leaf salad with mustard dressingsoft garden leaves · cucumber · mustard dressing
Wednesday
- Roast chicken thighs with leeks and potatoesgolden chicken thighs · sweet roast leeks · crisp potatoes
- Crisp roast potatoes with rosemary and garliccrackled roast potatoes · rosemary · soft roasted garlic
Thursday
- 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
Friday
- Miso glazed salmon with sesame greenswhite miso glaze · grilled salmon · sesame greens
Saturday
- Jacket potatoes with smoky homemade beanscrisp jacket potato · smoky tomato beans · chives
Sunday
- Steak with peppercorn sauce and watercressseared sirloin · cracked peppercorn cream · peppery watercress
- Creamy mashed potatoessilky mash · warm butter · chives
- Strawberry Eton messsummer strawberries · vanilla cream · crushed meringue
Our green leaf salad has a mustard dressing. We have no recipe yet for crab.
