Love British food...

Those lovely guys at the Love British food website have kindly chosen us as their producer of the month this month... just click on the British Food drop down menu via the link above to find their report.

lovebritishfood.co.uk is the one-stop-shop for consumers, retailers, caterers and schools wanting to enjoy the diverse and delicious food that Britain produces.

On their site you will find everything you need to know about buying British food including what logos to look for, where to buy and information about regional and seasonal varieties.

You will also find information on taking part in British Food Fortnight, the annual national celebration of British food, running from September 18th to October 3rd this year, 2010 (note to self: need to organise some thing to join the celebrations!)

eggomaniacs ?

Just in case you missed it, Tom Parker Bowles wrote an excellent piece in the Mail on Sunday on august the 1st, click on the image above and (in theory) you should be able to read it in full.... we are very luck to have so many enthusiastic supporters and even luckier if some of them are in the media, a huge flurry of interest on our website and we are delighted to report a great numbers of orders to boot!!

Can you help us to help?

We just had this email in from Sophie, we'll do our bit but maybe you can too, don't know about you but I don't think I'd be able to do what she's aiming to do! You can click on this link here to find out more about The British Hen Welfare trust

"Hi Penny and Neil,

Please forgive me for sending a bit of a cheeky email - I'm raising money for the British Hen Welfare Trust and since you understand the importance of hens being free-range, I thought I would just chance sending you this email in the hopes that you can help publicise the event or provide a small amount of sponsorship.

I have three gorgeous ex-battery hens who wouldn't be here today if not for the British Hen Welfare Trust. They rely on volunteers and donations to do their amazing work rescuing and rehoming ex-batts, advocating for British free-range eggs and farmers, and educating consumers about the reality of battery egg production. Since they are a charity, they need a lot of support to do all that so I have decided to help raise money for them by doing the Three Peaks Challenge on July 31st.

If you haven’t heard of it, it involves driving to and climbing the highest mountains in Scotland (Ben Nevis), England (Scafell Pike) and Wales (Snowdon) all in 24 hours. It’s a massive physical and mental challenge, obviously, as climbing Snowdon is hard at the best of times, not least after no sleep and two mountain climbs before it!

I’ve set up a JustGiving page at http://www.justgiving.com/sophie-3peaks and I would be incredibly grateful if The Handmade Scotch Egg Company could sponsor me a small amount or somehow publicise it in any way. Rest assured any sponsorship through Justgiving goes directly to the charity. I am aiming to raise at least £2000 for the charity, and would be grateful for any amount to really spur me on when it’s 4am and I’m only about to climb the second one of the day!

You very obviously care about ethics and ensuring you source your eggs from hens who are healthy and happy, and since I am equally passionate about meeting my fundraising target to help this fantastic charity promote free-range and end battery farming, absolutely anything you can do to help would be wonderful.

Apologies again for this out-of-the-blue email and thank you so much!

Sophie Mccoy"

Stand by your beds!

A flurry of excitement flowed through the building on Monday morning in anticipation of a visit from the renowned food writer Tom Parker Bowles.

A relaxed yet probing interview over a couple of hours confirmed his enthusiasm for good honest food has not diminished he was particularly interested in our locally sourced free range meats and eggs and like most visitors he struggled to believe that we really do make our Scotch eggs by hand... (all be it a number of pairs of hands now!)

Tom was kind enough to write a piece about us back in June 2007 with the opening line " These are some of the best Scotch eggs ever to have passed my lips" and a double page spread of our tempting breakfast pan
pictured again here for good measure

Unsurprisingly we received a great response with the hit rate on our website going ballistic. If all goes well Tom is publishing a piece in the MAIL on SUNDAY on August 1st this year, back in 2007 we were less computer savvy and were not able to get the best out of this fabulous opportunity so this time we thought we'd let everyone know, and take it as a great incentive to get all our stockists details up to date, so do take a moment to pop over to the main site and see who's near by.

If unfortunately there isn't a stockist near maybe you could suggest someone, if you let us know who and where we'll give them a call, if we are lucky enough to secure an order we'll send you a box of 6 Scotch eggs totaly free of charge as a thank you, and best of all you'll be able to get your favourites when ever you want with out the delivery charge!!

Thank you Cardiff

You never cease to amaze us, your enthusiasm, your passion and your appetites!! Another cracking show in the bay this time with the weather on our side, although a bit challenging for all the refrigeration equipment around the site.

We have been stretching ourselves a bit this year with the 2010 road trip having already taken in, London, Oxford, Builth, Tewkesbury, Malvern, Builth, Gatwick, Edinburgh and Hay with some mixed results, it was a pleasure to be back in the Bay amongst friends.

Oliver, Jenny and Kenji all had the chance at last to see just how scary busy can mean, thankfully Helz got back from Uni just in time to help steady things along.

Unfortunately I forgot the camera this year so I thought you might enjoy this image from our first visit to the show a few years ago, these fine ladies were not around this year

Helz has arrived and set up at the GREAT YORKSHIRE SHOW, so I'd better sign off now and go and clean the kitchen floor so I can head off tomorrow to join the fun, maybe see you there... or at another event soon

Hamper Draw Winner

a little late to say the very least! ...following a rather prolonged delay our intended Christmas Hamper draw finally took place at Easter....

sorry, in truth, in all the excitement around Christmas the draw was in fact overlooked but gladly not forgotten, so we were delighted when Sarah, who had bought her raffle ticket here at the Eggshed called today to accept her prize. It made it all the more special that she had forgotten about buying her ticket making winning all the more exciting, so all she needs now is a good reason to party... looks like the next family birthday gathering will be supplemented with a load of lovely treats.

The winning hamper contains; 12 WeeOnes, 12 WeeBeasties, 6 Scotch Eggs, 500g Jumble, 200g Tamari Seeds and some pickled eggs.

The Hamper raffle was open to visitors to Scotch Egg HQ from the Egg-stavegganza weekend to Christmas last year raising £48.00 for helping re-home hard working battery hens.

Thank you one and all, the 2010 raffle will be launched at this years Egg-stravegganza on August 29th, with the draw taking place (will keep everything crossed we get it right this time) on December 11th so we can deliver on the 23rd.

Cheers from the 2009 Scotcheggers!

scotch eggs are out of this world!

Thanks to our expat friend Becca, we now know where the Doctor gets all that energy from... just click on the title link above to read one of Matt's first interviews as Doctor Who 2010.... so it's obviously not just a coincidence that the doctors often have Scottish roots, think a raggedy scotch egg is due on the cards don't you?