Milford on Sea Food Week Tops 100 Events!

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:10:20 +0000

The Milford on Sea Food Week has now grown to over 100 individual events. The latest addition being a village ‘Come Dine with Me!’ event. Loosely based on the TV series, the event enables people to get together to show off their home cooking skills & to have a bit of culinary fun with friends at the same time. The numerous local eateries are also putting on a number of themed nights, in addition to also having ‘daily dining offers’. To name but a few, diners can experience ‘Thai Dancing’, ‘Italian Opera’, or even ‘Indian Elvis’ – all as they enjoy a quality meal!

The Sunday Food Market is also proving extremely popular. In order to accommodate the 30 plus product stalls, the market has had to be expanded to include the village green as well as the High Street. The market will have an array of local produce, from cheese & savouries, to cakes & jam. Hot food will also be available to suit all tastes, from chicken tikka & naan bread, to hot sweet crepes. Added to this, the market has a pottery wheel the kids can have a try on, plus live music from the New Forest Plonkers.

Throughout the Food Week there are also daily events for the kids, cookery demonstrations, educational food talks & lots more. There is certainly something for everyone to enjoy.

The Food Week idea was generated by the Milford on Sea Community Tourism Group, which consists of a group of local business owners in the tourism industry & is chaired by the Parish Council.

Organiser David Long said “ It is great to see just about everyone in the village either getting directly involved in a Food Week event, or supporting us by planning to come & eat!’

Milford on Sea Food Week itself runs from the Bank Holiday Monday 5^th April until Sunday 11^th April 2010.

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Milford on Sea Food Week 5th – 11th April

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:06:29 +0000

Milford on Sea Food Week is a community event celebrating all that is great about food. The village will be alive with a wide variety of activities for everyone in the family. The website contains a full programme of daily events with a main family attraction being the Sunday Food Market. The Milford on Sea Food Market is an exciting event which spans the length of the High Street, & also covers the village green.

The event runs from 10am to 3pm on Sunday 11th April, and is the finale to the 70 events & activities that will be taking place on a daily basis throughout Milford on Sea Food Week. The Food Market has around thirty five different stalls, & is a great celebration of all that is great about local food. The stalls feature a tremendous variety of local produce, including chutneys & cooking sauces made in the village, jams, English cheeses, New Forest goats cheese, venison, smoked fish, pies, pasties, savoury treats, olives, and English wine. For the sweet toothed there are handmade chocolates from New Milton, double baked biscuits from Lymington, bags of sweets, candy floss, handmade fudge, exotic desserts & delicious cakes from Yum of Milford on Sea. No one visiting will go hungry, as the market offers hot snacks like chicken tikka, paella, hog roast, and sweet or savoury hot crepes. The market even has a Children’s Pottery Experience, food related ceramic pottery, & contemporary local paintings.

For the ‘green visitors’, The New Forest Transition Group have a seedling exchange, and the New Forest Park Authority will have a stand discussing Food Miles & the New Forest Marque. There will also be presentations for the local schools ‘Kids Egg Painting Competition’, the village ‘Best Breakfast Competition’ & the prize winner’s draw for the ‘Scrummy Food Raffle’. To keep everyone entertained there is also a Recipe Book Swap for everyone to join in with, and The New Forest Plonkers will be providing live music in their unique ‘agricultural’ style.

We will also have lots of our village shops opening especially for the day, providing fresh fruit & vegetables, fresh flowers, delicatessen counter, a Food in Art Exhibition, gifts for the home, local art and beauty treatments, you can even go back to your childhood in the Milford Models Shop! Plus of course, the village’s tea shops & pubs offer full English breakfasts, Sunday roast dinners, snacks, Danish pastries, cakes, afternoon teas and continental coffee’s. With so much happening this really is a day not to miss!

Milford on Sea Food Week itself runs from the Bank Holiday Monday 5th April until Sunday 11th April 2010 and has daily dining offers & themed events in all restaurants & cafes, cookery experiences & demonstrations, educational events & talks, children’s fun cooking competitions, & the chance to buy local produce at our very own Food Market on the closing Sunday. Over 70 individual events are already planned throughout the week which runs every day from Easter Bank Holiday Monday through to the following Sunday every year.

David Long one of the organising team said “Milford on Sea is a great place for eating & a fun place to visit, so we wanted to celebrate this with a series of varied food related events around the village for all locals & visitors to enjoy & learn. Why not come & join in the fun!”

Milford on Sea Food Week is organised by the Milford on Sea Community Tourism Group and all profits will be donated to Milford on Sea Community Centre.

Please visit the Milford on Sea Food Week website to find out more: www.milfordonseafoodweek.org

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Milford on Sea Food Week Tops 100 Events!

Milford on Sea Food Week 5th – 11th April