"Udderly" wonderful food!

VERY long, and VERY wet, day today. Tough morning followed by long drive to Weymouth for lunchtime meeting. There is one quality in others that doesn't sit well with me and that is arrogance. There was arrogance in abundance at my meeting today. One thing I have learnt is that those who shout the loudest about how brilliant they are probably aren't! Those who sit quietly making carefully considered, intelligent and astute comments are usually the ones with the most knowledge and likely to be working twice as hard as those making the most noise!! Meeting finished about 3 and as over hour back to school and the weather was frightful I headed home. I am usually too late finishing work to catch one of my favourite foodie haunts but tonight they were still open when I drove past, or "didnt" drive past as it happened!!!

Opened in 2005, The Udder Farm Shop was the brainchild of Jane and Brian Down when they saw a lack of opportunity for buying local produce and few places for the local community to meet. Built from the ground up to their own specifications there is now a restaurant, deli, shop and butchery. Themselves farmers they are able to ensure that all the beef or pork for sale in the farm shop or cooked in the restaurant is raised on their own farm next door, or bought in from the local village. In fact, all the meats and products are sourced from the local area where feasible whether pork, biscuits, tea or paintings!

New today was a range of amazing spices to add to cooked pasta and potatoes to give them a little 'kick'!! I bought tasters for two called "Regal Red Sea"and "Sassy Sweet Potato"along with some amazing marshmallow cookies and a 'very expensive' jar of handmade real ale pickle. £9- crikey maybe is just as well they are usually closed on my way home ;-)