The Broad Palate – Nov ’24

Bonfire Pizza Beans – feeds 4-6

Real comfort food, and a great one to come home to after bonfire night celebrations – good on its own or with sausages/ bacon/ toast/ fried eggs/ baked potatoes, etc.! For a non-veggie option, add some cubed, fried pancetta or chorizo before topping with the cheese. Freezes well.

  • Olive oil
  • 1 medium onion
  • 2 celery stalks
  • 1 large carrot, all finely chopped
  • 2 large garlic cloves, crushed
  • ¼ teaspoon dried chilli flakes
  • 1 heaped teaspoon sweet smoked paprika (optional)
  • 1 teaspoon dried oregano
  • 2 tins chopped tomatoes
  • 2 tablespoons tomato purée
  • 2 x 400g tins butter beans
  • 100g kale (leaves only) or baby spinach, chopped
  • 12 sliced black olives
  • 150ml vegetable or chicken stock
  • 1 tablespoon sugar or sweetener
  • salt and black pepper to taste
  • 200g grated hard mozzarella
  • 40g grated Parmesan

Method:

Fry the onion, celery and carrot in a good glug of olive oil over a medium heat for around 15 minutes until softened but not too browned.
Add the garlic, chilli flakes and smoked paprika if using, cook for a further minute. Add a splash of water to loosen any tasty burnt bits.
Simmer for 2 minutes, then add the oregano, tomato purée and tomatoes, plus the olives and the kale or spinach.
Heat your oven to 210C/190Fan or Gas 7.
Stir in the butter beans. Add the stock little by little to the mixture – the sauce should be fairly thick – go by eye.
The beans should not be swimming in sauce. Season well with salt, pepper and sugar to taste.  Allow to bubble gently for 10 minutes.
Transfer to an ovenproof casserole (obviously skip this step if your frying pan is ovenproof!) and scatter the mozzarella over the top, then the Parmesan.
Bake, uncovered, for 15 minutes or until the cheese is melted and golden.

Rocky Road – makes an 8” square block 

Naughty but nice! No definitive recipe here – add whatever you fancy – anything from chopped Turkish Delight to pretzels. Cooking chocolate is fine for this (as are Cadbury’s or Bournville), as it’s less likely to split when melting than the expensive stuff. The addition of butter and syrup to the chocolate allows you to cut the rocky road without needing a pneumatic drill…

  • 150g milk chocolate, chopped
  • 150g dark chocolate, chopped
  • 80g butter
  • 50g golden syrup
  • 4 x 32g Crunchie bars, roughly chopped (or an equivalent amount of your favourite chocolate bars)
  • 175g digestive or Rich Tea biscuits
  • 100g mini marshmallows
  • 80g dried apricots, roughly chopped, or raisins.

Method:

Line an 8” square or 9” x 7” rectangular tin or dish with greaseproof paper.
Put the biscuits in a freezer bag and bash until you have a rough rubble of crumbs and bigger pieces.
Slowly melt the chocolate, butter and syrup in a heatproof bowl over a pan of just-simmering water and stir gently to combine. Try to ensure that the chocolate doesn’t get too hot, as it might split.
Remove from the heat.
Add in all the remaining ingredients, mix well and tip into the tin. Spread evenly, flatten down with a wooden spoon.
Refrigerate for at least two hours or overnight. Cut into squares.

Our thanks to Ann Shaw 🙂

Bon Appetit!

Ann’s previous recipes:

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Unit To Rent At Our Exclusive Redlands Yard

Join the community at Redlands Yard!

This spacious 36x10ft unit is located in the front courtyard opposite the main gift shop. The unit is ideal as a workshop and retail space due to its layout...

The building has a 3 phase electricity supply and water. Further perks include free parking, an on-site, popular restaurant, and an active social media following.

For further information, please contact: hello@redlandsyard.co.uk. 🙂
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International Men’s Day – Tuesday, 19th November 2024

International Men’s Day is a global awareness day for many issues that men face, including parental alienation, abuse, homelessness, suicide, and violence, celebrated annually on November 19th. The theme for 2024 is “Positive Male Role Models

The objectives of celebrating an International Men’s Day are set out in ‘All the Six Pillars of International Men’s Day’…

The Six Objectives of  International Men’s Day are:
  1. Promoting positive male role models
    This includes everyday men who live honest, decent lives, not just sports stars and movie stars.
  2. Celebrating men’s positive contributions
    This includes men’s contributions to society, family, community, marriage, child care, and the environment.
  3. Focusing on men’s health and wellbeing
    This includes men’s social, emotional, physical, and spiritual health and wellbeing.
  4. Highlighting discrimination against men
    This includes discrimination in social services, law, and social attitudes and expectations.
  5. Improving gender relations and promoting gender equality
    This includes promoting gender equality for both men and women. 
  6. Creating a safer, better world
    This includes creating a world where people can be safe and reach their full potential.

Visit the website HERE. Sign up to receive their newsletter HERE.

November is also Movember… The leading charity changing the face of men’s health: addressing mental health and suicide issues, prostate cancer and testicular cancer.
Movember first started in Melbourne, Australia in 2003 when two friends (Travis Garone and Luke Slattery) talked 30 of  their friends into growing a ‘Mo’ (moustache). They had been inspired by a friend’s mother who was fundraising for breast cancer, they decided to make the campaign about men’s health and prostate cancer.
By 2007, the campaign had grown internationally including the UK campaign with The Prostate Cancer Charity. There are now official campaigns in 21 countries around the world 🙂

Sign up, take part and grow your own moustache for November – Click HERE.


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New Team At Broadwindsor’s Film Club – Friday, 15th Nov.

Kathryn, Elsbeth, Robert and Alex are your new Broadwindsor Film Club team 🙂 Contact: broadwindsorfilmclub@gmail.com.

Subs are now due Nov ’24 – Oct ’25

New/Renewal Membership Fees remain unchanged.
Over 65’s £15
Under 65’s £20

Cheques made payable to ‘Comrades Hall’.  This is the preferred method of payment as it affords us and you a receipt/proof of payment.  We will also accept cash.  

As a member, you have free attendance on Film Nights and it’s only £4 to pay for a guest. You also can freely hire the DVD of any of our previous films shown…Click HERE to view the list of previously shown films.

On Friday, 15th November, the team will be showing:

American Fiction (15)

Directed by: Cord Jefferson
CAST: Issa Rae, Adam Brody, Leslie Uggams, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander,
Sterling K. Brown, Jeffrey Wright & Tracee Ellis Ross.
(Running time: 1hr 57mins)

AMERICAN FICTION is Cord Jefferson’s hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiJng from “Black” entertainment that relies on Jred and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish “Black” book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness.

Watch the trailer at https://bit.ly/4h3YPeM

  • Doors open at 7pm for 7.30pm.
  • Film Club members – Free entry
  • Guests – £4 (cash please)
  • Not essential but to help estimate numbers, please book your ticket(s) in advance by contacting: Alex Cook, Admin and membership secretary,
    broadwindsorfilmclub@gmail.com

Please remember to bring your cheques/cash for membership when you attend a film.

Good Luck & Thank You to the New Team!


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ightAtTheMovies #OffToTheFlicks #BeKind #BeSafe #StaySafe

At Last! A New Speed Limit On Clanden Hill

Not before time – a new reduced speed limit of 40mph comes into effect on this Friday, 1st November.

Statement of Reasons
• For avoiding danger to persons or other traffic using the roads, or any other road,
and for preventing the likelihood of any such danger arising.
• To provide a safer environment for parents and children
• To help reduce the amount of pollution that school children are exposed to
outside schools

As shown below, the section of road on the B3163 will be reduced from 60mph to 40mph approaching the 20mph in our village.


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Steve Smith – Beaminster Post Office’s Mobile Service

It will be a year next month that the Post Office van started visiting the Comrades Hall car park every Monday 12.15-1.15pm and on Thursday mornings at 9.15-10.45.

As there is much more to the internet than social media, the editor felt it proper to share Steve’s video which he posted on Facebook yesterday for visitors to the website who do not use social media…

A Huge Thank you to Steve and his team at Beaminster Post Office who have all been committed from day one to keep a Post Office service going for all of the communities they serve.  🙂

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Say What Matters To You! – Saturday, 16th Nov.

This in Drimpton is the first of several opportunities organised by Broadwindsor Group Parish Council, there will be one in Broadwindsor, and possibly Blackdown too.

From 10.30am – 3.30pm, with refreshments available – make your views count or perhaps just find out more and make enquiries as to how our council are approaching the Climate & Ecological Emergency we are facing in our own environment.

Scan the QR code for further information or please direct your questions to the Parish clerk at hello@broadwindsorgroup.gov.uk.


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Buy Broadwindsor’s Map!

The first-ever print run of the Broadwindsor map — created by artist Megan Edwards as part of Windrose’s The Place I Love project at the beginning of 2022 — will be ready in time for Christmas 2024!

As described above, choose from:

  1. an updated A3 ( 29.7 cm x 42 cm or 11.7″x 16.5″) unframed print @ £20.00
  2. an Artist’s edit A2 (42 x 59.4 cm or 16.5″x 23.4″) unframed print @ £70.00

50% of all profits will go to Windrose to fund further community projects and 50% will go to Megan, the artist.

To have them in time for Christmas, please place your pre-orders with Margery Hookings at margery.hookings@gmail.com.

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Broadwindsor Film Club – Friday, 18th Oct.

At 7.30pm at the Comrades Hall Friday, 18th October, Broadwindsor’s Community Film Club will be showing…

The Bikeriders (15)

 Directed by Jeff Nichols
Starring Austin Butler, Jodie Comer and Tom Hardy

The Bikeriders capture a rebellious time in America when the culture and people were changing.  After a chance encounter at a local bar, strong-willed Kathy (Jodie Comer) is inextricably drawn to Benny (Austin Butler), the newest member of Midwestern motorcycle club, the Vandals, led by the enigmatic Johnny (Tom Hardy).  Much like the country around it, the club begins to evolve, transforming from a gathering place for local outsiders into a dangerous underworld of violence, forcing Benny to choose between Kathy and his loyalty to the club.

  • Doors open at 7pm for 7.30pm.
  • Film Club members – Free entry
  • Guests – £4 (cash please)
  • To help estimate numbers, please book your ticket(s) in advance by contacting: Alex Cook, Admin and membership secretary,
    broadwindsorfilmclub@gmail.com

N.B.: Membership year starts in November renew your membership payable on the door  cash/cheque £20 or £15 over 65s

Our sincere thanks to Emma Myers & Margaret Wing 🙂


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ightAtTheMovies #OffToTheFlicks #BeKind #BeSafe #StaySafe

The Broad Palate – Oct ’24

Tarragon Chicken – serves 4

This dish works at this time of year as it’s not too heavy, yet still warm and comforting. Serve with tagliatelle or mash, plus seasonal greens of choice.

  • 4 medium chicken breasts;
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil;
  • 25g butter;
  • 2-3 cloves of garlic, grated;
  • 1 medium onion, finely chopped;
  • 100ml white wine (or water);
  • 150ml double cream (I use Elmlea);
  • 350ml chicken stock (from a cube); 1 pack tarragon (leaves only, chopped) or 2 tablespoons dried;
  • 1 heaped teaspoon Dijon mustard;
  • finely grated zest of 1 lemon;
  • 1-2 teaspoons sugar;
  • salt and black pepper;
  • 1.5 tablespoons cornflour.

Method:

Slice through each chicken breast horizontally so that you have eight fillets. Season lightly with salt.
Heat a large frying pan over a medium heat and then add the olive oil. Fry the fillets in 2 batches until lightly browned and set aside.
Add the butter to the pan and fry the onion until softened but not browned (around 10 minutes – this always takes longer than expected!) then add the garlic for another minute.
Add the wine and let it bubble and reduce for a couple of minutes, scraping all the flavourful bits from the bottom of the pan.
Add the stock, mustard, lemon zest, sugar and most of the tarragon.
Return the chicken to the pan, cover and allow to bubble gently for 10 minutes or until the meat is cooked through. Remove the chicken and keep warm.
Add the cream to the pan. Then mix the cornflour with a little water to make a thin paste, add to the sauce and keep simmering, stirring for about 3 minutes until thickened.
Season to taste with the salt and black pepper, then nestle the chicken fillets in the sauce and reheat gently.
Sprinkle with remaining tarragon (if using fresh. If using dried, parsley is fine). Serve immediately.

 

Pear and Ginger Upside Down Cake 

  • 4 ripe seasonal pears, peeled, cored and quartered (or use 1.5 cans of pears);
  • 4 balls of stem ginger from a jar, chopped (optional);
  • 160g butter, softened (plus extra for greasing);
  • 160g light soft brown sugar; 135g self raising flour;
  • 1 tsp baking powder;
  • 2 teaspoons ground ginger;
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon;
  • 1 pinch allspice (optional);
  • 3 medium eggs

Method:

Pre-heat oven to 180C/160C Fan/Gas 4.
Grease a 20cm square cake tin and line the bottom.
Mix 25g each of the butter and sugar and spread over bottom of tin.
Slice each pear quarter in half and arrange in tin.
Sprinkle with a third of the stem ginger.
Sift together the dry ingredients in a large bowl.
Add all remaining ingredients and beat well until combined.
Turn into tin and level top, taking care not to disturb the pears.
Bake for 35 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
Allow to cool for 15 minutes then carefully turn out onto a plate.
Drizzle with some of the stem ginger syrup if desired.

Our thanks to Ann Shaw 🙂

Bon Appetit!

Ann’s previous recipes:

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