Thank you to all those customers and stalls that attended today's market and for the hard working team behind the scenes that make us tick. You made the farm gleam today! 🙏 Cakes were looking fabulous, the cafe very festive and there was a feeling of good will amounts all!
#cafe #farmshop #butchery #familyfarming
Meeting so many lovely folks at today's Christmas Market, on until 3pm. #dogfriendly #visitnorwich #familyfarming #holidayseason #christmasevents #community #cafe
Ho ho ho.. it's our Christmas Market today until, come and join the fun!
We are also serving Full English breakfasts ALL DAY! #familyfarming #holidayseason #butcherynorwich #visitnorwich #christmasevents #community #cafe #dogfriendly
INGREDIENTS
90 g harissa paste
3 tbsp honey
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
2 butternut squash
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
FOR THE FETA SALSA
15 g fresh parsley
15 g fresh mint
100 g feta cheese and 150g yoghurt
1 tsp extra virgin olive oil
juice & zest of 1 lemon
TO SERVE
sprinkle of pomegranate seeds
sprinkle of flaked almonds toasted
INSTRUCTIONS
Preheat the oven to 180°c fan/200°c/gas 6.
Combine the harissa paste, honey, extra virgin olive oil and a generous amount of salt and pepper in a small saucepan. Bring to a gentle simmer, then let the mix bubble away and reduce for 5 minutes.
Meanwhile, peel the skin from both the butternut squash, then use a sharp knife to cut them in half lengthways and remove the seeds. Place the squash on a chopping board, cut side down, and place a chopstick on either side. Carefully make a cut every half a centimetre, so that the knife hits the wood and doesn’t cut through the squash completely.
Place the hasselbacked squash onto a baking tray and pour over the harissa mixture. Use your hands or a pastry brush to coat all sides of each squash (including underneath), trying to get the glaze in between the cuts. Finish each squash with a sprinkling of salt and pepper, then roast in the oven for 1 hour-1 hour 15 minutes, basting the squash with any liquid in the bottom of the tray halfway through, until soft and slightly charred.
Meanwhile, you can make the feta salsa. I used my @nutribullet to blitz the parsley, mint, lemon juice and zest, yogurt and feta cheese. Then spread this on a nice flat serving plate to place the warm but not piping squash on top.
Once the squash is ready, serve topped with toasted flaked almonds and pomegranate seeds. Serve warm.
Tomorrow is our second Christmas market of the month, running 9-1pm. Stick your head in and you'll never know what you'll find! #familyfarming #cafe #norfolkpassport #visitnorwich #christmasevents #dogfriendly #holidayseason #norwichevents #butcherynorwich #butcherynorwich #community
So very excited to welcome our local school to sing their carols at the farm tomorrow. Come and enjoy a festive Thursday in the café as these little cherubs lift the roof! 🎄🎶
Exciting news from White House Farm, Norwich - we have teamed up with Cinema City Norwich so you can enjoy this fantastic video at the beginning of every cinema screening in December! We thank the cows at Nortons Dairy for starring, and the incredible Meantime Media curators and cameramen/ladies. #cinemanorwich #familyfarming #cowtocup #farmshop #cafe #cafelife #visitnorwich #tribe #norfolkpassport
It's a busy week at White House Farm, Norwich this week, and we are moving towards final orders for your Christmas meat. Do please give Steve or Jack a call on 01603 418 817 if you would like to place a butchery order! The don't like surprises....
Today is the first of our THREE Christmas Markets, come and join the fun 9-1pm! #holidayseason #christmasmarket #christmasevents #dogfriendly #norwichevents #lovelocal #familyfarming #café
Pinch punch first of the month... and now the fun starts! For personalised butchery orders, contact Stevie Wonder or Jack Attack on 01603 418 817 #holidayseason #ChristmasSeason #butcherynorwich #butchery
We are now dusting ourselves down for THREE Christmas Markets at the farm, each Saturday in December. We start this weekend with a mini market round our courtyard, food, drink and craft, 9-1pm. 😍 #christmasmarket #christmasmarketnorwich #christmaseventsnorwich #christmasevents #festivecraft
💔 It is with a heavy heart this week that we share the news that our beloved labrador, Freekah has gone to heaven. The farmer and his family are desperately sad and their home is not the same without their faithful friend.
Freekah was a special sort of dog, our shadow in every way. She watched us build White House Farm into what it is today, she even met each and every customer in the early days. She was particularly excited when we added a butchery to the farmshop and sampled many a bone gifted by Stevie Wonder. 🦴 She had a love of fruit, could pick her own strawberries and blackberries with the nimblest nose, but her favourite were the pears which waited to fall. 🍐
She attended meetings, often sighing at appropriate points, she met school children on their farm tours and loved meeting dogs in the Doggy Day care.
For someone so silent, her presence was keenly felt. She has been laid to rest under the autumn leaves and will be fondly remembered by the many people she met. She had quite a fan club! 🍂
I feel truly privileged to have owned a dog for ten years and for the wonderful memories we created together. She always had a present in her gentle mouth, often a small stone, carefully selected. She joined every adventure with gusto from chasing the fox away from the chickens to taking a keen interest in crabbing on the family bucket and spade holidays. 🦀
As a tribute to the great lady, we thought we'd donate her advent calendar to the cafe dogs that visit, so the team can select a 'dog of the day' to enjoy a bone each day.
🍐 RIP Freekah 2013-2023 🍐
I was originally inspired by @anna_s_table this is a mean winter soup and one of the farmer's favourites! Such a simple recipe to make, cooked ahead of time, it only gets better. Enjoy every mouthful.👌
450 g of award winning sausages from White House Farm, casings removed
250 g/9 oz button mushrooms cooked off in advance
150 g/5.5 oz cream cheese
2 medium carrots, grated
1 can (400 g/15 oz) chickpeas, drained
3 tbsp olive oil
1 small onion, finely chopped
4 garlic cloves, minced
1 L chicken stock and 150g spelt barley or similar
250 ml coconut milk
spices: 1 tsp each: dried oregano, dried sage, dried thyme, black pepper
Good squeeze of lemon juice 🍋
1 tbsp soy sauce
Method; Fry the sausage meat with the garlic, onion and carrot until well browned. Add the stock, coconut milk and evvend simmer gently until the spelt is cooked through.
Come and keep dry in our grainbarn today for our monthly Farmers Market! It's on 9-1pm with a warm hot chocolate waiting for you in the cafe. #norwichevents #indepedentbusiness #familyfarming #community #lovelocal #café #dogfriendly #awardwinningsausages #butchery #freeparking
Fantastic , you're never to old to pick a pumpkin! 🎃 #lovelocal #norwichevents #community #familyfarming #indepedentbusiness
Recent reviews
- “Went here to today and had a lovely time. We had a lovely lunch, jacket potatoes filled with tuna with scrummy hot chocolates followed by the most yummy lemon drizzle cake.” Sarah L.
- “Considering it was busy the service was excellent . We had a lovely browse around the shops.
Will definitely be returning.”Lily P.
- “Great butcher, fantastic meat, great coffee and cakes!” Jim B.
- “A Hidden Gem, I love this place as it has so much to offer, a lovely coffee shop with a real fire, a butchers with great local meats. The BBQ chicken kebabs are great. There are new businesses outside, Hairdressers, Florists, Nursery (children's) - lots on offer.” Brian G.
- “Lived in Sprowston for 20 years but this was my first visit to White House Farm. Wish we'd gone sooner. Lovely farm shop with great produce. We bought a couple of egg and bacon baps and ate them outside in the sunshine with two very nice coffees. Friendly and prompt service. Recommended.” Jonathan G.
- “The sausage rolls are amazing! Can't leave without one.”Sarah
- “Great place - a wonderful family run this place and are always very welcoming. Coffee, cakes, and GREAT butchers.”Nathan
- “Lovely family run cafe and shop, staff are very friendly and even though they were extremely busy, they still provided excellent service! We had a fabulous lunch with delicious soup and amazing cakes!”Beth
- “Wonderful place! Pleasure to drink coffee here”Aldona
- “Amazing place! The staff are so friendly, the sausage rolls are awesome and the chocolate cake was to die for. Coffee was fab too.”Vanessa
- “Lovely little shop and a very warm welcome. Wish we had more places like this back home.”Becca
- “Went here to today had a lovely time. We had a lovely lunch, jacket potatoes filled with tuna with scrummy hot chocolates followed by the most yummy lemon drizzle cake. Considering it was busy the service was excellent . We had a lovely browse around the shops. Will definitely be returning.”Sarah
- “Love the sausages and meat. Always fresh and tastes so much better than from anywhere else.”Carol
- “Visited today for the farmers market, first visit in a while, and very impressed with all the new additions here. Well worth a visit, keep up the good work.”Gary
- “What a wonderful place! I wish I had visited sooner. Delicious lunch and some fantastic local produce on sale in the shop. Very friendly staff. Will definitely be back!”Leyla
- “A really good work force. Good customer service, and most of all the food is good too.”Mike
- “This is our third year buying our Halloween pumpkins from White House Farm. The children love it and we love picking up a little extra in the Farm Shop. The White House Farm apple juice is divine.”Amy
- “Great cafe and fantastic farm shop. And the bonus of lovely little shops in the new converted barns”Darren
- “You wouldn't believe the city is nearby... Lovely... ”Ctibor
- “Simply a lovely place. PYO Paradise! Friendly and very professional family enterprise. Superb food: even the sausage rolls are in a class of their own! Well worth a visit.”David
