Bread and Cheese

When we go on holiday we often spend at least part of the time self catering.   This is so Mr Vitty can get out at all hours of the day and night to go birdwatching (feathered variety, normally).  It gives me the opportunity to cook the food from the area we're visiting or attempt one of the specialities of the region.  We go to Cornwall quite a lot but this year I've failed to cook anything cornish (unless scones count) or even buy anything produced here (not even a cornish pasty! - although we did get some Yarg and Brie from Sainsbury's).  So today being the last day of the holiday I persuaded Mr Vitty to do something other than watch birds and we went into Newlyn to go to the art gallery and have a look around.

I really like Newlyn.  It's a town with an eclectic mix of fishing industry, art and small food shops selling fish, bread, cheese, charcuterie and cakes. We needed something for lunch and the bread snob in me was delighted to find some great sourdough in the Newlyn Cheese and Charcuterie deli from Vicky's Bread - another local (ish) producer that supplies some of the smaller village shops in the region. Although it was the sourdough in the window that persuaded me to cross the road, unsurprisingly for a cheese shop it had a great selection of local cheeses.   They had some red Goats Cheese - a hard cheese the colour of Red Leicester. As we'd never seen red goats cheese before we bought the last slice along with some Helford Blue - a soft blue cheese a bit like Cambozola.  Both complemented the ends of the Yarg and Brie lingering in the fridge.  With a couple of scones, clotted cream and jam we had a good lunch (but should have bought a bottle of red wine to wash it all down).

Next time we're in this neck of the woods we'll definately be doing more food shopping in Newlyn.