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July 2010
Regents Park Honey
We have just received our first delivery of the new season Regents Park Honey, it is available to purchase from both our stores.
June 2010
HELLO HAMPSTEAD
At last we are ready to open our new shop in Hampstead. We open at 8am on Thursday 3rd June.Click here to download further information.
May 2010
Some of you may have heard that we've been a little bit busy recently, due to the imminent opening of a new shop. So apologies for being rather quiet in the past couple of months. To bring you all up to date we are branching out and opening a second shop in Hampstead village. The builders are on-site and doing a great job in renovating the wonderful Oriel Hall in Oriel Place. For those of you familiar with Hampstead Village, the site is located in one of the alleyways that connects Heath Street to Hampstead High Street. If all goes to plan we should be opening our doors in the first week of June. If you want to keep up to date with our progress please subscribe to our email list and we will advise you once we have opened.
February 2010
Do Not Disturb - Valentine's Room Service
This Valentine's Day we're offering a special Valentine's Room Service. Treat your Valentine to Breakfast in Bed, delivered by us. You can download a copy of our service here. Choose from an impressive list of Valentine Breakfast items, including freshly squeezed Blood Orange juice, Rhubarb and Custard Muffins, Smoked Salmon and Fenton Eggs to Scramble. Our sweet treats include, Heart shaped Jammy Dodgers, mini heart-shaped meringues, and our own blackcurrant fruit pastilles. Go on, spoil your Valentine and spoil yourself at the same time!
Meanwhile back in the shop, we're in the middle of our Seville Orange Marmalade making season. We're aiming to make about 2000 jars this year to keep up with demand. Nick's been refining his preserving techniques and will be entering two types of marmalades in the National Marmalade Championships! Fingers crossed.
If you're looking for an Winter fruit alternative try the English Champagne Rhubarb which is in season and plentiful right now.
December 2009
Christmas News
It's the final countdown and our shop is almost bursting at the seams! Thanks to all of you who have placed orders for your Christmas festivities and to those who have supported us through the last year. May we wish you all a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
We have also uploaded copies of our cooking instructions for the Christmas in a Box packages customers have purchased.
You can download here:
Turkey in a Box Cooking Instructions.
Goose in a Box Cooking Instructions.
Beef Wellington in a Box Cooking Instructions.
Beef Wellington and Nut Loaf Cooking Instructions.
How to Glaze your Ham Instructions.
Happy Cooking!
Our Christmas brochure is now available to download. Click the "Skating Girl" logo to the left of here and you'll be able to download a pdf of our Christmas Offer. A full Shopping list/Order Form will be available to download in the next couple of days. For those of you looking for gift ideas we'll also have a Hamper and Gift list available to download too. If you have any special requests for Christmas it's often easier to email us with your enquiries at this busy time of year. Please email info@melroseandmorgan.com and we'll respond as soon as we can. In the mean time Happy Christmas Shopping!
November 2009
Thanksgiving Menu
We've been terribly remiss in not keeping you up to date with all our news. Suffice to say we've been busy keeping everyone fed and happy. (or at least we hope happy!) Anyway, it's time to do some more celebrating, with Christmas just around the corner, we'll be letting you all know shortly about our Christmas plans. Meanwhile for those of you celebrating Thanksgiving, we have a special menu which we will be preparing. You can download a copy of it here.
July 2009
English Cherries are here and we've been and picked nearly 200kg from 6 trees in East Sussex. Late last year we saw a scheme which allows you to "rent a cherry tree", so we did and we are now the proud owners of copious amounts of ripe cherries. You can buy them in the shop this weekend, we'll be turning the remainder into a cherry compote, cherry jam and bottling lots in Kirsch ready for Christmas.
Regents Park Honey is now back in stock. We have just received our first delivery of this years honey and thanks to the good weather we are hoping for a bumper crop.
May 2009
With all the sunny weather doing wonders for our gardens and our growers, asparagus is now in full flow. We're also getting lots of compliments for our Isle of Wight tomatoes which arrive freshly picked each week. Elderflowers can't be too far away and we'll be taking advantage and preparing some of our own cordial in due course.
Our shop table also has a distinctly Spring feel to it, making the most of the new season's vegetables and fruits.
Hay Fever sufferers have been buying our local Regent's Park Honey in large quantities and as a result we are starting to run low on last year's stock. All being well the new season's honey should be with us towards the end of June.
In May and June we are holding a series of customer evenings at the shop. We are inviting some of our favourite suppliers and producers along to talk about their products and share their knowledge. We have an organic and biodynamic wine tasting evening, another all about Regent's Park Honey, a tea tasting and a very indulgent Chocolate evening. You can download more information by click here.
On a final note we shall be open on Bank Holiday Monday 4th May between 9am and 4pm.
Easter 2009
As Easter approaches we have the first signs of Spring in the air. Wild garlic leaves are starting to come through and you'll find them in some of our table dishes. The first English asparagus has arrived, it's very early and has been 'fleeced" to encourage early growth. It's worth waiting a couple more weeks before the standard crop arrives. For Easter we have a wonderful range of handmade chocolate Easter eggs, from our Chocolatier Madame Oiseau and our friends at the Chocolate Society.
Our Easter Opening times are as follows:
Good Friday 9am - 4pm
Easter Saturday 8am - 6pm
Easter Sunday and Monday CLOSED
March 2009
From 1st March our opening hours are changing slightly. We will now be closing at
7pm from Monday to Friday. All other times remain the same. You can see our full
opening hours under the CONTACT section of our website.
February 2009
St. Valentines Day is approaching. For those of you keen to impress your loved one,
we have two options for you:
A) Order a Melrose and Morgan Valentine's Breakfast delivered to your door
or
B) Order our specially prepared Valentine's Dinner for two.
Full details of both are available to download here.
Please see: Breakfast in Bed Menu or Valentine's Dinner for Two Menu
January 5th 2009
Happy New Year!
We're now fully recovered from our Christmas festivities and we're planning for the year ahead.
As it's January it must be time for Seville oranges and marmalade making. Our first batch of oranges came in this weekend and we potted our first jars yesterday and they are on the shelves today.
December 29th 2008
Just a quick reminder of our opening times over the next few days:
Monday 29th December 10am - 4pm
Tuesday 30th December 10am - 4pm
Wednesday 31st December 10am - 4pm
Thursday 1st January CLOSED
Friday 2nd January 10am - 4pm
Saturday 3rd January Normal Hours resume
December 2008
As our Christmas preparations gather speed, we've put together a Christmas Shopping List which is available to download here. It lists the products we'll have in the shop in the few days leading up to Christmas. Use it as a prompt to make sure you've remembered everything for your Christmas entertaining.
November 27th 2008
Catch up with our latest news by reading our Winter Newsletter. Click on the Newsletter button.
We've also launched our Christmas 2008 Brochure today. Download a copy to find out what we are offering this Christmas.
November 17th 2008
Limited Edition Regents Park Honey
We have just received a new delivery of Regents Park Honey. It is a dark late summer honey called the 'Black Edition'.
Stock is limited to just 49 numbered jars, so pop in or give us a call at the shop to reserve some now.
November 3rd 2008
Thanksgiving Dinner Menu, Thursday 27th November
You can now order your turkey for Thanksgiving. Once again Judy Goodman, from Herefordshire, is fattening up her free range Bronze turkeys in readiness. We have limited availability to cook your turkey for you. In addition we have a special Thanksgiving menu with all the trimmings available for you to order in advance. The menu can be downloaded from the front page of the website.
October 17th 2008
Claybarn Orchard English Quinces...... have now arrived and are available to buy at £6.00 per Kg.
The quince is a Mediterranean fruit of great antiquity which was introduced into the UK in 1573. Quince was the original fruit used in marmalade and has been a perennial favourite in gardens, not only for the fruit which is golden when ripe, but for the beauty of the tree and its flowers in Spring. Stand a quince on a shelf in your kitchen and enjoy its powerful fragrance.
It can be used in cooking in many ways - for jelly and jam; for a subtle flavour add a few slices to an apple pudding and to stuffing for meat and game dishes. It takes longer to cook than an apple, so should be sliced more thinly and par-cooked.
We'll be making chutney, adding to fruit and almond tarts and making compote's to accompany breakfast or serve alongside meat.
Clay Barn Farm is a small orchard on the Essex coast run by Charles and Shirley Trollope and their son Alastair. Sadly, due to overwhelming market forces, they gave up the struggle of growing apples and now specialise in in producing quality quinces.
Try them!
October 1st 2008
Welcome to our new website! It's been a long time coming, but we've finally completed it. We'd be really interested to hear what you think of it.
In this section we'll be updating you with current news from week to week.