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Quail Eggs With Peas
A great serving suggestion for quail eggs is with garden peas. Boil the quail eggs for 1 and a half to 2 minutes until they are nearly hard boiled with a slightly runny yolk. Peel the eggs and chop into quarters and add to dish of boiled garden peas. This is a tasty alternative to serving peas with [...]
Quail Egg Salad
Ingredients 6 hard boiled quail eggs. 1 or 2 tomatoes. Chopped lettuce. 1 piece of bread toasted and cut into squares. To make the sweet and sour dressing. 2 and a half table spoons of virgin olive oil. 1 clove of garlic chopped up. Half a table spoon of caster sugar. 1 and a half [...]
Hugo House
Hugo House specialises in producing speciality eggs from free ranging guinea fowl, ducks and barn reared quail as well as rare breed pork from pedigree Saddleback pigs. It is a working farm with 250 acres of arable and grassland. The farm grows arable crops and keeps a herd of 90 mixed breed beef cattle. In [...]
Ready Steady Cook Send Letter To Hugo House
A letter arrived yesterday from Ready Steady Cook letting me know the date of the show I will be on, so if you want to tune in to Ready Steady Cook (UK) on Tuesday the 24th February at 4.30pm on BBC2, then you will see me and my Hugo House Quail Eggs. I am feeling a [...]
Quail Eggs – Hugo House Quail Eggs
Hugo House produces speciality quail eggs which are tasty and full of flavour. Quail Eggs The Japanese and Italian quail that live at Hugo House are barn reared with the freedom to roam within their barn. These game birds create their own nest areas where they lay their petite and beautifully marked eggs with their own individual markings. The quail eat the finest [...]
Free Range Guinea Fowl Eggs – Hugo House Guinea Fowl Eggs
Hugo House produces speciality guinea fowl eggs which are tasty and full of flavour. Free Range Guinea Fowl Eggs The free range guinea fowl that live at Hugo House enjoy ranging around the farm during the day. They eat a diet of the finest grains and daily access to the farm’s grassy pastures produces eggs with a deep yellow [...]
Ready Steady Cook Recruit New Chefs
The new series of Ready Steady Cook has been filmed this Autumn with two new chef recruited and will be shown in January. I recently went to London to film an episode of Ready Steady Cook for the new series which is due to be televised in January. Whilst looking for information about when the new series [...]
Ready Steady Cook Filming
On Tuesday 30th September 2008 I went to London, accompanied by my parents, to feature in Ready Steady Cook with my Hugo House quail eggs. What an exciting time I had. The Ready Steady Cook team looked after us brilliantly and Ainsley and the two chefs, Lesley Waters and Aldo Zilli, were very friendly and put [...]
Ready Steady Cook On The Phone
Ready Steady Cook, the television programme phoned me in early September whilst I was outside feeding the animals. Yes that’s right, the Ready Steady Cook team phoned but in true farmer fashion, I missed the call as I was feeding the animals and they had to leave a message on my answerphone saying they’d like me to appear on [...]
Guinea Fowl Eggs
Free Range Guinea Fowl Eggs The free range guinea fowl that live at Hugo House enjoy ranging around the farm during the day. They eat a diet of the finest grains and daily access to the farm’s grassy pastures produces eggs with a deep yellow yolk. These eggs have a thicker shell than ordinary eggs which protects the rich [...]
