The Cheese Board, Harrogate, UK

Our "Cheese Board"- Harrogate

The Cheese Board is an amazing treasure trove on Commercial Street, Harrogate. The shop contains so many cheeses, it is impossible to know what to look at let alone choose and if you like cheese it is enough to send you over the cheese board edge! We bought just two to sample along with some Raydale Preserves Fig and Honey chutney and a packet of oat crackers. Yorkshire Blue and Swaledale Ewe's Milk cheeses went down a treat and we ate the whole lot in one sitting! I didn't even feel a little bad about it. They also provide a bespoke wedding cheese stack service which although against tradition, was an amazing spectacle at the last wedding we attended (although on that occasion it was not a Cheese Board purchase). I am sure we will be back there soon to sample a new tasty morsel.

Lancaster's Bakery, Harrogate

Throughout this blog we hope to show you the food we are cooking and eating at home, but we also hope that we can share more than that. We want to share all our foodie experiences, whether that be our own cooking, eating out at restaurants, coming across interesting food articles and anything and everything else food related. With that in mind, I want to tell you about a lovely family run business called Lancaster's Bakery in Harrogate.

Liz and I only moved to Harrogate a few months ago and so we are still exploring the eating options on offer, in what is a very food-conscious town. I was advised to go to Lancaster's by a work colleague who assured me that they serve the ''best sausage rolls in the world''. Upon entering the bakery, it appeared to just be quite a standard bakery, nothing too much different to any other bakery you can go to. We chose a wide selection of baked goods, including the sausage rolls, pepper steak slices and a chicken pie. Although the appearance was all very familiar and probably quite ordinary, the taste and flavours really were exceptional. The sausage rolls were indeed very good but it was the pepper steak slices which unanimously took all the greatest compliments.

I will certainly be a regular customer to Lancaster's and look forward to trying everything from their extensive range. Don't be put off by the average appearance of the place - they really are producing baked goods of an unparalled standard.