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The Underground Night Market: a food rave

May 1, 2011 12 Comments Filed Under: Food, Recipes, Uncategorized

This Friday coming I am hosting The Underground Night Market in my flat and garden. After the first Underground Market started in San Francisco, there are now Underground Markets springing up all over the states (link to article in the New York Times and also here ‘Food Raves’). I know the Real Food Festival is going on at Olympia, if you want to come afterwards, take the train to Willesden Junction and change for Brondesbury. I’m a ten minute walk from there. The perfect after party! I’m trying this market in the evening to attract a younger, after work crowd, but all are welcome although children must be accompanied. There is music from Shekoyokh and Tom Baker, cooking demonstrations, hot food, food to buy for the weekend, crafts, alcohol and the dragon’s den for food businesses. Buy your tickets here: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/108275  £5 only.

On the door it’s £6 if you come with a ticket holder.
No unaccompanied children.
Children under 6: free
6 to 14: £2.

It starts at 6pm, last entries 10pm.

I will also be selling and signing my new book Supper Club: recipes and notes from The Underground Restaurant. and selling glasses of bubbly.




Stalls:
The Deli Station: cheeses, olives, truffle honey (to die for)

Bristol Vintage: vintage china

Madame de la Cartomancer: tarot and psychic protection of whole site 


JazandJules: the very best hot chocolate in the world.


Me Old China: vintage china candles/bus blinds/gorgeous bunting


Treflach Farm: farm fresh eggs and bacon 
 
Juiceology: Joe McCanta’s original mixers/ ironing board cocktails.

 Anna Mae’s Smokehouse:  bbq and pulled pork

La Cremerie: award winning artisan cheeses/British cheeses

Squisito: Warwickshire supper club with their artisan sausages and italian deli stuff

 Avarae 17: exquisite jewellery (I bought several of her broaches last time)

The Other Side Mag: magazine editors who also make unusual Treviso almond pesto




Papermash: One of the top UK craft/decor bloggers brings her pretty tape/wrapping etc
Nice_Creams icecream: will be parking her ice cream van in the driveway


Galavant Jewellery: tea cup/kitchen related jewellery

Lex Eats Supper Club: handmade vintage serviettes
Candyfloss Created: crochet craft and good hats

 Mauritian street food: fresh curries in flat bread, pineapple chutney. We did a mini ‘Dragon’s Den’ tasting panel in April. Jason’s food really impressed us.

Marmelo: Natalie Stopford’s stunning pickled onions, chutneys, jams

Monkey Leaf:  hand made soaps

 French Made: cakes and favours and the gorgeous Laurence is dressing up as a French maid

 SoS15: animal cushions

Art of Puddings: stunning puddings in a glass

Alchemist dreams: handmade liqueurs, blended to order or custom flavours of orange, raspberry, wormwood…

Scribe complaints: a stall where you can get your complaint letters written, just like on Indian street corners, by a qualified lawyer. 
Artisan Smokehouse family run smoked products including meat, fish, olive oil, cheeses 
Assington Fruits: fruit juices, asparagus, fresh strawberries, from Suffolk
Hiromi Stone: Japanese-flavoured nuts
Organic Lea: vegetables from Epping Forest
The Clink restaurant: jams/pickles/biscuits/marinades made by prisoners from HM High Down
Mauvaise Maman boozy jams
Demos:
Mama Lan: chinese home cooking from this authentic supper club
Moelfaban supper club: trifle making from Britain’s best dish finalist and Welsh supper club hostess
New additions: Korean sliders from http://www.streetfoodie.com/


Artisan bread from Aston’s Bakery, a local Cricklewood organic bakery
French linen aprons from Milla and Arti 
Dragon’s den for young food businesses: 
Panel – The Deli Station, Mount St. Deli, Tim Hayward, Sheila Dillon of the Radio 4 programme

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  1. Anonymous

    April 10, 2011 at 8:18 am

    Hat nicht allen verstanden.

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  2. Helen

    April 10, 2011 at 9:59 am

    Sounds great, being in the evening i think it will feel more like an event, rather than something you just wonder round on a lazy Sunday.

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  3. The Curious Cat

    April 11, 2011 at 8:35 pm

    Hope to come – just got to get round to buying a ticket! xxx

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  4. The Curious Cat

    April 11, 2011 at 8:36 pm

    PS I should have said I most certainly definitely want to come – just it is my first week of CELTA so worried I may be dead come Friday…xxx

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  5. Devadeva Mirel

    April 12, 2011 at 3:00 pm

    You are so wild! Hope the gate crasher ponies up the cash!

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  6. gastrogeek

    April 14, 2011 at 6:19 pm

    how brilliant- v.excited about coming to this!

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  7. Petra Barran

    April 26, 2011 at 10:26 am

    I wish I could come – it looks so much fun. Good luck with it K and hope to see you soon. X

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  8. mangocheeks

    May 3, 2011 at 7:25 am

    Oh I wish I lived close by (home is Scotland), I would be there in a shot. Would be a fantastic night!

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  9. theundergroundrestaurant

    May 3, 2011 at 9:58 am

    Hope to see you all, those who can come, here on friday xx

    Reply
  10. Anonymous

    May 6, 2011 at 10:18 pm

    Congrats on your blog! Shame I didn´t know about this event before!! I´m awaiting comments on how it went.

    Feel free to swing by my blog, A Londoner form Afar. 🙂

    Reply
  11. Anonymous

    May 7, 2011 at 3:17 pm

    If you have any advice for a food-lover who's very enthusiastic about trying to get an Underground Market going somewhere in Cornwall, please let me know! It's an absolutely brilliant concept.

    Reply
  12. Callie Grayson

    May 10, 2011 at 1:35 am

    So wish I lived close by! this would have been a fantastic time!!
    callie

    Reply

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Apple rose blossom tarts with rose jam. Rose Appl Apple rose blossom tarts with rose jam.  Rose Apple Blossom Tarts

Serves 8

Equipment: 
Microwave
Cupcake or muffin tin

I use a red-skinned apple to make these, to get a hint of blush at the edges of the ‘petals’.

Ingredients:
4 Pink Lady or Royal Gala apples, cored, cut into quarters, sliced thinly into half moons
1 lemon, squeezed
1 pack all butter readymade puff pastry 320g, on a roll, cut into 8 strips about 6 cms long
100g of melted butter
1/2 jar of rose jam
1 or 2 tbsp cinnamon or cardamom, ground 
Pinch maldon salt
2 or 3 tbsp icing sugar

Instructions

Prepare a bowl of acidulated water (cold water with lemon juice) to prevent browning.
Core the apples, and cut them in quarters. Slice thinly into half-moons (a mandolin is useful for this). 
Put them into a large bowl of cold water with the lemon.
Microwave the bowl of sliced apples for 5 minutes until soft enough to bend slightly but not cook them.
Preheat the oven to 180ºC.
Roll out the puff pastry. Divide into 8 sections by cutting the roll into quarters then halving each quarter. You will end up with 8 approximately 6cm strips.
Brush the strip with melted butter then paint with a layer of rose jam. You can then dust with either ground cinnamon or cardamom.
Lay the apple slices along the top of the pastry strip, overlapping them. Fold up the bottom half of the pastry strip to make an pleat with the skin side of the apple half moon poking over the top.
Roll up the folded pastry strips until they look like a rose made of apple at the top
Place ‘rose’ side up, in a buttered cupcake tin
Repeat until all are done and bake for 20 -30 minutes.
Using a tea strainer or small sieve, sprinkle with icing sugar.
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