Moorlands Eater

Thank you for visiting Moorlands Eater. This blog is all about sharing a love of good food. That largely means recipes to cook at home, but also recommended places to eat out, food events, and highlighting outstanding independent producers and suppliers.

ABOUT ME

I’m Lynne and I live in the beautiful Staffordshire Moorlands on the western edge of the Peak District. I share my home with partner Ian and our cocker spaniel Larkin.

I’ve been cooking, enjoying eating out and all other aspects of food for over 35 years. But it was only a complete change of lifestyle, involving giving up my day job and moving away from a city, that gave me the opportunity to spend lots more time cooking, thinking and writing about food.

I started my food blog Moorlands Eater in 2017. Due to its increasing popularity, I was able to turn it into a small business in 2021. Moorlands Eater has enabled me to combine my love of food with my other major interests: reading, writing and photography. It took me a while to find my niche, but I’m loving it!

As well as this blog, you’ll find Moorlands Eater on Substack, Pinterest, Facebook and Instagram.

SHARING A LOVE OF GOOD FOOD

Moorlands Eater is all about sharing my love of good food (and drink). Using my knowledge, experience and enthusiasm, I aim to guide you to new food experiences I hope you’ll love. This includes recipes, new ones plus old favourites, places to eat out, and great food and drink producers and suppliers.

RECIPES

Recipes currently make up the bulk of my blog. I try to write them in a way that all home cooks, regardless of experience, will be able to follow and get good results. Some are less easy than others, but none are likely to be beyond the enthusiastic home cook.

Feedback and questions. I love to get feedback on my recipes. So please do leave a comment and star rating after the detailed recipe card you’ll find at the bottom of recipe posts. I’m also happy to answer any questions you may have before beginning a recipe.

If you want to get my latest recipes in your inbox, join my email list via the button below. Although I manage the list via Substack, you don’t need the app. Simply click on a recipe link within the email and you’ll be taken to the relevant bit of MoorlandsEater.com.

Note on metric vs US measurements. I’m often asked for US cup measurements, especially for baking recipes. However, I don’t include them as there’s too much room for error. All my recipes are tested using digital scales and metric measurements only and this is what you should use for the best results.

EATING OUT

The Eating Out section of my blog features restaurants, cafés, pubs, bars and takeaways I personally recommend. My emphasis is on independent food and drink, so I do not review national or international chains.

While I’d love to be able to write full reviews of all of them, timewise it’s just not possible. So, alongside full reviews, you’ll find round-up posts featuring a selection of recent venues I’ve enjoyed.

Venues occasionally invite me to dine free of charge (see Working with Moorlands Eater below). However, any subsequent blog review is always my honest opinion and will include a disclosure making it clear that I was not charged for the meal.

As Moorlands Eater is about sharing what’s good, I don’t write about food and drink I can’t recommend. I much prefer to concentrate on the positive.

HIGHLIGHTING OUTSTANDING PRODUCERS & SUPPLIERS

Of course, without farmers, millers, cheese makers, butchers, chocolatiers, vegetable growers etc., plus the people who supply them to us, they’d be no recipes or eating out. So, highlighting outstanding independent producers and suppliers has always been an important part of Moorlands Eater’s aims.

When I started this blog, I was able to devote whole posts to favourite producers and suppliers, especially local ones like The Staffordshire Cheese Company and Troutsdale Farm. But Moorlands Eater has grown beyond my expectations with more than half my current readers outside the UK.

So, these days, you’re more likely to find recommendations such as Dunwood Farm Butchery, Moorland Veg Box, and the The Port of Lancaster Smokehouse in my recipes as I cook with their great products.

You’ll now find my older producer and supplier recommendations in the Everything Else section of my blog. But, as with eating out, my latest recommended producers and suppliers feature prominently on my social media. So follow me on Facebook and Instagram to keep up to date.

EVERYTHING ELSE

The Everything Else section of Moorlands Eater currently includes all my posts that aren’t Recipes or Eating Out recommendations, although a few may encompass one or both of those categories too.

In Everything Else you can find out where to look for wild garlic, how to grow microgreens at home, or a beginner’s guide to making jam.

You can read a book review or my thoughts on used cookery books. If you’d like to start writing about food, you can even read my food writing tips.

My occasional posts about food and drink festivals, one-off food events, street markets etc. will also be found in the Everything Else category.

WORK WITH MOORLANDS EATER

I’m happy to work with individuals, organisations and businesses if they fit with the Moorlands Eater ethos.

I am available to provide recipe development, guest blog posts and articles, reviews of events, venues, products or services. Please note these are subject to the principles outlined in the ‘Disclosure’ section below.

If you’d like to work with me, please get in touch via the contact form on my Home page or message through my social media accounts.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Photography is an important part of this blog and I spend a lot of time and effort creating the images. Unless otherwise stated, all the photos on this blog are my own for which I own the copyright. Please do not copy or use any photographs unless you have my explicit agreement to do so.

If you’d like to use any of my photographs, please ask first via the contact form on the Home page. In some circumstances, a small fee may be payable.

COPYRIGHT

Unauthorized use and/or duplication of any material on this blog without my express permission is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Moorlands Eater. Excerpts should include a link to the original content.

DISCLOSURE

This blog is a personal blog written by me. The views and opinions expressed are mine, based on my own experience.

Any views given about products or services will always be my honest opinion, including those for which I’ve been given compensation. Where I’ve received compensation to give my opinion, a Disclosure statement will be included in the blog post.

As this blog is about sharing and recommending good food and drink experiences, if I feel I can’t recommend a product or service then I do not write about it. I may give my feedback privately where I’ve received compensation for providing an opinion.

As an Amazon Associate I may earn a small commission if you purchase through the links on my site. This supports Moorlands Eater at no extra cost to you.

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