Matt and Allegra’s Big Farm
Brand new 10 x 30 HD series airing on Good Food (Sky 249 and Virgin 260)
TX: Sunday – Thursday at 9pm from 23rd October
Get set to join Former England rugby star and renowned foodie, Matt Dawson, with his new on-screen partner: Leon co-founder and chef, Allegra McEvedy MBE, as they embark on a joyous, grubby and above all greedy tour of English food and farming, Matt and Allegras Big Farm.
Following the success of Mitch and Matts Big Fish on Good Food, this action-packed ten part HD series sees Matt and new pal Allegra setting off in their fully customised bus on a noisy romp across England, to see what the world of agriculture has to offer, and just how much of it they can eat!
Matt and Allegras Big Farmfollows the sprightly duo as they visit some of the most idyllic country farms the land has to offer. Each episode will see them meet the farmers and labourers who devote their lives to putting fresh produce on our tables.
As they seek out the real experience of farming life, they have to roll up their sleeves and get stuck in to some hard graft, earning all the ingredients needed to rustle up a mouth-watering selection of British dishes at the end of each programme to feed the people they have met and worked with along the way.
Join our two intrepid foodies as they kick-off their culinary road trip with a visit to a bustling rural hill farm in Cumbria, just in time to catch the last of English lambing, before heading south to the Vale of Evesham in Worcestershire, where they will pick a delicious crop of asparagus and hydroponic cherry tomatoes to use as ingredients for one of their meals.
The pair then head to a rural Strawberry farm in Kent before inspecting the prize-wining Ruby Red cattle at the Royal Cornwall Show and trying their hand at harvesting honey at a farm in Penzance.
Each programme includes three simple and delicious dishes, made with ingredients to tempt the most insecure cook to have a go. From salt marsh lamb to Evesham asparagus to mutton and micro-leaves, inspired by the ingredients they help to farm, the resulting recipes are Matt and Allegras take on modern British food with a twist. Dishes will include classics such as meaty burgers and proper steak, as well as innovative specials chops with harissa couscous, strawberries with mile-high meringue topping, and big fat juicy saltimbocca sandwiches
Matt and Allegras Big Farm is being fully-funded by EBLEX (The English Beef and Lamb Executive).
Big on banter, irreverent, curious, and hungry, Matt and Allegra get stuck in and noisily celebrate everything that is great about British food and farming today, only on Good Food!
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