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February 2010 Blog Posts (9)

Saturday 27th February - Lunch Menu

Saturday 27th February - Feb’s Got Flavour

Roast red pepper soup & black bean salsa

Terrine of goats cheese, herb, pumpkin seed

Free range chicken & thyme dumplings, puy lentils and bacon

Very wild mushroom risotto

Organic chocolate mousse and pistachio biscotti

Banoffi crumble

2 courses £7.50

3 courses £10

In Brixvill we will have full-on food tastings from around the world.

The 27th is… Continue

Added by anne fairbrother on February 25, 2010 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Saurday 20th February - Lunch menu

20th February -

Cornercopia will be doing another fabulous 3 course lunch for a tenner! (2 courses £7.50)

Red lentil, coconut & coriander soup

Salad of roast pear, walnut, blue cheese

Moroccan spiced braised root vegetables. Herb buttered quinoa

Seven hour lamb, white beans & kale

Sticky date pudding with caramel sauce

Yogurt pana cotta. Cardamon poached rhubarb…

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Added by anne fairbrother on February 19, 2010 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Today's lunch - Smoky roast red pepper soup (Thursday 18th Feb)

Smoky roast red pepper soup with Simon's organic 100% rye bread - £2.50
'Socca' pancakes and plantain chutney £1.50

Added by anne fairbrother on February 18, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Recipe - Chocolate "flavor" pancakes

So what if my pancakes were a day late - Ash Wednesday not Shrove Tuesday. But my 5 year old implored me for chocolate pancakes. I think he meant chocolate filled pancakes.... but he got more than he bargained for...

Chocolate Pancakes.

200 gm plain white organic flour

100 gm carob flour

2 eggs

1/2 ltre milk (maybe more or less to get right spreading speed for thinness)

1 teaspoon baking…

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Added by Robert on February 18, 2010 at 12:00am — No Comments

A new kind of Corner Store - Treehugger article about us

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/02/brixton-cornercopia-new-store.php

Treehugger wrote an interesting article about us - though I wish I'd not been wearing that old brown cardigan and scarf.. It was sub zero temperatures though in the shop that day!

Added by anne fairbrother on February 16, 2010 at 1:28pm — No Comments

The Invisible Food monthly walk - Saturday 20th February 10.45 am - 2pm The Invisible Food monthly walks explore the green spaces around the Loughborough Estate. Open to local residents and there are…

The Invisible Food monthly walk - Saturday 20th February 10.45 am - 2pm

The Invisible Food monthly walks explore the green spaces around the Loughborough Estate. Open to local residents and there are also places for people beyond the estate.

This month, we will have a short walk, see if the nettles are ready for

picking, visit a green space we haven't visited before on the…

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Added by anne fairbrother on February 15, 2010 at 9:39pm — No Comments

Grandmas living room

Grandmas living room:

Location: 72 // 4th ave. Brixton Village Market

Following on from the small publications week the really quite wonderful Artinavan// are going to install 'Grandma's' living room.The installation will be inviting people to come into the space, sit down and read some of the small publications that the artists have created.

The space will progressively grow into a…

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Added by anne fairbrother on February 15, 2010 at 9:38pm — No Comments

Love Fest lunch - Launching our £10 three course saturday lunches!

Love Fest lunch

This Saturday 13th Feb we are celebrating the Brixton Village Love Fest with our first ever sit down meal!

Ian has ingeniously made some cute tables for 2 out of several old fruit crates, we have acquired 12 lovely 1950's church hall chairs and another table via Freecycle. So come and sit down with a freind, lover or stranger at a rose adorned table for 2 or more. Feast on a fabulous three course lunch of mostly-market… Continue

Added by anne fairbrother on February 11, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

Fab Brixton Market Animation by Larkhill Primary School

Brixton Market Animation

Year 3 children from Lark Hall Primary took cameras and recording equipment on a trip to Brixton Market, as part of their term's work on

the market. Scenes, images and dialogue from their trip were built into a story they wrote and made into an animation over a few weeks with a professional…

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Added by anne fairbrother on February 9, 2010 at 10:00pm — No Comments