Food and Cooking
We ask visitors to cook their own food in the large, well equipped, kitchen area which has enough plates and cups etc to feed up to 80 people. There is full sized 6 hob gas catering cooker and oven as well as an open fire on which you can cook. We will be on hand to assist you with this.
Food
In addition to accommodation and use of facilities on the farm, visitors receive a generous supply of fresh local food including the following:
– As much organic Halal lamb from the farm as you can eat. Chicken pieces.
– A box of fresh local potatoes, carrots, onions, garlic, tomatoes, cabbage and whatever other vegetables are in season. Also, bananas and fresh ginger, lemons, garlic, chillis, and a selection of spices.
– Local organic stone-ground wheat flour- unbleached white & wholemeal – for making Somali Laxoox, baked bread and pizzas.
– Basmati rice. Spaghetti and Macaroni
– Porridge oats
– Tea leaves and spices such as cardamoms, ginger, cloves and cinnamon for making Somali tea.
– Sugar
– Milk and butter. Fresh eggs from the neighbour’s farm.
– Fresh organic goat’s milk. – Goat’s milk is raw and can therefore only be used to make of Somali tea in which the milk is boiled.
– Vegetable cooking oil and spices
– Tinned chopped tomatoes
– Custard powder
– Orange and Apple Juice & cordial drink
– Each morning Degmo staff also prepare fresh baked bread rolls.
Any extra foods you require, such as soft drinks, sweets, biscuits, and breakfast cereals we ask you to bring with you yourselves. Kington, the nearest town, is 6 miles away and has good local shops and a small Co-Op supermarket. Opening times are normal trading hours – not 24 hours!!
There is a wood fired oven in which we cook pizza, bread and roast meats. For reasons of health and safety, a member of staff from Degmo must supervise the use of this oven. For one meal Degmo staff also prepare and cook fresh pizzas for everyone.
