TO ULVERSTON first where news is that tomorrow’s second speciality food market in the town’s market place will boast 17 stalls.

This new foodie gathering is organised by the team behind Cumbrian Artisan, the online farmers market collective which delivers to your door if you can’t make the markets.

For example, checkout Ian and Shelley Riddell’s delicious Bessy Beck (Newbiggin-on-Lune) smoked trout pate at £2 per 100g; and BB’s cherry smoked pheasant breast at £4.90 per 120g (2 in a pack) at www.cumbrianartisan.co.uk The market kicks off at 9am and continues until 3pm.

To Ingleton next where it’s been all ‘chop’ and change.

Q Guild butchers and family bakers Pearson’s of Ingleton have supplied fresh meat and speciality pies for the deli-counter at Country Harvest for the past two years, delivering daily from their shop in the heart of the village. Proprietors Ian and Angela Danskin also run a successful bakery adjoining the butchers, and have an industrial unit where they do their meat preparation.

However, while Pearson’s bakers will remain in Ingleton, the Danskins have now relocated their operation to shop and deli-cafe Country Harvest, one of our regular Checkout contributors, which is located on the nearby A65.

Pearson’s – which sources all its beef, lamb and pork from the Yorkshire Dales – boasts a host of industry-accredited accolades for many of its products, and has a sausage repertoire comprising more than 100 flavours, including the official new Yorkshire Sausage.

To celebrate the relocation, Ian is offering a free pound of Yorkshire sausage for every 2lb purchased (£3.75 per lb).

Prepared with pork shoulder and belly, this sausage earns its flavour from seasonings of white pepper, nutmeg and mace. Created by Ilkley butcher David Lishman after extensive tastings of various recipes across the county, it is hoped the sausage will earn its place alongside the Cumberland, Lincolnshire and Suffolk sausages on the culinary map.

Just up the road from Ingleton is Burton-in-Lonsdale Village Stores where you will find another speciality sausage to add to your collection – a spicy chilli beef sausage from the Bowland Outdoor Reared company (£3.13/368g). Serve with a jacket potato (three Lancashire jacket potatoes / £1); top with Grandma Singleton’s extra tasty Lancashire cheese (88p per 100g) and some of Sue Prickett’s made-in-Hutton Roof chutneys including green tomato chutney and sweet piccalilli (both £2.60 a jar).

More new season delights this week from Greenlands Farm Village which has Cumbrian honey collected from hives at Stainton with Adgarley near Barrow in Furness. Greenlands has both jars and combs, heather honey too (combs £4.95).

Also, at The Honeypot at Hawkshead, check out the new season apple and elderberry jelly (£2.99/250g jar) from Tracklements. Proprietor Fiona Wilson suggested this deep purple-coloured jelly would be equally at home served on toast – or with cheese.

Finally, to Kirkby Lonsdale where butcher Mark Duckworth of Dales Traditional Butchers has created a Hallowe’en pie with steak (or should that be ‘stake?), mushy peas (a bit of ghoulish green ectoplasm for atmosphere), and red cabbage (I don’t think I need to spell that one out!).

The pies cost only £1.20 each and would make the perfect supper centrepiece for your spooky October 31 celebrations.