This week at Belvoir Fruit Farms we’ve dusted off our party frocks, blown up the balloons and poured ourselves a delicious Belvoir cocktail as we celebrate something very close to our hearts.

There’s a dedicated week for everything these days whether it’s celebrating teddy bears, lauding felt hats or hugging vending machines… But some, we feel, are more deserving than others and that’s why we are celebrating everything organic with National Organic fortnight (that’s right, it’s so good they’ve given us fourteen whole days to party).

The fortnight launched on 5th September and there is still plenty of time to celebrate this year’s theme ‘Wake up to an Organic Breakfast’.  Here at Belvoir we have been washing down our organic toast and honey with some Organic Ginger Belvoir Cordial.

But we’ve become bored of the monotonous toast and cereal, so we’ve searched for an alternative and here’s a couple of our favourite suggestions:

Prepare the night before:
Bran Conference Pear and Bullace Breakfast muffins.
We thought these looked great as not only are these a sweet treat in the morning, they are healthy for your digestive system too. If you find it difficult to find Bullace, we suggest using cherry plums which are lacing our hedgerows this very moment.

In a dash: Belvoir Breakfast Smoothie.
The best things to start your day-fruit and a kick of Organic Ginger Cordial.
Fill a glass as you usually would with a mixture of Organic Belvoir Ginger Cordial and water.  Add the juice to a blender with raspberries, bananas and any other fruit you may fancy.  Simply whiz the mixture and enjoy.

Long, leisurely and lazy.
We’ve done a poll at Belvoir Fruit Farms and our favourite breakfast treat is a poached egg.  Whether it’s with bacon, homemade hollandaise sauce or simply on its own with some wholemeal buttered toast (all organic of course) it was a clear winner.
Let’s be havin’ your perfect poached egg recipe, Delia. It never fails.

If you fancy  brushing up your organic knowledge, why not head down to the Organic Food Festival in Bristol this weekend. You can sample organic delights from across the globe, pick up some cooking tips from organic chef Sophie Grigson and learn how to make chutney at the Granny Skills Workshop.

If the Autumnal weather is getting to you and you’d rather hibernate, perhaps stay at home and experiment with this dish we found from across the pond.

We were thrilled to discover that our Organic Ginger Cordial has crossed the Atlantic and is commemorated with its own Belvoir Ginger Cake!

Drop us some post and let us know how you are celebrating Organic fortnight. Why not send us your photos of our Organic Belvoir Ginger Cakes or even better, a slice? And do give us your suggestions for a great breakfast too.

Okay, so you may be wondering what the Dickens we’re up to, but bear with us. You see, here at Belvoir HQ we’ve decided to embrace the blog. According to Wikipedia, there are over 112 million blogs in existence. So forgive us for feeling a little left out.

So here’s our blog. Not just any old blog, either. Ours has a theme – Belvoir on for Britain.

The Credit Crunch is an ‘orrible term, but it’s been an inescapable one for many months. And with the Bank of England finally dotting the i in ‘recession’, the gloom’s all set to continue.

But not here. No no. Not on our beloved new blog. You won’t find a drop of misery tainting these pixel-based walls.

Here at Belvoir, we plan to celebrate Old Blighty’s resolve. To praise the good bits of Britain and banish the bad. We’ll be spreading plenty of cheer, too. And that cheer begins today.

A poetry competition

The lovely people over at Jordans Cereals have given us 10 hampers packed full of their wonderful cereals to give away (and if you don’t win our competition, sign up to their newsletter before 31st March 2009 for a chance to win a year’s supply of cereals!). All delicious and nutritious, we reckon they’ll be the perfect accompaniment to our juicy blueberry cordial. Mmm… muesli and blueberry cordial. The morning alarm clock will never sound so sweet.

You can get our blueberry cordial from all good stockists of fine cordials – including our online store – but there’s only one way to get your mitts on a Jordans hamper:

Send us a short poem about a tasty breakfast. There’ll be brownie points for rhyming – especially if you can cram the word Belvoir (remember, it’s pronounced Bee-ver) into proceedings. And since we’re trying to cheer up Britain, merit will be given to those poems that make us smile.

Once you’ve penned your breakfast verse, send it to us using this form. We’ll print the winning entries, right after dispatching Jordans hampers to our victorious scribes.

Good luck, all. Belvoir on for Britain!