REPLAY: cookery class - blistered greens, whipped feta & charred lemon grains

Blistering greens

Cooked up in today’s class

Come into the greenhouse and we’ll blister some asparagus, beans, lettuce and spring onions on the griddle pan, toss them in jammy lemon-dressed grains and lay them on a bed of herby, whipped feta.

It’s a technique I use all the time on the BBQ too - for all sorts of veg from courgettes to cauliflower - and I hope you will too.

Paid subcribers can watch the replay above and find the recipe card PDF below.

I say ‘replay’ but really it’s a ‘pre-record’

I’m at Hay Festival this week to give a talk about my book, Rough Patch, and won’t be at home to do our usual Wednesday LIVE cookery class.

I asked you lovely lot what you’d like me to do about this clash, offering up a LIVE from Hay, a pre-recorded cookery class, or both as alternatives. And you said BOTH. Of course you did. Greedy. So…

LIVE from Hay - Thursday 4:30pm

When?

Thursday 29th May at 4:30pm GMT

Where?

On Substack LIVE. It works like Instagram Live (ie: you can see me on screen, I can’t see you, and there’s a live text chat for you to ask questions.) This one is FREE for all subscribers. You join via the Substack app or desktop.

To get the app, click below to download the Substack app. If you make sure to enable notifications, the app will notify you when we go live. Just tap that, and you’ll be able to watch and comment.

For the desktop view, just sign in to Substack and you’ll see me pop up in your Homepage at 4:30pm.

What?

I’ll attempt to find a quiet place where we can chat about books. I’ll let you what I’ve discovered at Hay, how my talk went, chat about Rough Patch (the writing process, production etc) and answer your questions.

Please do come, or it’ll be just me talking to myself whilst the people of Hay wander past me looking quizzical.

Right, back to the cooking.

My styling assistant likes to get as close as he can without actually touching the dish

Here’s the recipe from today’s class…