Sitemap - 2024 - Tales from the Veg Patch by Kathy Slack

BBQ bugs & other stories: a bumper crop of recipes from Sydney

Holidays, book news & a catalogue of veg-filled Christmas recipes from the archive

A Recipe for Compost

Why red cabbage isn’t just for Christmas (or braising)

Food & photography trip to France - Q&A

A raw deal for raw kale and a miso salad as redress

Chestnut and apple ice-cream sundae

Smoky squash shakshuka

Pumpkin Day arrives & a tart to celebrate

Come to France with us

OCTOBER NEWSLETTER

Roast onion dip for proper baguettes

Apple & chicken traybake with tricksy Florence fennel

Two recipes from my cookbook for the orchard harvest

Rebellious fig, thyme & hazelnut cake two ways

SEPTEMBER NEWSLETTER

Runner bean & spring onion fritters

Creamed corn with roast greenhouse veg and chorizo

Mushroom, orzo, lemon & pine nut stuffed courgettes

Courgette & tomato pesto galette

AUGUST NEWSLETTER

A Niçoise for the first tomatoes

How to shop with the seasons

Green chopped salad & whipped tofu

Green chicken meatballs

Charred summer greens with salsa verde beans

Rough Patch: an exclusive preview of my new book

I've written another book!

Menu for a 1st Birthday Feast

Gooseberry blondies (& party invite)

Basil, strawberry & ricotta cheesecake pots

Norfolk crab & pea tart from my holidays

Perpetual suppers from perpetual spinach pesto sauce

A tour of the June veg patch

Herby gnudi with peas, broad beans & pea shoots

JUNE NEWSLETTER

Charred lettuce, fennel, pancetta & orange salad

Rhubarb, thyme & almond traybake

Braised lettuce & bean stew with wild garlic 'capers'

Asparagus, Jersey Royals & broad bean salad with eggs, capers & dill

Tarragon scones with pea mash and pickled radishes

MAY NEWSLETTER

Elderflower madeleines with rhubarb glaze

In hope of reincarnation as a bean

A batch-cook recipe in anticipation of the first pea harvest

Why radishes are a gateway drug & a radish tarte Tatin for your first score

APRIL NEWSLETTER

Spring panzanella and other ways with asparagus

How to propagate herbs (& other life lessons) with Jekka McVicar

Why I’m getting an allotment (spoiler: to grow asparagus for this recipe)

Be honest about your love affair with wild garlic (then cook this)

The trickiness of purple sprouting broccoli & a spelt & anchovy salad in exaltation

MARCH NEWSLETTER

Welsh rarebit hot cross bun & pickled pears

Leek, feta & zaatar pide-tart-thingy

How to Sow Vegetables Seeds

Seville orange marmalade and chocolate cake

On Wonder

Why growing onions is (mostly) pointless and an onion supper inspired by crisp sarnies

A Feast of Forced Rhubarb - Part THREE: Duck legs with pickled rhubarb and lentils

FEBRUARY NEWSLETTER

A Feast of Forced Rhubarb - Part TWO: Three rhubarb crispbreads

The Morals and Mysteries of Failing to Catch a Mole

A Feast of Forced Rhubarb - Part ONE: Rhubarb, panettone and ginger trifle

How to make leek, mushroom and chestnut stuffed flatbreads

Sprouts and kale pesto butterbean stew with pangrattato

Lovely Leeks: two recipes from my cookbook

Putting joy before self-sufficiency with a blood orange, rosemary & pine nut cake

JANUARY NEWSLETTER

Kalette noodle salad with savoury granola

How to love sprouts: a recipe for sproutiflette