Sitemap - 2025 - Tales from the Veg Patch by Kathy Slack

A Christmas pressie for you

Cheesy spaghetti squash stuffed with kale pesto & mushroom

Sprout recipes to convert; a veggie feasting menu; my favourite Christmas recipes; and, books to give us gifts (not all of them mine)

Golden beetroot & makrut lime loaf with candied beets

REPLAY (part 2) - festive veg-filled canapés

REPLAY - Cookery class: festive, veg-filled canapés. No vol-au-vents or greasy cocktail sausages allowed.

Spiced pumpkin, marmalade & chocolate crumble cake

Squaffles, sage & a double yolker

An unusually abundant November harvest, special gift bundles, and recipes for hunkering down

Smoky squash and chorizo meatball stew

Veg patch tour & chat

29th Oct - LIVE patch tour Q&A

Cake to celebrate the first quince harvest

Pumpkin panzanella

For World Mental Health Day - 1 lesson learnt from the soil; 5 dates for a get together; 10 recipes for happiness

Apple and walnut 'Five Minute Flan*'

A supper to make you feel like you're on a French holiday (without actually going anywhere)

DIG IN #3 - Frittata

DIG IN #2 - Roast veg & mash

DIG IN #1 - Flatbread pizza

Fig leaf semifreddo with jammy fig compote

REPLAY: Cookery class - a 3-course veg patch feast in 30 minutes

28th Aug - LIVE cookery class:

Why fruit is great in main course with recipes to prove it

Eight easy ice-cream recipes (for humans and dogs)

Recipes for gluts, preserving & picnicking, plus garden jobs, events & glory for Humf

The ultimate veg patch picnic menu

REPLAY: Cookery Class - How to deal with a glut of anything

A summer risotto that begins with a stroll in the garden and a trug full of green

Veg that will make you feel like you’re on a French holiday (without actually going anywhere)

Why ‘5 Ways to Use Up a Glut’ rarely are and a courgette recipe to prove the point

Join me this July for an evening reconnecting with nature, plus other way we can meet up this summer

REPLAY: 3 tips for creating the perfect dish & the perfect photo

A strawberry & rosemary cake for when you're too busy to bake

In which I get all highfalutin with the first beetroot harvest

Things to do, places to come for a chat, recipes to cook in June

Courgette, feta & basil tart to serve in the kitchen garden with fizz, sunshine & a full heart

Live chat from the Hay Festival

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

How I accidentally planted a strawberry patch & an easy tart recipe in anticipation of the harvest

Asparagus, chilli butter & dukka with wild garlic focaccia for mopping up

Recipes, garden jobs and dates when we can get together for a chat in May

Springtime florentine fish pie for the perpetual spinach glut

REPLAY: Cookery class - 3 ways with rhubarb that aren’t crumble

30TH APRIL 1PM: Live cookery class

Burnt lime leaf cheesecake & minty mango

An easy breezy Sunday roast for springtime

A long list for veg patch jobs for April, more recipes, new events, & a cute dog

Coconut cauliflower not-steaks with lime leaf sauce

Blackcurrant cake with coulis

REPLAY: Wild garlic tortellini live cookery class

26TH MARCH 1PM: Live cookery class

Parsnip & ginger ice-cream, honeyed pears and chocolate clusters

Spring book tour, supper clubs & plenty to eat in March

A salad for an interesting potato

Scallops, leeks and sorrel sauce

Pears with whisky cream & rye crumble plus a cocktail with 'leftovers'

REPLAY: Winter salads live cookery class

25TH FEB 1PM: Live cookery class

What to eat now, garden jobs for Feb and LOTS of events news.

Blood orange blondies

Blood orange, radicchio & puy lentil salad

Publication Day Special

Crispy parmesan squash with salsa verde butter beans

A cuppa with Rosie Ramsden, illustrator of Rough Patch

29TH JAN 1PM: Live with artist, Rosie Ramsden, who illustrated my new book

Pumpkin, kale & hazelnut galette

Recipes to get us through Jan, plus upcoming events, live chats, new live cookery classes, and a gig with Delicious

Roast Cauliflower and Other Soups

A Meal for the Day you Pick the Cabbage