Recipes

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

Strawberries, rosemary, pistachios and white chocolate. Just mix it up and bung it in the oven. (Plus, plans to take the next live cookery class on…

Jun 18

In which I get all highfalutin with the first beetroot harvest

A beetroot tartare recipe to celebrate the first beetroot. All fancy like…

Jun 11

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

FREE TO READ: an extract from my new book, Rough Patch, a memoir with recipes.

Jun 4

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

This week, I'm eating honeyed strawberry and rhubarb tart and contemplating the new strawberry patch I didn’t plan and don’t have room for.

May 21

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

A convivial sharing plate to calm my asparagus (and wild garlic) anxiety.

May 14

Springtime florentine fish pie for the perpetual spinach glut

The perpetual spinach is one year old this week. Clue's in the name. I 'celebrate' with this light pie filled with peas, parsley, a cheesy Jersey Royal…

May 7

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

Join me (and Humf) live in the (cluttered) greenhouse kitchen for rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb - three recipes and techniques for enjoying maincrop…

Apr 30

40:45

30TH APRIL 1PM: Live cookery class

Come into the greenhouse kitchen for a live cookery class and a feast of ways to use rhubarb that aren't crumble.

Apr 28

Burnt lime leaf cheesecake & minty mango

The lime leaf glut continues...

Apr 23

An easy breezy Sunday roast for springtime

Asparagus bundles swathed in Parma ham and cheese, kale pesto butterbeans, herby roast chicken, and addictive gravy croutons that will change the way…

Apr 16

Coconut cauliflower not-steaks with lime leaf sauce

Crispy cauliflower slices with an endlessly useful makrut lime leaf dressing. Just don't call them 'steaks'.

Apr 9

Blackcurrant cake with coulis

FREE TO READ: A long lost glut is discovered at the back of the freezer so I make almond & vanilla sponge with blackcurrant jam, cream cheese frosting…

Apr 2

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