Chocolate salted rye cookies
This recipe is adapted from Chad Robertson’s Tartine book 3. These are the best cookies I’ve ever eaten. Say no more. Ingredients – makes 20 cookies 250g chocolate 70% + (Original Beans) 30g unsalted butter The seeds from one vanilla pod (save the empty pod and add to your sugar bowl for vanilla flavoured sugar). 50g […]
Cavolo nero and walnut dip
First published in the Guardian – Photographs by Elena heatherwick This is a variation on a pesto recipe that I learnt from a close friend of mine. She makes the pesto with Russian kale giving the pesto a brilliant dusty rose colour. Made with cavolo nero this dip is vibrant and beautiful, I find the […]
Five seasonal pickles made with abundant and affordable roots
Originally published on www.bristol2015.co.uk You can pickle just about anything from apples to snails. Pickling is an enjoyable way to make the most of a seasonal ingredient or surplus of produce you may already have in your fridge. At my restaurant Poco in Stokes Croft we preserve an excess of produce by pickling it, saving […]
Forgotten Feast Banquet at Well’s Food Festival BOOK NOW!
On Sunday 12 October Wells Food Festival returns once again to celebrate the best of Somerset’s wonderful local produce. 2013’s inaugural one-day event attracted over 3500 visitors and was such a success that we’re doing it again. This year’s festival will be bigger and better. We will be creating a Forgotten Feast banquet prepared from the abundance […]
The Ultimate Roast at Sunday Papers Live
Our next roast at Sunday Papers Live is on the 14 September. An outstanding event in Cecil Sharp House, Camden. Pretty much the perfect sunday. We put on a huge organic roast set on long table banquets throughout the day. You can buy tickets for the event here. Be sure to book a roast too. […]
Filming at River Cottage for Jamie Oliver’s Food Tube – Barbecued broad bean and crab bruchetta
My second film this month is perhaps the most challenging recipe in my new recipe book The Natural Cook. Last summer I was at the beach and fancied cooking a BBQ but had no equipment. We bought lots of lovely food to cook straight on the coals. The broad beans in their pods and the crab […]
