Category: September

Yotam Ottolenghi’s lentils, radicchio and walnuts with honey

I’ve grown radicchio on the farm, here’s a tasty recipe in which you cook the radicchio. 200g puy lentils 2 bay leaves 100g manuka honey (i used local honey) ¼ tsp flaked chilli ½ tsp ground turmeric Salt and black pepper About 1 tsp water 3 tbsp red-wine vinegar 90ml olive oil 100g walnuts ½…

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River Cottage Brown Bread Ice Cream

In my efforts to become a sourdough maestro, I have some rubbish bread which needs another function. Long behold a recipe in the River Cottage Bread Book for Brown Bread Ice Cream, it had merits! You can find the recipe online here. The ice cream base is vanilla custard, and the bread is ‘toasted’ with…

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Galton Blackiston’s lemon thyme and garden mint ice cream

I came across the website Great British Chefs while looking for ice cream recipes. Here is Glaton Blackiston’s thyme and mint ice cream. It’s easy to make – just a custard base. I’ve also added a couple of egg whites, whisked up and folded to the custard once cool, along with agar agar – both…

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Beetroot Cake

We had plenty of beetroot in the Riverford Veg Box last week screaming to be turned into cake. Unfortunately I was low on chocolate (which is unusual as I buy so much but guess it gets eaten quickly!) so no chocolate beetroot cake on the agenda… or brownies. Thankfully I came across Skye Gyngell’s recipe in…

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Mary Berry’s American Apple and Apricot Cake

Apples and cakes seem to be a hit this time of year and with a few spare apples lying about the house a bit bruised, now is the time to cook them. I usually make Mary Berry’s Apple and Cinnamon Cake but thought its time to venture further… well not that much! Recipe can be…

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