Showing posts with label Supper Club. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Supper Club. Show all posts
Monday, August 10, 2015
Tomato masterclass and supper club
Yesterday's Tomato supper club menu was as follows:
Smoked vodka Bloody Mary with chipotle sauce and rosemary
Homemade sourdough bruschetta with garlic and Isle of Wight tomatoes and gorgeous tomato butter
Spaghetti Napolitana with green salad
Tomato confit with vanilla cream (from Lindsey Bareham's book The Big Red Book of Tomatoes) which was eaten up with gusto by everyone, despite the weirdness of the recipe.
As it was snowing outside, we remained indoors, Zia Mays showing the guests how to graft blight resistant tomato roots onto tasty tomato roots. Everyone had a go, it was like the generation game: fun to see people's attempts with the scalpel, in the process butchering some tomato plants! We discussed different types of tomatoes, having been sent an early box by the Isle of Wight Tomato stall, they had incredible quality and flavour considering how early it is in the year and the weather:
Secret Garden Club supper club this Sunday 26th April
Growing workshop:
- We will be showing how to grow Mediterranean vegetables in the UK without a greenhouse. It can be possible.
- How to graft tomatoes for bigger, stronger plants.
- Hot, or not? Growing chillies and peppers for flavour.
Supper club:
I will be cooking with Mediterranean vegetables, my favourites, using ideas from my trips to Istanbul, Athens and Sicily over the last few months. I'll also be pouring a glass of the fantastic British sparkling wine from Ridgeview in Sussex that I visited last weekend. But do feel free to bring your own drink, I recommend winetrust100.com who will deliver directly to my house.
Copies of my new book V is for Vegan will be on sale.
I can't wait to see you all and cook for you.
Buy tickets here: £40 starts at 2pm.
Love msmarmitelover
xx
Menu for Summer Fruits, Summer drinks supper at the Secret Garden Workshop
Visiting Jekka McVicar's #herbfest at the Queen Elizabeth hall last night, (do go and see her remarkable herb greenhouse and garden) I saw a copy of her book, which described how to grow your own berries by keeping the pips or seeds, teasing them out from the pulp, drying and planting them. There is a
Zia will be showing guests how to grow berries and make summer drinks while I make the food.
Of late I've been interested in using fruits with savouries and vegetables with desserts. I'm going to play around with the former in this meal. Here a few ideas I've come up with which I'll serve this Sunday. As always, expect the unexpected at the Secret Garden Club.
Berry Spritzers
Strawberry and baby leaf salad with raspberry dressing. Strawberries are still quite acid, so should complement a savoury salad beautifully.
Roasted apricot and Danish blue cheese salad. Roasting apricots makes them gorgeously sour.
Stuffed pasta shells with pickled cherries. I like to add the piquancy of cold pickles to hot savoury dishes.
Summer pudding: a British summertime classic.
Forest fruits sorbet in blueberry soup, with grated chocolate: a sorbet made quickly in the Vitamix and paired with a very Scandi blueberry soup.
Wines from Winetrust100: a new wine club which asks three masters of wine to pick a range of 100 wines, the best for their price, from all over the world.
Book tickets here £30
Sunday, August 9, 2015
Secret Garden Club 'edible flower' lunch 21st September
MsMarmitelover with her flowery pasta
Tickets £40: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/284184
BYO or order from winetrust100.com
Girls, wear your flowery dresses. Boys, wear floral ties and shirts. Hopefully we will be sitting outside if the weather is still good during the autumn equinox.
We will teach you what flowers are safe to eat and the lunch will be based on edible flower recipes. I will also be returning from a trip to Sicily so I may have some Sicilian treats.
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