Category: Summer
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Sourdough pain de campagne recipe
Over on Instagram, my friend Carla has created something of a stir with her bread. As you can see below, Carla has made beautiful pain de campagne to a recipe I developed using some of the great bakers’ ideas as my inspiration. The smell..the feel..the loud crackling..this is my BFF bread.. thanks @carl_legge 😙…
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Carrot top pesto recipes
Once you know how to make carrot top pesto, you’ll never want to waste your carrot ‘greens’ ever again. My recipe appeared online and then in my book The Permaculture Kitchen. Since then, I’ve seen carrot top pesto used by loads of people in all sorts of creative and scrumptious ways. I thought it’d be…
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Stuffed sardines recipe, sarde a beccafico
Stuffed sardines recipe These sardines just melt in the mouth with a burst of herby flavour. They are a doddle to prepare and only take 10 minutes to cook. They are ideal as antipasto, as part of a buffet or a main fish course. I developed the stuffing from ingredients I had left over from…
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Summer sunflowers
Sunflowers induce a smile on my face. Outwardly simple, they shout “Summer!” even if the rain is pouring. And this year, they’re having a ball in our gloriously hot summer. We plant lots and save seed too. On the right is part of my friend Carla’s garden near Roma, Italy. The tall sunflowers are from…
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Garlic scape pickle recipe
Here at Legge Towers the weather has been just gorgeous since May. Which has made up somewhat for the slow and cold start to the year. We had to resow courgettes when the first lot sown in early March on heat succumbed to the less than stunning early May temperatures. So we’ve worked really hard…
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Hanging baskets from recycled poultry feeders
Sometimes the most obvious solutions are at my feet. Which is ironic, as I was after a high-level solution. We’ve grown tomatoes in the Big Polytunnel for a few years now. They take up quite a lot of bed space and we felt we could use the bed space more productively. But we like tomatoes…
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Roast lamb three ways
One of the easiest ways you can make your meal planning easier, cook more frugally and seasonally is to make a major ingredient go further. Here I show you how I used a £20 joint of local Welsh lamb leg to make three different meals for the three of us. I’ve cooked a lot of…
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Kombucha sourdough bread recipe
This successful experiment could revolutionise my baking. It means that I can bake sourdough bread in 24 hours without the need to keep an active leaven refreshed. The bread is gloriously moist and chewy as sourdough should be. This has a big malty wholemeal taste with a rich, crisp crust. It’s not at all sharp…
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Wine barm bread
It’s funny how things spread. My twitter pal Jessica read the earlier post on how to use a cider barm to make sourdough bread. Serendipity is a wonderful thing as Jessica was racking wine that day. So Jessica contacted me on Twitter… And so Jessica did. I’m very grateful to Jessica who sent the pictures…