Deciding what to eat at any of our Workshops here can be quite a challenge! Workshop weeks have my ears pricked for every weather report, while watching the Kitchen Garden always has me on the edge of my seat! With a cold & wet day predicted for today’s Weaving Workshop with Harriet Goodall, I’ve had all the fun of preparing our first really wintry lunch.
First there were canellini beans to soak overnight before cooking them up with bay leaves.
Then I was ducking out in between heavy showers to collect a big bunch of cavolo nero….
All of which have ended up in a scrumptious Tuscan Peasant Soup. Also on the menu for the day is Rhubarb Cake for morning tea, a big round rustic loaf that’s proving in the cupboard as I write, a salad of garden leaves and petals (if I can find any dry ones!), Razorback olives with lovage, and….to end….those beautiful quinces that filled the kitchen yesterday with their divine smell as they baked in the oven.
So it can rain all it likes – our participants will be weaving in front of a roaring fire and eat the very best the season has provided. And I had a lot of fun, the day before!