Seasonal Cookery

Seasonal Recipes Online

www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes

An excellent website with hundreds of recipes using seasonal fruit and vegetables and cuts of meat. There is a search facility so you can enter the fruit, vegetable or cut of meat that you want a recipe for. Recipes include broad bean, feta and mint salad and sausages with mashed potatoes, beer and onion gravy and mustard.

www.bbcgoodfood.com

Another great website with pictures of each dish and a search facility. Recipes include honey glazed carrots and spiced beetroot salad with spinach and bacon.

www.rivercottage.net

Packed full of useful information about seasonal eating. There is also a small selection of wonderful recipes including purple sprouting broccoli with anchovy and chilli dressing and rhubarb and custard trifle.

www.nigelslater.com

Only six recipes per season on this website, including onions with parmesan and cream and goat’s cheese, pea and lentil salad, but they are spectacular.

www.deliaonline.com

Delia Smith’s website with recipe search engine contains some of her classic recipe including rigatoni and asparagus au gratin and cauliflower with two cheeses and creme fraiche.

Seasonal Eating Cookery Books

Sarah Raven’s Garden Cookbook
by Sarah Raven (available from www.amazon.co.uk)

My all time favourite seasonal cookbook. There are beautiful illustrations in this book and the recipes are divided into the appropriate seasons. Recipes include chard and coconut soup and roast plums with bread and butter pudding.

Vegetables
by Sophie Grigson (available from www.amazon.co.uk)

This is my favourite reference book about vegetables. It tells you how to store and prepare different types of vegetables and what they go well with. It also contains some lovely recipes including wild garlic and new potato risotto and slow cooked cabbage with sausages.

The River Cottage Year
by Hugh Fearnely-Whittingstall (available from www.amazon.co.uk)

A wonderful cookery book from one of the best advocates of seasonal eating. The chapters are divided into months of the year and recipes include mackerel with melted onions and black olives and gooseberry ice-cream.

The Kitchen Diaries
by Nigel Slater (available from www.amazon.co.uk)

This is an account of more or less everything Nigel cooked in the course of a year following the ebb and flow of the seasons and presented as an illustrated diary. Recipes include roast goose with apple sauce and strawberry mascarpone tart

A Year in My Kitchen
by Skye Gyngell (available from www.amazon.co.uk)

Foodies will love this book. As the name suggests, it follows a year in Skye’s kitchen and includes recipes such as Panade of Broad Beans with Pancetta, Mint and Ricotta and mackerel fillets with roasted tomatoes and horseradish cream.

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