I was invited to do a chef demo with the Wot’s Cooking team at The Great British Food Festival at Weston Park on Sunday 28th May. I hope my passion for real bread shone through and convinced at least some of the audience that making bread at home is doable and reaps rich rewards. Here
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On Sunday, Veg Patch Kitchen spent the day at The Greenwood Centre in Ironbridge at the annual Grow Local event run by Transition Town Telford. It’s a lovely community day, with lots of plants available to buy from local growers or you can take your garden tools to be sharpened and experience how to look
We always strive to make sure that your day with us at Veg Patch Kitchen is enjoyable, fun and informative and I really love getting emails, messages and Facebook reviews that confirm that we are delivering just that. Annabelle from Hundred House Coffee joined us for a day of bread making at my sister’s house
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Veg Patch Kitchen has been running bread making courses for two years now. We started in Leena’s house in Clun in January 2015. We introduced evening classes at the local village hall later that year and now, since July 2016, we have our very own purpose built kitchen that most of the courses run from
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We had a really successful bread and butter course on Wednesday at Ironbridge. The room was set up for the four course participants and we had a busy and fun evening of bread making and butter churning. We made a wholemeal wheat or spelt dough using the folding method, a white dough, kneaded on the
The last few weeks have been busy, busy, busy. On Saturday 23rd July I demonstrated bread making at Cosford Food Festival. It was the first time I had presented on a chef demo stage and I absolutely loved every minute of it. The next weekend saw me on the chef demo stage at the first
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We had a great day of cheese and butter making at Acton Scott on Saturday. We started the day with making a curd cheese with vegetarian rennet. We had a very interesting visit to the farm’s dairy to watch Ingrid turn two gallons of cream into butter in the farm’s end-over-end butter churn and we
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Exciting times ahead for Veg Patch Kitchen. We now have our very own bespoke kitchen in our garden at our home in Ironbridge. My Dad has done a lot of the hard work of getting this building from a shed that contained plant pots, tools and old furniture into something wonderful. Most of our courses
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Last Saturday saw me taking my first class at Acton Scott Museum. I was joined by eight lovely students for a day of bread making. Here they all are doing a fold of their spelt/ wholemeal dough. We kept ourselves very busy. We made a wholemeal or spelt dough and shaped it into a tin,
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More lovely people joined us on Sunday to learn new skills in bread making. Here they all are with the breads that they made throughout the day. We made white and spelt loaves using the folded method, an olive dough using the kneading method which we shaped into fougasse, focaccia and pizzas. We also made
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