Upcoming events
Fermentation Workshop @ The Dusty Knuckle
After fermentation, my other great culinary love is pasta and I’m delighted to be teaching a pasta making workshop at my favourite bakery, the Dusty Knuckle.
Join me to make (and eat) a full-on fresh pasta feast. You’ll learn which flours and other ingredients create the best doughs, how to roll, cut and shape them, as well as tips and tricks for making sauces and fillings.
We’ll prepare two different pastas. A silky, egg-rich number with which to create some filled ravioli and tortellini. And a more rustic version incorporating semolina for tagliatelle that sauce can’t help but cling to. You’ll enjoy them accompanied by a browned sage butter and a classic tomato sauce, plus beer from Dusty Knuckle neighbours at 40ft Brewery.
You definitely won’t leave hungry but anything you don’t cook and eat on the night you can take home in a Dusty Knuckle tote bag, along with a handy dough scraper and recipe sheets so you can continue your pasta journey.
The DK school is located in shipping container in the garden of their flagship Dalston Branch. Tickets are available via Eventbrite.
Community canapé event @ The Hillbilly Social, Bowes Park
You're invited: Community Canapé Party!
I'm delighted to have have been asked to put on an event at the Hillbilly Social on Myddleton Road in Bowes Park. The story of the venue is inspiring: when a much-loved restaurant and bar was taken over by property developers and slated to be turned into flats, locals fought back, raising the money to buy the venue for the community.
So community is our theme for the evening. To me this has always meant co-operation in the spirit of what we have in common: putting aside differences for a shared good. It can be based on lots of things, whether political aims, mutual interests or simple geographical proximity. In a city as large as London, the latter is sometimes put aside. With so many millions living here, it's easy to find "your people" at work or through a hobby and we can neglect the importance of just learnifn to rub along with those around us. I think meeting and chatting face to face is the antidote to that.
My work as a chef and food educator obviously centres around people coming together, to eat or share skills. But (more pretentiously perhaps!) as a fermenter I also like to consider myself in community with the microbes who do the work for me, transforming simple ingredients into something delicious and good-for-you with complex flavours.
You'll get a complementary cocktail on arrival, a generous array of delicious things to eat and connection-sparking creative prompts for those in the mood. Small bites and big conversations!
The menu will be as follows (allowing for seasonal inspiration and chef's whims):
Hedgerow cocktail
Kimchi devilled eggs (V, GF)
Golden kraut fritters, coriander chutney (Ve, GF)
Freshly-baked soda bread, cultured butter, radishes (V)
Oatcake blinis with smoked salmon/carrot "lox" (GF, V/Ve option)
Pan con tomate (Ve)
Mini spanakopita (Ve)
Quince frangipane (V)
Miso brownie bites (Ve, GF)
Pasta Making Workshop @ The Dusty Knuckle
After fermentation, my other great culinary love is pasta and I’m delighted to be teaching a pasta making workshop at my favourite bakery, the Dusty Knuckle.
Join me to make (and eat) a full-on fresh pasta feast. You’ll learn which flours and other ingredients create the best doughs, how to roll, cut and shape them, as well as tips and tricks for making sauces and fillings.
We’ll prepare two different pastas. A silky, egg-rich number with which to create some filled ravioli and tortellini. And a more rustic version incorporating semolina for tagliatelle that sauce can’t help but cling to. You’ll enjoy them accompanied by a browned sage butter and a classic tomato sauce, plus beer from Dusty Knuckle neighbours at 40ft Brewery.
You definitely won’t leave hungry but anything you don’t cook and eat on the night you can take home in a Dusty Knuckle tote bag, along with a handy dough scraper and recipe sheets so you can continue your pasta journey.
The DK school is located in shipping container in the garden of their flagship Dalston Branch. Tickets are available via Eventbrite.
Fermentation Workshop @ The Dusty Knuckle
After fermentation, my other great culinary love is pasta and I’m delighted to be teaching a pasta making workshop at my favourite bakery, the Dusty Knuckle.
Join me to make (and eat) a full-on fresh pasta feast. You’ll learn which flours and other ingredients create the best doughs, how to roll, cut and shape them, as well as tips and tricks for making sauces and fillings.
We’ll prepare two different pastas. A silky, egg-rich number with which to create some filled ravioli and tortellini. And a more rustic version incorporating semolina for tagliatelle that sauce can’t help but cling to. You’ll enjoy them accompanied by a browned sage butter and a classic tomato sauce, plus beer from Dusty Knuckle neighbours at 40ft Brewery.
You definitely won’t leave hungry but anything you don’t cook and eat on the night you can take home in a Dusty Knuckle tote bag, along with a handy dough scraper and recipe sheets so you can continue your pasta journey.
The DK school is located in shipping container in the garden of their flagship Dalston Branch. Tickets are available via Eventbrite.
Fermentation Workshop @ The Dusty Knuckle
After fermentation, my other great culinary love is pasta and I’m delighted to be teaching a pasta making workshop at my favourite bakery, the Dusty Knuckle.
Join me to make (and eat) a full-on fresh pasta feast. You’ll learn which flours and other ingredients create the best doughs, how to roll, cut and shape them, as well as tips and tricks for making sauces and fillings.
We’ll prepare two different pastas. A silky, egg-rich number with which to create some filled ravioli and tortellini. And a more rustic version incorporating semolina for tagliatelle that sauce can’t help but cling to. You’ll enjoy them accompanied by a browned sage butter and a classic tomato sauce, plus beer from Dusty Knuckle neighbours at 40ft Brewery.
You definitely won’t leave hungry but anything you don’t cook and eat on the night you can take home in a Dusty Knuckle tote bag, along with a handy dough scraper and recipe sheets so you can continue your pasta journey.
The DK school is located in shipping container in the garden of their flagship Dalston Branch. Tickets are available via Eventbrite.
Pasta Making Workshop @ The Dusty Knuckle
After fermentation, my other great culinary love is pasta and I’m delighted to be teaching a pasta making workshop at my favourite bakery, the Dusty Knuckle.
Join me to make (and eat) a full-on fresh pasta feast. You’ll learn which flours and other ingredients create the best doughs, how to roll, cut and shape them, as well as tips and tricks for making sauces and fillings.
We’ll prepare two different pastas. A silky, egg-rich number with which to create some filled ravioli and tortellini. And a more rustic version incorporating semolina for tagliatelle that sauce can’t help but cling to. You’ll enjoy them accompanied by a browned sage butter and a classic tomato sauce, plus beer from Dusty Knuckle neighbours at 40ft Brewery.
You definitely won’t leave hungry but anything you don’t cook and eat on the night you can take home in a Dusty Knuckle tote bag, along with a handy dough scraper and recipe sheets so you can continue your pasta journey.
The DK school is located in shipping container in the garden of their flagship Dalston Branch. Tickets are available via Eventbrite.
Fermentation Workshop @ The Dusty Knuckle
After fermentation, my other great culinary love is pasta and I’m delighted to be teaching a pasta making workshop at my favourite bakery, the Dusty Knuckle.
Join me to make (and eat) a full-on fresh pasta feast. You’ll learn which flours and other ingredients create the best doughs, how to roll, cut and shape them, as well as tips and tricks for making sauces and fillings.
We’ll prepare two different pastas. A silky, egg-rich number with which to create some filled ravioli and tortellini. And a more rustic version incorporating semolina for tagliatelle that sauce can’t help but cling to. You’ll enjoy them accompanied by a browned sage butter and a classic tomato sauce, plus beer from Dusty Knuckle neighbours at 40ft Brewery.
You definitely won’t leave hungry but anything you don’t cook and eat on the night you can take home in a Dusty Knuckle tote bag, along with a handy dough scraper and recipe sheets so you can continue your pasta journey.
The DK school is located in shipping container in the garden of their flagship Dalston Branch. Tickets are available via Eventbrite.
An introduction to lacto-fermentation @ Plot to Plate Edible Garden, Walthamstow
All you need to make your own delicious and good-for-you lacto-fermented krauts and pickles are vegetables, salt and some patience. Join fermentation expert Clare Heal for a hands-on workshop using seasonal produce, including herbs and veg picked straight from the Wood Street Plot to Plate Edible Garden.
We'll make sauerkraut and brine pickles. You'll go home with a jar of each and an info/recipe sheet to keep. But, more importantly, you’ll take away an in-depth knowledge of the science and practicalities of lacto-fermentation and the confidence to pickle anything you fancy.
Pasta Making Workshop @ The Dusty Knuckle
After fermentation, my other great culinary love is pasta and I’m delighted to be teaching a pasta making workshop at my favourite bakery, the Dusty Knuckle.
Join me to make (and eat) a full-on fresh pasta feast. You’ll learn which flours and other ingredients create the best doughs, how to roll, cut and shape them, as well as tips and tricks for making sauces and fillings.
We’ll prepare two different pastas. A silky, egg-rich number with which to create some filled ravioli and tortellini. And a more rustic version incorporating semolina for tagliatelle that sauce can’t help but cling to. You’ll enjoy them accompanied by a browned sage butter and a classic tomato sauce, plus beer from Dusty Knuckle neighbours at 40ft Brewery.
You definitely won’t leave hungry but anything you don’t cook and eat on the night you can take home in a Dusty Knuckle tote bag, along with a handy dough scraper and recipe sheets so you can continue your pasta journey.
The DK school is located in shipping container in the garden of their flagship Dalston Branch. Tickets are available via Eventbrite.
Fermentation Workshop @ The Dusty Knuckle
After fermentation, my other great culinary love is pasta and I’m delighted to be teaching a pasta making workshop at my favourite bakery, the Dusty Knuckle.
Join me to make (and eat) a full-on fresh pasta feast. You’ll learn which flours and other ingredients create the best doughs, how to roll, cut and shape them, as well as tips and tricks for making sauces and fillings.
We’ll prepare two different pastas. A silky, egg-rich number with which to create some filled ravioli and tortellini. And a more rustic version incorporating semolina for tagliatelle that sauce can’t help but cling to. You’ll enjoy them accompanied by a browned sage butter and a classic tomato sauce, plus beer from Dusty Knuckle neighbours at 40ft Brewery.
You definitely won’t leave hungry but anything you don’t cook and eat on the night you can take home in a Dusty Knuckle tote bag, along with a handy dough scraper and recipe sheets so you can continue your pasta journey.
The DK school is located in shipping container in the garden of their flagship Dalston Branch. Tickets are available via Eventbrite.
Field-to-Ferment workshop @ Home Farm House, Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire
Join me for a full day learning how to make delicious and good-for-you ferments in a beautiful farmhouse surrounding. Pick vegetables straight from the field and transform them into flavour-packed, gut-friendly food and drinks.
Home Farm House is a beautiful, Grade II* listed, 17th century building, a coaching inn-turned-farmhouse with a recently renovated kitchen, making it the perfect space to host a relaxed, hands-on day of learning.
The next-door field is home to one of the regenerative, no-dig market gardens run by Worthy Earth, so we’ll be working with hyper-local, peak seasonal produce.
The day will start with a short tour of the garden by Worthy Earth’s co-founder Harrison Fannon and the chance to choose your own fresh vegetables and herbs. We'll then return to the kitchen where Clare will explain the science and practicalities of “wild” lacto-fermentation and you'll transform the produce into delicious krauts, kimchis and pickles.
Following a seasonal home-cooked lunch, plus taster samples from my “fermentarium”, we’ll move on to “cultured” ferments, discussing vinegar, kombucha and kefir and making versions flavoured with local fruit and honey.
You’ll leave with a bag containing your unique ferments plus starter culture samples and a detailed recipe and info sheet. Perhaps more importantly, you’ll take away the confidence to pickle anything you fancy and make gut-friendly drinks throughout the seasons in your own kitchen.
Pasta making class @ Plot to Plate Edible Garden, Walthamstow
Join me at the Lacy Nook in Walthamstow to create (and eat) a full-on fresh pasta feast. You’ll make your own pasta dough and turn it into toothsome tagliatelle and a variety of filled shapes. Then we’ll use freshly picked veg and herbs from the attached Plot to Plate Edible Garden to create simple, seasonal sauces.
Anything you don’t cook and eat on the night can be taken home and frozen for future meals (bring your own containers). Plus you'll get recipe sheets so you can continue your pasta journey. Your ticket includes a glass of wine or soft drink to accompany your pasta meal.
More details and tickets via Eventbrite
Sauerkraut masterclass @ Inside Out: Microbiome and Gut Health Festival
I’m excited to be part of Inside Out, the UK’s first festival dedicated to the microbiome which is taking place in London’s Paternoster Square from 22nd - 27th September. I’ll be doing a Sauerkraut Masterclass at 1pm on Wednesday 24th September but there are a wealth of other speakers including scientists, doctors and nutritional experts. All free. Plus we are promised a “giant, walk-through human digestive system”!
Pasta Making Workshop @ The Dusty Knuckle
After fermentation, my other great culinary love is pasta and I’m delighted to be teaching a pasta making workshop at my favourite bakery, the Dusty Knuckle.
Join me to make (and eat) a full-on fresh pasta feast. You’ll learn which flours and other ingredients create the best doughs, how to roll, cut and shape them, as well as tips and tricks for making sauces and fillings.
We’ll prepare two different pastas. A silky, egg-rich number with which to create some filled ravioli and tortellini. And a more rustic version incorporating semolina for tagliatelle that sauce can’t help but cling to. You’ll enjoy them accompanied by a browned sage butter and a classic tomato sauce, plus beer from Dusty Knuckle neighbours at 40ft Brewery.
You definitely won’t leave hungry but anything you don’t cook and eat on the night you can take home in a Dusty Knuckle tote bag, along with a handy dough scraper and recipe sheets so you can continue your pasta journey.
The DK school is located in shipping container in the garden of their flagship Dalston Branch. Tickets are available via Eventbrite.