Last Summer, Mum and I drove down to the Dorset/Devon border for a one-day-long cookery course at River Cottage. It was brilliant. What I liked most about it was that what you see on the TV hasn’t just been created for the cameras, it is a genuine rural smallholding. It’s not perfectly manicured and that was it’s greatest charm. The recipes had been carefully thought up based on the freshest and ripest ingredients they had on the farm that day. We cooked (and then ate) some delicious things – chicken livers on toast, slow cooked shin of beef with ginger and soy, we baked our own sourdough bread, filleted a mackerel, cooked and served it with a homemade salsa verde and finished it all off with a panna cotta with berry compote and shortbread.
eliza's larder 