A Year in a Cottage Kitchen (seasonal recipes from Cornwall)
A Year in a Cottage Garden is a lovely book by a young vegan cookbook author who is fast turning into a next-generation version of Nigella Lawson. Discover 80 simple plant-based recipes, from the heart of Cornwall.
Take a seat at Maddie’s table, as she cooks delicious meals in her cosy cottage, and step inside her world as she tends to her vegetable patch, strolls along the shore to take in the sea air, and hosts supper or (when the weather allows) on the beach.
Read up on food safety for people and pets. For tinned ingredients, rinse/remove lids (or pop ring-pulls over holes) then step on upper cans to pinch rims together, to stop wildlife getting trapped.
Unless you have food waste bins, just bin pepper and allium scraps (onion, leeks, garlic, shallot, chives), citrus/tomato/rhubarb scraps. To avoid acids harming compost creatures.
Recipes include:
- Roasted parsnip, rosemary & white bean soup
- Homemade crumpets
- Warm butter bean, new potato & tomato salad
- Black bean burgers with summer hot sauce
- Roasted butternut squash & sausage gnocchi
- Mushroom & lentil pie
- Tear and share ‘cheesy’ bread
Seasonal plant-based desserts
- Lemon & elderflower cake
- Pear uptside down cake
- Homemade apple crumble
- Vegan chocolate torte
Who wrote this book?
Madeleine Olivia is a popular content creator who writes lovely vegan cookbooks. She lives with her family in a beautiful renovated cottage in Cornwall. Find more recipes (including a lovely e-book on baking bread she wrote with her husband) at her website.
