Healthy Eating: Seasonal recipes and more: it's the River Cottage May newsletter!

River Cottage May \| Getting ready for summer \| Recipes
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The great outdoors If the weather with you has been anything like ours at River Cottage HQ, you’ll have been spending a fair bit of time outdoors of late. Perhaps you’ve been dusting off the garden furniture and busy planting up your garden, balcony or even window sill? Our garden is shaping up nicely, thanks to our new head gardener Will Livingstone. If you need a little guidance when it comes to all things green-fingered, why not join Will for our Get Growing course? You can see just how beautiful our garden and farm is looking next weekend at our Food Fair. We’ve nearly sold out but there are a few tickets left for Bank Holiday Monday – buy yours now. Or perhaps you’d like to add an outdoor clay oven to your garden this year – as luck would have it, we have a course for that too with the fabulous Steven Lamb. Wherever you are and whatever the weather, we hope you enjoy this issue and get time to make some of the fabulous recipes below.



Four Day Cookery Course Join us on 17-20 July for this fantastic course - featuring meat, fish, veg and baking.	Pig in a Day: practical Our expert Steve Lamb shows you how to transform a whole pig into the full range of pork products.	Shoreline Fishing Be a successful beach angler! After a morning on the beach, we come back to prepare your catch.


Marcus Du Sautoy On 26 June Professor Marcus du Sautoy will be here for an evening of maths and fabulous food.	Beekeeping A fun introduction from local expert David Wiscombe, who has over 50 years' experience.	Sunday lunch A real treat for all the family. Expect delicious dishes and beautiful views across the Axe Valley.


Axminster News The fantastic Window Trees will be joining us for an evening of live music on Thursday 29 May.	Bristol News Book now for our second Comedy Night on Tuesday 17 June. Hurry, the last one sold out!	Plymouth News Join us in May & June for a delicious mussel lunch. £12.95 for a large bowl of Exmouth mussels.

Big Barn

New Fruit & Veg book

Check out the UK’s leading Local Food website BigBarn.co.uk. As a River Cottage fan, you can use a special discount code “RC” on the MarketPlace discounts page.

This deliciously nutritious new package contains both Veg Every Day! and Fruit Every Day! Featuring over 400 recipes, you won't want to miss out. Buy now!

Bread Q&A

Help the UK buzz with bees

Our expert baker, Aidan Chapman, will be taking your bread questions via Facebook on Weds 21 May 17.30 - 18.30 GMT. In the meantime, like our Facebook page >

Join NOW and receive regular news and advice, planting guide and a pack of bee-friendly seeds. You'll also be helping fund vital bee research and promote a bee-friendly UK.