Welcome to The Mother Cooker, I’m Gem and I’m here to help you sow, grow and cook your own seasonal food.

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Highlights of the Season

 
 

In Season: May

Can’t quite believe we are already in May! Here’s what’s in season this month:

Vegetables: asparagus, broccoli, carrots, jersey royal new potatoes, lettuce & salad leaves, new potatoes, peas, radishes, rocket, samphire, spinach, spring onions, watercress, wild nettles

Herbs & nuts: basil, chervil, chives, coriander, dill, oregano, mint, nasturtium, parsley (curly), rosemary, sage, sorrel, tarragon

Fruit: bananas (Windward), kiwi fruit, rhubarb

Meat: lamb, chicken, beef

Fish: cod, coley, crab, haddock, langoustine, plaice, prawns, salmon, sardines, sea trout, shrimp, whelks, whitebait


 

Latest Blog Post

 
 

fruit filled oat bars

I popped this quick recipe up on my instagram stories and you all wanted it written down. So I aim to serve and here we are. These fruit filled oat bars are delicious and it’s a great way to use frozen fruit. Which I find is much cheaper these days, with the cost of everything going up. I’m never without a couple of bags of frozen mixed berries. All the purple are filled with great antioxidants, which can never be a bad thing.

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Sweet asparagus, bright red rhubarb, herbs galore. Welcome to May.
— Gem