Pork, apple & sage loaf with butterbean & celeriac mash, braised leeks in a creamy cider & mustard sauce, pickled beetroot We put this dish on the menu in the last week of October, and it seemed to go down well! It was pretty much devised from scratch, and with our usual disregard for note taking… Thus, […]
This season’s recipe: Summer berry yoghurt cake
This is a lovely, moist and slightly tangy loaf cake, adapted from a Ruby Tandoh recipe, and you can mix up the fruit as you see fit. You can use pretty much the whole range of summer berries that you might be able to grow at home, forage, or find from local growers: strawberries, raspberries, […]
Lockdown Recipes
While there are still a few weeks to go – at the very least – under some form of lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s high time we shared a few recipes with everyone. So here we have three CAST Café classics. None of which should prove too tricky, and all of which we […]
This season’s recipe: Broad bean & mint purée
Served on our homemade rye sourdough, with a tomato & black olive salsa, this been been a very popular dish of late. If you’ve a glut in your garden, try this recipe for a delicious, versatile and surprisingly substantial purée. Ingredients 500g broad beans (shelled weight – you’ll need somewhere between 1.5 and 2kg of broad beans) […]
This season’s recipe
Crab & saffron risotto This recipe is great as it makes the most of the cheaper brown meat. It’s great on its own, with some green beans, broccoli or seasonal greens, but for a special meal, you could add a pan fried fillet of white fish, such as pollack, and/or some dressed white crab meat. […]