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Bake with Lucie - August

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Three delicious recipes that use produce from your garden or greenhouse in August.

Bake with Lucie - August

Three fantastic recipes to use cauliflower, brocolli, red peppers, blueberries, blackberries and greenhouse-grown chillies this month!

Lucie says:

Hello August! I hope you are all well? Did you enjoy making July’s recipes? I hope you did. This month I have got three amazing recipes for you all. All my recipes are made with ingredients that are perfectly in season in August and can be easily grown by your own loving hands.

My first recipe is my crispy bacon, broccoli and cauliflower cheese bake. Broccoli and cauliflower are my seasonal ingredients in this recipe and are perfect in my cheesy bacon bake. This recipe is wonderful with the added enhancement of crispy bacon and it is perfect for August served with mashed potato or new potatoes and buttered kale.

My second recipe is my blueberry and blackberry cobbler. Blueberries and blackberries are the seasonal ingredients in this recipe and they work so well together. This cobbler is great served with ice cream or cream for those late summer days or custard if the weather isn't very summery.

My third recipe this month is my sweet chilli jam. I know I have made this before for you but this is a different, new and improved recipe and perfect to make now as chillies are the seasonal ingredient in this recipe and we have so many in our garden to use. This sweet chilli jam is perfect to make now and keep for Christmas. If you can wait that long that is.

I hope you all love my recipes and enjoy making them. See you all in September! I can’t quite believe I am saying that! 

Crispy Bacon, Broccoli and Cauliflower Cheese Bake

Lucie Wilson/The WI

Crispy Bacon, Broccoli and Cauliflower Cheese Bake

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Blueberry and Blackberry Cobbler

Lucie Wilson/The WI

Blueberry and Blackberry Cobbler

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Sweet Chilli Jam

Lucie Wilson/The WI

Sweet Chilli Jam

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Lucie

Hi, I’m Lucie and it’s so very lovely to meet you. I’m your food and cookery baker, maker and writer and I love creating recipes that are new, exciting, seasonal and made with home grown ingredients for you all. I am 23 years old and I live in Hampshire with my lovely mum and our beautiful cats.

During my childhood I was brought up around food as my mum was a cookery teacher, (now French teacher), for schools and as soon as I was able, I had a wooden spoon in my hands. Me and my mum have always been close and cooking with her is one of my favourite things. My dad was a very good cook too but he sadly passed away from dementia when I was 8 years old. I have 2 sisters but they weren’t too interested in cooking so me and mum would spend hours in the kitchen baking and creating together.

Still to this day me and mum spend a good few hours every week shopping for ingredients and then cooking delicious things together. I think time spent cooking as a family is really important, it is wonderful to simply spend time with the ones you love and for an opportunity to develop new skills. I am part Scottish and Italian so home cooked food is a massive part of my family just as it is in the WI. Cookery is very important in the WI. Whether its jam making or cake baking it is one of the things that we all associated with the WI. My Grandmother and Godmother were both part of the same WI as me and mum, so it really is a family affair.

The WI is a wonderful community of people who join together with a collective view. Togetherness to learn and develop new skills and create a community that welcomes all. The WI is a wonderful way to meet new people and create long and lasting friendships. I really do love creating and baking for you all and I hope you enjoy my recipes and have as much fun making them as I do. 

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