Bake with Lucie - February 2025 | Coronation Gardens

Enjoy three recipes this month using kale, leeks, cauliflower and more!

Bake with Lucie - February 2025

Hello February! How are you all? Well I hope? Did you like my January recipes? This month I have got some more fabulously seasonal and yummy recipes for you all.

My first recipe uses three seasonal ingredients which make up this delicious recipe. It’s my cauliflower, kale and leek soup. I can’t tell you how delicious this soup is and with the added ingredient of cheese it is soooooo good. Delicious!

My second recipe for you this month is again using two seasonal ingredients which are rhubarb and blood oranges. It’s my rhubarb and blood orange trifles. These individual trifles are just divine and are perfect either as a pudding for you and your family or as a dinner party pleaser. Yummy!

An extra little recipe for you to celebrate The Bob Marley Carnival week in Jamaica, is my delicious Jamaican ginger cake. Divine!

I hope you all have a wonderful February and a divine Valentine’s Day if you celebrate and I will see you all in March with some more deliciously seasonal spring recipes.

Don’t forget you can share your photos of your wonderful creations on the WI Learning Hub website and share your thoughts on my recipes and ask any questions you may have. Happy baking to you all and I hope you enjoy my recipes.

Cauliflower, Kale and Leek Soup

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Blood Orange and Rhubarb Trifles

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Jamaican Ginger Cake

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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.