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Bake with Lucie - January

(c) Lucie Wilson 2024

Welcome to the January blog from Lucie Wilson, a WI supporter, food and cookery baker, maker and writer. She loves creating recipes that are seasonal and made with home grown ingredients.

Bake with Lucie

Happy New Year everyone! I hope 2024 is another wonderful year full of love, joy, laughter, happiness and of course lots of cake. I hope you all had an amazing Christmas and a wonderful new year. We had such a lovely time spent with my family and friends and I hope you all did too.

This month I have a couple of recipes to use up any leftovers you may still have in your freezer but are still seriously tasty. My first recipe is of course a turkey curry but mine is made with mango and coconut so has a slight twist on the traditional recipe. My second recipe is a delicious way to use up odds and ends of cheese that you may still have in your fridge. It’s a gammon, Stilton and portobello mushroom tortiglioni pasta which is packed with flavour yet so simple to make.

Now on to my sweet recipes. My first is my absolute favourite, a tiramisu. But here’s the twist, mine is an Irish Cream tiramisu! Yes you read that right. I make mine with Baileys Irish Cream and I can promise you it is divine. My second recipe is a tarte au citron with vanilla bean meringue. A light and refreshing dessert that is sure to impress.

I really hope you enjoy making my recipes this month and I hope you have a marvellous January. See you all in February!

Lucie

Find out more about Lucie below.

Two plates of turkey curry
Main course

Turkey Curry with Mango and Coconut

Avoid food waste and use up the last of the turkey
A plate of pasta
Main course

Leftover Orange and Clove Roasted Gammon, Stilton and Portobello Mushroom Tortiglioni Pasta

A tasty way to use up leftovers
a tarte au citron on a plate
Desserts

Irish Cream Tiramisu and Tarte au Citron with Vanilla Bean Meringue

Irish Cream Tiramisu and Tarte au Citron with Vanilla Bean Meringue

Shopping list for all 4 recipes

Check your cupboards first as you may have a lot of these already

400g leftover turkey

400g leftover gammon

1 large white onion

2 large shallots

150g fresh mango

100ml coconut milk

400g chopped tomatoes

1 red chilli

Tikka paste

Basmati rice

Fresh parsley

250g block of butter

Olive oil

Tortiglioni pasta

100g parmesan

100g stilton

2 portobello mushrooms

100ml double cream

375ml cold espresso or strong coffee

250ml baileys

350g sponge fingers

12 eggs

500g pack caster sugar

450g mascarpone

Cocoa powder 

200g plain flour

Cornflour

2 large lemons

1 small orange

Vanilla bean paste

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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