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Bake with Lucie - July

Lucie Wilson/The WI

Three delicious recipes that use produce from your garden in July.

Bake with Lucie - July

Lucie says, "Hello July! How are you all? I hope you are all very well and have been enjoying the lovely sunny weather? Did you enjoy last month's recipes and love making them too? I hope you did.

This month I have made three recipes that are three of my wonderful mum’s favourites and they are also very seasonal indeed. My first recipe is a summer leek, broad bean and runner bean risotto. It is so unbelievably good and oh so creamy. It is very seasonal with broad beans and runner beans at their best in July. Delicious! 

My second recipe is one of my mum’s favourites, it’s a black cherry clafoutis that I serve warm dusted with icing sugar and served with clotted cream ice cream. Yummy! 

My third recipe this month is again one of my mum’s favourites, it’s my caramelised peach and raspberry meringues with my homemade strawberry ice cream and a delicious homemade mango and passion fruit coulis. I use shop bought meringues as I find they tend to be more stable to fill than homemade ones but they are just as tasty! This recipe is so summery and perfect for any occasion. 

I really hope you love all of these recipes and enjoy making them as much as I did! Have a lovely July! It’s my lovely mum's birthday in a few days so happy birthday mama! I hope you all have a wonderful July and enjoy the beautiful sun. See you all in August and have fun cooking!"

Summer Leek, Broad Bean and Runner Bean Risotto

Lucie Wilson/The WI

Summer Leek, Broad Bean and Runner Bean Risotto

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Black Cherry Clafoutis with Clotted Cream Ice Cream

Lucie Wilson/The WI

Black Cherry Clafoutis with Clotted Cream Ice Cream

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Caramelised Peach and Raspberry Meringues with Homemade Strawberry Ice Cream and Homemade Mango and Passion Fruit Coulis

Lucie Wilson/The WI

Caramelised Peach and Raspberry Meringues with Strawberry Ice Cream, Mango and Passionfruit Coulis

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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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