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Bake with Lucie - March

Copyright 2024 Lucie Wilson/The WI

Mushrooms – easy to grow – and oranges – not quite so easy! - are the stars of this month’s recipes from the WI.

Bake with Lucie - March

Welcome to March and some more fantastic recipes from the Women’s Institute, lovingly crafted by the Hampshire WI supporter, Lucie.

The first is the delicious Portobello Mushroom, Shallot and Parmesan Risotto. Lucie says it’s one of her mum’s favourite midweek dinners, and so she’s certain to be making it for Mother’s Day this year. 

Mushrooms can be easily grown at home, but we are concerned that some mushrooms are grown in peat, and it's not obvious! We’re campaigning for clearer labelling and the phasing out of peat in all horticulture. So try growing mushrooms at home without peat and remember that mushrooms such as oyster are grown on wood. You can find out more here. 

Our second recipe is a bit of a cheat as unless you’re growing oranges in some complicated greenhouse system, we can’t quite call it home-grown, although the RHS has some advice for you to try here. It’s Crepes Suzette with a Maple and Orange Butterscotch Sauce and Madagascan Vanilla Ice Cream – a real treat and too good to overlook!  

Last words to Lucie: ‘I really hope you enjoy making these recipes and I hope you all have such a wonderful Mother’s Day and a lovely March. I can’t wait to spoil my amazing mum. See you all in April when I will be sharing my favourite Easter recipes.’ 

 

A plate of risotto

Copyright 2024 Lucie Wilson/The WI

Portobello Mushroom, Shallot and Parmesan Risotto

Recipe
Crepes Suzette with a Maple and Orange Butterscotch Sauce and Madagascan Vanilla Ice

Copyright 2024 Lucie Wilson/The WI

Crepes Suzette with a Maple and Orange Butterscotch Sauce and Madagascan Vanilla Ice

Recipe
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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