Summer garden silver workshop, seasonal lunch & cocktails (afternoon) Sat 30th June: EARLYBIRD PRICE

I’m joining forces with Kerstin Rodgers for a summer garden silver workshop and seasonal lunch on Saturday 30th June.

2 spaces available

Kerstin’s online alias is MsMarmiteLover, she launched the supperclub/underground restaurant movement in the UK in 2009 and has run sell-out secret supper clubs ever since. She is an award-wining food writer, author of four books and is passionate about incorporating edible botanicals into her recipes.

A few days after midsummer you will be able to come to Kerstin’s beautiful garden in North London for a creative and culinary celebration of summer and its edible plants.

When you arrive  you will join the morning’s summer garden folk in the garden and Kerstin will cook you a truly delicious summer lunch inspired by and using the herbs and plants growing in her garden and near my Fenland cottage.

There will be a botanical cocktail (virgin options will be available)  for each person, made using summer herbs, tree flowers and plants foraged from the Fenland countryside, such as lemon verbena, lime tree flowers, meadowsweet and elderflowers. If you would like a second cocktail (or a third!) they will be £5 each.

Kerstin and I will made hand-decorated goody bags filled with creative and culinary botanical-inspired treats to inspire you for the remainder of the summer.

The menu is yet to be finalised but may include:

Fried sage leaves

Mozzarella, broad bean and lovage salad

Halloumi or fish wrapped in vine leaves and barbecued

Dolmades simmered in wine

Fig leaf cream

 

Silver workshop: cast summer botanical specimens and nature finds in silver

After lunch I will teach you how to cast summer flowers, leaves and nature finds in fine silver with me in the morning (to be featured on BBC Countryfile Winter Special 4th February). You will make intricate, beautiful pendants or earrings using finds from Kerstin’s flowerbeds or from your own nature collection/garden and take home finished pieces.

Timings on the day

Arrive at 12.45am for drinks and introduction

 

1-2

Seasonal summer lunch with a botanical theme

Several vegan options will be available

Botanical cocktails

2.30-4.30:

Introduction to silver clay,

Mould-making

Rolling and making texture in clay

Drying your pieces

4.30-5 Break for drinks and homemade cake

5-6.30 

Smoothing and finessing

Firing

Finishing: polishing, burnishing and oxidising

Adding jump rings and wearing your pieces

6.45 Goody bags and farewell