Blue Lias Kitchen

29/10/2025

As we head into the quiet, darker months, the kitchen becomes the hub of the house. The cold stone floors and walls of our home are unforgiving, but the kitchen keeps cosy when I’m baking sourdough. If you need a cosy new hobby this autumn and winter, I’ll be running an organic sourdough workshop from my kitchen near Glastonbury on Thursday 4th December ~ £75 ~ 10-3pm. I’ll provide a detailed recipe, a lovingly nurtured starter and a beautiful veggie lunch with plenty of other fermented goodies by the fire 💚 if you fancy learning how to make bread the slow way using wild yeast, please get in touch 💚
https://blueliaskitchen.co.uk/workshops/

23/10/2025

I was so pleased when my wonderful mum told me about a little bit of land just in the foothills of the mendips that had field mushrooms popping up left, right and centre. When I was younger it was always my dad who would stomp in from one of his long walks with a handful of these beautiful specimens from the fields and when the children were little he would take them to the fairy rings and they would whisper their wishes to the Faye. Mum would get them up with butter and garlic and it was simplicity at its best. Over the years however, they have slowly dwindled, perhaps due to over cultivation and loss of habitation, slowly becoming less common. These beautiful fungi are everything Autumn is for me. Their taste of earth and dew takes me back to cold, misty morning walks with my lovely old dad at a time of year now when I miss him the most. The field mushroom fairy rings have disappeared, so I’ve been heading deeper into the woods, exploring more of the fungi that I was so unfamiliar with; beefsteak fungus and Artist bracket being two that I’ve dehydrated for later on in the year. There’s still plenty of time to collect and forage more fungi specimens over the next few months, so I’ll keep stomping through the fields and woods with my dear dad by my side.
Pick lightly and take care to be 100% sure of the identify of your fungi friends before you consume 💚🍂🍄‍🟫💚

21/10/2025

19/10/2025

A little Sunday revelation! I spend so much of my time looking down, searching the ground around and beneath my feet for the treasures growing from the earth that I often forget to look up. The actual physical and mental shift I feel is incredible, how ridiculous is that? Shifting the lens we are so familiar looking through on a daily basis can be so good for the soul. As I spend more of my time in the kitchen, I do tend to get slight cabin fever and a change of perspective does me the world of good. So, as I’ve said before, if you need me, you’ll find me in the woods, doing a bit more looking upwards! 😉💚🍂

17/10/2025

Last call for tomorrows rye sourdough workshop, 1 space available 💚

16/10/2025

Last chance to book your place on this weekends rye sourdough workshop 💚

13/10/2025

Interested in learning more about water kefir? Come join me in the kitchen and start your own love affair with this wonderful probiotic fizzy pop!
Saturday November 15th ~ 11-1pm ~ £35 💚
We will be learning all about this wonderful fermentation process, tasting different creations I’ve been working on and you will take home your own grains for future fermentation 💚
To book a place DM here or email [email protected]