One Day Plant-Based Cooking Retreat - The Spice Trail

If the limited selection of spices in your kitchen cupboard are all looking a little stale, this one-day cooking retreat is for you!

The theme for the day is 'the spice trail', and we will be exploring how spices add a magical dimension to our cooking. Across centuries, our love of spices, from vanilla, nutmeg & cloves, to cinnamon, cardamom and saffron, opened trade routes and changed the world. If, when you think of spice your mind doesn't go beyond chillies, get ready to have your taste buds awakened.

On this one-day retreat, we will be rummaging through my spice basket and exploring a wide range of my favourite recipes that use spices in both classic and innovative ways. Recipes will span baking / desserts, savoury mains and sides, and some much loved spice blends (think garam masala, chinese 5-spice and Persian Za'atar) which we'll make from scratch. As always,…